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… in Manchester, England, on 23 November 1871, the son of William Payne, a solicitor's clerk, and his wife, Sarah Ann … bribed by an offer of £1,000. Some days later their leader, William Massey, unreservedly withdrew the allegation and … Payne attended the Liberal caucus at which a new leader, Thomas Mackenzie, was chosen as successor to Sir Joseph …
Type: Biography
… appear to have fortified themselves at the settlement of Thomas McLean, appropriating his livestock and using his … took his people to the sawmilling establishment of Captain William Young at Koutu. There he built a large pā enclosing … British Resident, Thomas McDonnell , appointed Moetara, William Young and Henry Oakes to board and examine all …
Type: Biography
… over land he had sold. In 1842 he threatened the settler Thomas Forsaith at Kaipara over a breach of tapu after a … averted when a meeting of the parties arranged by Governor Thomas Gore Browne in 1857 decided to sell 300,000 acres of … the governor make two separate trips from Auckland. In 1864 William Fox , the colonial secretary, visited Tirarau at …
Type: Biography
… The Coates brothers, Edward and Thomas, who sailed into the Waitematā Harbour on 19 October … Coates, was born. There were two further sons, Rodney and William, and four daughters, Eva, Ella, Ada and Nina. Gordon … early July 1912, Coates again voted with the winning team, William Ferguson Massey 's Reform Party, who were pledged to …
Type: Biography
… as a watchmaker in Melbourne. There he became friends with William Strachan, who worked for the firm of Patterson and … He offered this section as a brewery site to his friend William Strachan, who was then a brewer at Port Chalmers. …
Type: Biography
… was baptised there on 3 July. He was the younger son of Sir William Jackson Hooker and his wife, Maria Sarah Turner. His … he collected about 300 species on numerous expeditions with William Colenso and Andrew Sinclair. After he had returned … surveyed the passes leading into Tibet. During 1850 he and Thomas Thomson explored eastern Bengal and the Khasia Hills, …
Type: Biography
… Robert Reid Parris, son of William and Agnes Parris, was baptised on 16 May 1816 at … later. By the time Te Teira offered the block to Governor Thomas Gore Browne in March 1859, Parris was well acquainted … 1881. In February 1883 he accompanied the commissioners William Fox and F. D. Bell and others to settle problems …
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… centre, but early Wellington was chaotic. Late in 1839 William Wakefield, the company’s New Zealand agent, sailed … – a false start However, the company’s chief surveyor, William Mein Smith, placed the town near the mouth of the … squatting. Arriving in Wellington in 1841, settler Thomas Bevan discovered a squatter on land bought by his …
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Part of story: Wellington region
… goals was an end to sales of tribal land. However, Governor Thomas Gore Browne was determined to force land sales in … ourselves, to become one people’. 1 His under-secretary, William Rolleston, set up a colonywide system of schools for … councils’ effectiveness. Native difficulty Canterbury MP William Rolleston was strongly critical of the 1892 decision …
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Part of story: Ngā take Māori – government policy and Māori
… Henry and Thomas Newman were the sons of William Newman and his wife, … as children to Nelson, New Zealand, on the Bolton in 1842. William Newman was a labourer at Waimea South when Henry …
Type: Biography
… 17 December 1835. He was the second child of the Reverend Thomas Butler and his wife, Fanny Worsley. He was educated … years. Butler made many friends, notably Julius Haast , William Rolleston , William Sefton Moorhouse , James Edward FitzGerald , and …
Type: Biography
… Captain James Reddy Clendon 's whaleboat in 1832, and Thomas King's boat in 1833. The latter event led to a … was only successfully arbitrated by CMS missionary Henry Williams when the warship Alligator anchored just off … war had important effects as it was witnessed by Captain William Hobson of the Rattlesnake. The report submitted by …
Type: Biography
… of Scottish-born parents Eliza Ann Steel and her husband, William Allan, a prosperous draper and founder of the firm … family was actively involved in St John’s Church: William was an elder and close friend of the politician and …
Type: Biography
… central organisation. A prominent figure was the Reverend Thomas Spurgeon, son of a famous London Baptist preacher, … degree. In 1890 she married Welsh Congregational minister William Evans and ran a private school in Wellington while … Carey Baptist College after the 18th-century Englishman William Carey, the first Baptist missionary to India. Te …
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Part of story: Diverse Christian churches
… he returned to Scotland in late 1844. First service William Webster, a passenger on the Bengal Merchant , … in New Zealand was Dunedin, which was founded in 1848 by Thomas Burns and William Cargill as a Free Church settlement – the only one …
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Part of story: Presbyterian Church
… missionaries, from the Anglican Church Missionary Society – William Hall, Thomas Kendall and John King – settled in the Bay of … Church Missionary Society missionaries Henry and Marianne Williams arrived at Paihia, where a press was founded to …
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Part of story: Northland region
… 1846. Their parents were Ann Whitehead and her husband, William Frear, an agricultural labourer and woodman. In all … on 26 September 1859. They travelled with a party led by Thomas Ball, a chemist from Brigg, Lincolnshire. Ball … Christian denominations could live and worship together. William Frear and his two eldest sons settled there as …
Type: Biography
… His parents were Rosa Ann Pratt and her husband, George Thomas George, a lithographer. In 1864 the family emigrated … for derisive rhetoric to bear against prohibitionists, William Massey 's Reform government, the New Zealand …
Type: Biography
… Sussex, England, probably on 8 July 1810, the son of William Howell and his wife, Mary Collings. At the age of … Ann Paulin and Elizabeth Stevens, their brothers William and George Stevens, and Ann's husband and child. The … this would improve his health, and, accompanied by his son Thomas, left Bluff on the steamer Tararua in April. He died …
Type: Biography
… in the early 1860s by statesman and social reformer William Fox – he stipulated prohibition, which limited its … Bulls near the mouth of the Rangitīkei River, named after Thomas Scott who started a ferry service in 1849. The lower … properties nearby include Westoe, owned by politician Sir William Fox from 1849 to 1885, and Woodendean, home of the …
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Part of story: Whanganui places