Brown Thomson & Company

Date: 1880 - 1889

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to the Church of England and Anglican congregations, parishes, churches and buildings in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-RELIGION-A-1880s

Description: Includes: ca 1880?: S Michael and All Angels. Parish entertainment on Thursday next. [Concert programme with Messrs Lean, Spensley, Button, McCardell, Cohen, Wood, Knox, Seager, Nottingham and R Parker, Rev E G Penny, Mr Appleby]. Single sheet yellow 1881: The form of prayer and ceremonies to be used at the Consecration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Auckland, New Zealand. 29 June 1881. William Atkin, Church printer, High Street, Auckland, 1881. 1881: The order of the Consecration of the Christchurch Cathedral, New Zealand on All Saints' Day, 1881. "Press" Office Christchurch. 1883: Ye Olde Englishe Fayre in aid of ye building funde of St Peter's Church, Te Aro, Wellington N.Z. Decr I to VIIIth, 1883. Printed by Bock & Cousins, disciples of ye goode masters Caxton & Senefelder [clipping, showing a beefeater, from a larger publication] 1884: Dedication of St Augustine's Church, Napier. The consecration service. 2 October 1884. printed at the "Daily Telegraph", Office, Tennyson-street, Napier. 1886: Diocese of Waiapu, NZ. The form and order of the laying the foundation stone of the Church of St John the Evangelist, Napier NZ, by the Right Rev Edward Craig Stuart, D.D. Lord Bishop of Waiapu. 29 September 1886. Napier, "Daily Telegraph" Office, Tennyson-street, 1886. 1886: The form and order of laying the foundation stone of the Church of S. Mary, Auckland, NZ. February 6, 1886. Wilsons & Horton, general printers, Queen & Wyndham Streets. (2 copies) 1888: Annual report of the Parish of St Paul's, Thorndon, year 1887-88. Wellington, Brown Thomson & Co., printers, 1888. 1888: Order for the consecration of the Cathedral Church of S John the Evangelist, Napier by the Right Reverend Edward Craig Stuart, D.D., Lord Bishop of Waiapu. 20 December 1888. Napier, Printed by Dinwiddie, Walker & Co Ltd, Tennyson-street, 1888. 1889: Clergy list to 30th June 1889. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm.

Date: 1880 - 1910

From: [Religious ephemera issued by Christian-based individuals or institutions, of non-specific denomination. 1800s to 1929]

By: Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor; Brown Thomson & Company

Reference: Eph-A-RELIGION-C-1900-01

Description: Card showing a pledge vowing trust in Jesus Christ, and duties as an active member of the society. There is some decorative block-type at the top. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Gilt letterpress on card, 165 x 107 mm.

Date: 1894

By: Kirkcaldie & Stains Ltd; Brown Thomson & Company

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1894-01

Description: Mail order catalogue listing women's and girls' jackets and hats, coloured dress materials, lace, hosiery, umbrellas, gloves, haberdashery, manchester, flannels, household linen, furnishings, curtains, blinds and hollands, mattresses and bedding, floorcloths and rugs, linoleum and carpet, men's and boys' clothing. There are a few illustrations of the men's, women's and girls' clothing. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 60 pages, each 200 x 134 mm. Provenance: Purchased at New Zealand Book Auctions, 22 February 2009

By: Brown Thomson & Company

Reference: MapColl-832.4796gbbd/[n.d.]/Acc.37856

Description: Drawn on a base map, the annotations show owner's names, as a result of sale of sections 1-71, in Hutt main road, Regent Street, Victoria Street, Fitzherbert Street and Sydney Street, Petone. Names include Wilson, Fraser, Pointon, Elaine, H Cook, Ward, Parrant, Jones, Morrison, Walsh, Alexander, W Adams, Ralph, Lash, Mildenhall, Cook, D Jones, Lash. Written on the map is 'Deeds plan no. 205'. Base map: 'For sale. 71 choice building allotments, in the best part of the rising township of Petone......', lithographed by Brown, Thomson & Co, Wellington, [n.d.]. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Pencil on lithograph, heat set tissue backing, scale indeterminable, 36.5 x 62 cm.

Date: 1896 - 1899

By: Rayner, Frederick Richard, active 1893-1908; Brown Thomson & Company

Reference: Eph-C-ADVERTISING-1896-01

Description: A four page large-format pamphlet, showing a photograph of "the Sketcher" Fred Rayner, and featuring his 49 numbered caricatures whose identity the reader is asked to guess. The reader can also judge the advertisements and give a list of six that are "the most original and taking". Prizes were to be announced in the "New Zealand times" of 1 July. Advertisements appear for the following firms: Nelson Moate & Co., Sanmora worm powders, W & J Staples "Kangarette" leather (kangaroo skin), J Anderson & Co's Coffee Pepper & Spice Works, H & J Baillie agents, F J Pinny (pianos and organs), James Smith & Co for the "Trilby" toque, Hill Bros, William Campbell's Oriental Tea Mart, New Zealand Candle Company, Empire Tea Company, Woods Great Peppermint Cure, Wertheim Depot at grace Clarke & Co., T J Thompson (ironmonger), R & E Tingey, G Webb, E Rudge, Pringle's (fancy novelties), Jenkinson & Co (cycles), St George Jam, D Anderson & Co (grocers), J F Sutherland (Thorndon Pharmacy), Kempthorne Prosser, S E Wright (bicycles), James Godber (caterer), Wm C Fitzgerald (chemist), McGregor Wright & Co (picture framers), Turner & Co (chemists), Shine Tailoring, T G Wickens & Co (cabinet finishing), Veitch & Allan (clothing). Dated from a testimonial from William Liddey, bootmaker of Tory Street,inn appreciation of chocolate worm tablets sold from Wm C Fitzgerald Chemist (Willis Street), dated 6 April 1896. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on four sides of folded sheet, 430 x 340 mm (folded) Provenance: Donated by Mrs Marjorie Connell, Wellington, in 1988. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1479 - Other material from the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-1479, D&P A-058/065 and E-775/784; and PAColl-8805..

