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… babies. Each day she would 'catch up the skirts of her grey uniform, tie her bonnet firmly under her chin and set … Joanna MacKinnon boarded with John and Atalanta Murray in George Street, and she married their son James Dingwall …
Type: Biography
… arrived in Whanganui, having been ordered by Governor George Grey to attack ‘hostile’ Māori in South Taranaki. On 24 … against attacking the pā, preferring to isolate it. When Grey disagreed, Cameron resigned his commission. He was …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: New Zealand Wars
… class. Ngapora, a Waikato chief, wrote a letter to Governor George Grey in 1848: ‘The slaves of my village will not obey me. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Tūranga i te hapori – status in Māori society
… purchases was set by the colonial governors, especially George Grey and Thomas Gore Browne. The head of the Native Land …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
… set up schools to educate Māori students. Governor George Grey was the first to promulgate policy which supported …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori education – mātauranga
… botanical knowledge brought him into contact with Sir George Grey and, later, Sir William Jervois. Annie Robertson was …
Type: Biography
… 1864. Climbing on Ruapehu was restricted by tapu. Governor George Grey got some way up the North Peak in 1853, but the South … and photographs of surveyors such as Edward Sealy and George Roberts inspired those who, a few years later, …
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Part of story: Mountaineering
… Mathew. She had two sisters and two brothers, one of whom, George Felton Mathew, was a friend of the poet John Keats. … Zealand in March 1847 further difficulties with Governor George Grey caused them to sell their possessions and their house, …
Type: Biography
… great changes were sweeping across the land. When Governor George Grey , in 1861, launched his scheme by which runanga were to … taken place if he had heeded the warnings. On 2 September Grey issued his proclamation of peace in which he threatened …
Type: Biography
… the late 1840s White gained the attention of the governor, George Grey , by sending him manuscripts of Māori traditions. When the family moved to Auckland in 1851 White became Grey's secretary and translator. On 3 November 1852 White …
Type: Biography
… represented that brought about Gorst's downfall. Governor George Grey had been professing peace while constructing a military …
Type: Biography
… November of that year. His district ran from Karamea to the Grey River, which divided the Nelson goldfield from the West … near Westport. For nearly three years Kynnersley, with George 'King' Sale, who administered the area south of the … Thomas Brunner, storekeeper Reuben Waite, and prospector George Fairweather Moonlight. Two mining camps were called …
Type: Biography
… the King movement was abandoned. On 8 July 1863 Governor George Grey ordered Lieutenant General Duncan Cameron to begin an …
Type: Biography
… 's men, Porter was removed from his official positions by George Grey 's government. After John Hall became premier in 1879 …
Type: Biography
… cousin Paikea Te Hekeua, a leader of Te Uri-o-Hau. Governor George Grey planned to visit the north to introduce his rūnanga …
Type: Biography
… 1882 and died on 30 April 1903, attended by his son-in-law, George Beetham. His wife, Jessie Levin, survived him by one … such leading men as Frederick Weld, Charles Clifford and George Grey. When his second son, Lionel, aspired to a military …
Type: Biography
… Edward Eyre made a failed attempt to photograph Eliza Grey in Wellington. Daguerreotypists first advertised in … Here the Burtons were joined by the likes of John Kinder, George Valentine and Josiah Martin. Cartes de visite The new … Significant early photographers of Māori were Elizabeth and George Pulman, John McGarrigle, Samuel Carnell and William …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Photography
… 1848, it was one of four hospitals commissioned by Governor George Grey for poor Pākehā and Māori patients. Among those … the new was challenged in 1910 when the government minister George Fowlds proposed demolishing Auckland’s Government …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Historic places
… his mother's memory; it was later recorded in a painting by George French Angas . During the prolonged tangi held for … in the upper Hutt Valley. After the arrival of Governor George Grey with 500 troops in 1846 Ngāti Tama reached a separate …
Type: Biography
… 2000s. Government-sponsored rūnanga In the 1860s Governor George Grey attempted to establish a rūnanga system composed of …
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Part of story: Ngā rōpū – Māori organisations