New Zealand Times - Parihaka Surrounded

Production date
05 Nov 1881
Description
New Zealand Times 'Extra' broadsheet dated 5 November 1881 regarding military action at Parihaka. Four lines of verse regarding the action at Parihaka have been written on the back:

Sure the Maoris made a boohoo
When we grabbed Te Whiti and Tohu
And as for old Hiroki
We’ve got him safe in chokee

[Wiremu Hīroki was arrested for murder at Parihaka on 5 November 1881 and hanged at New Plymouth gaol on 8 June 1882]
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Object detail

Production date

05 Nov 1881

Production period

1880s

Subject person

Te Whiti o Rongomai III

Tohu Kākahi

John Bryce

Wiremu Hiroki

Classification

newspaper/(for Archives)

Item list

Part 1

New Zealand Times 'Extra' 5 November 1881.

Accession number

ARC2003-633

Collection type

My shortlist

Subject place

Parihaka Pungarehu Taranaki New Zealand Polynesia Oceania North Island

Subject

Second Taranaki War Taranaki Wars New Zealand Wars War

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