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… FitzRoy, well-intentioned but unstable, were surrounded by officials whose wisdom (and honesty in some cases) was not … Queen. It is hard to say what the Maoris understood by the Treaty of Waitangi; it is unlikely that they realised that …
… After the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, British troops were stationed in New Zealand in … the chief protection for the colonists and bore the brunt of the fighting against the Maoris. The first troops to land …
… whale ship was the William and Ann under the command of Captain William Bunker, who called at Doubtless Bay in … voyage in the Pacific Ocean. His was the forerunner of a large number of ships of different nationalities which … whaling dropped sharply in 1841, the year following the Treaty of Waitangi which established British sovereignty, …
… Porirua City is situated in Hutt county at the head of the southern arm of Porirua Harbour, about 13 miles north of Wellington. Both … sales were invalidated by the pre-emptive clause in the Treaty of Waitangi. The Polynesian Company was later …
… known as Te Heuheu the Great (1780–1846). Paramount chief of Tuwharetoa tribe (Taupo). A new biography of Te Heuheu Tukino II, Mananui appears in the Dictionary of … When his brother, Iwikau (Te Heuheu Tukino III), signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, Mananui repudiated the …
… Nationality has been defined as “the status of a natural person who is attached to a state by ties of … those, now aliens, who had come to the islands before the Treaty of Waitangi. Early Legislation on Naturalisation The …
… was born in 1803 at Burnham Wick, Essex, the fourth son of Edward Wakefield and Susanna, née Crash (d. 1817). … remained the de-facto government in Wellington. The Treaty of Waitangi legally superseded the committee; …
… Durham's imperial functions are now firmly in the hands of Her Majesty's New Zealand ministers. There is only one … subordination to the United Kingdom. The tenacity of older attitudes and professional conservatism have led … its Laws and Constitution , Robson, J. L. (ed.) (1954) The Treaty of Waitangi and the Acquisition of British …
… The present building of the Auckland War Memorial Museum was opened in 1929 and a … are associated with historic houses. Outstanding are Waitangi Treaty House, Pompallier House, and the historic …
… interpreter, Maori adviser, and writer. A new biography of Davis, Charles Oliver Bond appears in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. Charles Oliver Bond … attracted the attention of the officials present during the Waitangi Treaty negotiations at Hokianga. In 1842 he entered …