TARAIA NGAKUTT TE TUMUHUIA. This fierce old Maori chief, who died in 1871, is described as an unscrupulous- and treacherous savage. He was the principal chief of the Ngatitamatera tribe, of the Upper Thames, and is noted as having been one of the last to deliberately hold a cannibal feast on Maori bodies in New Zealand. Taraia was one of the principal war chiefs of the Maruterahu confederation, and was frequently engaged in warfare with the Ngatihaua and other tribes, also making expeditions south. One of his most eventful cannibal campaigns was in the year 1832, when he! and Te Rohu led a war party of Ngati-tamater to Cook Strait. j,nd there joined1 the celebrated •warrior Te Ruaparaha, and sailed with him to make war on the Ngaifcahu •in the South Island. This was no doubt the expedition mentioned by Mr -Stack in "Kaiapohia." Teßauparaha, with a picked force of 700 men, •arrived off the Omihi pa, Am-uri Bluff, at dawn one morning. Unarmed -and unsuspicious, the Omihi people were easily vanquished Hundreds "Were slain, hundreds taken prisoners and despatched to Kapiti under strong «scort. After resting, Te Rauparaha with his remaining warriors proceeded toKaiapoi. Here his treacherous guise of friendliness was met with cunning greater than his own, and after losing eight of his most redoubtable chiefs, he was glad to beat a retreat, and leturn to his island stronghold.

Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 2 (Supplement)

TARAIA NGAKUTT TE TUMUHUIA. This fierce old Maori chief, who died in 1871, is described as an unscrupulous- and treacherous savage. He was the principal chief of the Ngatitamatera tribe, of the Upper Thames, and is noted as having been one of the last to deliberately hold a cannibal feast on Maori bodies in New Zealand. Taraia was one of the principal war chiefs of the Maruterahu confederation, and was frequently engaged in warfare with the Ngatihaua and other tribes, also making expeditions south. One of his most eventful cannibal campaigns was in the year 1832, when he! and Te Rohu led a war party of Ngati-tamater to Cook Strait. j,nd there joined 1 the celebrated •warrior Te Ruaparaha, and sailed with him to make war on the Ngaifcahu •in the South Island. This was no doubt the expedition mentioned by Mr -Stack in "Kaiapohia." Teßauparaha, with a picked force of 700 men, •arrived off the Omihi pa, Am-uri Bluff, at dawn one morning. Unarmed -and unsuspicious, the Omihi people were easily vanquished Hundreds "Were slain, hundreds taken prisoners and despatched to Kapiti under strong «scort. After resting, Te Rauparaha with his remaining warriors proceeded toKaiapoi. Here his treacherous guise of friendliness was met with cunning greater than his own, and after losing eight of his most redoubtable chiefs, he was glad to beat a retreat, and leturn to his island stronghold.