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Mouat, James, fl 1860-1863 : Letters
Date: 15 Mar 1860-4 May 1863
By: Mouat, James, 1815-1899
Reference: MS-Papers-0913
Description: Letters concern administration of military medical services, promotion, recognition of the medical arm of the army. The letters are written from Melbourne, Auckland and Waitara. Arrangement: Letters are not in chronological order Mouat was Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals and Principal Medical officer for the Imperial troops in Australia and NZ. In 1861 and 1862-1863 he served in NZ under Generals Pratt and Cameron. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (47 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)
Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 : Papers
Date: 1835-1906
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881
Reference: MS-Papers-0238
Description: Includes letters from Heaphy to Donald McLean concerning land disputes; letters and documents relating to the award of the V.C. and to official appointments; testimonial letters and the various Heaphy wills Includes letter from Te Wherowhero to Taranaki chiefs advising them not to follow the example of Te Rauparaha (ie. the Wairau Affair). North Taranaki opposition to the the New Zealand Company's activities. Quantity: 7 folder(s) (32 items). 0.07 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available. Items that have been microfilmed have been marked with an asterisk.
Natives killed at Sentry Hill, Waitara, Taranaki
Date: 21 May 1864
Reference: MS-Papers-10603
Description: From Taranaki Herald 21 May 1864 Contents: Page headed `Taranaki' names people killed with annotations referring to origin of person or where killed. Page headed `Waitara' is list of those killed. On lefthandside - names and numbers killed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Possibly originally owned by A S Atkinson
Sir Donald McLean to Mantell re Maori affairs
Date: 1862-1865
From: Mantell family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0083-216
Description: Matene Te Whiwhi and Wi Tako Ngatata are enlisted by McLean (1865), to try and pursuade influential Poverty Bay chiefs to resist the encroachement of three to four hundred anti-government Paimarire-Hauhau followers in their region. Includes comments about pending war at Wairoa and the Kingitanga regarding the political instability in Waikato and Taranaki. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Sewell, Henry, 1807-1879 : The New Zealand native rebellion / annotated by William Will...
Date: 1864-[1865]
By: Sewell, Henry (Hon), 1807-1879; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: MSX-5148
Description: Pamphlet in the form of a letter to Lord Lyttelton describing the origins of the King Movement, key decisions in the years since Waitara, the Waikato War, confiscation, legal aspects of the crisis reflecting Sewell's feeling that many of the actions taken were unwarrantable and unjust. Note by Turnbull re volume which was rebound by Zaehnsdorf. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter with holograph annotations (½ green morocco) Provenance: Part of original A H Turnbull collection
Maori plan of military operations at Waitara
Date: 14 Feb 1861, Nov 1863
From: Firth family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1491-03
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: See inventory for full description of contents of this folder.
Maori letters - The Waitara question
Date: 1858-1860
From: Williams family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0069-082A
Description: Includes copies of two letters in Maori about Waitara. The first letter is written by a young man from Waikanae who describes his observations about the Waitara dispute to his friends and relations at Waikanae. The second letter is from several chiefs from Waikanae who dispute the right of Te Teira to dispose of land at Waitara which they claim an ancestral right to through the Ngati Tuaho and Ngati Hinga hapu. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Maori letters
Date: Jun-Sep 1863
From: Mantell family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0083-196
Description: Correspondence about the land wars in Taranaki with particular reference to Hapurona and Tikaokao. Mentions an engagement between Maori and European troops at Okoari (Sept 13, 1863). Also mentions the false dissemination of intelligence about a Maori King movement hui at Waikanae and Otaki in 1863. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
A S Atkinson - Inward letters, Maori and English
Date: 1859-1899
From: Polynesian Society: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1187-009
Description: In addition to inward correspondence the folder contains some letters between other people associated with Atkinson The Maori letters contain information about Maori customary practices, news about goldfields in New Zealand and about the affairs of the Native Affairs Department, news about activities at Parihaka and about the opening of a meeting house at Rahotu, intelligence from Hetaraka Nera about the King Movement and the war preparations being made; there is also a letter seeking money for land pledged by Teira to the Government, despite the protests of Wi Kingi The Maori letters also contain social gossip, waiata, a letter from a wife to her imprisoned husband, a note about debt repayment, and a letter from Riwai Te Ahu about the place of the Anglican church within the Kingitanga Quantity: 1 folder(s).
A F McDonnell papers - History of early land claims on Maori records
Date: 1847-1893
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-091
Description: Contains a narrative about early relations between Maori and Pakeha in New Zealand (1835-1870), including information about the Treaty of Waitangi, and disputes over land. Also comprises papers on the New Zealand Company's block-purchases of lands in the North and South Islands. Includes instructions from the British Government regarding the alienation by its agents of tribal lands. Also contains a transcript in Maori of Wi Parata vs the Bishop of Wellington and the Attorney General over the alienation of the Whitireia Block belonging to the Ngati Toa iwi. Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.
Whakapapa chart
Date: 1800-1900
From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection
Reference: MSI-Papers-6717-007
Description: Contains a whakapapa chart of Ngati Uenuku, Ngati Hineuru and Ngati Tahinga and also reveals which descendants were 'rebels' during the New Zealand Wars. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript
Rusden, George William, 1819-1903 : Papers
Date: 1877-1886
By: Rusden, George William, 1819-1903
Reference: MS-Papers-0722/4
Description: Contains copy of shorthand notes of summing up of High Court of Justice, Queens Bench Division, Bryce v Rusden (12 March 1886); correspondence between F A Weld and Rusden about material for Rusden's history, chiefly concerning Maori and the Waitara land dispute(1877-1880). Included is a statement by C W Richmond on Waitara, and a photograph of Rusden with Rewi Maniapoto. Other - NB: Black and white negative (C 16368) of photograph of Rusden with Rewi Maniapoto contained in this folder available through the Pictorial Reference Section Other - For a summary of other material relating to Rusden held at the Royal Victorian Historical Society see AT 10/11 15 December 1992 (W L Renwick) Quantity: 1 folder(s) (157 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopy)