Wairangi
The two forces clashed repeatedly, but eventually hunger sapped the defenders' strength and they were unable to deflect the Ngāti Raukawa assault, which captured the chieftain Hikaraupi and the mountain.
[8][7] After this, Wairangi settled the portion of Ngāti Kahu-pungapunga's lands south of Whakamaru, making his base at Ruru-nui, near Whare-puhanga.
[9] His descendants, Ngāti Wairangi, still live in the area and now share Mōkai marae with a number of other hapū.
[11] When Tupeteka refused to return Parewhete, Wairangi gathered a war-party of 140 men along with his brothers Tama-te-hura, Upoko-iti, and Pipito.
According to Te Rangi Hīroa his suspicions were aroused by the fact that the posts of the wharau were made of whole trunks of kahikatea - far sturdier than required for construction.
On the third day, they heard Tupeteka's men slaughtering kurī dogs for food, carrying eels into the village, and bringing firewood, as if for a feast.
Te Rangi Hīroa says that she went to the wharau, weeping, lay down on Wairangi's lap and cut her arms so that the blood flowed over him.
"[15] Pei Te Hurinui Jones reports the same lament, but says that it was a cryptic warning that she uttered when Wairangi first arrived.
[15][14] To avoid being killed, the group decided that they would offer to perform a haka and when they reached a set word they would suddenly attack Tupetaka.
Wairangi's men had hidden their weapons under their skirts and (according to Pei Te Hurinui Jones) Matamata was stationed next to Tupeteka, ready to grab him when the signal was given.
[21] At Kārea-nui on the south bank of the Waipā River he burnt Ngāti Maniapoto's kumara storage pits.
This goaded Maniapoto into leading out a force of three hundred and seventy to confront Wairangi, making base near Kārea-nui at Waiponga.
[25] Wairangi's participation in the war with Ngāti Kahu-pungapunga is mentioned in the account of the war by Walter Edward Gudgeon in the 1893 issue of the Journal of the Polynesian Society, with no indication of the sources on which it is based.,[26] as well as the account given by Pei Te Hurinui Jones, based on oral testimony given at the Māori Land Court at Cambridge in a dispute over ownership of the Waotū area,[27] and the account given by Hōri Wirihana of Ngāti Kauwhata in evidence to the Māori Land Court at Ōtorohanga on 17 August 1886.
