The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-23
NEW ZEALAND.
Terrible Atrocities of the Savages-The
Massacre of Settlers

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The New Zealand papers give detailed &C
counts of the dreadful massacre of settlers, in
Guiding men, women, and children, aud a num-
Der OF friendly natives, In night attack on the
settlement OF Mata hero, Poverty Bay, by a
party of the Hau Haus. who recently made their
escape from the Chatham Islands.
On the 10th of November they suddenly
attacked the settlement at Matawhero near
TuTangsnui, In Poverty Bay yI the place place where
. o'clock in the morning the Hau Haus
attacked Major Riggs house. The Major,
who was there. The reply was volley, which,
however, only wounded the Major. He called
out to awaken his family, aud told them to
run for their lives, as the house was attacked by
Hau Haus. one little boy, Charlie, managed
by crawling underneath the verandah boa rds,
to escape out into the fax In the immediate
ntighborRood of the house, from whence he
SaHS Saw t6e whole no proeeedingsi msIor Bggs was
his head in with their muskets, Mrs Biggs
being held near and forced TO see the brutality.
She, baby, and the nurse were subsequently
murdered. The boy Charlie managed to escape
TO house a short distance off. where Mrs.
with her four children, was living, and, giving
the alarm, the inmates Immediately ran for
their lives to the redouSt at Turanganui.
tupsie. Mr.. Wilson's house was at
we're m1r6ered House after % house use was S'tes thus
visited by these savages and destroyed, the In
mates being put to death in many instances
dragged by the hair of her head outside her
house and then burnt to death. Some few of
from whence they went in two small coasting
craft. which happened to pass the bay at the
The following Is list OF the murdered, so far
as known:-
Major Biggs, wife, child, and servant, 4; Cap
tain Wilson, four children, and man servant,
8; Messrs. Dodd and Peppard and two men SER
wants, 4; Mr.: Padbqry, !; Mr.; Cadle; L Mr.
wi g, and child, 3; Mr.. McCullooh wife, child
and niece, 4; two of Mr.. Goldsmiths children,
2; Mr.. Rathbone, l; Mr.. r. Newnham. wife,
child, ana man servant, a; friendly natives
Every house In the settlement was DESTROYED
crops, stock, and every thing gone; in fact, one
of the most prosperous little settlements on the
East coast has thus been blotted out OF the map.
Those who have escaped have done 80 in
state OF perfect destitution. One poor woman,
the wife OF Captain Wilson, after being stabbed
lying senseless, and IT. was supposed dead
managed, when the tiends had left her house. to
self. She was, with the exception of her night
dress, completely without clothing, and
SO n she ne br e for seven & or eight days
only eight years old, who had managed to
escape from the house, found her thus ON the
eggs which he hunted about for. At length,
after making several Intellectual attempts, he
of seven miles, across country that he had
never before travelled. Here he found Captain
tSe had e the
and assistance was Immediately sent out to the
Is now so far recovered as to be out of danger.
INCIDENTS OF THE MASSACRE.
Goldsmith. q stockman on Captain Reads
station, heard firing at an early hour on Tues
day morning, in the direction of Mr.. Maun's
house, al d saddling a horse. at once galloped
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, aud
striking her. and upon getting her outside they
were proceeding to set fire to her clothes, when
some OF them catching sight of Goldsmith,
smith, however, being an excellent rider, put
spurs to his horse ana rode right over some OF
the wretches
The losses sustained by station. holders and
settlers by this bloody foray will probably be
most extensive.
A careful search was rewarded by the dis
covery of the bodies of the native scouting par
ties, all feaTfulIy and brutally misused, Poor
Karaitiana had been tomahawked, and his
heert and liver torn out and probably eaten; he
was split open as q butcher opens a sheep. All
the bodies were stripped naked.