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Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



tiporou, Ngati-maru, o Waikato. 

 I muri i enei whawhai, katahi ka 

 huri raai ki a Ngati-whatua. Ko 

 te ingoa o te pare-kura ko " Te Ika- 

 ranga-nui." Heoi, hingaana aNga- 

 puhi, hiDga ana a Ngati-whatua, 

 engari i riro te papa i a Ngapubi. 

 No konei ka haere a Te Tinana ki 

 Waikato ; tona taenga atu ki reira, 

 ka puta te whakaaro o Ngati-teata 

 ki te rangatira o Ngati-mania-poto, 

 ki a Tu-koreliu, kia patua a Te 

 Tinana, a, patua ana, mate ana. 

 Ko te take tenet i haere ai ngaiwi e 

 rua, a Ngapulii, a Ngati-whatua ki 

 Waikato, ki te taki i te mate o Te 

 Tinana. No reira i mate ai a Po- 

 mare me Te Whare-o-riri, me etahi 

 atu o nga rangatira o Ngati-whatua. 

 Engari, ko te nuinga o nga ranga- 

 tira i ora, a hoki mai ana ki Kai- 

 para nei. 



Ka moe tetahi wahine o Ngati- 

 whatua i tetehi tangata o Ngati-te- 

 ata ; katahi ka tikina ano taua 

 wahine e Ngati-whatua, ka tango- 

 hia mai. No reira i puta ai te 

 whakaaro o Ngati-te-ata, puta noa 

 i Waikato, kia whawhaitia a Ngati- 

 whatua. No taua takiwa i hangaa- 

 poutia ai tenei pa, a Otakanini, i 

 whakaarahia ai hoki tenei Tiki ; ko 

 tona ingoa ko "Te Whare-o-riri." 

 Ko te tangata nana i whakaara 

 tenei Tiki, ko Mate, ko tetehi o 

 nga rangatira o Ngapuhi. Otira, 

 kahore i tae mai a Waikato. 



E torn nga tau i tu ai tenei Tiki 

 ki Otakanini, ka whawhai nei a 

 Hone Heke ki te pakeha, i Koro- 

 rareka. 



He kupu poroporoaki enei naku, 

 na Hami Tavvaewae, ki a " Te 

 whare o riri " : — 



Ka toto nga kohn e — i roto o Kai- 



para, 

 I te puna whakatoto riri, e, 

 Na o tupuna, na o matua nga 



ki-e, 

 He tahuri waka nui, 

 E kore e ngaro e, 

 He kopua nganangana i rangi. 

 Me tuku atu koe ra, 



Ngati-porou, Ngati-maru, and Wai- 

 kato. After tliis he turned towards 

 Ngati-whatua. The name of this 

 battle was Te Ika-ranga-nui. Here 

 both Ngapuhi and Ngati-whatua 

 fell, but the victory remained with 

 the former. [This was in February, 

 182.5.] It was in consequence of 

 this defeat that Te Tinana [of 

 Ngati-whatua] went to Waikato ; 

 on his arrival there the Ngatite-ata 

 Tribe persuaded the chief of Ngati- 

 mania-poto, named Tu-korehu, to 

 kill Te Tinana, which was done. 

 This death, again, was the cause 

 that the two tribes of Ngapuhi and 

 Ngati-whatua went to Waikato to 

 seek revenge for Te Tinana's death. 

 In consequence, Pomare, of Nga- 

 puhi, and Te Whare-o-riri, of Ngati- 

 whatua, were killed, besides others 



[at Te Rore, 182G] . At the same 

 time most of the chiefs of Ngati- 

 whatua escaped, and subsequently 

 returned to Kaipara to dwell. 



Subsequently one of the Ngati- 

 whatua women married a Ngati-te- 

 ata man, when the former tribe took 

 her away from her husband. Hence, 

 the Ngati-te-ata Tribe, together with 

 the Waikatos, proposed to make war 

 on Ngati-whatua. It was at this 

 time that the Pa of Otakanini was 

 rebuilt, and the Tiki — which is 

 called Te Whare-o-riri [after the 

 chief of that name] — was erected. 

 The Tiki was set up by Mate, one of 

 the chiefs of Ngapuhi [who lived at 

 Puatahi, Kaipara, in IBGO] . But 

 the Waikato people never came 

 after all. 



The Tiki had been erected about 

 three years at Otakanini when the 

 war between Hone Heke and the 

 Pakehas commenced at Korovareka 



[1844]. 



These are my farewell words, of 

 Hami Tawaewae, to " Te Whare o- 

 riri " :— 



The misty clouds in Kaipara 



gather 

 In the anger-propelling fountain; 

 'Twas thy ancestors, thy parents 



declared. 

 'Tis like the wreck of a great canoe, 

 Which will never be forgotten — 

 Like a deep-red cavity in heaven. 

 Prom hence thou must depart 



