Places

Date: 1861-1863

By: Jenkins, Robert (Capt), 1825-1894

Reference: qMS-1069

Description: Describes movements around Sydney, Auckland, Fiji (1861-1862), and participation in the Pukorokoro River blockade (1863). Important episode at Fiji, 27 Jul 1862, having recently arrived at Levuka, Captain Jenkins summoned the chiefs "to a formal meeting on board the Miranda for the purpose of conveying to them the decision of H.M. Ministers not to accept the sovereignty of the Fiji Islands, in terms drawn up by His Excellency Sir John Young". Includes text of declaration in English and Fijian. The Miranda stayed at Levuka most of Jul and Aug; entertained King Thankombau; description of Levuka. Wreck of the `Orpheus' described, Feb 1863. Mainly short log entries but 1863 in some detail; summaries for 1861, 1862 included. Includes two page typescript of a breakdown of the Miranda's movements and concurrent events of interest from March 1863 (loose in front of volume) Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (317 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (30 cm, black buckram)

Date: 1863 (18--), (19--)

By: Plummer, Albert, 1840-1926

Reference: MS-Papers-10861

Description: Reminiscences of a volunteer who served with the Waikato regiments, 1863, and in 1864 with the Hawke's Bay Co. He describes action, treatment of prisoners including a period on Chatham Islands where he held a victualling contract when Te Kooti and his followers seized the `Rifleman', 4 Jul 1868, and escaped to Poverty Bay Relationship complexity - Duplicate copy of original at MS-Papers-2288 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (14 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1920

By: Cowan, James, 1870-1943

Reference: A-173-025

Description: A plan view of St Bride's Church, Mauku, during the New Zealand wars, showing the rifle loopholes on all sides, and a 'strong door of totara' at the front entrance on one side. Original for illustration in Cowan, J R The New Zealand wars. Wellington 1922 vol. 1 p 291 (annotated "sketch-plan, J C 1920"). Sketch-plan. Earlier copy of same at A173-038 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on card 120 x 150 mm

Date: 20 Jul 1865

By: Keele, Theodore Blunt, -1865

Reference: MS-Papers-7407

Description: Letter from Keele to his wife, Emma written from Camp Cambridge. It comments on domestic matters and raises the possibility of her joining him in the Waikato. Keele voices the opinion that the war as a war in the Waikato was over but minor incidents would occur in the future and there would be a continuing need for a military presence in the region. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1921

By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962

Reference: A-138-031

Description: A view of a church significant in the Waikato campaign of the New Zealand wars Extended Title - In Cowan J. The New Zealand Wars, v 1, p. 265 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 60 x 117 mm

Date: 1863 (18--), (19--)

By: Plummer, Albert, 1840-1926; Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki, -1893

Reference: MS-Papers-2288

Description: Reminiscences of a volunteer who served with the Waikato regiments, 1863, and in 1864 with the Hawke's Bay Company. He describes action, treatment of prisoners including a period on Chatham Islands where he held a victualling contract when Te Kooti and his followers seized the `Rifleman', 4 Jul 1868 and escaped to Poverty Bay Relationship complexity - Duplicate copy at 81-151 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (14 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[Sketchbook of English and New Zealand scenes] 1860 - 1864

Reference: E-349-063

Description: Three drawings of soldiers near Te Awamutu. Two are pencil, ink and watercolour, with one soldier standing, one on horseback. The upper view has a military camp in the background and shows the men in profile; the central view shows the men on guard, seen from behind, watching over a valley. The lowest view, in pencil, is a landscape with soldiers passing along a path away from the artist. Inscriptions: Album page - on opposite page - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 100 x 160 mm.

Date: [ca 1853-1864], 1890

By: Shepherd, Annie Curme, 1834-

Reference: MS-Papers-5027

Description: Reminiscences of Annie Shepherd, originally published in the `Waikato Times' for 1890, covering her voyage to New Zealand in 1853, settlement in Taranaki and then Waikato, and the Waikato War Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (19 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (Photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Mr R W Green, Auckland, 1994

Date: [1955-1956]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-34

Description: Comprises notes on and possible implications of, a Dolichocephalic human skull, Kaingaroa, including carvings (with maps); notes on Maori lore and sites made on a tour to Hamilton, Tirau, Raglan, Thames and the New Plymouth-Rahotu area, western Taranaki (Dec 1955-Jan 1956) (with map); compilation of old pa and kainga and of remaining occupied kainga, Waitara-Rahotu area, Taranaki (with map); Awakino-Mokau-Mohakatino area, with map showing old pa, kainga, middens etc; former pa of the coastal district, Onaero-Mimi area, north Taranaki; plan of Te Tiki-o-te-Ihingarangi positions; notes on Lake Taupo (with map); plan of part of central Waikato showing Maori sites and data of Maori war; letter, Wally N re Coromandel workshop find Arrangement: Notebook no 33 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1863

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

Reference: E-106-f-032-1

Description: Looking down from above onto a road carved out through dense bush, with cavalry and infantry marching along it. Large trunks from the cleared bush in the foreground The Library holds another version of this view at A-134-011, from a source other than the Illustrated London news Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 43, November 7th 1863, p. 476 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 160 x 240 mm

