Places

Date: 1852

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Wynyard, Robert Henry (Sir), 1802-1864

Reference: A-145-014

Description: Shows a man in a top hat at the far left, watching a paddle-steamer, the 'Governor Wynyard', as it steams along with several top-hatted men on board discussing the possibilities of finding gold. One man dances on top of the circular paddle-casing warning "Jonathan" to stop the boat. Speech balloons issue from the men's mouths. One of the men is addressed as Sawney (an English nickname for a Scotsman), and he replies in a Scottish accent. In the right foreground a hen and her chickens confront a goose and her goslings. The man in the left foreground says: "Looking for gold "you know"!!! Don't you wish you may get it" The man on the paddle casing says: "Easy Jonathan, stop her" The steamer smokestack says: I guess them Britishers'll find the gold end in smoke Three men in the group on board say: "Weel Sawney, I think there's gold there"; "Th[e]re can be nae doot o't, do ye no see it glittering man"; "I'm no jist sure ye see bu[t] I'll tell ye when I hae got it". The "New Zealander" (Auckland) for 13 March 1852 reports a trip by the members of the Gold Reward Committee in the ship 'Governor Wynyard' to the Hen and Chicken Islands, to follow up reports by a Mr Merrick that he had soil specimens from the islands, containing gold. The 'Governor Wynyard' returned with further specimens, but the "New Zealander" for 17 March 1852 reports that laboratory tests found no trace of gold in these specimens. The Gold Reward Committee was set up by the Auckland Provincial Council in 1852 to find workable gold on the North Island of New Zealand. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Title]; Verso - top centre - R L Wynyard / 35 Arthur St. / Ellerslie, S.E. 6. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 235 x 285 mm. Provenance: From the estate of R L Wynyard of Auckland, descended from Colonel Robert Henry Wynyard.

Date: 1882

By: Caledonian Society of Otago; George, Thomas, -1889

Reference: Eph-B-MATHEMATICS-1882-01

Description: Certificate with an ornate coloured border with circular decorations in each of the four corners. There is a gold shield with a rampant lion in the lower left corner. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured relief print with gilt, on card 317 x 254 mm. Transfers: From Photographic Archive - PH-201-0171 - Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive; material transferred to other sections from there.

Date: 1888

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] Ravensbourne, 1888

Reference: E-016-3-044

Description: A frontal portrait of a bearded man with a peg leg, his hands in his pockets. His hat may be a Scots bonnet Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 89 x 156 mm (page size)

Date: 1889

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd; Canterbury Caledonian Society; McLennan, D, active 1889

Reference: Eph-C-ASSOCIATION-C-1889

Description: Shows a bearded Scotsman wearing a kilt. He stands with a foot on a chair and the other foot on a table, with his glass raised, proposing a toast. At the right is a list of toasts and those proposing them, and the performers of items of entertainment. These include: Brevet-Col. Lean, Captain Anderson (Sydenham Rifles), Hon J T Peacock, Dr Thomas, Mr W Thomson, Mr J Anderson jnr, Mr J S Williams, Mr P Johnson, Mr John Matson, Mr William Boag, Dr Tomas, Mr Alex Ferguson, Dr Turnbull, Mr Hockley, Mr James Martin, Mr Struthers, Mr Connal, Mr Richardson. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured lithograph,on sheet 254 x 335 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in September 2002.

Date: [187-?]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 9

Reference: PAColl-6181-35

Description: Shetlanders beachcombing blacksand for gold at Nine Mile Beach, north of Charleston, West Coast, taken circa 1870s by an unidentified photographer. From left: Magnus Johnson, John Madden, James Mouat, J R Mouat, Gilbert Harper, James Harper. Source of descriptive information -Library client found the information about this image from Irwin Faris, Charleston (Nelson Province, New Zealand) : its rise and decline (Wellington, N.Z. : A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1941) plate between pages 84 and 85. Dated from the same source, see pages 74 and 78. The portable tables pictures would have had plus matting, or copper plates coated with mercury, to catch gold from auriferous blacksand washed over them. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1884

From: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926 :New Zealand sketches in black and white. 1884.

Reference: E-310-q-010

Description: Five sketches of assorted tradesmen. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink in bound album, page size 173 x 252 mm

Date: 1884

From: [Ephemera of around A3 size, relating to immigration to New Zealand, problems and issues of new immigrants and refugees]

By: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: Eph-C-IMMIGRATION-1884-01

Description: Arrangement of text, with flag of the Patrick Henderson Shipping Company in scroll at top. Includes a table showing "Scale of dietary for each adult steerage passenger per week", as well as regulations about deposits, luggage allowances, and the fares for first cabin and steerage. Lists at the top, the names of the ships in the Patrick Henderson line. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, 476 x 257 mm. Provenance: From the collection of Kenneth Athol Webster, no. 5060