EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
FROM THE FILES OF THE ©tago Sail? tCimcs
DUNEDIN, SEPTEMBER 27, 1865. We publish today our first telegraphic message from Oamaru. It is of interest. Large numbers of miners appear to be determined on effecting the overland passage to the West Coast diggings, and many prefer to take Oamaru for their starting point.
Further important and exciting news has reached Dunedin from the North Island. The war against the Hau-haus appears to have been vigorously followed up by the friendly Natives, and if these successes over a fanatical and merciless sect are continued we may hope soon to feel assured that the back of this “horrible superstition” is broken.
Our Wellington correspondent relates the following incident which took place at the storming of a pah on the East Coast of the North Island as showing the coolness and sangfroid displayed by the troops under the command of Captain Fraser: “It appears that one of the soldiers had bayoneted a Maori, but in so doing had so beht his bayonet as to render it to a certain extent unserviceable. Instead of being flurried, he coolly placed the bayonet on the ground and, by means of his foot, straightened it, and then with his comrades cleared the o'.h of the Maoris.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19500927.2.72
Bibliographic details
Otago Daily Times, Issue 27505, 27 September 1950, Page 6
Word Count
212EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Otago Daily Times, Issue 27505, 27 September 1950, Page 6
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Otago Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in