Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-01-29
MASSACRE In NEW ZEALAND.
Hatchery of q whole SetfIemema-Ter
rible Atrocities OF the savaeeS.

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The New Zealand papers give de-
tailed accounts Of the dreadful
massacre of settlers, including men,
women and children, and a number
of friendly natives, in a night at
tack on the settlement of Malta
where, Poverty Bay, by party Of
| Hau Haus, who recently made their
escape from the Chatham Islands
On the 10th Of November they
suddenly attacked the settlement at
Mattawhero, near Turanganui, in
Poverty Bay, the place where Capt
Cook first landed in New Zealand.
At three o'clock in the morning
the Hau Haus attacked Maj. Bigg's
house. The Major, hearing noise
outside, went to the door to see
who was there. The reply was
volley, which, however, only
wounded the Major. He called out
to awaken his family, and told
them to run for their lives, as the
house was attacked by Hau Haus.
One little boy, Charlie, managed,
by crawling underneath the verah-
dab boards, to escape out into the
fax in the immediate neighbor-
hood of the house, from whence he
saw the whole proceedings.
Major Biggs was held down on
the ground while they smashed his
head in with their muskets, Mrs.
Biggs being held near and forced
to seethe brutality. She, a baby and
nurse were subsequently murdered
The boy Charles managed to es-
cape to house a short distance off,
where Mrs. Bloomfield, the widow
of captain in the army, with her
four children were living, and, Civ
ing the alarm, the inmates imme-
diately ran for their lives to the re
doubt at Turanganui. Other resi-
dents were not so fortunate. Mr..
Wilson's house was attacked, and
he, his wife and four children muir
dered. House after house was thus
visited by these savages and de-
troyed, the. inmates being put, to
death in many instances with
frightful fortunes. A Mrs. Ma1n |
was dragged by the hair of tie
head outside her house and then
burnt to death. Some few Of the
settlers managed to escape to. III
ranganui, from whence they went |
in two small cOasting crafts, which
happened to pass the bay at the
time, to Napier and Auckland The f
following is q list of those muir /
dered, though it is impossible to say. !
if it contains all the victims of this /,
savage massacre: Maj. Biggs, wife, |
child and servant, 4 !; Capt Wilson,
four children and man servant, 6;
Messrs. Dodd and Peppard and two |
men servants, 4 \; Mr.. Padbury, 1 |
Mr. Cadle, l Mr.. Mann, wife and |
child, 3 Lieut. Walsh, wife and |
child, 3 +; Mr. McGulloch, wife, child |
and niece, 4 Mr.. RathbOne, 1; BIr |
r. NEWMAN, wife, child and man |
servant, 4 two of Mr. Goldsmith's
children, ?; friendly natives about
90
Every house in the settlement
was destroyed, crops, stock aud |
everything gone in fact, one Of the
most prosperous little settlements
on the East coast has thus been
blOtted out of the map. Those who
escaped have done so in a state Of
perfect restitution. One poor
woman, the wife of Capt. Wilson,
after being stabbed seven or eight |
times with a bayonet and left lying |
senseless, and it was supposed dead, |
managed, when the fiends had left
her house, to crawl into a neighb1r-
ing swamp and hide herself. She |
was, with the exception of her
night dress, completely without
clothing, and so she remained for
seven or eight days. One of her
little children a noble little fellow
only eight years old, who had man
aged to escape from the house, found |
her thus on the evening of the |
massacre, and kept her alive on
eggs which he hunted about for.
At length, after making several in
etfectual attempts, he succeeded in |
reaching Turanganui, distance of
seven miles, across a country that
he had never before travelled Here
he found Capt. Westiupp and a
small guard, besides some of the
settlers who had escaped to the re-
doubt, and assistance was i'm
mediately sent out TO the poor lady, |
who was sent to Napier, and is now
so far recovered as to be out Of |
danger.
Goldsmith, stOckman on Capt. |
Reads station, heard firing at an
early hour on Tuesday morning,
in the direction of Mr.. Mann's |
house, and saddling horse, at once |
galIoped off to the spot. Coming |
suddenly upon the house, he beheld |
a most dreadful spectacle. The |
Hau Hau demons were dragging |
Mrs. Mann out of the door by the |
hair of the head, and striking her,
and upon getting her outside they |
were proceeding to set fire to her |
clothes, when some of them catch.
ing sight Of Goldsmith, made a
spring at the bride of his horse.
Goldsmith, however, being an ex-
cellent rider, put spurs to his horse
and rode right over some of the
wretches.
The losses sustained by station
holders and settlers by this bloody |
foray will probably be most exten-
sive.
A careful search was rewarded
by the discovery of the bodies Of
the native scouting parties, all fear
fully and brutality misused. Poor
Karaitiana had been tOmahawked, |
and his heart and liver torn out and
probably eaten he was split open
as a butcher opens a sheep All
the bodies were stripped naked