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The worst characters were transported to the Chatham Islands, amongst them being the 

 subsequently notorious Te Kooti, who, although professedly on the British side, was 

 suspected of being a spy, and punished accordingly without any form of trial. About 

 the same time the Arawa tribe, under Major Mair, inflicted a crushing defeat upon the 

 Hauhaus at Te Teko, near Matata, in the Bay of Plenty, and took upwards of eighty 

 prisoners, including the prophet Te Ua, and twenty-eight natives alleged to have been 

 concerned in Falloon's murder. Meanwhile, trouble had arisen in the Wanganui District. 

 The disaffected Ngatiruanui, in October, murdered the envoys of peace that were sent 

 to them, and at the end of December, General Chute marched against them from 

 Wanganui with a small force of the Fourteenth and of the Royal Artillery, strengthened 

 by two hundred of the Native Contingent under Major McDonnell. He took his way 

 through the enemy's country, and, re-inforced by detachments of the Eighteenth and 

 Fiftieth, penetrated through the bush to New Plymouth, where he received quite an 

 ovation. He then marched by the coast to Patea, where the campaign ended on the 

 ;th of February, 1866. This was the last occasion on which Imperial troops were 

 actively engaged in New Zealand. The strength and spirit of the enemy had by this 

 time been broken by their repeated reverses, although a kind of desultory warfare was 

 kept up with Colonel McDonnell until the end of October. 



TITOKOWARU'S OUTBREAK. 



During 1867, the colony again tasted the blessings of peace; but by the middle of 

 1868 the North Island was once more convulsed in the throes of war. Titokowaru, a 

 leading chief on the west coast, and an acknowledged Hanhait, rose in rebellion, and, 

 after some pillaging and murdering in the Patea District, a section of his forces attacked 

 the Turuturumokai Redoubt, where twenty-five men were stationed under Captain Ross. 

 They surprised the garrison on Sunday morning, on the i2th of July, and cut it to 

 pieces, Captain Ross and nine of his men being killed. The rest escaped, five of them 

 being wounded. Major Von Tempsky and his Forest Rangers held the field until the 

 arrival of Colonel McDonnell with re-inforcements. On the 2ist of August, the latter 

 officer attaked the stronghold of Te Ngutu-o-te-manu ("The Beak of the Bird"), and 

 captured it with a loss of four killed and ten wounded. Early in September a disastrous 

 repulse was sustained at Ruaruru, Titokowaru's own fastness. It was assailed by Colonel 

 McDonnell with a force of two hundred and fifty Europeans and one hundred Wanganui 

 natives. The enemy, protected by the dense scrub, and with their marksmen posted 

 amid the branches of a clump of rata trees within the palisading, did such terrible 

 execution that the assailants were compelled to beat a retreat, leaving behind them 

 nineteen killed and twenty-five- wounded. Among the slain were the gallant Von 

 Tempsky and Captains Buck and Palmer, and Lieutenants Hastings and Hunter. Shortly 

 after this action, Colonel McDonnell gave up the command, and was succeeded by 

 Colonel (now Sir George) Whitmore. Under this officer another repulse was met with 

 at Okutuku, or Moturoa, on the ;th of November. He engaged the enemy with a 

 mixed force of two hundred and sixty-six Europeans and eighty Maoris, and, after a 

 hard fight of five and a half hours, was obliged to retire, the casualties being Major 

 Hunter and six men killed, twenty wounded, and twelve missing. Titokowaru now 



