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Table 8. 

 Hihi-mua 



I 

 Rangi-tua-waru = Hine-kehn 



Teura 



I 

 Kato-poua = Te Kiri 



Taka-rangi (killed at Kohuiu-iio) 

 Rora-awhe-uru (f.) — Mete Kingi 



I I 



Mete Kingi Taka-rangi Mete Kingi (age about 65). 



After this victory Te Hakeke expected that, with the death of such a 

 prominent man, there would be a strong combination against Ngati Apa, 

 so he assembled all the branches of the tribe at Paewa, and aU the rest of the 

 country was deserted. Whanga-nui expected from these preparations that 

 there would be a great war-party from Ngati Eau-kawa, who were by this 

 time firm friends with Ngati Apa, and were living at Poutu, just across the 

 river from Paewa. So Hori Kingi Te Ana-ua sent his' brother Te Mawai to 

 Hakeke to make peace — or, rather, to prevent a war ; for the influence of 

 Europeans was now being felt, and the Natives saw how their constant 

 internal troubles were thimiing their ranks. So peace was made at Paewa, 

 and the Whanga-nui messengers returned home. 



After the victory at Kohuru-po the death of Ao-kehu occurred. Once 

 more the war-cloud gathered, when Rangi-tane came to Whanga-ehu and 

 Turakina to kill the people of those places, and when they thought they 

 had killed all the people they went away. Tawai-whea, a great chief of 

 Ngati Kahu-ngunu, was the chief man of that party. 



Now, when Te Ao-kehu heard that all the people of Whanga-ehu and 

 Turakina had been killed, he pursued Rangi-tane, and overtook and killed 

 them all on the sea-beach. Koko-pirangi also met that war-part v at 

 0-takapo (a well-known station between Bull's and Turakina), and again 

 defeated them. (Here an effort was made to impress upon the narrator 

 the fact that it must have been the ghosts of that war-party that Koko- 

 pirangi met, as they were hua mate ; but he failed to see it.) These war- 

 parties came straight to Turakina and Whanga-ehu from Here-taunga. 



Then Rangi-haeata, or Mokau, as he was sometimes called, of Ngati 

 Toa, Te Ratu, and others came down on the Rangi-waho and Macro people 

 who were living at the Awa-mate Pa, and defeated them there, and then 

 came on to Waipu. Here Te Ao-kehu, who was Hakeke's gxand-uncle, 

 fell in with them as he was travelhng from Rangi-tikei to Whanga-nui. 

 When the Wai-riki people heard the guns of the invaders they rushed to 

 Rangi-tikei, leaving Te Ao-kehu and a few others to fight, and so by evening 

 Te Ao-kehu and all his people had been killed. 



When word was brought in that Te Ao-kehu had been killed, the whole 

 of the hapus went to Oroua and to different places of the Rangi-tikei River, 

 with the exception of one party who went up the Turakina to their pa Puke- 

 ahua, where they Uved with the Ngati Tupa-taua. Ngati Toa followed the 

 fugitives, and some of the old men were caught at Oroua. Whare-peta 

 and Hira were both caught there, as well as others whose names are for- 

 gotten. 



