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… which they were anxious to test on tribes living further south, passed through Kawhia, and its leaders, Waka Nene and … Ruanui and other tribes, but spared Ngati Awa. At Kapiti Island Te Rauparaha concluded a temporary peace with the …
… 1840. Here he established the first mission station in the South Island. Watkin found the whaling settlement of Waikouaiti a … and compiled an elementary reading book to be printed in Ngai Tahu. In November 1840 Watkin was greatly disturbed by …
… the Province of Canterbury occupied the central part of the South Island and extended from east to west coasts. East of the …
… (1805?–44). Paramount chief of the South Island. A new biography of Tuhawaiki, Hone appears in … In 1835 Taiaroa and Tuhawaiki (now paramount chief of the Ngai Tahu) led a strong party who again inflicted severe …
… Timaru is situated on the east coast of the South Island at the southern end of the Canterbury Plains. … from Timaru. During the seventeenth century the warlike Ngai Tahu people drove the Ngati Mamoe south to Fiordland. …
… party reached Rotoiti and continued to the Buller, its southern tributary the Howard, and over the ridge to … Nelson Maoris set off up the Mawhera as part of a minor Ngai Tahu expedition of four canoes. Some 6 miles upstream … myself for eighteen months on the natural products of this island”. The struggling settlement of Nelson sought to raise …