TE NGUTU-O-TE-MANU.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 11 August 1908, Page 5

TE NGUTU-O-TE-MANU.

PROPOSED MEMORIAL SERVICE.

It is. over forty years since the now thickly-populated dairy country of Taranaki was once the field of battle in bloody contests between the pakeha and Maori. There were many desperate struggles, but the most noteworthy was the fights atTe Ngutu-o-te-Manu. The first attack on Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu took place on August 21, 1868, and it was not until September 7 that the celebrated battle was fought when Major Yon Tempsky was killed, together with a number of his soldieru. It is intended to hold a memorial service at the Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu reserve on Sunday, August 23, at 1.30 o'clock, in honor of the brave Major and those of his followers who fell with him. The volunteer corps throughout the district, namely, Hawera, Manaia, Opunake, together with tire various bands at these places and Kaponga will take part, when the troops will parade and the bands render sacred music. It is interesting to record that Mr John Flynn and Mr James Livingston, two well-known and highly respected settlers of tho district, who tools part in the historic occurrence, are the only two persons (as far as is known) living in Hawera to-day out of the number who participated in the battle. Mr Flynn in conversation with a Stab representative, said on that fatal morning (Sept. 7) that of 400 or 500 men who were sent out from Waihi 44 were wounded ! and killed. Mr Flynn, who was among I those wounded, recollected seeing Yon Tempsky fall. Colonel Bauchop, officer I commanding the district, has been in- ! vited to be present at the ceremony and it is possible he will attend. Rev. H. W. Klingender, chaplain at Manaia, who is one of the organisers of the movement, will be pleased to hear of any local bodies who would care to take part. Apart from the auspicious occasion the Domain itself is worthy of a visit. Given fine weather the memorial service should attract a large number of people from the surrounding districts.

The firm of Edmonds and Page, cabinetmakers, Christchurch, landed 262,000 ft of Oregon pine, and in the course of an -interview Mr Page gave some reasons for the importation, (says an exchange). He says that a feature is that Oregon pine can be got in longer pieces than New Zealand red pine, more than half his shipment being in 20ft to 24ft lengths. Oregon is a good timber, in that it stands a big breakI ing strain, and freight is of course a main consideration. New Zealand red pine is better for cabinetmaking than the imported pine, and he thinks that the local article should hold its own. To Mr Page's mind, the chief question,! is that of the cost of transit of the local product, and he thinks the millers should expect help only in the way of a reduction of railway and oversea freight. Woods' Great Peppermint Cur©" for Coughs and Colds never fails, la 6d and 2s 6d.