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… Mataura is situated on the Mataura River on the eastern fringe of the Southland Plain. The land rises to the … plain. There is some logging and timber milling in the forested hills to the east. Mataura is centred on the extensive …
… first to reach the summit. The position was further complicated because the mountain was sacred to the Maoris and climbers had to conceal the evidence of their attempts from Te Heuheu and the Taupo tribes. In the late 1840s Sir George …
… He was born in London during the first years of the nineteenth century and went to sea at an early age. In 1823, as a joint owner of the schooner Waterloo , Guard began trading with the Maoris and plied … in 1827, while on one of his normal trading voyages, he sighted a pair of baleen whales in Cook Strait. This discovery …
… called notornis from its scientific name, Notornis mantelli , the takahe first became known to science in 1847 … River on the southern Taranaki coast. Two years later a bird was taken alive in Dusky Sound, another in … Thompson Sound in 1851, a third some 9 miles south-east of Te Anau township in 1879, and a fourth on the southern shore …
… It was garrisoned by 50 men of the 58th Regiment under Lieutenant G. H. Page. In spite of warnings by settlers and Maoris, including a hint from Te Rauparaha of an impending attack by Te Rangihaeata, the … ALLEN, Private William, known as “Bugler Allen” …
… Williams. In many parts of New Zealand there are separate Maori churches in approximately 38 native pastorates with Maori pastors approximately 26 in number; but there …
… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. Karetai was born in Otago in 1781 and was the son of Te Ihutakara and Kakatuaheka. He was a cousin of Taiaroa and … was paramount chief at Otakou. He was closely associated with the early whalers in the district and owned an …
… Matamata is situated on level land, locally called Matamata Plain, a broad … Hills; and to the south the land rises to the central plateau. The town stands nearly midway between the Waihou River …
… Horeke property where she had been built. He sailed immediately for Hokianga and took possession of the Horeke, McDonnell following two months later in Sir George Murray. Russell remained at Horeke for … he bought eight blocks of land, mainly in the kauri-forested Waihou-Mangamuka area, disposing of most of them prior …
… story runs, a phantom war canoe sped silently across the waters of Lake Tarawera in the shadow of Mt. Tarawera, the … ghostly in the morning mists that a wintry sun could not quite dispel. Eerie and uncanny though it all was, watchers had … as for death with the feathers of the huia and the white heron. To the terrified Maoris these were the souls of …