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… interactions with Māori, before leaving the region. Musket wars It was almost half a century before the influence of … actions outside the region, notably the invasion of Waikato, created some disillusionment among East Coast Māori as to the Crown’s commitment to the treaty. In 1863 some joined the Kīngitanga (Māori King movement) forces …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… colonel of the 1st Battalion, Auckland Militia. In July 1863 Governor George Grey and the colonial government invaded Waikato. To hold the land seized from the 'rebellious' … politics over the next five years. With the Waikato war over, the Weld government felt it could dispense with …
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… a fair trial. The following year Fulloon was sent to the Waikato to look into a dispute about building a courthouse … to keep the mission school at Ōtāwhao open. In June 1863 Fulloon sent Grey a report of a planned Māori night … weeks at Whatawhata, caring for destitute victims of the war and trying to prevent looting of Māori property. Back in …
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… Māori opinion on the government. Te Waka Maori o Ahuriri (1863–71) was intended to generate goodwill and unity between … government – and Māori and Māori. They span the period of wars – on the East Coast and in Taranaki and Waikato – and of highly contentious issues, such as the sale …
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Part of story: Māori newspapers and magazines – ngā niupepa me ngā moheni
… in New Zealand were in Dunedin and Christchurch in 1863. Botanical gardens were closely associated with the … and imprisoned after speaking out against the Second World War in the park. It has also long been a place where the … Gardens and Soldiers’ Memorial Park on the east bank of the Waikato River. Large crowds gather at these memorials every …
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Part of story: City public spaces
… Patatai had family connections with Ngāti Maniapoto and Waikato and spent much of his early life among them. About … King movement Iwikau had kept Ngāti Tūwharetoa out of the war in Taranaki in 1860. However, he had told the missionary … he would be compelled to go to their aid. When in July 1863 Governor George Grey ordered the invasion of Waikato …
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… a boom in property values in Auckland after the end of the Waikato war of 1863–64. Political policies were also influential. The …
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Part of story: Real estate
… 1858. While he was stationed at Bareilly between 1858 and 1863 he founded the Outram Institute and 'a native Christian … Cowie's episcopate Anglicans re-established contact with Waikato and King Country Māori who had been alienated from the church during the wars of the 1860s. Active in education, Cowie was a member …
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… in the British navy. He had served in the Napoleonic wars, and then joined the East India Company in the … acquired gold dust, a puff of wind blew it away. Thus in 1863 McDonnell had a series of lost opportunities behind him. His career was saved by the outbreak of the Waikato war. On 14 August 1863 Domett obtained him a …
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… New Plymouth and seek a decisive victory. Throughout the war the civilian Pākehā population was besieged in the … militia; his opponents, of whom half, eventually, were from Waikato, were outnumbered by about two to one. The Māori, … the colony's affairs until his return to England in April 1863. He became colonel of the 37th (North Hampshire) …
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… a chief killed at the battle at Rangiriri in November 1863. Te Rata is said to have been well educated, but was a … had a suitable candidate who could renew the ties between Waikato and Taranaki. In this way he cleared the way for the … evading confrontation damaging to his mana. The First World War had commenced while he was still in England, and on his …
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… of opposition from the chiefs. From 1860 this policy led to war between Māori and the government, first in Taranaki and … rūnanga were successfully established. The Taranaki, Waikato and Maniapoto districts remained suspicious of the government’s intentions, and in 1863 war broke out again. Māori schools In 1865 a new native …
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Part of story: Ngā take Māori – government policy and Māori
… whom he admired, he participated in the 7th and 8th Kaffir wars in 1847 and 1850–53 against the formidable Xhosa and … was appointed to the Legislative Council on 31 August 1863; he was civil commissioner for Ahuriri from March 1863 … force in Hawke's Bay, but held no active command in the Waikato war. He visited England in 1865 and married Isabella …
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… much of the private business of Auckland Wesleyans towards him. The relationship was further strengthened when on … in the Domett administration, and on the outbreak of war in Waikato in July 1863 was made minister of defence as well. This post he …
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… ensign in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, serving in the Crimean war and in the Indian war of 1857–58. Following his return … married Annie Gouger Montgomerie in London on 4 February 1863. He resigned his commission in 1866 and with his wife … travelled to New Zealand. The family settled initially in Waikato, where Hutton engaged in flax-milling. He soon …
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… received the assistance of Te Waharoa and Ngāti Hau`a of Waikato. This alliance was to involve them in a major war in the late 1830s and the 1840s. In 1835 a relative of … the chief's mental state. Nuka Taipari died on 8 November 1863; his place of burial is not recorded. …
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… Tohi Te Ururangi was a renowned warrior and leader of Ngāti Whakaue section of Te Arawa . He … Te Arawa's pā at Maketū was raided in a combined attack by Waikato and Ngāi Te Rangi, led by Te Waharoa of Ngāti Hauā, … the government during the wars of the 1860s. During 1863 many tribes from Matatā to Wairoa pledged their support …
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… – common law pleading. C. W. Richmond remarked in 1863 that although Otago had 'by far the best bar' in the … defence. These two represented the viewpoint of the 'war party' in Auckland: that in the name of civilisation and … the syndicate to float a company in London in 1879, the Waikato Land Association, to enable the swamp syndicate to …
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… Harry Borrer Kirk was born at Coventry, Warwickshire, England, on 9 March 1859, one of nine children … aboard the Gertrude , arriving at Auckland on 9 February 1863. He attended Auckland Grammar School from 1 May 1871 … which, it turned out, could not be performed. He died at Waikato Hospital on 15 July. …
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… Hawke’s Bay saw little fighting during the New Zealand wars of the 1860s, compared to regions like Taranaki and Waikato. Land loss was not an issue for Hawke’s Bay Māori at … John Harding’s sheep strayed onto George Cooper’s farm in 1863, Cooper’s brief note conveyed his annoyance: ‘I beg to …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region