TANGI AT WAAHI.
'$%S. IMPORTANT MAORI CHIEF.
m "[FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] >T' Huntlt, Thursday. 'At tho native (Mahuta's) settlement at \Vaahi the tangi which has been in progress for the last two days over the remains of 'ft Aho (an important chief of the NgatiQUI who died at the ripe old age of 93, ■fjii whose kainga Was at Pukekawa, near Mercer), of Ngea-ngea, who belonged to Ohewhero, and of a young child,. concluded on Thursday with the interment of the todies of tho deceased in the "royal" 'burialground on Taupiri Mountain. The coffins, placed in canoes, were escorted to tie cemetery by three launches packed by as many of the visitors to Waahi as they told hold.
■.-' Te Aho was among the last of the chiefs who fought against the British during the . Waikato war. He took part in the battle of Rangiriri, in which he was taken prisoner, and when peace was declared settled down near Mercer.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14690, 26 May 1911, Page 7
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