Hineiturama and Tapsell separated and she went to the Waikato to visit her daughter Ewa and husband Dr Hooper who were providing medical services at Orakau. Hineiturama took a new husband, called Ropata. They were caught up in events and both Hineiturama, Ropata and Ewa were killed on 2 April 1864 during the Battle of Orakau. Cowan writes in A Trader in Cannibal Land:

On the fatal April 2nd, 1864, when the fort was evacuated by nearly all the defenders, Hine-i-turama and another woman were bayoneted to death by British soldiers when the place was rushed by troops. The late Major William Mair told me that he attempted to save poor Hine from the maddened soldiers, but when he was attending to one fatally wounded woman the other was killed. All who perished in the siege and the final attack, numbering about forty (another 120 were killed during the retreat) were buried in the trenches they had dug; there were several women among them. So perished Hine-i-tumara, third wife of Tapsell of Maketu, and foremother of many a brave man and beautiful woman (pp. 100-101).

(from a biography by Debbie McCauley http://tauranga.kete.net.nz/tauranga_local_history/topics/show/2685...)