Date: 1863 - 1870

Reference: MapColl-832.14hkm/1863-72/Acc.24350

Description: Military map showing operations from the Auckland Fort Britomart Albert barracks, south along the military route to Cambridge, Aratitaha and Tokanui, Waikato District. Depicts military blockhouses, redoubts and forts (five in the Waikato region and over eleven in South Auckland), stockages, routes used on garrison duty only, engagements, Maori pa and kainga and the confiscation boundary as gazetted 17/12/1864 including the aukati (frontier) line. Also shows mission stations Waipa and Taupiri and geographical features, most with Maori placenames. Identifies battle sites at several places including Hairini (22.2.64), Rangiaohia (21.2.64) Kihikihi and Orakau (2.4.64), Waiari (11.2.64) and in South Auckland including Hills Clearing (8.9.63), Koheroa (17.7.63), Meremere (1.11.63). Several Maori pa and kainga are named, including Tokanui, Te Kopua, Otawhao, Otautahanga. In the Waikato regions a similar number of both redoubts and pa sites are identified. If distinguishing between the route followed by the troops and the confiscation boundary, refer to original map. Reference key at bottom of map identifies features of the map. Other Titles - showing Other Titles - District Other Titles - and Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, scale [1:253 440], 81 x 62 cm.

Date: n d

From: Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, 1898-1976 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5220-054

Description: Contains a draft copy of the book which has biographies, regional, iwi and hapu histories of people and places mostly in the Tainui - Waikato region; also contains many genre Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescript

Date: 2014

Reference: Eph-B-WAR-NZ-2014-01

Description: Programme or order of service for a commemoration of 150 years since the Battle of Orakau / O-Rakau (1864). Includes greetings from Governor-General Sir Gerry [Jerry] Mateparae, patron Tumu te Heuheu-Tukino VIII, and Te Muraahi Kaawhia IV (president of the Battle of O-Rakau Heritage Society Inc), portrait of some of the protagonists in the New Zealand Wars in the Waikato. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 275 x 210 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mark Bagnall, Wellington, in 2014.

Date: 1921

By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962; Cowan, James, 1870-1943

Reference: A-138-034

Description: Subject: Burtt's Farm; and site of fortified pa, Te Maunu-a-Tu, at western end of Paerata Ridge Extended Title - Drawing for Cowan J. The New Zealand Wars, Wellington 1922, v. 1, p. 275 Quantity: 2 drawing(s) 1 sheet. Physical Description: Ink, 55 x 145 mm and 52 x 145 mm on sheet 170 x 215 mm

Date: 1864

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

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Carey, George Jackson, 1822-1872

Reference: E-372-f-002

Description: View of the military camp at Tauranga with Mount Maunganui shown in the distance. Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 45, July 1864, p.92 by Brigadier G Carey Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 217 x 363 mm

Date: 1864

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

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Carey, George Jackson, 1822-1872

Reference: E-372-f-023

Description: View of the military camp at Tauranga with Mount Maunganui shown in the distance. Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 45, July 1864, p.92 by Brigadier G Carey Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 217 x 363 mm on page 375 x 250 mm

Date: 1908-1919

By: Brockett, Charles Frederick, 1857-1913; Simpson, Patricia Anne, 1933-

Reference: MS-Papers-2406

Description: Diary and notebooks describing work done at Government House, Auckland, 1908-1909 and inspections of government works at Wanganui, New Plymouth and the Waikato by C F Brockett. Correspondence between his sons Archie, Percy and Fred discussing war and family members. Accompanying material - Letters by two sons: Archibald, in the Samoan Advance Party, 1914 and Percy, serving with the Wellington Reserve Battalion, 1917-1919 An overseer in the Public Works Dept Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (photocopies) Provenance: Donor is a descendant of the Brockett family Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Picture postcards, ca 1908-1911.

Date: 1865 - 1866

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

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: E-372-f-001-1

Description: A large group of Maori men performing a haka, shown at a moment of leaping in the air. They are carrying a mixture of muskets and spears, and dressed in mixed European and Maori clothing. They are observed by a group of European and Maori men and women, with the artist's self portrait sketching near the centre in the foreground. In the background are low hills of Tauranga with several European buildings and a few military tents. Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 48, 1866, p.417 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 160 x 225 mm

Date: 1864-[1865]

By: Sewell, Henry (Hon), 1807-1879; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: MSX-5148

Description: Pamphlet in the form of a letter to Lord Lyttelton describing the origins of the King Movement, key decisions in the years since Waitara, the Waikato War, confiscation, legal aspects of the crisis reflecting Sewell's feeling that many of the actions taken were unwarrantable and unjust. Note by Turnbull re volume which was rebound by Zaehnsdorf. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter with holograph annotations (½ green morocco) Provenance: Part of original A H Turnbull collection

Date: 1922 - 1864

By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962; Liverpool, Cecil George Savile Foljambe, Viscount Hawkesbury and 1st Earl of, 1846-1907; Cowan, James, 1870-1943

Reference: A-138-025

Description: Shows attack of gunboat `Pioneer' during the New Zealand wars, with the gunboat in the centre of the river and answering fire from the riverbank to the left Based on an engraving in the Illustrated London news 'The war in New Zealand. The gun-boat Pioneer at anchor off Meremere on the Waikato River, reconnoitring the native position... January 1864. From a sketch by an officer of H. M. S. Curacao'. The officer/artist may be Lord Liverpool Extended Title - Reproduced in The New Zealand Wars, v. 1, p. 311 by J Cowan Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash on photographic paper, 135 x 240 mm