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Date: 16 Nov 1895-5 Apr 1896

By: Davy, P, active 1895-1896

Reference: MS-Group-0708

Description: Comprises holograph diary kept by P Davy on the `Ruahine' and during his tour of New Zealand. After disembarking at Wellington where he visited relatives he toured to other parts of New Zealand. He describes a gathering of Maori following the settlement of fishing rights on Lake Wairarapa, a visit to a freezing works at Belfast, gold mining on the West Coast and Rotorua where he visited a pa, saw geysers and bathed in the hot pools. His journal ends on the return journey to England when staying at Sydney. Also includes transcript of part of the diary (16 Nov 1895-3 Jan 1896). Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - Full transcript of diary at MS-Papers-4391 Davy and his Aunt Harriet boarded the `Ruahine' at Plymouth 16 Nov 1895 and disembarked 12 Jan 1896 at Wellington where they stayed with relatives. After travelling around New Zealand they left Auckland for Sydney, 18 Mar. The writer of the diary is presumed to be P Davy, a passenger on the `Ruahine'; he visited members of the Davy family while in Wellington. He was probably one of the Devonshire Davys, a nephew of George Boutflower Davy, an official of the Land Registration Court of NZ, and the son of Edward Davy (1806-1885), an experimental chemist who emigrated to Australia. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photograph of the `Gaul' with unidentifed tender vessel.

Date: 1822-1824

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: MS-2409-2410

Description: Covers journey to New Zealand and life and relations with Maori at Bay of Islands; interval in Australia Feb-Aug 1823 Source of title - Transcribed Extracts copied by an unidentified compiler; vol 2 is apparently in a different hand. Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (24-22cm, ¼ brown morocco, brown buckram)

Date: 177-1870

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1938

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: ca1875-ca1885

From: Swainson, Jane :Photographs of military forces in Taranaki, Nelson, Hokitika, Parihaka and Rotorua.

By: Bayliss, Charles, 1850-1897; Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920

Reference: PA1-q-707

Description: Views of notable public buildings in Sydney dating from the late 1860s to the late 1870s. Nelson City during a public parade involving colonial soldiers. Soldiers in military encampments, parading, and firing Cannon. Views of Lake Rotorua, Parihaka at the time it was occupied by Government troops, Hokitika waterfront, floods in Greymouth, and a wedding in Nelson. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1838-1850

By: Ronaldson, William (Rev), 1823-1917

Reference: MS-Papers-5328

Description: The memorandum book describes Ronaldson himself, instructions on how to conduct yourself on board ship and what appear to be exercises on aspects of practising religion, and other matters. The diary begins 26 August 1845 until 12 May 1850 when Ronaldson sighted the Isle of Wight on his voyage to England and includes much material on Wanganui Maori as well as descriptions of shipboard life between New Zealand and Australia on the Sisters (1849), and from Sydney to London on the Kate (1850). His stay in Sydney is well described. Other Ronaldson material at MS-Papers-1367, MS-Papers-2456, qMS-1720. Quantity: 2 volume(s) (In binder folder). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (2 vols in binder folder) Provenance: Bought at auction by George Foster (donor's husband) about 40 years ago. Donor's great uncle believed to have loaned them to the Library and a typescript copy was made for the collection.

Date: [ca 1819-1835]

By: Jowett, William, 1787-1855

Reference: MSX-5982

Description: Comprises Jowett's journal, including description of Whangaroa and Maori customs; also army account book 1834, his army discharge, volume giving date of marriage and children's birthdays Source of title - Supplied Jowett served with the 84th Regiment on HMSS `Dromedary' transporting convicts to Tasmania and Port Jackson 1819-1821. The ship sailed to the Bay of Islands with Samuel Marsden and supplies for the CMS mission at Kerikeri, and was in New Zealand for 9 months refitting and charting rivers and harbours, including Whangaroa Harbour. Quantity: 1 box(es) (4 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss Grey phase box Processing information: Previously held at MS-Papers-1141

Date: [188-?]

