Born in Broughton-Furness, Cumberland, where he became high sheriff. Came to NZ 1872; settled at Opawa and Riccarton. Bought the Raukapuka estate from Alfred Cox 1875; held pastoral land in Peel Forest, South Canterbury. Member of Parliament for Geraldine 1881-1884. Chairman of the Geraldine Road Board, a founding member of the Geraldine County Council 1877 and a member of the Timaru Harbour Board; promoted the construction of the breakwater. Left New Zealand in 1891 for California where he grew fruit. He then returned to England and re-purchased the family estate in Cumberland. (Scholefield, DNZB, v2).
Postlethwaite, William, -1908
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Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Apr-Aug 1881
From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers
Reference: 77-248-04/1
Description: Identified correspondents entered under Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Mar-May 1881
From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers
Reference: 77-248-03/3
Description: Identified correspondents entered in Name field below; also includes coded telegram from Sir John Hall re Parihaka, interview with Te Whiti Quantity: 1 folder(s). Includes printed map of Mikonui Water Race near the settlement of Ross [Totara District]
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Jan-Sep 1880
From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers
Reference: 77-248-03/1
Description: Identified correspondents entered under Name field. Includes a letter of 20 July 1880 by W Gibbs that records an interview with a girl, ‘E Page’, who was pregnant to her school master ‘Hume’. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Processing information: Scope and name record updated 26 September 2023 following information from a researcher.
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: 1883
From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers
Reference: 82-355-07/1
Description: Identified correspondents entered in Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Sep-Dec 1878
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-089
Description: Identified correspondents entered under Name below; also includes clippings on railways and local issues and papers relating to the Lakes Ellesmere and Forsyth Reclamation and Akaroa Railway Trust Bill Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Mar 1883
From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers
Reference: 82-355-01/3
Description: Identified correspondents entered in name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Aug 1888
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-148
Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field; also includes letter from St John's Parsonage, Christchurch, from H W Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Apr 1883
From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers
Reference: 82-355-05/1
Description: Identifiable correspondents entered in name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: 1880-1881
From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers
Reference: 82-355-03/1
Description: Identifiable correspondents entered in name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Oct-Dec 1877
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-085
Description: Most correspondents identified and entered under Name below; also includes small map of sections, Falsgrave Street, railway to Lyttelton; letter from John [?] Andrew, Edgbaston; person writing from Rotorua; [?] Stround, Christchuch, regarding employment. Page from catalogue of old church plate reworked. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Sep-Oct 1885
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-121
Description: Includes list of securities for Mrs Neall and Mrs Stacpoole Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Jul-Sep 1883
From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers
Reference: 82-355-04
Description: Identifiable correspondents entered in name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Nov-Dec 1888
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-150
Description: Correspondents identified and entered in the Name field; also includes plan for Holmes-[?]Burke batteries made of zinc/carbon and sulphuric acid/nitrate of soda Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Mar-May 1884
From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers
Reference: 82-355-08/2
Description: Identifiable correspondence have been entered in name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: May-Aug 1884
From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers
Reference: 82-355-08/3
Description: Identifiable correspondents entered in name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: May-Jun 1885
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-119
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Members of the House of Representatives, 1882
Date: 1882
From: S P Andrew Ltd :Portrait negatives
By: Clarke, William Henshaw, 1831-1910
Reference: 1/1-018643-F
Description: Photographic copy of a montage of photographic portraits depicting members of the 1882 House of Representatives. All portraits taken by William Henshaw Clarke of Wellington. Copy of montage made by S P Andrew Ltd. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative