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… Richmond in Hutt Valley on 3 March 1846, leading Governor George Grey to declare martial law in Wellington. Māori withdrew … June, hearing that a taua was approaching from the north, Grey extended martial law to Whanganui. He also travelled to …
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Part of story: New Zealand Wars
… a sparrow alone upon the house-top'), put forward Governor George Grey 's argument that there could not be two governments in … Auckland. The expulsion was a challenge to the authority of Grey. On Pātara's advice, Tāwhiao condemned Rewi's actions, …
Type: Biography
… to their villages and created their own schools. When George Clarke, a missionary and the chief protector of … prayer book for each member of the adult Māori population. Grey and Māori education George Grey, governor of New Zealand from 1845 to 1853 and …
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Part of story: Māori education – mātauranga
… contributed to the ethnographies written by Pākehā such as George Grey and Elsdon Best . Their principal literary efforts were …
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Part of story: Māori fiction – ngā tuhinga paki
… 1846 from the secretary of state for the colonies, Earl Grey, to the governor, George Grey . He was upset that the governor was instructed to …
Type: Biography
… South Shields. He was the third of five surviving sons of George Townshend Fox and his wife, Ann Stote Crofton. His … and four times premier of the colony. The children of George and Ann Fox all received a sound education and a … In February 1848 he accepted an offer from Governor George Grey to become attorney general for the province of New …
Type: Biography
… did not collect specimens. Archibald Menzies, surgeon on George Vancouver’s Discovery , collected ferns, mosses and … animal finds were the flax snail, southern royal albatross, grey warbler, yellow-eyed penguin, and the only known …
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Part of story: European discovery of plants and animals
… position of Ngāi Tahu had been compromised after Governor George Grey paid Ngāti Toa for the block in 1847 at Wellington. … Mackay then proceeded from Christchurch to Māwheranui (the Grey River) via the Hurunui Saddle. He saved John Rochfort , …
Type: Biography
… Eliza's brother John McHutchison, and their six children, George, Jane, Helen, James, Francis and Anne. After … bay. In 1846 Eliza Sinclair's husband and her eldest son, George, set off for Wellington on the schooner Jessie Millar … starched sun bonnet on her head, beneath which her kindly grey eyes shone out a warm welcome.' One of the captains of …
Type: Biography
… his constituents. Dignan was one of those who persuaded Sir George Grey to come out of retirement in 1874, and showed himself to be a staunch supporter of Grey in Parliament between 1875 and 1879. He opposed the …
Type: Biography
… supporter of the government for 40 years. When Governor George Grey visited Rotorua in 1849 he met Hōri Haupapa, and later … and then clerk of the runanga established at Maketū under Grey's new system of local Māori self-government. At the …
Type: Biography
… became a friend of Bishop J. B. F. Pompallier and Governor George Grey , and between 1854 and 1857, at Grey's urging and with his financial support, began an …
Type: Biography
… custom. Willoughby Shortland, acting governor, and George Clarke , chief protector of aborigines, opposed this … was quickly passed and FitzRoy was recalled. The arrival of George Grey in November 1845 saw a governor with sufficient troops …
Type: Biography
… on the Awakino River available for sale in 1850. When Sir George Grey visited Taranaki in 1850, Waitara adopted the name Te … Hutchinson who was delivering a proclamation from Governor George Grey to insurgent Māori. He rescued Hursthouse and …
Type: Biography
… of introduction from the duke of Hamilton to Governor Sir George Grey , and on 19 September 1863 was offered a commission as …
Type: Biography
… accused him of disloyalty; called to Auckland by Governor George Grey , Garavel was questioned but allowed to return to …
Type: Biography
… placed to withstand political pressure. When, in 1879, Sir George Grey 's government refused to place advertisements with the …
Type: Biography
… developed friendships with non-Jews of note, such as Sir George Grey . His activities stemmed from strongly held feelings …
Type: Biography
… his appointments as warden's clerk to the goldfields at Greymouth in 1867 and as receiver of gold revenue in 1869. … and actively promoted ideas which echoed the views of Henry George and Karl Marx. During 1884 Guinness, now vice … to another who had become more radical with age, Sir George Grey. Grey was especially well received on account of …
Type: Biography
… tribe of Rotorua. From 1849 he worked closely with Governor George Grey, teaching him Māori language and customs. At times Te … of waiata, Ngā mōteatea (1928), and a new edition of George Grey’s Nga mahi a nga tupuna (1928). Maggie Papakura …
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Part of story: Māori Studies – ngā tari Māori