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

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 of his tribe on a force of soldiers at “Martin’s Clearing,” on the road near Drury, where a sharp fight took place. He also fought at Rangiriri, and with many others, men and women, escaped from the pah by swimming across a crook on tho fall of that stronghold. Hori’s grandfather was the celebrated old centenarian chief Te Taniwha (“ Old Hooknose”), who was a friend of Sir George Grey’s in the early days, and who as a boy saw Captain Cook’s ship sailing out of the Hauraki Gulf, on route to Poverty Bay.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 57, 8 March 1901, Page 2