Taratoa, Nepia, 1793?-1863

Date: 1851-1862

From: McDonnell, Alexander Francis, 1866-1938 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0151-01

Description: Letters from Maori to various colonial officials (mainly Sir George Grey and John White) about various issues, including land issues on the West Coast of the North Island, from Wellington to Wanganui (rent disputes, intertribal disputes, outstanding payments etc); there are also letters about the New Zealand wars, with rumours about Kingitanga activities, a request for compensation because land had been taken by Kingitanga followers, and a request for a war pension for an injury sustained while fighting Hone Heke There are also letters about the erection of a Maori House at Wellington, about arranging meetings, and letters with requests for agricultural implements. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (57 leaves). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1846-1852

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: qMS-1206-1212

Description: These volumes contain copies of correspondence recieved and despatched. Includes reports from McLean to Governor Eyre about the return migration of sections of the Te Ati Awa from Waikanae and Arapaoa (South Island) to Taranaki and the Crown's desire to completely extinguish native title; various reports and correspondence about the Rangitikei Block and includes notes by McLean made at one of the land meetings in 1849; list of names of rangatira [24] who have a claim to the 40,000 acre Whanganui land block of the NZ Company. Also includes a report by McLean about the activities (and some agressions) of Te Rangihaeata and his desire to fight continued European encroachment and a copy of a letter by Te Rangihaeata to chiefs in Kawhia seeking their assistance to revenge the capture of Te Rauparaha and their reply refusing to assist him Language - Some in Maori Arrangement: qMS-1206-1212 are boxed together Quantity: 7 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph (35 cm; marbled paper, marbled edges, ¼ blue morocco tie case) Finding Aids: Calendar of contents pasted inside front cover of some volumes; indexes.

Date: 1875-1896

From: Buller, Walter Lawry (Sir), 1838-1906 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0048-03

Description: Includes a list of names in Waotu South, notes on Ngatiapa iwi, notes in Maori re land at Whangaehu and miscellaneous letters and telegrams. Also comprises notes on the Taitapu Block (Nelson) and the Taupo Block (Plimmerton) as well as various items regarding land in Otaki with accompanying list of Ngati Raukawa chiefs. Includes several handwritten receipts from original Maori sellers.

Date: 8 Jul 1857-31 Jul 1858

By: Grindell, James Stephen, 1823-1900

Reference: qMS-0891

Description: Journal includes details of negotiations with Maori over land purchases and methods used by purchasers, including McLean, in southern Hawke's Bay, Wairarapa and Manawatu. Grindell's associates included Cooper, Kempthorne and William N Searancke. There is also information about surveying work undertaken by Grindell in north Wairarapa Source of title - Supplied Grindell was a licensed interpreter working under Donald McLean Quantity: 1 volume(s) (59 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) (27 cm, green buckram)

Date: [ca 1847-1860]

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-079

Description: These papers span folders 079 to 081. A note dated Apr 1918 in S P Smith's hand describes the contents as "Original papers supplied to the Govt paper `Karere Maori' in the fifties of last century - mostly in the writing of H A H Monro, native interpreter, Thos H Smith Asst Under Sec Native Dept, and others". The papers include both Maori and English versions of papers for publication. This volume contains drafts of articles, notices and advertisements dealing with market information, opinions about land transactions, the boundaries of various land blocks, Biblical texts and proclamations from the Governor; there is also a letter from Hawkes Bay Maori about the conflict between Te Hapuku and Te Moananui, promising that Pakeha will not be interfered with, and an account of the British colonisation of India and concerns about the effects on the Hindu and Muslim religions. Arrangement: According to Smith's note these papers also originally included letters to Donald McLean from Henry and William Halse and from John Rogan. These letters are now separate, in folders 071 and 129. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1849, 1922

By: Matheson, D (Major), active 1922-1931

Reference: MS-Papers-2779

Description: Copy of a story relating to the Rangitikei purchase, especially concerning Donald McLean, told by local Maori; with covering note by EB and photograph of a dray believed to have been given to Kawana Hunia in 1849 & in possession of Kene Paranihi, Onepuhi in Sep 1922. Language - Small part in Maori Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 leaves & photograph). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by D Matheson, 1922

Date: 1913-1916

From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931 : Papers

Reference: qMS-0211

Description: Polynesian/Maori Voyages, Maori Astronomy, Tribal Narratives, the Waikato Wars, Hauhauism and the Paimarire Religion. Includes information on the Taranaki Mauri-Stones (ie. Tupua & Ahurewa), the Maui Maori stones of Whakatu (Nelson) and Tikanga-Muru. Comprises the arrest of Rua Kenana; the early history of the Kaikoura; the exchange of cannons for the Wairau and Port Underwood; the Wairau Incident; Te Kooti's exile and seizure of the schooner Rifleman, and Te Rauparaha's acquiescence to Ngati Apa's sale of the Rangitikei. Finding Aids: Index at qMS-0217.

