Maehe, Wiremu, active 1846

Date: Date unknown

From: Parr, Christopher, 1931-: Collection of early New Zealand material

Reference: MS-Papers-12432-1-176

Description: He reta na Wiremu Maehe kia Neho ki Waitangi. Letter from Wiremu Maehe to William Colenso at Waitangi. Title supplied by Library. Physical Description: Manuscript letter, pencil on wove paper, 14.4 x 11.2 cm.

Date: 1844-[1860s?]

From: Colenso, William, 1811-1899 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0031-05 A

Description: Contains letters, written in te reo Māori, to Colenso with reports about baptisms, marriages, deaths, adultery and community conflicts; requests for books, medicines and other items; notes about the Northern theatre of the New Zealand Wars; confessions and information about the destruction of chapels and the erection of mills; discussion of land tenure and rentals, and complaints about rangatira selling land that they did not own; also contains letters farewelling Colenso from Waimate, Northland and expressing support for him in the wake of the revelations about his affair. Language - Letters in Maori Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1844-1847

From: Colenso, William, 1811-1899 : Journals and correspondence

Reference: 91-169-1/7

Description: Contains letters from Maori to Colenso about the activities and plans of Maori teachers, parishioners, and other Maori, the erection of chapels, requests for religious texts, land tenure and rentals; within this, there is a great deal of information about Maori society in Hawkes Bay and Wairarapa in the 1840s Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1844-1845, n d

Reference: qMS-1408-1413a

Description: Attendance rolls generally kept by native school teachers, though there is evidence of William Colenso's hand in some of them. Earliest register (1844) is for the school at Waimate, Northland; the remaining books relate to schools in the Wairarapa district. It is noteworthy that both Mohi Torohanga and Paratene Te Okawhare are listed as pupils at the schools; they are the source of the text scribed by Te Whatahoro and subsequently used by S P Smith in writing about Maori cosmology and origins (See JPS 103 no 2); other notable pupils include Te Horo and Paora Te Potangaroa who both established prophetic movements (see Elsmore, B 1989 Mana from Heaven) There is a note on one of the books in Elsdon Best's hand. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 7 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss (29 cm; brown paper wraps, in maroon linen tie case)

Date: 1849

From: Colenso, William, 1811-1899 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0031-39

Description: Contains letters from Maori to Colenso with information about the erection of chapels, shipwrecks and looting, news of a fire at Mataikona, news of illnesses, marriages and adultery, denials of adultery, news of floods, and requests for books and medicines Quantity: 1 folder(s) 19 pieces. Finding Aids: Inventory available.