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capture of my father. When I returned and arrived in Wellington, I went 

 on board the ' Calliope,' the man-of-war in which my father was a prisoner, 

 to see him. When I saw him we cried together, and when we finished he 

 said to me, ' Son, go to your tribes and tell them to remain in peace. Do not 

 pay for my arrest with evil, only with that which is good. You must love 

 the Europeans. There was no just cause for my having been arrested by 

 Governor Grey. I have not murdered any Europeans, but I was arrested 

 through the lies of the people. If I had been taken prisoner in battle it 

 would have been well, but I was unjustly taken.' I returned on shore with 

 Matene and went to Porirua, and there saw IsTgatitoa and Rawhiri Puaha. 

 We told them the words of Kauparaha respecting good and our living at 

 peace. We then went on to Otaki and repeated the same words. At this 

 time we (two) caused the town of Hadfield to be built at Otaki. From this 

 time Ngatiraukawa and Ngatitoa commenced to do right. At this time a 

 party of Ngatiraukawa came to Ngatiwakatere at Manawatu — this was the 

 tribe that befriended Kangihaeata j — 200 of the tribe came on to Otaki, and 

 when they arrived we assembled. Rangihaeata invited these people that they 

 might know the thoughts of Matene and myself respecting Kauparaha, who 

 w^as held as a captive on board the vessel. He wished to destroy Wellington 

 and kill the Europeans as a satisfaction. T told them the words of Rauparaha, 

 when we (two) went to see them [i.e., the chiefs) and the young men. I told 

 them they must put an end to this foolish desire, and not hearken to the 

 tikanga of Rangihaeata, but that they must live in peace and cease that bad 

 desire. They consented. The Ngatiraukawa consented to build that town, 

 that they might obtain a name. When Rauparaha was liberated in the year 

 1846, he urged Ngatiraukawa to build a large church in Hadfield Town, at 

 Otaki. Had he not returned, the church would not have been built. He had 

 a great desire to worship the great God. He was continually worshipping 

 until he died at Otaki on the 27th November, 1849." 



Such is the history of the life and times of a very remarkable man, and 

 of habits and customs which have already become so much things of the past 

 that in the course of another generation there will be scarcely an aboriginal 

 native left who will have the slightest knowledge of them. Indeed, the 

 memory of the events I have related is already becoming indistinct, even to 

 those of the princi]3al actors in these events who are still living. 



