Places

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-070

Description: William and Sarah Lee arrived at Mercury Bay with their family in 1868 and settled at Purangi. The essay describes the family's forty years in various occuaptions - In the bush, on the rivers, on the gumfileds, at the goldfields and on the land. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published inventory available. Includes photographs

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-532

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by E Wheeler & Son, circa 1870s to 1880s Most of the views are identified, either on the photograph itself, or in hand-written captions below; places shown are listed above. One image has caption "Flax cutting" on the photograph which shows a man standing be a group of cabbage trees, with a house? or possibly a mill with a water wheel in the background behind the trees, while the hand-written caption reads "Valley scene, Hokianga". Other Titles - New Zealand views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover (damaged), entitled "New Zealand Views" in gold lettering; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1840

Reference: MapColl-832.15gmfw/1840/Acc.6850

Description: Diagrammatic map drawn on higher ground overlooking the scene where the HMS Buffalo navy ship was wrecked ('28th July 1840, at 10 am'). Map shows the site was wrecked, in a flat, sandy beach area, the thickly wooded hills behind it, the encampment of those who were in the wrecked ship, points on the beach where parts of the ship were washed ashore, and an area of flat marshy ground. Also depicted is the neighbouring pa site (maori village) of the Chief Teraroa, ('Teraroa's hippah'), the encampment of the part of the Buffalo's crew 'who were employed in the firest, preparing the cargo, Mercury River, part of Wiritianga's pa site, as well as Mr Brown's wharf-store and settlement ('Buffalo's store's were landed there'). Signature of creator on map but hard to distinguish. Appears to be ?T. Laslett. Shows several drawings of trees, buildings at Brown's settlement, navy tents. Other Titles - pa site Stamped in right hand bottom corner 'Hydrog[raphic] Office, 20 Au. 41'. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 32 x 45 cm.

Date: 1868

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-o-094

Description: Views of New Zealand chiefly taken by Daniel Mundy circa 1868, with some taken by Charles S Spencer. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Decorated tan coloured cover "Scraps", 25.5 x 33 cm Provenance: Alexander Turnbull Library donation slip on front page reads: "Scrapbook of old photos collected by Mr Mundy about 1868."

Date: 1840 - 1850

From: Mathew, Felton 1808-1847 :[Scrapbook. ca.1845].

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-

Reference: E-389-q-001

Description: Shows six Maori men launching a canoe into waves. Palm trees or tall tree ferns are at the right. Engraving has been cut from page containing 2 engravings; see full page at A-256-028. Image of canoe, and possibly the whole image, is derived from a work by Louis Auguste de Sainson 'Village a l'anse de l'Astrolabe, Nouvelle Zelande' showing Astrolabe Bay (Golden Bay, South Island) not Mercury Bay, with local Maori dragging a canoe into the water, in 1827 during a French visit to the area. The palm trees suggest a scant knowledge of New Zealand geography and flora on the part of the engraver. Not in Ellis' Early prints of New Zealand (1978) Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - MERCURY BAY - NEW ZEALAND Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, two-tone 93 x 85 mm, on sheet 288 x 240 mm.

Date: 1769 - 1784

By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Smith, Samuel, 1745-; Hogg and Company

Reference: A-111-096

Description: An arched rock with a pa on top Derived from an engraving by Newton after Parkinson on Cook's 1st voyage in: Parkinson, S. A journal of a voyage to the South Seas. London, 1773. Pl. 24 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w, 125 x 193 mm

Date: 1780 - 1789

By: Hogg and Company; Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771

Reference: A-111-065

Description: An arched rock at Mercury Bay from Cook's first voyage to New Zealand Derived from engraving by Newton after Parkinson on Cook's 1st voyage in: Parkinson, S. A journal of a voyage to the South Seas. London, 1773. Pl. 24 Trimmed inside plate marks Inscriptions: Head of plate: Engraved for Moore's voyages & travels [i e Moore, J H. A new and complete collection of voyages and travels] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving b&w 135 x 177 mm

Date: 1778-1903

From: United Kingdom. Admiralty : Records relating to the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-05-5947

Description: Includes register of men serving in the Southern and Greenland Whale Fisheries protected from impressment; court of enquiry into loss of HMS Buffalo, Mercury Bay and charges against assistant Surgeon D Russell 1840-1841; papers relating Matthew Flinders and HMS Investigator, the loss of HMS Porpoise ; the voyage to Isle of France and Flindrs' imprisonment by the French, 1806; papers of Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes relating to Royal Navy activities in the East Indies 1779-1782 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1784

By: Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-111-011-a

Description: A pierced rock in Mercury Bay (not Tolaga Bay as in the title), with a pa on top. Shows Maori in canoes Derived from the first published illustration in Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2, pl 18, which in turn is from a pencil drawing by Herman Diedrich Sporing ('A perforated rock fortified on the top'. Endorsed in Sporing's hand, `Sporing's Grotto. Opuragi-bay. New Zealand) The view is actually of Te Puta o Paretauhinu at Mercury Bay not Tolaga Bay. `Opoorage' was Cook's rendering of Purangi ie Mercury Bay. See also footnote in Beaglehole's Cook, v. 1, p 200. Confusion has arisen in early titling of engravings on account of the Sporing and Parkinson views of the Tolaga Bay archway Same as A-111-011 Other Titles - pa Extended Title - From Anderson, G W, ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages...London: A Hogg [1784] op. p45. Derived from Hawkesworth, J. voyages, 1773, v. 2 pl. 18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 203 x 330 mm

Date: 1836

By: Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842; Domeny de Rienzi, Gregoire Louis, 1789-1843

Reference: A-015-011

Description: A pa atop an arched rock at Mercury Bay Originally derived from engraving after Sporing on Cook's 1st voyage in Hawkesworth, J. An account of the voyages. London. 1773. Vol. 2, pl. 18 The arched rock has been wrongly identified as Cook's 'Tegadou' (Tolaga Bay) or Anaura Bay. It was located at Mercury Bay Other Titles - Fortified pa on the arch at Tegadou, (Tolaga Bay) Anaura Bay, Mercury Bay Extended Title - Published in: Domeny de Rienzi, G. L. Oceanie. Pl. 127. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w, 118 x 207 mm

Date: 1870s

By: Cox, Horace A, active 1883

Reference: PA1-o-110

Description: New Zealand scenery photographed circa 1870s. Views include the Pink and White Terraces and Lake Rotomahana; a digger's hut in the Tararua Range; Mercury Bay; carriers changing horses in Oripi bush; a group of Maori holding a runanga at an unidentified meeting house; two views of the new road being created between Lake Coleridge and Hokitika. Inscriptions: Album page - Horace A Cox, from his old schoolfellow Harry [?], Lyttelton, New Zealand, 9 July 1883 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cover with gold outline, 22.5 x 31 cm Provenance: Presented to Horace A Cox on 9 July 1883.

Date: n d

By: Henderson, Jane, active 1864

Reference: MS-Papers-0677

Description: Henderson describes her voyage to New Zealand with her parents in the `Talbot' (1864), and their life in Mercury Bay where her father worked in the sawmills. Written by Mrs Lyon. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1784

By: Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771

Reference: A-111-011

Description: A pierced rock in Mercury Bay (not Tolaga Bay) with a pa on top. Shows also Maori paddling canoes Derived from the first published illustration in Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2, pl 18, which in turn is from a pencil drawing by Herman Diedrich Sporing ('A perforated rock fortified on the top'. Endorsed in Sporing's hand, `Sporing's Grotto. Opuragi-bay. New Zealand) The view is actually of Te Puta o Paretauhinu at Mercury Bay not Tolaga Bay. `Opoorage' was Cook's rendering of Purangi ie Mercury Bay. See also footnote in Beaglehole's Cook, v. 1, p 200. Confusion has arisen in early titling of engravings on account of the Sporing and Parkinson views of the Tolaga Bay archway Same as A-111-011-a Other Titles - Pa Extended Title - From Anderson, G W, ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages...London: A Hogg [1784] op. p45. Derived from Hawkesworth, J. Voyages, 1773, v. 2 pl. 18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 203 x 330 mm

Date: 193? - 1937

By: Withiel-Thomas, Arthur, active 1935-1937?; Shand, Jocelyn, active 1990s?

