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Chapter V. 



Now, when Te Hakcke grew up he desired to obtain further revenge 

 for the death of his father Rangi-hau-tu ; so he went up the Rangi-tikei 

 River and conferred with some of the chiefs there, with the result that a 

 war-party of the Tupa-taua and Nga-riki hapus journeyed to Manawa-tu, 

 where they surrounded the Pahutu Pa (near the bridge at Palmerston 

 North), at which place Rangi-hau-tu's murderers were living. The invaders 

 were fairly successful in this little tribute to the dead chief's memory, for 

 two of the chief culprits (brothers to Taka-wai, the real murderer) suffered 

 for their relationship, and their spirits fled to the Rerenga Wairua (spirits' 

 leaping-place), and Te Hakeke himself had the satisfaction of killing the 

 man who had held his father down while he was being murdered. How- 

 ever, justice was not always meted out to the ill-doers in those days, as 

 now, for the real cause of all the trouble, Taka-wai, escaped, and so the 

 party had to return to their pas with the lust for blood in their throats only 

 partially satisfied. 



Table 7. -Showing the Ancestor Kauae, from whom the Subtribe take their 



Name. 



Kauae-muri-ranga-whenua 



I 

 Horo-uta 



I 

 Tu patu-nui 



I 

 Ihenga-ariki 



Tutahi-ore-hua Rata rua 



I I 



Rangitikei Kauae-i-ma 



Te Aokehu IE • Waka-iti Rute 



Tao-reia Te Kura Tutahi 



Koukou-te-rangi = Kawa Te Ota-o-te-rangi 



Oko-rewa = Te Rangi-hautu Te Apa-atua 



I I 



Kaewa = Te Hakeke Takerei. 



Kawana Hunia 



1 

 Wirihana Hunia 



I 

 children 



I 

 grandchildren. 



it will be remembered that after Te Hiango was killed, Rihi-mona, 

 Hura, and others went to Horo-whenua for safety, and after a time the 

 Mua-upoko people, with whom they dwelt, thought that Hura's \^Tongs 

 should be more fully avenged, so they came with Rihi-mona back to Lower 

 Rangi-tikei to make war on Ngati Apa. They arrived, and halted just 



