WHO IS URU TE ANGINA!

Wanganui Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5082, 8 June 1883, Page 2

WHO IS URU TE ANGINA!

A -Wattotara settler, who ia ti» pakeha referred to; sen«(s «1» the following Vr- , , "> On the 18th of November, 1870, Ufa invited me to join hito in a »ea'fflhibg jfcicar. sion in Mi canoe. Besides himg^tMre were~:<tw6 men and three. lad-u. we. had been ont some time it' Came b* ttfb!o*r. the «pa rpee, and aJioaVy rtrf wjm DT<f»king on the beach. 'Wbqn w£reta'ru«jA,ssthe shore bri*k Uru stood up in therateta^i the canee steering. an&se;saw*thepe^j»^:tt|the he said, it wif use, in.be niustßo.~~Hedireeted the canoe towarat-the lahaingl^fe?ei£hS^ted for a few seconds until the first roller passed, and called to the .crew to pull away, which they <3id r the natives on the heanh «tilL»ignailing to gb' back. The second roller com* • ing-qn,Uru" called another SaH?, and it passed harnjleasly; He again ckUe* out"" pull away," but a panic seemedxtoT /have ftricken the crew," who- were using oafs instead of paddles, and bfef ore they got anfficietft way on again ,'po & to/get in before t^ third roller came,' it came on us like all i-jamense wall and broke right on the canoe, leaving her fullirf.-fnter. Uru called out, •• Let all jump into the. sea." Owt ,wej went, and tried to hold" On, to tbeusrioe," but another roller came and tamed the ..canoe . npeide down, scattering t» right and left, r :Seeing nothing 6f ' tfy Tjompanions I at~T>nce turned my. attention to ;the -shore. 1 had not gone, far rwhen Ihearjd Uru calling to me to come back. -I tamed round, ana got back jast a*' l was £otyg r dow;n. Urn reached out bis bind >n4i hauled me up to the ganoe,< where we heldron to each: other's hands across the- keel. He then told the man called Ngarutaki to go. on shore with the boys, ( as the .canoe could not drift in, the anchor bavins' fallen 6trt ;and made her fast - He then told Tb_ Ala, the other man, ' to stay by Him, and fetor him with his pakeha, Te Aka said, "We had: betterngo ; •we will te drowned about '^re«F«akeha-yet." But Uru said, f ' Nevei? mind; I <fo not go without^iitn. If hediD^ntj I. shall drown too,"- '■ Te T Aka<and tUru then, stripped- themselves, an&anofher sea brewing Over u# with fearful force, we were carried- a'way from the canoe arid~»citten?d. lwai carrted-*>me distanee-shorewardf and-being encouraged by the shout* .of the Natives on the b«ach, I made a strong effort to get on shore, /and managed -to, touch" the bottom,-when;-how-ever, the drawback of the surf carried me oat again, and fttruck me violently against the prow of the oanoe. where I found the friendly hands of Urtfand Te.Akai Uru. 'flatting m&bj^n^ingqujite exhausted, 'made Te Aka come off tne oanoe, an? the t pair, takins me one by T eaoh hand, dragged me Jijtealuff fhronghjbe *urf to^the- friendly arms' of tne Natives ashore, wEoln^mediately stepped me and, p; at me in dry olothes. '