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Artist unknown :S. S. Huia aground at Patea
Date: June 1900
By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: G-490
Description: The steam ship and topsail schooner 'Huia' aground on a beach at Patea, New Zealand. A wharf is visible in the background, along with rock formations at the foot of rocky headlands in the distance There are records of the Huia going aground in several places and at several dates: Briefly at the entrance to Nelson Harbour, March 1881; at Patea, June 1900; at the entrance to Motueka Harbour Feb 1903. For a longer period, in the channel by the Foxton bar, Sept 1889. The surrounding landforms do not resemble the flat land around the Foxton bar, making one of the other venues more likely. Location identification made by comparsion with a photograph of the stranding published in Wanganui Herald weekly supplement 'The Yeoman' in June 1900. Title supplied by Library. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - S S [in red brushpoint]. Possible scratched out initials on the bottom right corner. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 450 x 640 mm Provenance: Possibly part of Alexander Turnbull's collection Processing information: Record updated 21 July 2023 with location information supplied by a researcher.
[Bowring, Walter Armiger] 1874-1931 :[Jillett's whaling station on Kapiti Island, 1844]...
Date: 1844 - 1907
By: Bowring, Walter Armiger, 1874-1931; Gilfillan, John Alexander, 1793-1863; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: D-018-012
Description: View looking down over buildings of Jillett's (sometimes spelled Gillett or Gillet) whaling station spread out along the Waiorua beach at Kapiti Island. Copy of original sketch by J A Gilfillan (see New Zealand Times, 7 Aug. 1907, p. 4 referring to the creation of this watercolour copy in 1907; TL 3/1/1, 10/8/83; and Photo File print of ink sketch by Gilfillan with same title, held by Hocken Library). Edward Jerningham Wakefield noted [1839] that some of the English style wattle and daub cottages at Waiorua-Kapiti were occupied by Maori chiefs (particularly Te Rangihiroa d.1842). This was also the scene of the battle "Waiorua", aka "Whakapaetai", in 1824. The main settlement was the site of the pa "Tawhiriataka", while the northern part of the half moon bay is the approximate site of "Ngaiopiko" pa. Amongst its principal residents were the chiefs Te Rangihiroa, Te Hiko, Metapere Te Waipunaahau, Tungia, Te Matoha, Te Rau-o-te-Rangi, Te Tahua Rene, Ropata Hurumutu and others. Numerous whalers lived and worked from this site during the 1840s including Jenkins, Nicol, Bolton, Cootes and O'Meara who was amongst the last whalers to farm the northern part of the Island. Other Titles - Gillet's; Gilletts Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 340 x 875 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull?