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'Whakamaharatanga mo tetahi rangatira Maori e noho nei, ki te taenga mai o Pene Kuki ki Niu Tireni' (Te Hōreta Te Taniwha meets Captain Cook)

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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume V, Issue 106, 13 January 1853, Page 3

Copy of a letter from Mr. Brackenbury, late Gold Commissioner in Victoria, to the Chief Commissioner. Auckland, November 9th, 1861

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New Zealander, Volume XVII, Issue 1629, 27 November 1861, Page 6  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZ18611127.2.16.5

1852 and 1861 agreements regarding gold prospecting in Coromandel, 27 November 1861

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  New Zealander, Volume XVII, Issue 1629, 27 November 1861, Page 6

Letter from Donald McLean regarding an 'Agreement entered into with the Natives of Coromandel Harbour' (concerning gold exploration), 7 November 1861

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New Zealander, Volume XVII, Issue 1629, 27 November 1861, Page 6 See here for the texts of 1852 and 1861 agreements concerning gold prospecting in Coromandel.

The Exploitation of Gold in Coromandel, a letter to the Minister for Native Affairs, 1861

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New Zealander, Volume XVII, Issue 1629, 27 November 1861, Page 6

'A Grand Old Warrior', Hori Ngākapa Te Whanaunga of Ngāti Whanaunga, 1901

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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 57, 8 March 1901, Page 2 AUCKLAND SPECIAL. A GRAND OLD WARRIOR. (Special to Times.) Auckland, last night.  Amongst the Native witnesses in attendance at the Supreme Court yesterday in connection with the Miranda murder trial, in which a Maori man is charged with murdering his wife, was tho old Maori chief Hori Ngakapa Te Whanaunga, a deeply tattooed warrior who saw service in tho Waikato campaign, and who is the last surviving chief of rank in the Ngati Whanaunga tribe of Coromandel and Miranda. Hori is a venerable and interesting link with the early history of this city. He, when a young man of 20 or so, was one of tho bravest of tho Ngatipaoa and other tribes who made the memorable invasion of Auckland in their canoes in 1853, in consequence of the arrest of one of their chiefs, and he took part in the warlike demonstration on tho beach at Waipawa, now known as Mechanic’s Bay. In 1868, he joined in the Waikato war, and led led an attack with a number o