Newspaper editor and politician. Came to NZ 1851, then to Australian goldfields. Returned 1860s to New Zealand; set up telegraph news agency. Was part owner of the Southland Times which he gave up to visit West Coast goldfields where he was made magistrate, sheriff, warden and Commissioner of Crown Lands 1867. In 1880 became owner of a paper in Blenheim and then editor of the Wanganui Chronicle. Was MHR (Member of House of Representatives) for Hokitika (1881) for one term. Became editor of the New Zealand Times (Wellington); resigned to take up editorship of the Timaru Herald. Husband of Jane Kennedy (1841-1886) who drowned in the `Taiaroa'. (Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Vol 1 / Scholefield)
Fitzgerald, Gerard George, 1834-1904
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Date: 1883
From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers
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Correspondence
Date: Mar 1883
From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers
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Date: Apr 1883
From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers
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Date: Feb 1883
From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers
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New Zealand correspondence - Inward
Date: 1873-1882
From: Rolleston family : Papers
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Correspondence
Date: Jul-Sep 1883
From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers
Reference: 82-355-04
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Date: 1883-1884
From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers
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Members of the House of Representatives, 1882
Date: 1882
From: S P Andrew Ltd :Portrait negatives
By: Clarke, William Henshaw, 1831-1910
Reference: 1/1-018643-F
Description: Photographic copy of a montage of photographic portraits depicting members of the 1882 House of Representatives. All portraits taken by William Henshaw Clarke of Wellington. Copy of montage made by S P Andrew Ltd. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative