KATI TAKIWARU.
A beautiful tombstone has just been completed by Buchanan Bros., stonecutters, to the order of Government, to be erected at over the grave of Kati Takiwaru, an influential chief who died many years ago. He was younger biother to Te WheroWliero. The monument has the following inscription :—" Sacred to tlie memory of Fvati Takiwaru, a chief of the Waikato, and brother of Te Wliero-Whero, who, with his children and grandchildren, descendants of Tapaue their ancestor, is buried in this tomb. This stone is raised to their memory by the Government of New Zealand, during the administration of George Grey, Premier, and John Sheehan, Native Minister, in the month of September, 1878."
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Wananga, Volume 5, Issue 50, 14 December 1878, Page 625
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113KATI TAKIWARU. Wananga, Volume 5, Issue 50, 14 December 1878, Page 625
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