| Te Matenga TeAohia His last stand an Excerpt from The Hawkes Bay Herald Tribune |
| There were about ten old men, twenty women, and perhaps forty children in Jerusalem, and six old men, five able bodied men, fourteen women, and about twenty children, in the Huki: all the fighting men were away on the expedition up the Wairoa.; Nevertheless, the fighting went on between the inhabitants of the pas and the Hauhaus until sundown.; Some of the Hauhaus were killed, and one man in the Huki pa named Matenga te Aowhio, a chief. The manner of his death was as follows. The Hauhaus threw a rope over the palisading of the pa, intending to pull it down, when Matenga saw the object, he took a sword and jumped on to the parapet of the pa, and cut the rope with his sword. When the Hauhaus saw him, they fired a volley, and shot him. So died that brave. |
| Te Matenga TeAohia died bravely, 10 April 1869, at TeHuki Pa, Mohaka.Te Matenga is the father of Ropine Hinemare TeAohia, father in law of Adolph Henrici. Some of the Henrici Children where also present during the massacre. Ropine had left the village with a friend, and was in Napier. TeMatenga insisted that Adolph take as many villagers as he could on a boat, but also stressed that he must take Ropines baby son, Tuta. One of Adolph's daughters also accompanied them on the journey over the choppy seas to Napier. Four of the oldest Henrici girls where left at the village, two of which had children strapped to their backs. Luckily for all of us, they managed to escape down the 100 foot cliff, that was beside the Pa, to the Mohaka River and then fled to Napier. |
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