OBITUARY
A MAORI WAR VETERAN. PEEBS ASSOCIATION. NAPIER, March 19. Tho death is announced of Captain Tuke, who took a prominent part in the native war. He arrived in the ship Cornwall in 1831, and when the war broke out was appointed by Sir George Grey as second in command under Colonel J. Fraser of the Military Settlers, and saw active service on the East Coast, for which he received the New Zealand war medal. He was also, for eighteen mouths in charge of tho native prisoners at tho Chatham Islands, but was not there when they escaped. Deceased was in his seventy-fifth year.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4310, 20 March 1901, Page 5
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104OBITUARY New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4310, 20 March 1901, Page 5
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