Chap. IX. THE CHIEF E AHU. ''; .• 2^1 
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^^j CHAPTER IX. 
The Chief E Ahu — He quells Rangihaeata^ s noisy arrogance- 
He avoids the missionary Natives — Journey to Otaki and Ohau — 
The Chief's son, Wahine iti — Lakes — The Patriarch Watanui 
— Inland Journey — Rangitikei — Obstructions offered to Settlers 
by missionary Natives — Mr. Mason, the Missionary — Mr. Daw- 
son, the Police Magistrate — Native dispute — Consequences — • 
Good faith and honest pride of Bangi Tauwira — The town of 
*' Petre" — E Kuru accompanies me to Wellington — Inland 
path — Bivouac — Race — The Oroua, or Styx — Exaggerated mis- 
sionary notions — Hypocrisy — Its punishment — The Surveying 
Station — Steam Saw-mill — Reconciliation of two hostile Chiefs 
— The Patriarch's Family— A noble result of Mr. Hadfield's mis- 
sionary teaching — Rauperaha sends his slaves to obstruct 
settlers on the Hutt. 
I MADE the acquaintance of the chief E Ahu during 
his stay of two or three weeks in Wellington, and 
joined him when he returned to his own residence on 
the Ohau river, as I was again bound for JVanganui. 
This old chief is of the highest rank in the Ngati- 
rauhawa tribe, being of an older branch than even 
JVatanui, though of the same family. He had taken 
an eager part in the selling of Manawatu to Colonel 
Wakefield ; being exceedingly anxious to obtain for 
his people the same advantages which were enjoyed by 
the natives in Port Nicholson from the proximity of a 
White settlement. 
E Ahu was the same chief who had led the first 
party from Taupo to the assistance of Rauperaha in 
subduing the aboriginal inhabitants of Cook's Strait, 
and who had afterwards compelled the rest of the 
tribe to embrace the conqueror's offer of a location on 
