Places

Date: 1866

From: O'Brien, George, 1821?-1888 :Paintings by George O'Brien reproduced on postcards. Otago Early Settlers' Museum Collection, Dunedin, New Zealand. [1970s]

Reference: E-278-q-066

Description: Reproduction of painting by O'Brien showing the harbour as viewed from hills above Port Chalmers [?] showing the lower harbour and Otago Peninsula Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-lithograph, 96 x 137 mm

Date: [1866,1904]

From: Stratford, Peter : Epsom Trust collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11750-25

Description: Four parchment documents relating to land conveyancy. ET/LT: 008 is a conveyance document relating to land in Hokianga, dated 20 January, 1904. Henry Williams to John Press. It relates to land `originally granted to Henry Williams by Crown Grant dated 23/7/56'. ET/LT: 009 is a conveyance document for land at Waimate in 1866. Octavius Hadfield to Samuel Williams. ET/LT: 010 is a document appointing a new trustee. It is dated 4 January, 1904. It is adding John Marshall as a joint trustee for land in Hokianga. ET/LT: 011 is a conveyance document relating to land in Hokianga. Dated 17 June 1904. Involving Samuel Williams and others, and Octavius Hadfield. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0 Linear Metres.

Date: 1855-1866

By: Wainuiomata Board of Wardens

Reference: qMS-2089

Description: The schedule of owners of land in the Wainui-o-mata District include some of the earliest settlers in Wellington region; among the owners in 1854 were William Swainson, William Fitzherbert and Edward Jerningham Wakefield. The main task of the road board was to push on with the road down the valley to the sea at Orongorongo, and the progress made during the 11 years was not particularly speedy, one of the reasons being that the settlers were not satisfied with the provisions of the provincial Road Act which provided for local taxing for local improvements and vested the administration in local boards Accompanying material - Includes newspaper cutting from Dominion 1937 re the donation of the Minute Book Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms (37 cm; ½ brown velvet calf)

Date: 1866 - 1970

By: Tempsky, Gustavus Ferdinand von, 1828-1868

Reference: C-028-030

Description: Self portrait with General Chute and two Maori overlooking Te Putahi Pa, Whenuakura River, Taranaki, 7 January 1866, during the New Zealand wars. A reproduction of the Library's original watercolour (A-198-008) published as the Jubilee Print to celebrate 50 years since the Library's opening to the public No. 4 of an edition limited to 500 copies. Printed by C. M. Banks ltd. Enclosed in a folder with biographical and descriptive notes, and folder title: The Alexander Turnbull Library Jubilee Print, 1970. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Col. photolithograph 308 x 432 mm on sheet 442 x 545 mm in folder 452 x 559 mm

Date: 1866-1921

From: Buller, Walter Lawry (Sir), 1838-1906 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0048-10

Description: Notes of a meeting at Parewanui, Rangitikei: December, 1886 to resolve the Rangitikei land dispute and the effects of the Ngāti Toa-Raukawa incursions into the Manawatu-Horowhenua region on the Ngāti Apa and its allies concerning the occupation of their lands. Includes printed notes on the Kemp Deed 1848 and unsettled land claims before the Kooti Whenua Maori 1894. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1866-1872

By: Shaw, Charles Reginald, 1829-1906

Reference: MS-Papers-3803

Description: Shaw's diary covers the period 10 Dec 1866 to 5 August 1872. The brief daily entries describe the land he surveyed (the number of acres and the owner), and his activities around his home (gardening, maintenance of the house and furniture, and paying for household purchases). He also records information relating to the health and recreation of his wife and children. Source of title - supplied title Shaw came to NZ in 1853. He was a surveyor living in Timaru. Quantity: 2 folder(s) (172 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1866-1878

By: Bennett family

Reference: MS-Papers-1274

Description: The collection comprises information regarding the donor's grandparents; family letters from Joseph Bennett, Otahouao Station, describing farming conditions in the Wairarapa (1866-1868); lieutenant's commission in the Wairarapa Volunteer Cavalry. Also papers of James Daniel Baird, 1840-1908; testimonials re service as Provincial Engineer, Wellington (1864-1876), and letter of appointment as Chief Engineer to the Corporation of Wellington (1877) (photocopies). Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (12 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)

Date: 1876 - 1866 - 1963 - 1965

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902

Reference: D-001-021-a

Description: The artist and his wife Caroline with a companion crossing the Taramakau River during their travels in 1866 from Canterbury to the West Coast "Plates by Lithographic Laboratories Ltd." "Printed by C M Banks Ltd" From an original oil in the National Art Gallery (Te Papa) Other Titles - Taramakau Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 372 x 564 mm on sheet 587 x 917 mm

Date: 1866 - 1970

By: Tempsky, Gustavus Ferdinand von, 1828-1868

Reference: C-028-030-a

Description: Self portrait with General Chute and two Maori overlooking Te Putahi Pa, Whenuakura River, Taranaki, 7 January 1866, during the New Zealand wars. A reproduction of the Library's original watercolour (A-198-008) published as the Jubilee Print to celebrate 50 years since the Library's opening to the public No. 1 of an edition limited to 500 copies. Printed by C. M. Banks ltd. Enclosed in a folder with biographical and descriptive notes, and folder title: The Alexander Turnbull Library Jubilee Print, 1970. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Col. photolithograph 308 x 432 mm on sheet 442 x 545 mm in folder 452 x 559 mm

Date: [ca 1866-1868]

