After receiving a series of 18 threatening letters from Wiremu Tamihana, the Waikato leader who was until then was considered one of the more peaceful rangatira and who had negotiated the truce at the end of the First Taranki War, on 9 July 1863 Governor Grey expelled virtually all the Māori living in the territory controlled by the British south of Auckland after Kingitanga Maori refused to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen.

After receiving a series of 18 threatening letters from Tamihana, the Waikato leader who was until then was considered one of the more peaceful rangatira and who had negotiated the truce at the end of the First Taranki War, on 9 July 1863 Governor Grey expelled virtually all the Māori living in the territory controlled by the British south of Auckland after Kingitanga Maori refused to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen.

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