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below Parewa-nui, and sent out scouts to reconnoitre. The only person 

 the scouts discovered was Kaewa (Te Hakeke's wife), whom they found 

 with a companion gathering tutu-berries. She was uncertain whether she 

 would be killed or not, but the scouts contented themselves by stating 

 their object and asking for Hakeke, who was away at Turakina mustering a 

 war-party to fight Eangi-tane. Leaving Kaewa unhurt, the scouts con- 

 tinued their search, and soon after found Ngoki, Kaewa's sister, who was 

 surprised and killed at 0-taka-po, close to where the township of Bull's 

 now stands. As soon as Hakeke retvirned from Turakina, he discovered 

 what had taken place, and made all haste to follow up the retreating war- 

 party, and fell in with them accidentally at Wha-rangi (Manawa-tu), where 

 they were busy in the swamps catching eels. Although thus engaged, they 

 were working " with one eye open," for they judged by the flight of some 

 seagulls that they might be surprised by a pursuing party ; so Tu-ranga-pito 

 was ready with a long-handled tomahawk, and Hakaraia was also near to 

 bear the brunt of the attack, and these two sought to engage the enemy 

 while the rest of the Mua-upoko drew together. Then Hakeke remembered 

 that these people whom he had come out against were his own connections,* 

 so he sought a truce, and to do so ran up and threw his dog-skin mat over 

 Rihi-mona. Tu-ranga-pito was angay at thus being baulked of the excite- 

 ment of a fight, so he tried to make trouble, and cried out, " Who is that 

 tupapaJcu (dead body) you have there ? " apparently endeavouring to excite 

 them by reference to the late murder. But Hakeke seems to have been a 

 man of peace, for, although Ngoki was Hakeke's sister-in-law, she was 

 also a connection (whaea) of Tu-ranga-pito's. Notwithstanding Hakeke's 

 command, Waitene (Ngoki's brother) still endeavoured to kill Hura and 

 Rihi-mona, but was checked by the others. Eventually the Mua-upoko 

 people crossed the Mikihi Stream, but while they were crossing some one 

 called out " Ko Ngoki tonu " ; but it was too late to cause fiu'ther trouble, 

 for by that time Mua-upoko were on the other side of the Manawa-tu. Hura 

 and Rihi-mona never returned to Rangi-tikei. 



After these things Pouhu was killed by some of the Nga Riki and Tupa- 

 taua people. Pouhu, it will be remembered, was one of those who suffered 

 scorching at the hands of Te Hina, but who recovered from his wounds. 

 He was one of the Maero hapu, and he was killed by Tahataha and Maru- 

 maru in revenge for the death of Te Hina, who was killed in assaulting Te 

 Awa-mate pa, and also in revenge for Tama-whi-rangi, the visitor who was 

 killed at the same place. It may be mentioned that this tribe, the Nga 

 Riki, was a hapu toa, Hakeke and all the other leading chiefs of Ngati Apa 

 being comaected with it. As utu for Pouhu's death, Hori-te-hania and his 

 companions killed one of the Rangaranga-tu people at Oroua. He thought 

 first of all that he would kill Te Haena. who was an old man of Nga Riki 

 living at Totara-tae-apa (Sandon), but he did not carry out that idea, as 

 he was afraid of Te Hakeke ; so he went on to Oroua, where he killed 

 Pokana, of the Rangaranga-tu hapu, but spared his sister, who was con- 

 nected with him by marriage. This murder was, even according to Maori 

 ethics, a very discreditable transaction {he hanohi i pania hi te toto). The 

 next item was that the Ngati Apa sought revenge for this, and went to 

 Hakupu-rua (Oroua), where they killed, of the Ngati Tauira and Ngati 

 Maero, the following persons : Mokomoko, Rereopa, Te Eangi-ta-koru, and 

 Tara-wehi, who was a daughter of Hura, and also her brother Tahu-potiki ; 



* Kaewa, Te Hakeke's wife, was a Mua-upoko woman. 



