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… deals with the events of the Maori Wars and inflates Sir George Grey to heroic proportions. Our best historical novel …
… Dillon Bell, representing the New Zealand Company, and Sir George Grey, the Governor, purchased the site from the …
… Iwikau had signed the Treaty of Waitangi and, in 1850, Sir George Grey visited Pukawa and presented him with a flag as …
… he decided on the site, won the reluctant consent of Sir George Grey and Bishop Selwyn, superintended the survey and …
… 1867, when four small steamers were in commission, Sir George Grey issued a proclamation appointing “the letter NZ … (A5). This arrangement was temporary, and in 1869 Sir George Bowen deemed it “expedient to adopt a permanent …
… was the New Zealand Society, established in 1861, with Sir George Grey as president, Walter Mantell as secretary, and a …
… but being superseded, recommended him to his successor, Sir George Grey. In November the Premier, William Fox, sent him to … duties as a Magistrate, and he therefore wished to resign. Grey induced him to carry on as the Civil Commissioner, …
… boundary with Nelson Province, as defined by Governor Sir George Grey's general proclamation of provincial boundaries in …
… was elected to the Taranaki Provincial Council for the Grey and Bell district. Toward the end of the following year … He had been elected unopposed in June 1861 to represent Grey and Bell in the House of Representatives, and arrived … he ruled his supporters with a heavy hand and would, as George Fisher picturesquely put it, “do a regular war dance …
… McLean was instructed to accept the offer. In 1862 Sir George Grey persuaded Te Awaitaia to build a strategic road …