Whitaker, Frederick (Hon Sir), 1812-1891

Lawyer, entrepreneur, politician, Prime Minister. Member of Parliament for Parnell and Waikato 1866-1879. Prime Minister (with Fox) 1863-1864 and 1882-1883. See DNZB (Vol 1, 1769-1869, p586-587)

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Manuscript

Correspondence

Date: 13-21 Oct 1881

From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers

Reference: 77-248-05/2

Description: Mainly telegrams. Identifiable correspondents entered in name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Correspondence

Date: 24 Oct-17 Nov 1881

From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers

Reference: 77-248-05/3

Description: Mainly telegrams. Identifiable correspondents entered in name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Correspondence

Date: 8-12 Oct 1881

From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers

Reference: 77-248-05/1

Description: Identified correspondents entered under Name field below; also includes typescript of report of meeting between W Rolleston, Native Minister and Te Whiti, 8 Oct 1881. Most are telegrams with some in code. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Correspondence

Date: Dec 1881

From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers

Reference: 77-248-05/5

Description: Mainly telegrams. Identifiable correspondents entered in name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Outward telegrams

Date: 13-31 Oct 1881

From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers

Reference: 77-248-05/6

Description: Identifiable recipients entered in name field Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Manuscript

Correspondence

Date: 1881

From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers

Reference: 82-355-03/2

Description: Identifiable correspondents entered in name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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.

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Bragge, James, 1833-1908 :Laying foundation stone of new Courts of Justice, Wellington ...

Date: 1879

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PAColl-D-0802

Description: Photograph taken at the laying of the foundation stone. A large crowd has gathered, including dignataries, soldiers, naval reserve, brass band, and large crowd of onlookers. Premises of the City Planing and Moulding Mills can be seen in the distance. Photograph taken by James Bragge; copyright Alexander Johnston. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Proprietor of copyright Alexander Johnston M.D. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 282 x 395 mm on card 475 x 625 mm

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Bragge, James, 1833-1908 :Laying foundation stone of new Courts of Justice, Wellington ...

Date: 1879

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PAColl-D-0803

Description: Photograph taken at the laying of the foundation stone. A large crowd has gathered, including dignataries, soldiers, naval reserve, brass band, and large crowd of onlookers. Premises of the City Planing and Moulding Mills can be seen in the distance. Photograph taken by James Bragge; copyright Alexander Johnston. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Proprietor of copyright Alexander Johnston M.D. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 282 x 395 mm on card 475 x 625 mm

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Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898 (comp) : Notes on Sir William Martin's pamphlet e...

Date: 861-[1863]

By: Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898

Reference: MSX-5147

Description: Extensively annotated copy of the pamphlet `Notes on Sir William Martin's pamphlet entitled the Taranaki question', revised copy (1861), compiled by Sir F D Bell, Sir F Whitaker and Sir T Gore Browne; revisions possibly by J E Fitzgerald The pamphlet was originally ascribed to C W Richmond Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - See Printed Collections for other copies of the same publication Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter with extensive holograph additions

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Correspondence with Fijian officials; correspondence concerning New Zealand

Date: 1875-1887

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1630

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

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Thomas, Joan Elva 1922- :[Hulme Court. 19]76. [Auckland, Joan E. Thomas, 1976?]

Date: 1976

By: Thomas, Joan Elva, 1922-

Reference: B-051-027

Description: Portrait of verandahed dwelling, in Parnell Road, behind its picket fence and gate. A draped classical statue stands in the garden at left and there is a palm tree at right. Accompanying notes say:"This beautiful Regency styled house which somehow resists change, was built in Parnell Road 1843. It is the oldest documented house in Auckland, and it originally stood on three acres of land. Famous men have lived there - two Prime Ministers, Sir Frederick Whitaker and Sir Francis Dillon Bell, Governor Gore Brown and Bishop Selwyn. William Hulme bought the house in 1846 for £1220". No. 18 of a print run of 200. Title from notes supplied by artist. Reproduction of ink drawing. Published at the same time as B-051-025/026, 028. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Joan E Thomas. 76; Recto - bottom right - (In pencil): Joan E Thomas 18/200 Built in Parnell Road in 1843. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 330 x 435 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright by the artist in 1986.