By: Seaton, Mary, 1889-1967

Reference: PA1-o-460

Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand (pages 1-10), Australia, Egypt, Europe and Canada taken by unidentified photographers circa 1880s. The New Zealand scenes are mostly in the South Island, including the Bealey, Cheviot Hills Station, the flying fox across the Teremakau [i.e. Taramakau] River, the Canterbury Plains, Governor's Bay and Timaru. One view shows two men in a logging camp; two views of the North Island show Muemutu [i.e. Ohinemutu], and Russell's Gold Battery at Taruru Creek. Australian scenes include a group of New Caledonian Kanaka with their "humpies" (thatched dwellings) at Bundaberg in Queensland; and one of the Wombat Ranges "the haunt of the Kelly gang". Several photographs of Egypt include views of Port Said, the Suez Canal, camels, Egyptians, and early ruins. Canadian images include Port Levis taken from across the St Lawrence River, and views of the Niagara and Montmorency Falls both in summer and in winter. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured dark blue cover, black corners an spine, entitled "Scrapbook" on spine; 23.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: 9 Feb - 3 Jul 1894

By: Brown, H J (Mr), active 1894

Reference: MSX-9260

Description: Travel journal of Mr H J Brown. Details a five month, 9 Feb - 3 Jul 1894, journey to New Zealand and Australia. 9 Feb - 24 Mar : Describes the voyage on the ship 'Oroya' from London to Sydney. Includes details about activities aboard the ship, day excursions at port cities - Gibralter [sic] with a Portguese guide called Joseph Buzaglo; Naples and Pompeii ruins with Mr Cook & Son (Tour guides); Port Said; Colombo at the Oriental Hotel and vehicle tour with Mr Cohen; Albany, West Australia; Melbourne; and final port Sydney. 25 Mar - 3 Apr: Describes time in Sydney staying at the 'Australia Hotel', and travels at to the Blue Mountains and Kaloomba [sic]. 4 - 8 Apr : Describes the voyage on the ship 'Mararoa' from Sydney to Australia, and the unpleasant conditions on board. 9 - 19 Apr : Describes travel through the North Island from Auckland to Wellington on buggy and rail. Includes detailed description of visit to Whakarewarewa and hot pools area of Rotorua with tour guides Mr Cook & Son, staying at the 'Geyser Hotel', observations of Maori, cruise on Lake Rotorua to Mokoia Island, the story of Hinemoa and Tutauakie [sic], temple to the 'God of the Sweet Potato', Hamurana Stream, use of Maori language, Okere and Tutea Falls, Tikitere, Waiatapu Valley, Mount Tarawera eruption, Wairakie [sic], Huka Falls, Lake Taupo, Tarawera, the strains of buggy travel, Napier, train to Wellington, stay at the 'Occidential Hotel', pre European Maori times, and land ownership. 19 - 21 Apr : Describes voyage on the ship 'Penguin', from Wellington to Port Chalmers, via Lyttelton. Includes observation of Lyttelton. 21 - 26 Apr : Describes time in Dunedin, a visit to Rosslyn Woollen Mills, business trip to Woodlands and associates P Briscoe and Tom Price. 26 Apr - 1 May : Describes voyage on the ship 'Talune' from Port Chalmers to Hobart, Tasmania, via the Bluff. Includes retrospective general observations of New Zealand and Maori. 1 - 5 May : Describes Hobart, trip to Brown's River and train to Launceston. 7 - 8 May : Describes the voyage on the ship 'Patenna' from Launceston to Melbourne. 9 - 12 May : Describes time in Melbourne and the economy. 12 May - 3 July : Describes the return home voyage on the ship 'Ormuz' from Melbourne. Includes day excursions at port cities Adelaide, Colombo, Port Said, Naples, and Gibraltor; mentions 'Bluejackets' naval officers onboard, the frustration of the ship being quarantined in Colombo due to scarlet fever, the recreation onboard, and final entry mentions passing the ship 'Orient' outward bound. End pages of journal include a tally distances (miles) travelled, list of people they met, books read, and 'Son Macauley's Riddle' in Arabic. Source of title - Supplied by Library Other - Frontpiece stamp 'Hatchett & Kingsnorth, Stationers, 428 Strand' Quantity: 1 volume(s) 136 pages. 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, Newspaper clippings p 62 sketch of a buggy; p 77 map of North Island and rail and coach routes taken; p 124 map of canal from Port Said to Suez.

Date: [ca 1863-1888]

By: Young, Archibald, -1954; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Caney, Ebenezer, active 1883-1887; De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919; Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Savage, Charles Roscoe, 1832-1909; Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA1-q-748