Date: 1863

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: B-113-020

Description: Profile head and shoulders portrait of deceased Ngati Raukawa chief with moko. RESTRICTED. See Art Biographies Index for futher details Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour over pencil 351 x 252 mm Provenance: Commissioned by Ngati Raukawa after the death of Te Nepia Taratoa.

Date: 1973

By: Nicholson, Rangi, active 1973-1986

Reference: MS-Papers-3777

Description: A research exercise presented in completion of the requirements for Maori 302 for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the Department of Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington Variations in title - A brief dissertation on Nepia Taratoa of Ngati Raukawa (translation) Quantity: 1 folder(s) (37 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 28 Jul 1862

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0686G-17

Description: Letter regarding land purchases Quantity: 1 piece (1 page on 1 leaf).

Date: [1930-1940]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-09

Description: Contents comprise Turakina-Rangitikei (1858); Rangitikei area (Whangaehu to Manawatu) showing blocks purchased from natives; data of lower Rangitikei River (Maramahoe pa etc) and old pa and kainga on modern map; disposition of Maori tribes (1840); south Taranaki coast; Patea town and river mouth; details of carving, south Taranaki kainga; locality map of Turuturumokai old pa; sketch plan of southern outworks of Turuturumokai pa; Waverley-Wanganui Coast; the Waverley Cave carvings after L S M Contents also include details of the locations of early pa of the Ngati Raukawa and Ngati Apa and Muaupoko tribes with some accompanying historical data; information about a stone mauri found near Kakariki bridge on the Rangitikei river; identification of a Maori mausoleum (tohu whakamaharatanga) made from adzed timber with the name Tauroto; and two (2) greenstone pendants found at Bulls with some information. Arrangement: Notebook no 8 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1849 - 1850

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Marriott, James Henry, 1799?-1886

Reference: PUBL-0033-1850-084

Description: Looking along the length of a large table with another to the right, with diners, and towards Dr Fitzgerald at the head of the table raising his hand as he speaks. The majority of the diners are European males, and two Maori chiefs in cloaks stand in the left foreground, with others seated at the right-hand table. There is a portrait of Queen Victoria on the wall above the speaker, with a pair of crossed swords on the wall below it. Greenery decorates other walls and the sides of windows. Another painting is above a fireplace on the left From a drawing by J. H. Marriott, who may also have been responsible for some of the decoration for the occasion, as he had been a month earlier at a reform banquet, also illustrated in the Illustrated London news. The event took place on 17 April 1849 'for the purpose of doing honour to the portrait of the Queen, which had been presented by Earl Grey to the Colonial Hospital at Wellington' (corner Pipitea and Moturoa Streets). See Ward, Louis. Early Wellington, p.286. The event took place in the house of Dr Fitzgerald, next-door to the hospital according to an article in the Wellington Independent, 25 April 1849, p. 3. Dr Fitzgerald was in the chair, with Mr Henry St Hill as vice-chair. Octavius Hadfield was also present, along with Te Puni, Wi Tako and a large group of other Maori men, all listed in the article. The room 'was most tastefully decorated by Mr Wilkinson with native evergreens and flowers'. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 150 x 230 mm

Date: 2 Jun 1852

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0676C-17

Description: Quantity: 1 piece (2 pages on 1 leaf).

Date: 17 Aug 1869

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0693G-12

Description: Quantity: 1 piece (1 page on 1 leaf).

Date: 1856-1859

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0009

Description: Included in this folder is a paper by McLean that his biographer, Ray Fargher, describes as McLean's 'only comprehensive statement on land purchase policy'. The folder also includes information about the battle of Te Kuititanga, 1839. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1862-1866

From: Mantell family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0083-192A

Description: Contains Maori letters, some translated by Michael Rotohiko Jones. Mentions the recent death of the Ngati Raukawa chief Nepia Taratoa and inquiry by Tamihana Te Rauparaha about the question of Mana Island. Also includes a series of letters about a Ngati Raukawa (Otaki) person named Hapeta who has been requested to appear before the magistrate in Wellington for an unmentioned crime, with assurances by Buller that he won't be imprisoned. Correspondence to Mantell about meetings to discuss the sale of the Rangitikei Block and discussion about price per acre and total payment for the block, particularly by the Ngati Raukawa. Includes correspondence between Hohepa Tamaihengia and Matene Te Whiwhi regarding Maori reserved lands in the Wellington district. Language - With translations by M R Jones Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.