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: 1870

From: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918 :[South Island sketches, 1870-1888]

Reference: A-120-013

Description: Upper view: Jamestown and Gravel cove, Lake McKerrow, shows a single small house and a tent amidst thick bush at the edge of the lake. Hills in the background and a small steamer and a rowboat at the water's edge. Lower view: Steamer Charles Edwards snagged in Hollyford River, Feb, 1870, signed lower left, J. Welch, 1870, shows the half-sunk paddle steamer in the river, hills beyond. In: Welch, J. S. [Album of Sketches] 1876 Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolours with scratching out 140 x 226 mm and 139 x 226 mm glued to a single sheet.

Date: 1835-1893

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-077

Description: Includes a preface and translation in S P Smith's hand with a note: `A large part of this has been embodied in "Hist. and Trad. of Taranaki Coast"'. There is also a covering note signed by W H S (W H Skinner) on the provenance of the ms with a genealogy of Teira Whatakore attached. Also includes letter from T M Hocken to Smith, Dunedin 1 Jun 1893, forwarding books and precis of copies or extracts of Colonial Office material, Sep 1835, on the `Alligator' and J Guard affair. The manuscript gives a biographical account of Wiremu Kingi Matakatea, with whakapapa, with much information about his role in conflicts between Taranaki and other iwi, and between Taranaki and the Government in the first Taranaki campaign (1860) in the New Zealand wars; the document also discusses the shipwreck `Harriet' and the treatment received by the survivors; there are also translations of the material. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1850-1875

From: O'Shea, Phillip Patrick, 1947- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5059-12

Description: Papers of William Williams, a merchant and farmer resident in Auckland, whose daughter married J C Firth; includes a deed between Williams and Thomas Douglas for the lease of premises in Queen Street, Auckland, correspondence over Williams' business in Hawaii, and acquisition of Lavin and Dobbel's land at Mohaka Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Collected by Mona Gordon for her biography of J C Firth

Date: 1877-1890

From: Phillips, Coleman, 1846-1925 : Papers

Reference: 79-027-07

Description: Papers on various topics including the starch factory at Greytown, dam building, treeplanting, Maori vocabulary, ploughing, harrowing, farm estimates, wool shipments and carpentry (1877-1879); letters (1879); invoices; `Spithead review' (1890); plans for work bench; advice on the use of jacks; Capt James Stevens' account of his shipwreck in 1875; article on England as a third rate power (1881) Also handbill `Replies to slanders from "Star" Office in paper called "Something further"' on a political debate about the merits of Buchanan and the demerits of Bunny Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Preliminary listing in Back file.

Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]

By: Erskine & Whitmore (Firm); Coxhead & Le Sueur (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: PA1-o-151

Description: Views of New Zealand collected by Invercargill firm Erskine & Whitmore. Scenes taken by various photographers including Hart, Campbell & Co., and Coxhead & Le Sueur. Several views show Queenstown under floods in 1878; others of the Queenstown-Lakes Region, Waitati, Gore and Dunedin in the South Island. In the North Island, one shows a large picnic party travelling in three horse-drawn coaches, stopped at Ngauranga; many show a range of steam locomotives including J Class, K Class, F43, E22, H Class and A Class, in the Upper Hutt area, the Wairarapa, and on the Rimutaka line. Several at the end of the album show the effects of a major slip which blocked the mouth of the Summit Tunnel at the top of the Rimutaka Incline. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Erkine & Whitmore Inscriptions: Album page - `A choice collection of New Zealand views carefully selected from the best artists'. Erskine & Whitmore, Invercargill Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue buckram cover, 24.5 x 35.0 cm Provenance: Part of Alexander H Turnbull's collection

Date: ca 1880s-1890s

From: Christie, Hettie Florence, 1902-1988 :Photographs and album of New Zealand scenes

By: Christie, Hettie Florence, 1902-1988; Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Pulman (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4290

Description: Photographs of: Maori children on the bank of the lake with the houses of Ohinemutu behind them (taken by F A Coxhead); the shipwreck of the SS Wairarapa on the cliffs of Great Barrier Island 28th October 1894 (taken by F Pulman); two of an unnamed shipwreck (taken by H T Lock so possibly near Westport); an open boat on George Sound with seven men and women on board, the women doing the rowing (taken by F A Coxhead); Parkvale Road in Karori with old wooden buildings on the right and four boys playing in the street; view looking west along Oriental Bay with a row of large houses on the left (one with a conservatory) and a heavily laden cart on the street (taken by Wrigglesworth & Binns); view looking south down Customhouse Quay and Willis Street from the tower of the Post Office showing the NZ Loan and Mercantile Agency Co Ltd and other commercial buildings; and a view of the front of Christchurch Cathedral with a tram and horses and carts near it (taken by F A Coxhead). Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-016632, 019743, 071699, 071721, 071722. 1/2-018865 is a copy negative from the same image as one in this collection. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s).