Description: Photograph album of images taken by various photographers (identified below). Chiefly scenic views of New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii, and United States of America. Also eight images of Fijian and Samoan persons. Album compiled by Archibald Young ca 1888. - Album features photographs of New Zealand, including Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Gisborne, Port Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Hutt Valley and river, Waitakere Falls, Oamaru, Queenstown, Waikato River at Ateamure [sic], Mt Earnslaw and Lake Wakatipu, Milford Sound, Lake Manapouri, Ohinemutu, Lake Rotorua and Mokoia, and Wairakei. Also includes series of George Dobson Valentine images relating to the eruption of Mount Tarawera (before and after), including the Pink and White Terraces, Tikitapu Bush, Lake Rotomahana, Echo Lake and rent in the side of the mountain. Album also contains images relating to Maori, including King Tawhiao but also unidentified group images, meeting houses, various carved object, and dried heads. - Images from Australia feature: Cape Raoul, Mount Wellington and other Tasmanian scenes; Melbourne city scenes, including 1888 Exhibition building, Scots Church, Federal Coffee Palace, Princess Theatre, and Bourke Street; Ballarat; Garden Gully Goldmine; Sandhurst, including the School of Mines and Industry and the Shamrock Hotel; Blue Mountains, New South Wales, with Katoomba Falls, Govett's Leap, Weeping Rock, and Jenolan Caves featured; and a panorama of Sydney, including the harbour. - Photographs from the Republic of Hawaii feature Diamond Head, King's Palace and Princess Ruth's Palace, Coconut grove at Waikiki, Hawaiian Hotel, E C Hall's residence, gardens at Queen Hospital, and various dance groups. Photographs from the United States of America feature: San Francisco images include general city views, the observatory at Golden Gate Park, and Beach Drive from Cliff House; various images of geological formations in Yosemite Valley including Yosemite Falls, Merced River, and an unidentified group standing on Glacier Point; Salt Lake City, including the house of Brigham Young and the Mormon Tabernacle; Colorado Springs' Antlers Hotel and Garden of the Gods; and a number of images of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Line, including railway engine and passenger cars, Castle Gate, Marshall Pass, and Royal Gorge. - Also contains a number of portraits of unidentified Fijian and Samoan women and girls, and one group portrait of Fijian men. - Photographers include John R Morris, [James?] Connolly, Burton Brothers, Daniel Louis Mundy, George Dobson Valentine, David Alexander De Maus, Josiah Martin, Ebenezer Caney, [W M?] Reynolds, Chuck Photo, Faber Photo San Francisco, Charles Roscoe Savage, and William Henry Jackson -Miscellaneous materials include a loose print of a construction [mining? drilling?] scene [ca 1880s-1890s] and pressed leaves that are dark brown against paper but reddish brown when held to the light. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Opposite leaf to album page one `Daddy went twice around the world but the second time he got a chill playing deck cricket'; On album page 45, above photograph of Hawaiian Hotel (Honolulu) `Daddie had breakfast with the King & Queen of Honolulu'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album Provenance: Donor is a distant relative of Archibald Young.

Date: 1800-1943

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1657

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1885-1886

By: Mason, George Edward (Rev), 1847-1928

Reference: PA1-f-253

Description: Album of photographs collected by Rev G E Mason on a trip around the world in 1885-1886. Comprises photographs of California, Tasmania, Sydney, Ceylon, Egypt and New Zealand. In 1884 the Bishop of Lichfield recieved a request from the bishops of Christchurch and Auckland, New Zealand, to send clergy to conduct missions in their dioceses. To this end he invited Rev G E Mason, and Rev Charles Bodington to do the job. The two clegymen left Liverpool for the United States on the 4th of July 1885, spent a summer in New Zealand, and returned to England in September 1886. (Info from "Round the Round World on a Church Mission," Rev G E Mason, Society for the promotion of Christian knowledge, London, 1892). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchase, 2005 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive.

Date: [ca 1870s-1890s]

From: Bridge family :Photograph albums

By: Anson Brothers (Firm); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Pulman (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-271

Description: Views of New Zealand, England, Australia and Canada, associated with family of Charles Joseph Bridge (d 1876), settler at Homebrook, near Lake Ellesmere; and his son, Charles Hastings Bridge. Includes pressed flowers and leaves, a coloured sketch of a rowing boat on a river lined with willow trees. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Henry Hugh Chapman 1881; Henry Walter Bridge 1886 Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1836-1845

Reference: qMS-1080

Description: Entries begin Nov 1836 on Conway in England; describes voyage to East Indies Station via South Africa, Madras, Rangoon, King Island (Bass Strait) and Port Jackson, NSW; in Sep 1837 Conway visited whaling settlements at Kapiti and Cloudy Bay, cruised via NSW, Tasmania, Tonga and Fiji to Rangoon, 1839; entries for Hyacinth voyage 1841-1842 based in Hong Kong, then entries for Acteon in 1843. Journal includes notes on social, economic and political affairs, bearings, weather and sightings on voyages made; also comments on interaction between Maori and whalers, intermarriage, European justice and barter trade Source of title - Supplied Writer unidentified. Served on HMS Conway, transferred to Hyacinth in 1841, and then to Acteon in 1843 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 120 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript (photocopy) (35 cm; blue buckram)

