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… He expressed his concern over a letter, possibly written by Thomas McDonnell of Hōreke, threatening to take the trade of … He was visited at Kaihū in 1838 by the CMS missionary William Wade, who recorded both a chapel and a wheat field … of flags presented to him by governors George Bowen and William Jervois , a band playing the dead march, and a …
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… , was published in 1900. Two of Ellen's brothers, Frank and William Blackwell, had settled in New Zealand in the early … farmed on the Pahi River on the Kaipara Harbour, although William subsequently shifted to Auckland. In 1903 Ellen, 39 … 1987. In London on 14 October 1910 Ellen Blackwell married Thomas Maidment, a widower who was the branch manager of an …
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… Act 1858 authorised the governor to designate place names. Thomas Gore Browne, identified by historian T. M. Hocken as … Invercargill recalls Otago’s first superintendent, William Cargill, and Macandrew Bay honours another. Central … politicians were not widely commemorated, except for Sir William Fox, who had a glacier and Foxton named after him. …
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Part of story: Place names
… Lancashire, England, probably in 1832 or 1833, the son of Thomas Holt, a millwright, and his wife, Sarah Leech. He … him to emigrate to New Zealand. He arrived on the barque William Watson at Auckland on 8 February 1859. After … Elizabeth Marshall, a Scot who had also emigrated on the William Watson. The couple were to have three sons and two …
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… woman of mana and daughter of early English trader Thomas Halbert. The cottage has seen a number of changes … in locations around the district. Public library The H. B. Williams Memorial Library, along with 12 community … was opened in 1869 in a room in the courthouse. In 1967 the Williams family gifted a new building in memory of their …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… the landform resembled a fortress. In 1843 the missionaries William Williams and William Colenso stepped ashore, followed five years later by Thomas Guthrie, who established a sheep and cattle run. …
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Part of story: Wairarapa places
… another lying on it. Giving evidence against her, Constable Thomas Powley of the Auckland Province Armed Police Force, … a criminal sub-culture. They mixed with individuals such as William Wilson, a thief, who was convicted of keeping a … proprietor of the Crown Hotel, West Queen Street, and William Lamb, of Chancery Street, who seem to have acted as …
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… Rochester, Kent, England, on 28 February 1868, the son of William Fletcher, a journeyman carpenter, and his wife, Jane … section allotted to them was covered in standing timber, so William Fletcher purchased a town section in Bulls where the …
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… before being appointed, in February 1841, as a cadet in William Mein Smith's first survey corps. His aptitude for … the Manawatu district. He was kept on at a lower rank after William Mein Smith's replacement by Samuel Brees in March … travelled widely, often in the company of George Rennie and Thomas Burns, gathering support for the settlement. At the …
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… writers like missionary Richard Taylor and attorney general William Swainson. In a similar vein was Chap m an’s New … New Zealand Magazine enlisted leading intellectuals like William Fox, Robert Stout and the Reverend William Salmond … Its writers included politician William Pember Reeves, poet Thomas Bracken and feminist Edith Searle. Reviews of New …
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Part of story: Magazines and periodicals
… set up a mercantile and shipping agency in partnership with William Wilks. Their intention was to exploit Pacific … his gentlemanly conduct, & upright dealing', according to Thomas Poynton, who first met him at Hokianga in 1839. In … as a merchant and shipping agent with James Macky's brother Thomas and purchased more land, including about 4,000 acres …
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… Catholics arrived as escaped convicts and settlers. One was Thomas Poynton, an ex-convict who, with his wife Mary, set … up a store and sawmill in the Hokianga in 1828. Another was Thomas Cassidy, who took his Māori partner to Sydney so they … signed. He extracted a promise from Lieutenant-Governor William Hobson that all religions would be given equal …
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Part of story: Catholic Church
… fathered children. One was the first-known sealer/settler Thomas Fink, who was living near Bluff in 1805. The tattooed … three missionaries and their families and others, including Thomas Hansen, who settled in the Bay of Islands and lived … than they cared to acknowledge. When the missionary Henry Williams arrived from England in 1823, not a single Māori …
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Part of story: History of immigration
… On most issues he shared the views of Selwyn and Sir William Martin , who were his closest friends. During the … critical of settler attitudes and the policies of Governor Thomas Gore Browne . Representing the only missionary …
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… legal draftsman, began an association with Attorney General William Swainson and Chief Justice William Martin which continued through the Crown colony … he went into partnership with a lawyer 18 years his junior, Thomas Russell , a man of great ambition and masterful …
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… Mill opened on 13 April 1888. Josiah Firth married Anne Williams, daughter of William Williams, a land speculator and farmer, and his … financiers and land speculators who, under the aegis of Thomas Russell , embarked on a series of large banking and …
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… Keepa Te Rangihiwinui (Major Kemp) which reinforced Colonel Thomas McDonnell 's Tokaanu-based Armed Constabulary force … sometimes working for the Waitōtara settler Francis Williamson. He was short, with a round head, full dark eyes, … beginning of September 1878 Hīroki complained to Francis Williamson about the killing of his pigs by the surveyors. …
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… New Zealand shearers who can be positively identified are Thomas Hastie and John Bell (not the Mana Island farmer), who were shearing for William Jaffray at Saddle Hill, Otago, in 1849. They were …
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Part of story: Shearing
… The first Europeans to see these lakes were Charles Heaphy, Thomas Brunner and William Fox, who explored from Nelson as far as Murchison …
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Part of story: Nelson places
… 1866, the daughter of Sarah Jane Mattocks and her husband, Thomas Kirk , a surveyor. In early 1874 her family moved to Wellington where Thomas Kirk, by this time a botanist, took up a position as …
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