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New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 102, 21 July 1843, Page 2

We have just heard a report, of: the death of Rangihaiata, which we are informed occurred at Otaki on Monday last—in consequence of the -wound in his foot. From- the enquiries- we have been able to make; we ffeel convinced of its'troth. -This: event .has certainly removed one main obstacle to the-settlement of this part of the country. Rangihaiata might be considered as the type of the - New r Zealander before the race were brought under the civilizing influences which have for somer years past been at work among them—violent, reckless, and uncalculating. Happily the present .number of such men among the Natives ‘is but small,, and as they die off they leave no successors.

We have been informed that a man " riaftfed. Hanhani, who. was. supposed to have been killed in the late, melancholy affair at Wairau,. has reached Nelson* but two-- are still! missings named Burton and Stokesv.