A NOTABLE MAORI CHIEF.
HIS REPORTED DEATH.
(PBBSS ASSOCIATION TBLKGBAM.) WANGANUI, March 21. It was reported on Friday that a notable Maori chief named Haimona Hiroti, 85 years of age, had died at an up river settlement. Instructions were sent to Wanganui to engage an undertaker to embalm the body and prepare a coffin. After travelling all Friday night the undertaker found the old chief alive. He had merely collapsed, and was mistaken for dead. He is in the receipt of a pension for bravery during the Maori war. It was owing to his courage at the, battle of Moutoa (an island up the Wanganui river), in 1864, when he rallied the friendly natives by saying " Here I fight and here I die," that the Hauhaus, who were coming to attack Wanganui, were defeated. The chief is suffering from cancer in the throat, and his death is hourly expected.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 9991, 22 March 1898, Page 5
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