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Important Judgments: Delivered in the Compensation Court and Native Land Court. 1866–1879.

1720.—kiwi

1720.—kiwi.

About the year 1720, a great chief of Waiohua or Ngaiwi is found living in strength at One-tree Hill, where he had a pa, the trenches of which may be seen to this day. His people held pas or positions of defence, formed by large ditches and protected by stakes, and in some places by stone walls, at Mangakiekie (One-tree Hill), Maungarei, (Mount Wellington), Mangere, Ihumatao, Onehunga, Remuera, Omahu (near Remuera), Te Umuponga, at Orakei, Kohimarama, Taurarua, (Judge's Bay), Te To, (Freeman's Bay), Rarotonga (Mount Smart), Te Tatua (Three Kings), Owairaka (Mount Albert), and other places. In fact, he appears to have held undisputed possession of the whole country from the Tamaki river to Te Whau, and stretching from the Manukau to the Waitemata. But prosperity and power appear to have made him treacherous and overbearing to his neighbours. For we find about the year 1740, at a feast at wai-page 63tuoru Kiwi, assisted by Te Rangikaketu, the great-grandfather of Heteraka, surprised and treacherouly murdered thirty of the tribe Te Taou; and about the same period he murdered, at Mimihanui, in Kaipara, Tahatahi, the sister of Tuperiri, a chief of Te Taou, and grandfather of Apihai, (the claimant), and other members of the tribe. We are also told by Hoterene Taipari that Kiwi's people murdered Kahurautao, an ancestor of Ngatimaru, "a different man," he adds, from the ancestor in "Heteraka's pedigree;" and about the same time Kiwi or his people treacherously killed Te Huru and Taura, of the Ngatiwhatua tribe, in Kaipara.