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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1851, 28 August 1907, Page 2

A Maori chief from Kaiapoi (©ays the "Press”), in a little informal address to the Bench at the Native Land Commission in Christchurch, said the impression was gaining ground nowadays that the notorious Maori raider To Rauparaha journeyed down the South Island by way of the West Coast. That* was not so. It was the lesser known Te Piialio who travelled by that route, and he met his doom by being slain in one of the most sanguinary South Island battles—that at Tuturau, near Mataura, in Southland, where the power of the northern raiders was finally broken. ’ldle Health Department reports the following eases of infectious disease for last week: —Wellington eity—Scarlet fever, 12; enteric fever, 2; diphtheria, 2; tuberculosis, 1. Butt county—Scarlet fever. 13 ;d i | >!i l lie ria, 1.