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… been killed during the fighting at Rangiriri in November 1863. Tonga's eldest brother was the fourth King, Te Rata . … Cambridge and Auckland. In 1914, when the First World War commenced, Tonga was in his late teens. The leaders of … Force because the issue of the confiscation of Waikato lands had not been resolved, and because they held …
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… New Zealand wars Conscription – compulsory enlistment for military … were called up to join the militia at the outbreak of the Waikato War in 1863, many ‘suddenly became short-sighted or helpless …
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Part of story: Conscription, conscientious objection and pacifism
… Cameron made his name during the 1850s. In the Crimean War he briefly led his battalion before being made commander … Governor Thomas Gore Browne was planning an invasion of Waikato to crush the Māori King movement and, at a meeting … and mutual recrimination, as it was always to do. On 4 June 1863 Cameron made a well-organised and successful attack on …
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… recently been developed on surrounding farmland. In May 1863 the first conflict of the second Taranaki war took place near the mouth of the Wairau Stream on Ōakura … chief Wiremu Kīngi Moki Matakātea held off a war party from Waikato for several weeks with a single musket, and …
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Part of story: Taranaki places
… where he was postmaster from August 1861 until October 1863. Krippner was not a successful farmer. Nevertheless he … another of Martin's brothers, arrived at Auckland on the War Spirit. They were taken by cutter to the mouth of the … persuaded many of the men to join the Third Regiment of the Waikato Militia. He was offered a commission as captain if …
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… who had been enslaved and taken north by Ngāpuhi and Waikato invaders were, along with their captors, exposed to … denominations were working in the region. Settlement and war On 15 February 1840, agents of the New Zealand Company … conflict remained unresolved and fighting began again in 1863. In 1865 combined colonial and British forces marched …
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Part of story: Taranaki tribe
… Tāmaki lands. In 2006 a draft settlement gave the tribe stewardship over three Auckland volcanoes, the right to buy $80 … Those who continued saw their share of trade decline. Waikato War In the early 1860s, Pākehā feared that Auckland … General Duncan Cameron led the invasion of Waikato in 1863–64. After the fighting ended, much Māori land in south …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… T. S. Grace set up a station in 1854 – later abandoned when war broke out in Waikato in 1863. An inter-tribal hui (meeting) at Pūkawa in 1856 chose …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… In June 1839 the Maunsells moved to Maraetai at the Waikato Heads, a location chosen for its large number of … school continued at Kōhanga until the mid 1860s, when the war in Waikato forced the Maunsells to abandon the station. … he felt, should acknowledge the Māori King. However, in 1863 he was convinced of the imminence of a Māori attack on …
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… or part-owner, of the Marwell (1862–63), the Tauranga (1863–72), the Jane (1865–70) and the Mary Eliza (1872–73). … they had one child. In July 1863, at the beginning of the Waikato war, John and Elizabeth Faulkner and his two youngest …
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… Maunsell's difficulties in coping with four babies at the Waikato Heads mission station, Mary Rymill volunteered to … about 40 by the time of Charlotte's death in 1855. In July 1863, at the outbreak of war in Waikato, the mission station at Tauranga was …
Type: Biography
… of guns, which proved deadly during the intertribal ‘musket wars’. Those who possessed the imported weapons overwhelmed … Māori and the Crown had a further impact. For instance, in 1863 the Crown destroyed more than a thousand canoes on Manukau Harbour just before the invasion of Waikato. Te Hau-ki-Tūranga The magnificent meeting house Te …
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Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… served with Harry Atkinson 's irregular forces and then in Waikato as Lieutenant General Duncan Cameron 's orderly. He was awarded the New Zealand War Medal for his part in the storming of Rangiriri in 1863. On 22 December 1864 he married Mary Catherine Phelan …
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… to the government or European settlers. Between 1844 and 1863 the Crown bought millions of hectares of land from Ngāi … around sovereignty, mana and land led to the New Zealand wars. As a result of these wars, around 1.5 million hectares of land were confiscated from tribes in Taranaki, Waikato, Tauranga and the Bay of Plenty. At the time it …
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Part of story: Te Māori i te ohanga – Māori in the economy
… in the Tainui confederation of tribes, was the son of Waikato leader Pōtatau Te Wherowhero and Whakaawi, Pōtatau's … He was born at Ōrongokoekoeā on the upper Mōkau River towards the end of the musket wars between Ngāpuhi and … As a result of the invasion of Waikato by British forces in 1863 on the pretext that the Waikato tribes were preparing …
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… Crown to keep the difference between land claimed and land awarded to European buyers. Willoughby Shortland, the … firm of Whitaker and Russell.’ New Zealand Settlements Act 1863 Under the New Zealand Settlements Act 1863 the land of … often on an inconsistent basis. The middle and lower Waikato Kingitanga tribes lost nearly all their land while …
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Part of story: Te ture – Māori and legislation
… Lancashire-born Richard Seddon was in Victoria from 1863 to 1866. The Australian gold miners were strongly … political culture. Soldiers In the 1860s the New Zealand wars brought nearly 2,500 Australian troops to the North … the offer of free land, they were recruited to fight in the Waikato. Most were single men, but about 1,000 dependants …
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Part of story: Australians
… blue-green leaves and almost entirely green flower. The war canoe orchid Botanist Lucy Moore noted of the bamboo … Te Winika was smashed by the military leader von Tempsky in 1863 but after reconstruction was used on ceremonial occasions on the Waikato River from 1938 to 1971, and was then donated to the …
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Part of story: Orchids
… salvation through moral and virtuous living, and looking outwards to help their communities. Methodism had a strongly … and carpentry. One of its early pupils was young Waikato woman Martha Pātene, whose father was a Methodist … of Hamilton. It was described by a government inspector in 1863 as ‘the happy and only promising result of the native …
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Part of story: Methodist Church
… and split the district for some six months. When war came to Waikato in the 1860s, the Poverty Bay tribes refused to assist the King movement. On 19 April 1863 a great meeting to open the Manutūkē church was held. …
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