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… The Chatham Island climate may be described as “windy, damp, and cool”, with the mean annual air temperature around 51.6°F (July average, 45.4°F and January … the area with 50 in. in the higher south-west. Skies are often overcast, humidity is high, and the winds blow mainly …
… boundaries of the King Country were drawn, prohibiting white settlement south of Te Awamutu. The prohibition was lifted in 1885 and two years later Te Kuiti became the …
… Chief of Ngati Poutama hapu of Wanganui. A new biography of Te Rangi Paetahi, Mete Kingi appears in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography … PAETAHI, Mete-Kingi …
… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. Wahawaha Ropata, whose ancestors were not particularly … on the East Coast. At an early age, when his tribe was defeated by Rongowhakaata of Poverty Bay, he was taken prisoner … he derived his more commonly used name. Although ransomed after a few years, Ropata never forgot the shame of that …
… and various smaller carvings. Three of the houses were painted by Angas in the 1840s and the other two were … For instance, the extraordinary squat figures depicted in his painting of the monument to Te Wherowhero's …
… been over long ago.” Ngapora Tamati, 1872. The Maoris interpreted the wars of the sixties as a struggle for land. The …
… Island, blew up on 10 June 1886 the eruption, which lasted six hours, and the accompanying earthquakes, destroyed … villages, killed 153 people, submerged the Pink and White Terraces (among the wonders of the world), dried up a … DISASTERS AND MISHAPS – ERUPTIONS …
… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. Daniel Riddiford was born in England in 1814. Some years after his father's death his mother married G. S. Evans, then a schoolmaster, who later qualified as a barrister and became an …
… them notable men, came to fear for their future in the later 1850s. Tribe and land were intimately bound together; the spread of colonisation threatened the very existence of the tribes. Wiremu Kingi, a …
… Waitara is situated on the banks of the Waitara River about three-quarters of a mile upstream from the mouth on the North Taranaki … The surrounding country consists of alluvial flats and terraces, but inland it soon becomes undulating and hilly. …