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… writings were the basis of most of the prose material in George Grey ’s Ko nga moteatea, me nga hakirara o nga Maori (1853) …
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… McLeod's sons, died in a typhoid epidemic, McLeod wrote to George Grey , governor of New Zealand, about obtaining a block of …
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… the middle of 1849 the reluctant consent of both Governor George Grey and Bishop G. A. Selwyn had been secured. In the …
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… such as Archbishop Richard Whately, a mentor of Governor George Grey, argued that savages had degenerated from a higher … great evangelical success, a proof of monogenism. Helped by George Grey’s self-serving propaganda about his peaceful …
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Part of story: European ideas about Māori
… 'He has a great big faded-looking head, with bristling grey hair, spectacles and a lame foot'. She admired his … described FitzRoy as 'ignorant' and 'thoroughly selfish', George Grey as insincere, and Edward Eyre as 'totally unfit' for …
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… important part in reforming the school. His lectures at St George's Chapel, Windsor, in 1848–49, were published as … inquire into the Taranaki grievances. He believed Governor George Grey was misled in invading Waikato. In the 1850s Abraham …
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… with a kinsman, Rūtene Te Eke, and Pāhora Pāhoe, invited George Read to establish a trading store at Kaitī. Before … was not appointed as an assessor in 1862, when Governor George Grey 's runanga system was introduced. He subsequently took …
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… 1846 when his father was arrested on the orders of Governor George Grey . He visited his father on board the Calliope and …
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… as lay reader at Waikanae. At this time the new governor, George Grey , visited Hadfield almost daily and generally accepted … and philology, and formed a firm friendship with Bishop George Selwyn , although Hadfield, as an evangelical, had …
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… 1892. Cadman was initially identified as a supporter of Sir George Grey . Unlike Grey, who was embittered at being omitted from … and the Auckland Liberals, including his old mentor Sir George Grey, raised an uproar about the proposed reshuffle. …
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… portfolio and a member of the Executive Council in Sir George Grey 's administration from 1877 to 1879. He also served on … on the subject of land legislation proposed by the Grey administration. As the only Māori minister, it was …
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… marriage. The family later moved to the Auckland suburb of Grey Lynn, where Tudor attended Grey Lynn School. When he was 10 or 11 he was sent north to … at Kauaeranga in 1921 the New Zealand Herald photographer George Bourne urged him to buy a tripod and develop his own …
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… year they consented to the sale of large blocks. Governor George Grey had met the chief objection to sale by guaranteeing … been sent to John Ballance , the native minister, to Sir George Grey, to Hēnare Tomoana MHR, to Rēnata Kawepō of …
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… Montgomery and James Macandrew . Later he supported Sir George Grey and in 1879 served briefly as minister of lands, and also as minister of immigration and mines during the Grey government's last disordered months. In 1881 Gisborne …
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… as were nurseries in other centres – William Martin and George Matthews in Dunedin, William Wilson and others in … a manuscript on conifers and invited comments from Sir George Grey, who shared his interest. The pine tree in New Zealand …
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… London, on 3 November 1825 and set up as a builder in George Street, London; there were five children of the … including books from Babbage awaiting delivery to Governor George Grey. Destitute, Monson reminded Grey of Babbage's personal …
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… to New South Wales, sailing from Plymouth on the Earl Grey on 9 March 1841. Wilson worked as a farm manager near … February to Louisa Benson, he became a farm manager in the Georges River district. Here two daughters, Charlotte and … Northern Railway. The wrangling was exacerbated by Governor George Grey's refusal to give his assent to two out of three …
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… missionary A. N. Brown , taking the names Hōri Kīngi (George King), and became a mission teacher for Ōtūmoetai. In … over tribal problems at Mercury Bay; he was a guest of Sir George Grey , then premier. In his later years he lived at …
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… in the latter half of the nineteenth century. When Sir George Grey introduced his rūnanga policy in 1861 Ngāti Awa … association with Völkner's death. Wēpiha wrote a letter to Grey saying Ngāti Awa had no part in it and that Te …
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… report on New Zealand's defence needs, his successor, Sir George Grey , was much less interested in the provision of harbour … to fetch him. Ironically, a war scare in 1878 induced Grey's ministry to urgently acquire heavy guns with which to …
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