RENEGADE ENGLISH OFFICERS AMONG THE MAORIS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 808, 13 June 1879, Page 2

RENEGADE ENGLISH OFFICERS AMONG THE MAORIS.

The late meeting at Te Kcpua presented some curious subjects of contemplation, says the Auckland correspondent of the tiyttfltoniTim?. Those assembled arranged themselves in two camps, facing each other, like two hostile armies in, the field. On the side of law : and order were ranged the .Ministers and the greater part of the Europeans present, besides a large number of loyal natives from the riorth and other parts of the colony. On the side of disorder were grouped Tawliiao's people, liis chief advisors, his motley armed and sinisterlooking body guard, and, sad to relate, two Europeans, Majors .Jackson and Moir. These two cainps took their respeotive positions day by day, and it is sad to see two men, who had been so long officers under- the: Government, take their positions daily among the rebel crowd. The associates of these two Europeans were npt only Tawhiao, Mamiwhiri, long so at Mangere, and many others more or less closely related to. the Waikato tribe, but there was Purukutu, the murderer of Sullivan, a villainous, -looking scoundrel, \Nuk\i, He wlio.imtirdered in cold' blood 'poor Todd, the surveyor, while in t the practice of his profession on the Pirongia ranges ; there also was Te Kooti, the butcher of women and ; children at Poverty Bay; and there, too, was, Winiata, the murderer, of lu'b fellowservant Packer at Epson, some few years ago. ' '