At the end of the month the forces assembled together at
Turanganui, and ia the following month the strong pa,
Wairenga ahika, near the Bishop's residence, was taken, after
about a week's constant fighting. A hundred Hauhaus were
left dead on the field and many prisoners taken; a larger
number of the chiefs might have been secured had not the
commanding officer, instead of taking measures to cut off
their retreat, employed himself in securing the miserable
•loot of those wretched Hauhaus, tfiking the green stone
ornaments from their ears when they were brought as
prisoners before him, an act which caused much disgust
among his men. It was a lamentable sight to see what
havoc had been made in the bishop's residence, his books
scattered everywhere and trampled under foot, the furniture

when the Auckland members, fearing if those provinces were formed it would
take away a portion of the island nominally included in their province, proposed
to those of Wellington that if they would join in their opposition to the
measure, they in return would support them in getting the Manawatu block
exempted from the provisions of the New Native Lands Act, so that the province
of Wellington would have the benefit of selling it. They also proposed to the
Otago members that they should join, and as their reward they should be
supported in gaining some native reserves in the city of Dunedin, which they
had long been trying in vain to obtain. The bargain was made, the native
provinces went to the wall, the others got their several rewards and this is what
is called log rotting.
