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Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13412, 9 May 1912, Page 3 (Supplement)

At the Maori Vv.h on Sunday'after the burial of th« late R<?mi Matenga. there was the usual speech making and reference) was made to the action of tho Natives, moro especially the late Huria Maton&a, in rescuing the crow of the Delaware, although at the time the Maori war was in progress. Tho Rev. F. A. Bennett took the opportunity of introducing to the assemblage a Maori known among his peoplo as "Big Bob," who. he said, was tho sole survivor of the gallant band of Natives who assisted at-tho ■wreck of the ill-fated barquontine. "Big Bob" received hearty rounds ,of applause..