Places

Date: 1864

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: E-372-f-005-1

Description: Shows Rev B Y Ashwell's first mission station at Pepepe or Taupiri located beside the Waikato River. There are high, bush-clad hills behind the house which has a fenced garden. A canoe is close to the station on the river. A group of Maori are seated in the foreground Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 44, Jan 1864, p.104 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 175 x 240 mm

Date: 1844

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: A-196-027

Description: Shows a mission station on the Waikato River, a cottage with a thatched roof, the residence of Mr Benjamin Ashwell. Two groups of Maori are seated outside the picket fence and gate. A small structure, possibly a bell-house is to the right of the house The original for a lithograph illustrating G F Angas' Savage life and scenes (London, 1847) vol 2, facing page 37. A similar watercolour is held by the National Library of Australia Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 370 x 546 mm Provenance: Provenance; Capt. A W F Fuller

Date: 1851

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-089-1

Description: Shows a canoe in the left foreground, passing by a fenced compound and a row of houses on the far shore of the river, with a hill behind. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 110 x 170 mm

Date: 1863-1864

From: Nicholl, Spencer Perceval Talbot, 1841-1908 :Photograph albums

By: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Kinder, John, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-f-046

Description: Album compiled by Spencer Perceval Talbot Nicholl when he was serving with the 43rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry during the New Zealand wars. The photographs were chiefly taken by John Kinder and by Daniel Manders Beere, in the Auckland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty areas. Many of the views have no captions, but can be identified in comparison with images known to have been taken by these photographers. Views identified include Mr. Ashwell's church at Taupiri (Rev. Benjamin Yate Ashwell); thatched buildings; flagstaff at Ngaruawahia; the monument to the 43rd Regiment at Gate Pa near Tauranga; Potatau's tomb with a sentry guarding it; a carved stern-post of a waka; and a group of Maori men. Some, but not all, photos taken by Kinder. Inscriptions: Album page - `S.P.T. Nicholl (subsequently Lieut-Col), 43rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry. Album compiled probably about 1863/4' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mottled blue cover, brown leather spine with gold bands; 35 x 42 cm