Kei te whakahouhia e mātou te whārangi reo Māori nei

Ko te tangata tāroaroa kei te taha matau o te whakaahua nei ko Kāpene Thomas Porter. Kei te taha ia o ngā kūpapa nō Ngāi Tai (he pononga kāwanatanga Māori). I tangohia te whakaahua nei i Ōpōtiki i te tau 1871. I tae mai a Porter ki Niu Tīreni i te tīmatanga o ngā tau 1860. I whawhai ia ki te taha o Ngāti Porou i ngā pakanga ki a Te Kooti Arikirangi i te tau 1868. I te tau whai muri mai ka tohua ia hei kaihautū tuarua mo te kāhui whawhai pirihimana o Te Arawa. Ka hiki ia me tōna kāhui ki te whawhai i te whawhai whakamutunga o Tītokowaru i mua i tana hono atu ki a Ngāti Porou ki te hopu i a Te Kooti i ngā tau 1870 me te 1871. He mahi nui tā ngā kūpapa ki roto i ēnei pakanga. I te tīmatanga o te Pātea Field Force, te hunga i whawhai atu ki a Tītokowaru, tata ki te 150 ngā kūpapa i hono atu ki te 770 Pākehā, engari i te mutunga ka piki ake te rahi o ngā Māori ki te 400. Ko te nuinga o ngā kūpapa nō te taha whakararo o ngā iwi o Whanganui, i arahina e Keepa te Rangihiwinui, e mōhiotia ana anō hoki ki ngā tāngata Pākehā ko Meiha Kemp.