JOHN WILLIAMS HIPANGO, WHO FELL AT OHOTAHI, IN DEFENCE OF THE WANGANUI 
SETTLEMENT. 
CHAPTER XXXII. 
HONE HEKE. 
This Chief belonged to the Nga puhi tribe,, he married the 
daughter of Hongi, and was one of the early converts to 
Christianity, distinguishing himself by his knowledge of 
Scripture, and consistency of conduct, until the assump- 
tion of British authority in 1840. Listening to the insidious 
representations of unprincipled foreigners, then roving about 
the country, he conceived the idea that the British Govern- 
ment intended to make slaves of the Maori. His first great 
display of anger was occasioned by a flagstaff, which was 
erected on the heights above Kororareka, to signal ships, 
this he was told was the sign of their being reduced to 
slavery, he therefore went and cut it down (July 1844). 
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