Date: [1880-1889]

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: 73-128-214

Description: Correspondence, notes, draft legal agreements, receipts and other papers; includes draft agreement for Field to be an articled clerk; draft deeds; letter, Field to Harry; telegram re Rihari being in the Sounds, not Picton, from W J O'Donnell; receipt, E V Briscoe; receipt from [?] W S Robinson, Foxton Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1895

By: Nairn, James McLachlan, 1859-1904; Brown Thomson & Company; Letham, Howard, active 1895; Porter, John Newton, 1933-

Reference: Eph-D-DRAMA-1895-01

Description: A poster advertising a play at the Opera House, Wellington. Shows an illustration of a bespectacled woman. The woman has been identified as Miss Jessie Whitelaw Newton. The Evening post for 2 July 1895 gives a notice of the production by Wellington Dramatic Students, in aid of the Wellington Benevolent Institution, of A W Pinero's "The schoolmistress". The cast included: Morris Fox, H E Nicholls, Mr Alex W Newton, H Letham, W Simm, W P Bastin, R Hall, Miss Watson, Miss Jessie Newton, Miss Mabel Hill, Miss A K Parsons, Miss Q Letham, and an orchestra conducted by MacDuff Boyd. Miss Jessie Whitelaw Newton played the part of Miss Dyott, principal of Volumnia College, and her sister Nellie (Ellen) Newton played the part of Miss Margaret Hesslerigge who is striving to be a governess. A newspaper review dated 3 July 1895 from a "morning paper" has a review of the various performances in the play (See letter from Hon. Katherine O'Regan, file S.AR.002.001.014-v01, 16 January 2006). Howard Letham was the brother of Queenie Letham who later married John Napier Newton. MacDuff Boyd married another Newton sister, Jane (Jeannie). (Information from Hon Katherine O'Regan, a granddaughter of John Napier Newton, file S.AR.002.001.014-v01, 16 January 2006). Other Titles - Schoolmistress Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - This is a sketch of Jessie as the Schoolmistress. I am writing this weak [sic] sometime / Howard Letham / Sunday 14 July /95. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 710 x 290 mm.

Date: 1894

By: Brown Thomson & Company

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-CONCERT-1894-01

Description: Programme list of 20 items including songs, poi, and other dances, often accompanied by cornet and clarionette. Named performers are: Ngahina, Heka, Potango, Kingi, Koti, Pineaha. Items include a Grand War Dance (as performed by Major Kemp's followers before fighting against Te Kooti). See a review of a concert that is probably this one, "A bit of Maoridom", in the Evening Post, 5 December 1894, Page 2. Brown Thomson & Co was a Wellington printer; it is assumed the event was held in Wellington. The review says: "Had many of the public any idea of the interesting bit of Maoridom which has been brought to their doors, there should have been a very much larger attendance than there was at the Theatre Royal last night. For the Wanganui Maori Novelty Company presented a most entertaining programme, and one which was so highly appreciated that nearly every item had to be repeated. And it was an entertainment to which no possible exception could be taken on the grounds of propriety. The ancient Maori dances were wonderfully inspiriting and remarkably interesting, and anyone who has felt tbe ground shake around him under the thunderous beat of hundreds of dancing foot will never lose an opportunity of seeing such a sight once more. The troupe which appeared last evening consists of 24 performers, and the entertainment they gave was one well worth going to see. There were, as might be expected in these degenerate days, many variations from the old dances, but the Maori dancing-master was always an inventor and an adaptor, developing new movements and new combinations; and so it was not surprising to find one of the girls' dances a combination of European waltz step with Maori posing. Of others this could not be said, and we had excellent exhibits of the rhythmic "poi" play, now by one performer (Pineaha), now by the girls, again by the men, and yet again by the whole company. There were various descriptive haka, one very good one being a canoe song and dance. There was a clever imitation of the song of an ancient and decrepit warrior whose martial blood finally rises till he utters defiant challenge, and engages in a battle with an adversary in quite pre-pakeha style. This last item was interpreted by Kingi and Potanga, with great spirit. Potanga, too, was an efficient leader in nearly all the dances. Then there were waiata, there was the very fine song and ceremony of the presentation of food and the welcome to those to whom hospitality is to be tendered, there were performances on the cornet and clarionet by Ngahina and Heka, and as a grand finale a reproduction of the war dance of Major Kemp's Whanganuis before fighting Te Kooti. The performers were clad in white, the men in white singlets and knickerbockers and black stockings, and the girls in white with variously-coloured stockings and boots. The effect would be greatly enhanced by the adoption of Maori costume in lieu of European; while on the other hand the custom of smudging the face which the old warriors used to make them appear more terrible, was not artistically done, and might be abandoned. Another performance is to be given this evening". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress 220 x 142 mm.