An Adventurous Youth.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5623, 19 November 1889, Page 4

An Adventurous Youth.

it )\m probftbly (uny* tho London oowwnondont of th« Auckland Star) not ocouvred to your readers to connect Mv Horbert Ward, the famous African explorer, and friend of Stanley, with the young man of the same name .who created a »tir°in Now Zealand some seven or eight years ago by living for some months amongst*the Maoris in the King Country. They arc, however, ono and the same pelson Young Ward was only sixteen then, and had but recently left Mill Hill School. He got on capitally with the Maoris till they proposed tattooing him all over as a mark of their affection, when it seemed prudent to make tracks for more civilised districts. If I remember ri«htly, Ward contributed an account ot his adventures in the King Country to one of the Auckland papers. Soon afterwards he left the colony and entered the service of the North Borneo Company, -with whom he remained till he was 21, living the life of an explorer, and taking part m many stirring scenes. In October, 1884, Ward joined the International African Association, and was returning m January, 1887, when he met Stanley. List week the young man (for he is only i>G even now) lectured at his old school on «' Cannibal Congo," and it was then he was recognised by two Auckland gentlemen now in England as the adventurous boy who, nearly a decade ago, bearded Tawhaio and his chiefs in their lair. Mr Ward seemed much pleased at being recognised, and the party enjoyed quite a pleasant chat.