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… Scotland, where he came of a good family. He was well educated, probably at the local parish school, and served as a volunteer with the French forces during the Franco-Prussian War. In the early 1870s he emigrated to Otago, where he became known as an athlete and …
… island in the Bay of Plenty, 6 miles to the north of the Te Puke coast and 10 miles north-eastwards by sea from … of volcanic rocks, mainly hornblende and pyroxene andesites, probably of Miocene age (11–25 million years ago). Similar rocks occur on the adjacent mainland, west of Te Puke, and the presence of a submarine ridge linking these …
… and the South Seas under the command of Captain John Stewart, of Southdown, Sussex. After visiting Sydney Stewart left on 19 August 1830 for Kapiti Island, where Te …
… After his defeat at Makaretu on 3 December 1868, Te Kooti, together with 300 men and a number of women and … high respectively. Rifle pits guarded the front and the water supply, which lay about 2 chains outside the fort's …
… in the world”, the Milford Track starts at the head of Lake Te Anau and ends at the head of Milford Sound. The track … Sir Thomas Mackenzie and party were exploring the western side for the same purpose. For reasons of organisation, the tourist parties walk the track from Te Anau to Milford, not from the opposite direction. Once at …
… group had its own body of traditional belief which validated its claims to the territory it occupied, gave authority to those of high rank, …
… south of Blenheim and 6 miles south of the mouth of the Awatere River, is a shallow lagoon protected from the open sea by a single barrier beach covered …
… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. Hoani Wiremu (John Williams) Hipango was a chief of the … became a lifelong friend of Richard Taylor. In 1845, when Te Heuheu Mananui and Te Mamaku threatened the Wanganui settlement, Hipango and …
… Kaiapoi is situated on the northern part of the Canterbury Plain, on the banks of the Kaiapoi River, a … 15 miles it rises gradually on the north and west to the outer foothill ranges of the Southern Alps. The South Island …
… 1874 show that at the end of the provincial era there was intensive European activity only on the Coromandel Peninsula … on the early settled farmlands near Auckland. Elsewhere white settlement was scattered or in small clusters. In Northland there were some … Settlement Pattern by 1874 …