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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 116, 17 May 1924, Page 11

Get in .early on Tuesday., E. S. vokn's great sale highest class cry. Opposite G.P.0., Queen Street.-* Ad.) ''THE WAIKATO WAR" By JOHN FEATON. 'TE KOOTI EXPEDITIONS" BY - CAPTAIN GILBERT MAIR. N.Z.C. AND | CAPTAIN G. A. PREECE, N.Z.C. A FASCINATING WAR STORY WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS. A Completely Revised Edition of Featon's History of tile Waikato War, which has been long out of print, and has realised bigh prices at sales of early New Zealand books. The text was carefully revised by the late Captain Gilbert Mair, N.Z.C, and is a stirring account at the great struggle between Maori and Pakeha, which opened up the Waikato district for settlement. Prominence is- given to the services rendered by the Colonial' Forces organised to assist the Imperial Army, under General Cameron. The narrative of the assault on Orakan Pa, and the defiant message of the defenders, "We will tight on for ever! for ever! for ever!"' Is one of the most stirring ■torles in the history of warfare between British soldiers and an ill armed aboriginal race of warriors. "THE TE KOOTI EXPEDITIONS." NOW FIRST PUBLISHED. The Pnhlishers were in possession of nr unpublished manuscript by the late Mr. John Featon. giving a history of the Poverty Hay Massacre, and the prolonged warfare that followed tbat awful tra.eily. This history was placed in the hands tit Captain Gilbert Mair, N.Z.C, and Captain G. A. Treece, N.Z.C, who took an active part in the campaign from the beginning, and were in command of the two Native Contingents, which finally killed, captured, or dispersed the remnant of Te Kooti's marauding bands, and compelled the rebel leader to take refuge among the Waikato tribes, who at that time were living in sullen isolation, after tbe Waikato War. Captain Treece had kept a diary throaghont the whole of these operations, and from the material thus gathered has been written a vivid tirst-hand account of the most arduous bush righting recorded in tbe annals of New Zealand colonisation. STRIKING WAR PICTURES. PRICE, 7/6 NET. Postage 4_. THE BRETT PUBLISHING CO., AUCKLAND. OR FROM ANY BOOKSELLER.