LAST MAORI WAR IN NEW ZEALAND UNDER THE SELF-RELIANT POLICY

Following a period of apparently harmonious coexistence between colonists & indigenous Maoris, British impatience to conquer and rule led to the Maori insurrection & war of 1861-63 & finally to the Uriwera Campaign on the East Coast of the North Island, following the massacre at Poverty Bay, of which this is the most authoritative, detailed account, by the force commander.