Date: 1844-1886

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2120

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1897-1904

From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly

By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Pulman (Firm); Shepherd, Cromwell, active 1903-1934

Reference: PA1-f-142

Description: Charles Hill-Trevor's personal album of the time he spent as personal secretary to Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand. It records the New Zealand contingents sent to the South African war and public events, personalities and patriotic entertainments associated with that enterprise. Visits to Government houses in Australia record other governors, officials and official residences. On one occasion in Melbourne a New Zealand versus Australia polo match was played. Hill-Trevor shows an interest in Māori, wildlife conservation (including the bird sanctuary on Resolution Island), and the sports of fishing, polo and horsemanship. There are photographs of members of the Ranfurly family and their principal servants as well as the Governor engaged in official functions such as opening the Kaiapoi council offices and laying the foundation stone of the Veterans Home, Mt Roskill, Auckland in 1903. Also photographs relating to the play 'The Geisha'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1817-[ca 1840]

By: Boultbee, John, 1799-1854

Reference: qMS-0257

Description: Voyage to Brazil, 1817, brief residence in Barbados, 1818; sealing in Bass Strait area, 1823, pilot at Port Macquarie before joining sealers around south-west coast of South Island, 1825-1828. Describes Maori friends, including chief Topi Patuki and others; Maori life and customs; sealing and trading personalities and activities in the area; flora, fauna, geographical details. Worked in Australia, 1829-1830 before going to Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore and Ceylon, where he died. Also Maori and Malay vocabularies, settlements in Solander's Straits, etc. Publication - Journal of a rambler; the journal of John Boultbee / edited by June Starke [Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1986] Other - All images are in folder at back of volume Quantity: 1 volume(s) (310 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (34 cm; handmade soiled sailcloth in blue morocco hinged-lid box) Contains 9 pages of illustrations. Includes sketches of canoes, long club or mipe, greenstone maree, fish hooks, Maori dwellings, tattoos, landscapes and islands. Also a colour printed sketch of a meeting between Maori and Europeans

Date: 1844-1860, 1879

By: Brown, Charles La Fayette, 1826-

Reference: qMS-0279

Description: Brown describes whaling voyages outside New Zealand and visits to the Bay of Islands (1844, 1848, 1856). He discusses peoples encountered, whaling methods and conditions at sea. He also writes of his involvement in the California goldrush (1852) and mining at Bendigo (1853). Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (149 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (30 cm; ¼ green buckram, green boards)

Date: [1880s]

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-o-334

Description: According to the inscription inside the front cover (by an unidentified person), the date is firmly established as 1884, however the album has a number of photographs of the Tarawera area, both before and after the volcanic eruption in 1886. These include views of the White Terraces, one of which has a group of Maori cooking food in the hot pools; a carved house at Te Wairoa, showing interior and exterior before the eruption, and the exterior afterwards; a group of Maori at Te Ariki (one of the places most devastated in the eruption with the loss of many lives. This image has the inscription `Natives of te Ariki first to be killed by eruption'); views of Mount Tarawera covered in mud and ash; and the Old Mill, destroyed in the eruption. Many of the images have the signature initials J.M. (Josiah Martin), and a few have the initials F.A.C (Frank Arnold Coxhead) who may have taken them, but which may just have been printed by him. The last few views are in Tasmania, including Burnie - Emu Bay, and the Guide Falls, near Burnie. Inscriptions: Album page - `Ex libris Brent Gration-Maxfield. 1967'; Album page - `New Zealand. 1884. An early series of 46 4to sepia photographs of New Zealand views. The date, 1884, is firmly established by the letter opposite [attached to album page. Unsigned and undated], which refers to both the album and G.A. Sala's visit in 1884 (see the D.N.B.) to New Zealand to gather information for his book "The land of the golden fleece" which was published in 1885' Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover, leather corners and spine; 25.5 x 22.5 cm

Date: 1867-1951

By: Firth, Josiah Clifton, 1826-1897

Reference: MS-Papers-1491

Description: Comprises correspondence between Josiah Clifton and Maori, including Te Kooti, and papers relating to New Zealand wars, the Firth lands at Matamata, and business ventures, family correspopndence, photographs, newspaper clippings and writings of E C Firth Language - Includes some letters in Maori (some with translations) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 19 folder(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs Finding Aids: Piece level inventory available.

Date: 19 Apr 1822

By: Downie, James, active 1819-1822; Piper, John, 1773-1851

Reference: MS-Papers-0706

Description: Letter written from London concerning the return of Maori chiefs to Mercury Bay from Australia, and Navy board business Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)