Places

Date: 12 Jan 1840

Reference: MSO-Papers-7085

Description: Indenture for sale of part of Kapiti Island, 12 Jan 1840; a sale by the chief `E Rangi Hero' [Rangihiroa] to Alexander Fraser, Thomas Fraser and Robert Jillett for 'one cask of best tobacco, and one hogshead of rum with one pair of good blankets'. The land is described as a 'piece or parcel of land called Wiorua situated at or near the north end of the island of Kapiti Cooks Straits New Zealand at present occupied by the said Alexander Fraser a fishery and bounded on the east side by the sea on the north side by the land belonging to E Kai [?] Hai a chief of the Nati inu tui tribe on the west and south by land in the possession of the said E Rangi Hero containing one acre be the same a little more or less'. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: This transaction is not recorded in the records of the Old Land Claims Commission which investigated pre-Treaty land sales. The ownership of the document prior to its purchase by the Library has not yet been established.

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?