FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22777, 10 July 1937, Page 12

FIFTY YEARS AGO

TROUBLE AMONG MAORIS A party of Maoris, known as the white-robed Ha-uhaus, was stirring up a groat donl of trouble in tlie'Hokianga district 50 years ago, as shown by the following extract from the New Zealand Herald of July 9. 1887: "After the sensation created by the attempted suppression of the wluterobed Hanbaus by the chiefs of the Ngapuhi had subsided; on the publication of the fact that these whiterobed Hauhaus had burned their firearms, the settlers here (Hokiaiiga) took no notice of them, and thought the thing was dying out. On the 4tl? instant a man named Hearn, a storekeeper at Aratoro, went to ainou, and the morning being foggy, he wen by mistake to the white-robed Hauhaus' camp, where th'ev at once se on him, tied his hands behind his bac and asked him for £'o to let lum .6 0 : He had not £5 on him, but oftere them all the money he had, win was about £l. This they took, be o •stripping liini of his clothes and boot ' which they burnt. They also took ftu bridle and' took- possession of his nors and saddle. After rolling him in■ * mudhole they let him go. -Mr. Hean has placed the matter in the of the police." ,