Note 1 — Chapter XII · PIONEER LIFE ON THE OLD FRONTIER.
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Another incident that greatly excited the frontier was the capture and imprisonment of Mr Hursthouse and a fellow-surveyor by the fanatic Te Mahuki, or Manukura, of Te Kumi, near Te Kuiti. This was in 1883. The surveyors were released by Te Kooti and friendly-disposed King natives. Soon thereafter Mahuki and a band of his “Angels” rode into Alexandra, which they had threatened to loot and burn; but they were smartly arrested by Major Gascoyne and a force of Armed Constabulary and Te Awamutu Cavalry, and were haled off to Auckland prison.1