Manuscript

Correspondence

Date: Jul-Dec 1858

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-020

Description: Identified persons entered under Name; also includes price list for improved kitchener [sic]; hand-drawn sketch map of Alford Forest area showing property ownership in letter from T W Hall; letter from Robert [?] Gerrard; and marked report in `Wellington independent', Mr Sewell before the House of Commons', 25 Aug 1858 Other - See also diary MSX-2665 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Correspondence

Date: Oct-Dec 1880

From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers

Reference: 77-248-03/2

Description: Identified correspondents entered in Name field below Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Correspondence

Date: 1882

From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers

Reference: 77-248-06/1

Description: Identified correspondents entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Sir), 1823-1891 : Correspondence

Date: 1846-1891

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891

Reference: qMS-2129

Description: Letters to his family concerning settlement of Wairarapa, and his role in institution of ministerial responsiblity; letters 1863-1868 from F Whitaker, E W Stafford, J C Richmond, W Gisborne and other prominent political men; further letters re `self-reliant policy' and conduct of Maori wars particularly at Wanganui and Taranaki Quantity: 1 volume(s) (58 items). Physical Description: Holographs (37 cm; in ½ blue morocco, blue linen box) Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available. Processing information: Previously misc ms 1258

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General correspondence

Date: 1881-1912

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1637

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

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Political, official, financial and miscellaneous papers

Date: [ca 1868-1876]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1021

Description: Galley proofs of Orders in Council (1870); notice from Charles Balme, wool report (11 Jan 1875); notes re petitioner and claims re land; estimate of probable expenditure for Maraekakaho station (1868-1869); list of members elected for central government (n d); note headed Hon Native Minister with list of various laws relating to elections ending in 1875; note headed Hon Native Minister, electoral laws, in different order but same period, with commentary relating to these; East Coast Maori Electoral District return of polling places and candidates (1870s); copy of letter from Fred Whitaker to I W Carlile, solicitor of Napier re procedures for the Eastern Maori District election (Auckland, 1876); notice re special meeting for winding up of the NZ Steam Navigation Company (1868); proposal to bring down a bill to take the whole coast out of provinces with note that McLean could settle everything; motion to form a branch of the Native Land Laws Reform League in Napier as the present condition is unsatisfactory; notes re makeup of Parliament; Greek/English exercises; financial summary and notes re blocks 62-68, 72 (Collison), Ngatarawa and Napier Language - Short piece of what appears to be Greek with English translations; possibly exercises Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

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[Hutchison, William] 1820-1905. Attributed works :Turning him out. No. 54. Whitaker 'Sh...

Date: 1882

By: Hutchison, William, 1820-1905

Reference: A-095-052

Description: Cartoon showing, from left to right, Premier Sir Frederick Whitaker, Treasurer Sir Harry Atkinson pushing an old nag from behind, James Macandrew, and William Montgomery, as bystanders. The cartoon is a street scene (Sydney Street, next to Parliament Buildings) with The New Zealand Times (newspaper) as a woman carrying a bag of ginger in the background, the old horse pushing through mud marked with words such as `Useless measures', `verbiage' and `party quarrels' as well as local government, consolidation, loan bills and native bills on its legs, and the participants commenting nervously about each other. Atkinson is worried about the N. Z. Times and the observers Montgomery and Macandrew and Macandrew is commenting (with a Scottish accent) about the parentage of the horse, called `Barren result' out of [Parliamentary] Session '82 by Taxation. Supplement to: the Daily Advertiser. Wellington, 16th September, 1882. Caption. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph

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Thomas, Joan Elva 1922- :[Hulme Court. 19]76. [Auckland, Joan E. Thomas, 1976?]

Date: 1976

By: Thomas, Joan Elva, 1922-

Reference: B-051-027-a

Description: Portrait of verandahed dwelling, in Parnell Road, behind its picket fence and gate. A draped classical statue stands in the garden at left and there is a palm tree at right. No. 17 of a print run of 200. Title from notes supplied by artist. Reproduction of ink drawing. Published at the same time as B-051-025/026, 028. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Joan E Thomas. 76; Recto - bottom right - (In pencil): Joan E Thomas 17/200 Built in Parnell Road in 1843. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 330 x 435 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright by the artist in 1986.