110 Transactions. 



There grand the greeting it will be 



Of thy female ancestry 



When their ohief again they see. 



All the tribe, with joy elate. 



The war-canoe will decorate. 



The hokio feather thou must wear 



Because it is extremely rare ; 



The huia 's common everywhere. 



On the joj'ful meeting-day 



You must your dignity display 



In fitting action, fitting speech. 



On Wai-Mari's adjacent beach, 



Near Wai-kawa. Ascend thou Puke-hou, 



Beyond Rau-kawa gaze o'er depths below. 



On it thy ancestors, in days gone by, 



Their paddles grasped and made their wakas fly ; 



But they departed, to return no more, 



Unto Hawaiki's dim and distant shore. 



After making this arrangement, Te Hakeke did what he could to carry 

 it out, so he abandoned his place up the Rangi-tikei River, and built two 

 pas at Oroua. Then, determined on peace, he went to Manawa-tu, and 

 sought an interview with his old enemies ; and so successful was he that a 

 chief of Rangi-tane composed a well-known song to the effect that these 

 two great tribes, the Ngati Apa and Rangi-tane, had now met together for 

 the first time in peace. The song commences, — 



Kaua te Hakeke e ra konei mai, titaha tonu atti ma te hori 

 Ki waho ra i, kai peka mai ki konei kai kamua 

 Hoki koe e taku hokowhitu e taku ma te rau e i. 



[Translation.] 



Let not Te Hakeke come near ; 



Let him keep away, lest he be destroyed 



By my hokowhitu (140) and my two hundred. ! 



(This was probably the conference of chiefs referred to in the heke lately 

 narrated.) 



After leaving his pa at Oroua, Te Hakeke went to Kai-kokopu, near the 

 sea, while Macro, Rangi-waho, and Nga-potiki hapus took up their abode 

 at Pukepuke. The chief did not stay long at Kai-kokopu, but returned 

 to Oroua ; but soon again he left that place, on hearing that Nepia Tara-toa 

 and Nga Maunga, of Ngati Rau-kawa, were occupying Pae-roa, and under- 

 scrubbing bush there with a view to settlement, and that they were also 

 using the Awa-mate eel-weirs. So he abandoned Oroua, and gathered 

 together some of the scattered hapus of Ngati Apa, and again came to Pare- 

 wa-nui, accompanied by the Kauae, Ngati Apa, and Ngati Tau-ira people, 

 where they took up the clearings made by Ngati Rau-kawa, who had moved 

 across the river to Piri-rau and Tara-toa as soon as they heard that Te 

 Hakeke was on his way thither. As soon as Ngati Apa were once more 

 settled at Parewa-nui, Ta-whito, the father of Paipai, of Whanga-nui (and 

 grandfather of Hori Kerei, now living), came to Hakeke asking for aid. 

 Hakeke responded, and sent messengers to Ngati Kauwhata and Ngati 

 Upoko-iri, both of which tribes sent their men to aid in avenging Ta-whito's 

 people, the Rangi Waho Tribe, some of whose men had been cut off by 

 the Nga Raurus. So this tribe was duly attacked and defeated, but not 

 downcast, for they came round inland seeking idu, and travelled to Poko- 

 wharo, where they found it in the person of Wai-ina, the wife of Rawiri- 

 te-mana-o-Tawhaki. 