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: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-035-3

Description: Shows the City of Cashmere ship aground Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - `City of Cashmere' ashore at Timaru Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 93 x 135 mm

Date: 1891

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1891 and 1895-1896]

Reference: E-033-2-029

Description: The two-masted steam ship in the harbour in the foreground, with hills in the background Other notes include 'This is just between the Port and the Island' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on paper, 205 x 125 mm

Date: 4 Apr 1877

By: Ocean Mail (Ship)

Reference: fMS-Papers-7950

Description: Photocopy of inquiry into the shipwreck of the `Ocean Mail', Chatham Islands, in 1877 with return of casualties Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (photocopy)

Date: 1844-1903

By: Tinline, John, 1821-1907

Reference: Micro-MS-0790

Description: Reflect duties as native interpreter, surveyor and sheriff in Nelson Province. Land purchase disputes with Maori, reports on wreck of "Phoenix" 1846, road linking Nelson and the Wairau, anchorage at Golden Bay, correspondence concerning Whakapuaka Block. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (62 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: 1878

By: Berryman, John, active 1878

Reference: MS-Papers-4245

Description: Diary covers period of voyage from Plymouth to Otaki, 25 July-28 Oct 1878. Includes brief, almost daily, entries; a description of the wrecking; and the time spent at Otaki before the immigrants were moved to their original destination. Source of title - Supplied title; author's name supplied by donor Other - Original in one folded sheet Accompanying material - Copy of page from New Zealand Shipwrecks by Ingram and Wheatley giving details of ship Berryman emigrated to New Zealand on the `City of Auckland' from London bound for Napier in 1878. The vessel was wrecked at Otaki with no loss of life. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1885

From: Dillberg, Gustaf, 1858-1934 :[New Zealand sketchbook. 1879-1887]

Reference: E-085-026

Description: Four views on one page. A small watercolour in the top left shows a steep bush-clad hill with a building on top. In the top centre, another watercolour shows a stony beach alongside a cliff, a house at the base of the cliff and a large rusty object, possibly part of a wrecked ship on the beach. The lower half of the picture includes two pencil views of Wellington Harbour, one with buildings close to the water where ships are morroored. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, 178 x 254 mm (page size).

Date: 1879-1959

By: Mackay, James George, 1879-1959

Reference: MS-Papers-9876

Description: Notes and newspaper clippings to go with McKay's `Shipwrecks in New Zealand' (annotated copy), including article on the `Alcestis'; notes on the `Agnes', on John Lewis, whaler; `Fact, fable and fallacy' by Aristotelian (Mirror, Mar 1952); shipping lists; copy of article on the `Falco' (1846) and further notes on same; map, Tokomaru Bay, Waima Cove Source of title - Supplied Other Titles - Shipwrecks in New Zealand Relationship complexity - See TAPUHI for further McKay records Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1855-1900

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2910

Description: Selected papers from the records of James Baine and Co, the James Ireland letters (these include a letter written by George & Susan Patterson giving details of their voyage to Auckland on the `Rock City' 1855), and the William Midgley and Captain Henry Hatchwell papers, as well as journals of J T Deighton, F G Pearson and Sarah Stephens and one anonymous writer Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1864

From: [Warre, Henry James] 1819-1898 :[Sketchbook]

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: E-294-024/025

Description: Looking north along the Taranaki coast, close to New Plymouth, with low bush and part of a garden to the right and several ships and small boats at sea in the middle distance. A beached ship, possibly the Lord Worsley, can be seen further along the coast Extended Title - From: Warre, Henry. [Sketchbook ] 1864-1865. p. 24 to25 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title and date in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 97 x 345 mm (double page spread)

Date: 1866

Reference: A-159-012

Description: A view from the sea looking towards shipwrecks on the bar and the houses of the town to the left, hills in the background Other Titles - New Zealand Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - in pencil, spread from far left to far right: Channel. Hokitika N. Z. 1866 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 172 x 229 mm

Date: 1878-1912, 1955

By: Prince family

Reference: MS-Papers-1545

Description: Lists of shipwrecks off NZ coast and Chatham Islands in 19th century; R K Prince's indenture of apprenticeship as printer; correspondence re land purchase by E Prince; fragmentary family history; poem entitled `In memoriam SS "Penguin"'; souvenir of the `Nimrod' expedition (1908-1909) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: ca 1866-1888

By: Cresswell, Diana, active 2000; Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901; Wrigglesworth, James Dacie, 1836-1906; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6229

Description: 1 mounted print showing Wright's farm; 1 mounted albumen print by J D Wrigglesworth showing an unidentified scene; 3 mounted albumen prints by Wrigglesworth & Binns showing the Pleione aground at Waikanae and at the Railway Wharf, Wellington; 3 mounted prints by W H Davis showing the Wellington waterfront, ca 1866 (parts of a panoramic sequence). Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: The photographs were collected by the family of John Martin (1822-1892) of Huangarua, his son William James Martin, and his grandson William Geddes Martin (the father of the donor).