Places

Date: 1864

By: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926

Reference: A-447-009

Description: Shows a scene on the Waimakariri River running through the town of Kaiapoi, facing seaward. In the foreground is a man in a red coat and blue hat sitting in a row boat; in the middle of the river is a two-masted sailboat with a red and blue ensign. A house and outhouse can be seen on the bank to the right. A bridge spans the river, and it would appear a train is crossing it, as billows of smoke are visible. Banks Peninsula can be seen faintly in the distance. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Kaiapoi 1864 [in pencil]; Recto - top right - Book 10 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 158 x 260 mm, on sheet 355 x 260 mm Provenance: Collection of Joseph Lowthian Wilson. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - - Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive and transferred to other sections.

Date: 9 Aug 1869

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0693G-08

Description: Quantity: 1 piece (2 pages on 1 leaf).

Date: [186-?]

From: Ramsden, Eric :Photographs relating to Ramsden and his family and Maori subjects

Reference: PA2-2293

Description: Portrait of Tuarea, Ngai Tahu chief of Taieri Mouth, taken ca 1860s by an unknown photographer Inscriptions: Verso - Tuarea - Ngaitahu chief Taieri Mouth - Fought with Taiaroa in defence of Kaiapoi Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1860 - 1900

Reference: PA2-2422

Description: Charles Christopher Bowen was born Milford, Co Mayo, Ireland, educated for some years in France, and England (Rugby & Cambridge). He came to New Zealand in the Charlotte Jane, arriving Lyttelton Dec 1850. In 1852 he was appointed inspector of police. In 1860 he crossed the Andes with Clements Markham. On returning to Canterbury, was appointed resident magistrate at Christchruch. Was appointed to the Legislative Council and later became Member of Parliament for Kaiapoi (1875) and was Minister of Justice and Commissioner of Stamps. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Hon C C Bowen Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

Reference: C-103-048-1/5

Description: Includes three sketches of the surveyors Alfred Wills and Walter Mantell with tripods surveying in Otago; and two head and shoulders sketches of Kaiapoi Maori (Te Kawai and I Ki). The sketch of Mantell is by Wills. Other Titles - Southern District New Munster. Kakanui Quantity: 5 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings, each 105 x 75-85 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1890

Reference: Pa2-2423

Description: Joseph Brittan (1805-1867) who was a brother of WG Brittan came to New Zealand in the William Hyde (Ship) (1852) and settled in Christchurch. He was the first editor, and for some time proprietor, of the Canterbury Standard. He was elected to the Canterbury Provincial Council for Christchurch City (1855). In 1863 he was resident magistrate for Christchurch and Kaiapoi but resigned due to ill health in 1864 Inscriptions: Verso - Joseph Brittan Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 30 Aug 1871

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0695E-16

Description: Quantity: 1 piece (3 pages on 1 leaf).

Date: 1842 - 1850 - 1845 - 1860

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875

Reference: A-113-003

Description: Three Maori seated in the foreground at the edge of a curved river bank with the palisades and a whare or part of a pa to the right. Cabbage trees, flax and manuka trees and other taller trees on a plain. In the middle ground is a European house and outbuildings surrounded by a fence, at the foot of a prominent hill, with other hills in the background to the left. The scene bears a strong resemblance to a view of Kaiapoi, early 1850s, a watercolour in the Canterbury Museum by Charles Haubro. However, the hills in the background make a location further inland in Canterbury more likely. Norman was in the Wellington Region from 1842 to 1845. He is not known to have visited the Waikato area, a location suggested by the Auckland seller of the drawing. He is known to have visited as far north as Auckland itself. In the 1850s until his death in 1872 he was based in the South Island, in Canterbury and South Canterbury, and his undated drawing of Nelson is also in the Library's collection. One possible location for this view is Rangitumau, with the prominent hill being Mount Rangitumau (north of Masterton in the Wairarapa) and the river being either the Whangaehu or the Kopuaranga. If the scene is a Wairarapa one, it is likely to date from between 1842 to 1845. Other Titles - Rangitumau, Wairarapa? Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Ed Norman Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, sepia and blue pen and ink 196 x 248 mm

Date: 9 Aug 1869

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0693G-09

Description: Quantity: 1 piece (2 pages on 1 leaf).

Date: 18 Sep 1852

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0676D-21

Description: Written from Kaiapoi concerning Te Kekerengu and Te Rauparaha Quantity: 1 piece (4 pages on 1 leaf).

Date: 1875

By: Christchurch Press Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-POLITICS-1875-01

Description: Text purports to give the programme for a concert starring Bowen and Beswick. However, it is a satirical political poster commenting on two of the contestants for the Kaiapoi seat in the 1875 general election, Charles Bowen and Joseph Beswick. The election coincided with the 25th jubilee of the Canterbury Province. Bowen won, but not by as large a margin as the poster predicted. "Songs" featured in the concert include "Charlie is my darling", "How many legs has a sheep", "Not for Joseph", "Kaiapoi was glad when they departed". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Letterpress print, 885 x 190 mm.

Date: 1870

By: McDonald, Augustus Vanzant, 1842-1912

Reference: MapColl-834.44941hkcmf/1870/Acc.5100

Description: Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: 97 x 57 cm.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-095

Description: Shows record of Mantell's movements for Sep 1848. Surveying around Kaiapoi, Deans (Riccarton), Port Levy, Akaroa, Taumutu. Quantity: 1 holograph. Physical Description: Ink, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1850

Reference: MapColl-834.44gbbh/1850/Acc.39

Description: Shows Tuahiwi Bush (long since disappeared), Maori cultivations, and Ruataniwa Pa. See Travers, W T L. The stirring times of Te Rauparaha ... also The sacking of Kaiapohia, by J W Stack (Christchurch), 1906). Other Titles - Spine: Te Tuahiwi (Kaiapoi) Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Coloured, mounted on linen 99 x 74, folded in folder 26 x 20 cm., dark green linen. Processing information: Catalogued from card only

Date: 1840 - 1875

Reference: PA2-2597

Description: Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Mr Mcgilivray MHR Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1829 - 1893 - 1940

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

Reference: MNZ-0652-1/4

Description: A large canoe in the foreground, with a standing warrior shaking a taiaha. Another five canoes with sails, and a further five without sails in the background, approaching land. Redrawn with additional canoes for 'Making New Zealand' published in 1940. Originally drawn by William Menzies Gibb as an illustration to Rev. James West Stack's 'Kaiapohia; the story of a siege' (Christchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1893) opposite page 33. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of an ink drawing