DEATH OF NOTED CHIEF.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) Auckland. June 30.
Aporo, leader oE the war party which destroyed Mi> (now Sir John) Qorsfc's printing press at Te Awamutu and precipitated the Waikato war, died to-day at Ofcorohanga. Aporo Taratubu attained celebrity shortly before tho ccmmencamenfe of the Waikato war in 1863 by descending with an armed party, and Mr Gorsfc was unceremoniously cleared oub to Auckland. Aporo was a chief of the Ngatimaniapoto tribe, and was a comrade iv arms of the late Rewi Maniapoto during the Waikato war. Some time effcer the Te Awamutu outrage Appro, thinking the affair had blown over, visited Auckland to sell pigs. The Governor (Sir G. Grey) was informed of his arrival, and ordered Aporo's si-rest. He was tried at the Supreme Court oa a charge of malicious injury to property, and sentenced to 18 mouths' hard labour in Auckland Gaol.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2210, 9 July 1896, Page 11
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