A MAORI FUNERAL.
HASTINGS, March 15. The Hor. J. Carroll and the Hon. J. A. Millar were present at the funeral of Pen« Teua at Waipatu Pa yesterday. Fully 1000 Europeans and 750 Natives from all parts of Maoridom attended the impressive; obsequies, pakeha and Native mingling: together in eulogising the deceased. Th» visiting Maoris camped in a marae, over which floated, half-mast, the tattered red ensign, bearing the inscription "Te Tiriti o Waitangi" (the Treaty of Waitangi), presented to the Natives in 1840 by Governor Hobson. Amongst the chiefs present was the son of Te Heu Heu, that fine barbarian, the last of the old heathen warriors who could neither be coerced nor persuaded to sign the Treaty.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2818, 18 March 1908, Page 33
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119A MAORI FUNERAL. Otago Witness, Issue 2818, 18 March 1908, Page 33
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