A Native Tangi.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3058, 3 December 1878, Page 2

A Native Tangi.

A young'native chieT, named rlperahama Wikiriwhi; of'Te Tuahu, died ou Saturday last,- and a tongHwii h'eldfpn the corpse'yesterday.* lo^ed to, the well knqwn aod, powerful tribe Tv Hurangi: He was about twenty years old, and bad been"" educated i» Wellington. The ta>^ebinmeti«ed«hortly before fire o'clock iit-the:.iro«rqi^g, at which boar the ralativW, of,*£he deceased had placed the cdmn'dontaraiiig hir body outside one of the; hbna&s! fet' tttf inorth end of the Strand, and setjjaf themselvoi on the ground, wept, anct moaned bvar it for several hours; the lid of the coffin wag drawn'down, leaving '•'> the 1 free *att?fc£id decked with feather*, exftosed to view. His mother, withia/handkercbJef^stened to the end of a short a tide/sal; at the head ofyth^ooffin keeping awayj*ha.fli|Bj, o jsro. wards ten o'clock members, of the^sjnMU. tribes in the district began to arrive. " TIV coffin was theti placed itr the interior #f the hoese, and. preparation, wade Jo receive the Tiiito^' Aacy-tribe^af'tW arrived handed inJarge preseqti of faoi, and liquor, to show their respect for tilt' < Held man. rf The Waiteh'a, 'aod i tapuit» tribes, who brought supplies of beer kid rum,- were preceded;by'a]'ban* dlaboat fifty natives, waving in their-hand«-bdttl«i ■of rum, shrieking in most. discordant tones, > and' 9#ejcntiogfa danoe called the haka. When thes* presents had been laid upon the grbutid, ten native* issued from anadjaoentijioase/jpach bearing a long stick, upon which ien £1 notffS #«re.affixed, making in j|ll£loo^j|a;•faring from the native, Kemp, a rentive of I the deceased. There were .*t;;th*lftiia© nearly 300 natives naaembled, and presents consisted of foutbtrtttoutbmm, 1 two of ginger beer, ovter one hundred bottles of rum," nine cirt. of bia»«itv, several bags of sugar, a Urge quantity of bread, and the £100.; AJ|er the chiefs of the various tribes had addressed the assemblage, and vnnoi tk*jioodam\iti— of the tfead chief, Johnny MeLeodi |t*sted by several oth«r natiVM, distributaNl ••' the presents sidM^JR the\ various hapus« | who immediately afterwards dispersed to ' their respective settlemeats. —• Bay of' Plenty Times.