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refused, being indignant at Bloody Jack*s having appro- 
priated a larger portion of money received for the sale of 
some land than he was entitled to, thus he perished. 
Mamaku. 
It appeared as though the electric telegraph had found its 
way to New Zealand, for no sooner had the war broken out 
in the north, than hostile symptoms were simultaneously 
displayed in the south.* A few of the natives who lived in 
the Hutt, and had cultivations there, were ordered to quit 
without much ceremony or favor being showed them, they 
were told the land had been sold by Te Rauparaha, they 
also claimed a right to it, but their claims were disallowed ; 
after much disputing on both sides, a military force was 
stationed in the midst of their cultivations. The Governor 
requested me to go as an ambassador to them, (they were 
then encamped in a dense forest,) to say that if they quietly 
left, he would see compensation was given for their crops. 
Kaperatehau, the principal Chief, agreed to his terms, and 
promised to leave the following day ; unfortunately, in 
the meantime, a constable set fire to their village, burnt 
their houses, their neat little wooden church, and even 
the fences around their graves; this wanton act greatly 
exasperated them : during the night, they revisited the site 
of their late homes, dug up the bones of their dead, and 
carried them off into the bush ; the Governor again wished me 
to speak to them ; I found their late peaceable feelings had 
disappeared ; they pointed to a heap covered with branches, 
and, lifting them up, I saw the remains of the dead ; they 
told me, there was an end of peace. I left, and reported 
their words. 
To make a beginning, Rangihaeata gave a tomahawk to 
* When Ohaiawai was attacked, and so many of our brave countrymen fell, 
long before the news reached the settlers in the south, I saw in the interior 
several neatly- constructed models of the pa and its defences, made with fern- 
stalks, to show the way they had gained the victory, these had been made by 
messengers sent from the north, to publish their success to those in the south. 