From: Tait, Ethna Bessie J, fl 1960 :Photographs of early Wellington

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-43-09

Description: View of the intersection of Thorndon Quay and Mulgrave Street, Thorndon, Wellington with the harbour and a row boat in the foreground photographed by W H W Davis. From left to right are: Clents & Dawson, grocers and general storekeepers; painting and paperhanging shop; Warcup's bootmaking business; J Greaves, plumber and glazier; Thistle Inn. St Paul's Pro-Cathedral is on the right. Relationship complexity - Original negative at 10x8-2087-G Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.6 x 18.2 cm on mount 25.2 x 30.2 cm

Date: 1856 - 1866

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Stone, (Mr), active 1953

Reference: MapColl-832.3991a/[ca. 1861]/Acc.333

Description: Drawn on a base map of the Waipawa Borough, the annotations depict properties with block number, acreage, Crown grant reference numbers and names of purchasers. The properties vary in size from 10 to 30 acres, and are made up of several streets of suburban sized sections. The names are Robert Mixer Skeet, James Fougere, Thomas Dawson Triphook and Edward George Wright, Louis Noel Du Noyer, William Fannin, Frederick Sedgwick Abbott, Christopher Lockyer, Thomas Gill, Allan MacMaster, Algernon Gray Tollemache. See accompanying one page note entitled 'Schedule of persons who purchased from the Crown the lands comprised in the township of Waipawa'. Patangata Crown Grant District.' Lists block number, purchaser, purchase date, Crown Grant reference, and includes annotated note regarding donor and annotated corrections. Base map: 'Plan of Borough of Waipawa' ([s.l], Lands and Survey Department, [s.d]). Stamp on top right hand corner of map: 'L&S' Series 25, no. 214. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale [1:4 752], 76 x 97 cm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Stone, Lands and Survey Department, 28.8.1953.

Date: 1863 - 1866

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Otago Harbour. ca 1865]

Reference: E-016-2-041

Description: A faint view of Otago harbour with setting sun, seen from above. Includes colour notes. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 86 x 152 mm (page size)

Date: 1866

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902; Laing, Elizabeth, [1862?]-1950

Reference: A-102-008

Description: A broad stream amidst dense bush, including cabbage trees growing on the banks, and other taller, trees, probably kahikatea Other Titles - Hokitika Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 127 x 178 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs E Laing, England, 18 July 1940

Date: 1866-1870

From: Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922 : Letter books

Reference: MS-2021

Description: Letters re surveys of Patea and the Chatham Islands, letter to C Rolleston and list of books Arrangement: MS-2020-2022 are boxed together Quantity: 1 volume(s) (In tie case). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1866

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/4/4-Acc.38870

Description: Identifies in colour goldfields in the West Coast Region 1886 Base map - Department of Lands and Survey 1937 Quantity: 1 map(s) with ms annotations. Physical Description: Ink and colour on cream paper. Scale [ca. 1:1 000 000] 74 x 90 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1866

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902; Laing, Elizabeth, [1862?]-1950

Reference: A-102-033

Description: Shows tents and horses beside the river. The artist's wife Caroline can be seen amongst the travellers seated around their camp fire to the left Other Titles - Taramakau River Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 177 x 254 mm Provenance: Mrs E Laing, England, 18 July 1940

Date: 1866-1880

By: Maunder, Nicholas Thomas, 1848-1929

Reference: Micro-MS-0367

Description: Account of voyage out to New Zealand in the ship `England', 1866. Maunder settled in the Waikato, and in 1869 returned to England to bring out his family. He came out again by the ship `City of Auckland'. The diary continues with an account of their first months in the Waikato up to September 1871. Then there are brief entries, `Memoranda of farm operations' from 1875-1880. Some of his land was situated near Ohaupo Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 240 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: 1866-1868

By: Espie family

Reference: qMS-0687

Description: Four letters mainly about family matters, and the state of unrest in Poverty Bay. There is a letter from Emma Espie to Miss Williams, 23 Mar 1866; one from Emma (now Walsh) to her brother Edward Espie, 6 Oct 1868; another, undated, from Emma to Edward; and a fourth from William Leonard Williams to Mary Jane (Espie?) enclosing a lock of `poor Emma's hair', 26 Nov 1868. Emma Walsh, her husband, and baby were killed by Te Kooti's followers on the night of 9 and 10 Nov 1868 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (4 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (33 cm; blue pam case)

Date: 1842-1866, n d

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-207

Description: Comprises a whakapapa of Warea area people, April 1862, in Maori (10 pages); a 19-page text of 43 waiata, dated 4 Feb 1866 (by Ropata Ngarongomate?); a further transcription of 50 waiata in Maori hand, possibly from Taranaki area; a 7-page account in Maori of the stories of Kae and Maui; an account of the activities of Wiremu Kingi Matakatea; and a document titled 'Maori house' which lists names of the figures depicted in the pou of 'Te Hau ki Tūranga', a whare built by the Ngāti Kaipoho tribe "to the memory of Tamata Waaka Tuangere [Tamati Waaka Mangere], the elder brother of Raharuhi Rukupo who designed it". This whare was built in Turanga (Gisborne) in 1842-1843. In addition to the above Maori writing the folder contains a large empty envelope with a pasted on note in Smith's hand listing previous contents, some of which are now to be found in other folders; a Taranaki whakapapa with a note by Smith saying it was given to him by Mr Jackson, Native interpreter at New Plymouth, Jun 1910; a drawing of a sailing canoe and miscellaneous photographs and other documents. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescript

Date: 1865-1866

From: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Auckland Diocese : Waikato marriage and baptism registers

Reference: MS-Papers-4072-10

Description: Includes 65th and 40th Regiments, 2nd and 3rd Waikato Militia, some civilians - Hamilton and Te Awamutu