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returned from Cloudy Bay, near Wairau, he gave the documents to Hawea* 
to read ; when he had read them he told Rauparaha that all his land at 
Wairau had passed away to Captain Piringatapu, and that he had received a 
big gun for it. Rauparaha was angry, and tore up the documents and threw 
them in the fire, also the documents held by the chiefs of Ngatitoa at Kapiti, 
and Ngatitoa of the other island. When Wakefield arrived, and the settle- 
ments of Nelson and Wellington were formed, he (Wakefield) went to Wairau 
for the purpose of surveying. Rauparaha did not consent as he had not been 
paid for it, since he had been deceived by Captain Piringatapu. Rauparaha’s 
_ thought was that the land ought not to be taken by Wakefield, but that they 
should consider the matter before the land was handed over. Trouble and 
wrong was’ caused by the hurried attack of Wakefield and party upon 
Rauparaha. Rauparaha has told me a good deal about this matter. It was 
not his desire that the Europeans should be killed ; his love to Wakefield and 
party was great. Rangihaeata, Rauparaha’s nephew, was misled by his own 
foolish thought and want of attention to what Rauparaha had said. When 
Wakefield and party were dead, Rauparaha rose and said, ‘Hearken Te 
Rangihaeata, I will now leave you as you have set aside my tikanga, let those 
of the Europeans that have been killed suffice ; let the others live, do not kill 
them.’ Rangihaeata replied, ‘What about your daughter that has been 
killed.’ Rauparaha replied, ‘Why should not that daughter die?’ Raupa- 
raha also said, ‘ Now I will embrace christianity, and turn to God, who has 
- preserved me from the hands of the Europeans.’ This was the time when he 
embraced christianity. I was absent when the fight took place at Wairau, 
having gone to preach to Ngaitahu. I went as far as Rakaia. I was there 
one year, and was the first person that went there to preach. It was on this 
account that my father did not go there to fight. When Rangihaeata again 
occasioned trouble to the Europeans at the Hutt, Rauparaha was sad at the 
folly of Rangihaeata in withholding the land that had been purchased from 
him and Te Rangihaeata by the Europeans for £200. Rauparaha endeavoured 
to persuade Rangihaeata to cease causing trouble about that land, but he 
would not hearken. 
“ Rauparaha was afterwards taken prisoner by Governor Grey at Porirua 
without sufficient pretext. The following is the reason why he was taken :— 
A letter was written by some one, and to which the name of Te Rauparaha 
was signed ; it was then sent to the chiefs of Patutokotoku at Wanganui. It 
is said that Mamaku and Rangihaeata wrote the letter and signed the name 
of Rauparaha to give it force. I was at school at this time with Bishop 
Selwyn at Auckland, together with my wife Ruth, and did not see the 
* Hawea, or Hawes, was a European trader residing at Kapiti at the time of the 
