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… Rev. John Bishop. He was ordained by the Bishop of Gloucester in 1818. On 15 December 1818 Butler sailed from England … with his wife and two children for New Zealand as superintendent designate of the Church Missionary Society's mission at the Bay of …
… (1811–99). Missionary, printer, explorer, botanist, and politician. A new biography of … in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. William Colenso was born in Penzance, Cornwall, on 17 … a saddler and town councillor of Penzance. He was educated privately and at the age of 15 apprenticed to a local …
… which Maori action is thought to take place most appropriately. Traditional Maori social structure may be described … a tribal one. The Maori tribe (iwi) was essentially a large territorially-based social unit, the members of which … to have come to New Zealand. (The country was inhabited by earlier peoples, also apparently of similar type, …
… broad base, or root, is buried deep beneath the volcanic material of the inland plateau but, narrow and very ragged in outline to the north, it is almost severed in two at the site of Auckland city. Within its wider base are the lesser …
… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. Christopher William Richmond was born on 12 July 1821, … and Maria Richmond, née Wilson. His father, a barrister, belonged to a noted Unitarian family from the north of England. William …
… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. H. E. Holland was born on 10 June 1868 at Ginninderra, … Edward Holland, worked a small farm in the district and later became a building contractor. Young Harry attended a provisional school at Canberra and the Ginninderra …
… of stone fruit in New Zealand is practically restricted to five species of the genus Prunus ; namely, P. persica … trees of one kind or another cannot be grown, but climate has an important effect on cropping. In the warmer places, partly because of lack of winter chilling, apricots, cherries, and European plums rarely …
… had, as one would expect, an unpromising beginning and a tenuous course. Granted that many of the early artists had both talent and … A further handicap was their reliance upon a sombre palette and a stylised mode of drawing–conventions which were …
… for the several theorists. The student who accepted Hume's principle of regularity which asserts (to the … historians, who believe that they deal only with the concrete case) that it is only possible to postulate “cause” where there is multiplicity of instances, would …
… (1831–1903). Canterbury Superintendent and colonial statesman. A new biography of Rolleston, William appears in the …