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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1154, 20 May 1870, Page 3

The Last 6k the Cannibals. — Tho Thames Advei'tisei* of 13th inst., referring to the expected aeath of Taraia, says : — " We learn that Taraia Ngakuti, the aged chief of the Ngati\amatera, and ' the last of the cannibals,' Had made up his mind that he would die last night, and as in this matter natives generally carry out, so to speak, their intention, we quite expect that Taraia is now dead. In rank, Taraia stood very high— indeed, we doubt if there are now four natives who in birth and warlike fame are his equals. *He has been always recognised as the great chief of tho Thames, just as Potatau was the great chief of the Waikato. He was a very old man, numbering probably nearly a hundred years. His youth and manhood were spent in cruel wars, and in terrible deed 3 of blood, such as New Zealand will never see again. It was he who* with his warriors, held the last great cannibal feast in New Zealand, at the Thames, when hun» dreds of heads were stuck on poles after an inroad upon the Tauranga tribes. He . might haye been seen frequently jat Butt's Corner,. sitting io.,jjhe,suju jqoktog.on^aii " a oiChe b«jßfi t^hjfth;ha^ L : I changed the very face of the lSnjlpp^f^