THE 'HIKETE-PITI" IN NEW ZEALAND.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7168, 11 September 1886, Page 4

THE 'HIKETE-PITI" IN NEW ZEALAND.

IU a rr-view of a boofc containing tbe list ot officers of the York and Lancaster Kegnnent, nntl a record of their services, tlie N.Z. Herald any* : — Though but a roll ot otfitug, iliis boob will pro»o a work of *• r$ dtup interest to all our fellow >.' u.bta who paused through the troublous niii» ot curl} Kew Zealand history, for First Bdttalion of tue York and L H ai'«r U<'j<juie.ii *üb, ir m 1758 lo loil, i mnsu a- ilju G6th i'lio "''ri.eib" luu c ciyiinguislied ihuusi.lv ld in i tuirij lan is 1 , and on mauy hard fought lielnu, t>L .ri'i 1 ? nu tlitir uolora ''lndi.!," -1 Ar.ibi i,' 1 '•iS't.v' Z'ialuGtl," an I "Egypt (1884);' Lxit v id «.ore especially the ll> gmunt's very lofi^ and iutunate coimectiou with New Z a :n«i which will nnler M.ijvr G A KuiiM.o' \ oliiine fco attiuctive to our iijlu'.^ seilierp, tor on evuiy page we recn/niae the n;nnes o£ olil iriendp, iamiii^r a^qatiiotaucee, tried allies in ti.nt-s ot dciiij-er ami tlistrets. In Aucki..uo, Taranaki, Wellington ; in all die li.inleal fought nclions oi tlie war, the Gotli (the llikete-piti, as the Maoris called tlieut) were al\raj» conepicuous. Besides the number oi! noncoiumisbioaed officers and privates who bled in our cause, the roll records the names of (Japtuins Strange and Swift and Ensign Chayter, kilkd in action; C'aptniiiS ijitrLon and Toker and LieuUnant Leonard, who died in the colony or on their way to England; Major Turner, Captain (Jrtssou, Adjutant Lewip, uud Lieutenant a Butler, Chevalier, i'd^an, and Tiilbot, v\ ho were woundtd iv (iillerent actions throughout the w ;ir. JJut it js not only on the ioughten fitlii that lliiH dißlinguißhed regiinint has dove Bf rvice to the colon}, lor when in 18(35 tin; Golli was iiuall) vMib.irawn lroin isnv Zcalaiid, il iru<i cuniributed more perinauent betUerH than aDy oihtr regiment in the service, and lliero uio lew diatricts of the colony in which foriuer members of tbe corps are not to bo found established.