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 numb...