Reference: PAColl-3265

Description: Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1954-1966

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6445

Description: Trip to Mercury Bay and Great Mercury Island, and trip to the Tauherenikau Valley. Views of Great Mercury Island include Landing Bay. Views of the coastline. The campsite. Peachgrove Bay. The island's interior. Tauherenikau trip includes the valley below Cone Hut. Mount Reeves and the Tauherenikau River. View from the top of the puffer. Tauherenikau Hut. Cone Hut. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: 1769 - 1780 - 1789

By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771

Reference: A-111-098

Description: The pa on an arched rock at Mercury Bay, including a kangaroo in the view. From Cook's first voyage to New Zealand in 1769 Derived from engravings after Parkinson on Cook's 1st voyage in: Parkinson, S. A journal of a voyage to the South Seas. London 1773. Pl 18 x 24 ; and from an engraving after Stubbs in: Hawkesworth, J. An account of the voyages London 1773. Pl 20: An animal ... called kanguroo Trimmed inside plate marks Ms note: London, May 1773 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving ; b&w 111 x 174 mm

Date: October 1957

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6444

Description: Visit to Melbourne and trip to Whitianga and Mercury Bay. Views include, the Shrine of Remeberance. The Botanical Gardens. The Fitzroy Conservatory. The Yarra River. Captain Cook's cottage. Collins Street. Flinders Street Railway Station. Views of Whitianga. The party on board for Mercury Bay. Islands in Mercury Bay. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: 1784 - 1769

By: Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771

Reference: A-111-011-c

Description: A pierced rock in Mercury Bay (not Tolaga Bay) with a pa on top. Shows also Maori paddling canoes Derived from the first published illustration in Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2, pl 18, which in turn is from a pencil drawing by Herman Diedrich Sporing ('A perforated rock fortified on the top'. Endorsed in Sporing's hand, `Sporing's Grotto. Opuragi-bay. New Zealand) The view is actually of Te Puta o Paretauhinu at Mercury Bay not Tolaga Bay. `Opoorage' was Cook's rendering of Purangi ie Mercury Bay. See also footnote in Beaglehole's Cook, v. 1, p 200. Confusion has arisen in early titling of engravings on account of the Sporing and Parkinson views of the Tolaga Bay archway Same as A-111-011-a Extended Title - From Anderson, G W ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages...London: A Hogg [1784] op. p45. Derived from Hawkesworth, J. Voyages, 1773, v. 2 pl. 18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 203 x 330 mm

Date: 1769 - 1773

By: Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Strahan & Company

Reference: B-085-010

Description: Engraving from the official account of Cook's first voyage, based on a drawing of Te Puta o te Paretauhinau Pa at Mercury Bay, Coromandel Peninsula (not Tolaga Bay as claimed in the title). The drawing of the pa is by Herman Diedrich Sporing, Sir Joseph Banks' clerk; the canoe is copied from a drawing by Sydney Parkinson, the official artist aboard the Endeavour. The scene shows a boat from the Endeavour being rowed in the left foreground; a small canoe with five Maori engaged in fishing in the right foreground; an arched rock in the water behind the boats with a pa on top of it; two canoes pulled up on the bank to the right behind the arched rock and dense bush in the background. Exhibitied in 'Drawn From Nature: Europeans Record New Zealand, 1770-1860' exhibition at the National Library Gallery, 31 March to 28 May 1989. Other Titles - Mercury Bay Extended Title - From: Hawkesworth, J. An account of the voyages for making discoveries ... Vol. 2 Plate 18. The pa shown was seen in November 1769. See Joppien & Smith. The art of Captain Cook's voyages, vol 1, cat. no. 1.121 for the original drawing of the pa, and 1.132 for the original drawing of the Maori canoe. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 238 x 270 mm

Date: 1784 - 1769

By: Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771

Reference: A-111-011-b

Description: A pierced rock in Mercury Bay (not Tolaga Bay) with a pa on top. Shows also Maori paddling canoes Derived from the first published illustration in Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2, pl 18, which in turn is from a pencil drawing by Herman Diedrich Sporing ('A perforated rock fortified on the top'. Endorsed in Sporing's hand, `Sporing's Grotto. Opuragi-bay. New Zealand) The view is actually of Te Puta o Paretauhinu at Mercury Bay not Tolaga Bay. `Opoorage' was Cook's rendering of Purangi ie Mercury Bay. See also footnote in Beaglehole's Cook, v. 1, p 200. Confusion has arisen in early titling of engravings on account of the Sporing and Parkinson views of the Tolaga Bay archway Same as A-111-011-a Other Titles - Pa, Mercury Bay Extended Title - From Anderson, G W ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages...London: A Hogg [1784] op. p45. Derived from Hawkesworth, J. voyages, 1773, v. 2 pl. 18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 203 x 330 mm