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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 175, 20 May 1864, Page 6 (Supplement)

A Sleepy Maori. — A party of the Goth Regiment, while on picquot duty, came upon a Maori in a potato hole appearing to bo fast asleep. One of the men went up to him and found he had just left off digging potatoes, his kit lying beside him, and he, on the approach of the escort, had laid down pretending to be asleep. lie was very quickly removed from ids would-be slumbering position, and under an escort, was brought into the 50th camp, and placed in the guard-room till iight, when he was brought into camp by two

men of the Defence Force. The men were heartily amused at him, for when being put under escort to be brought up to the s'tlli camp, and fell into the ranks, and. as they nnmbred off, when it eaino to him he called out 22, ami upon the order “four’s deep’’ being given, he-went through the position perfectly well. —Heto Zealander, May 4. TlljN’o of Gtieece. —King George of Greece has refused the title of “.King by the'grace of God.”,,