New Zealand. Army. North Canterbury Mounted Rifles

Date: 1889-1909

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

By: Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-q-1137

Description: News and personal photographs, taken and collected by J L Wilson, featuring North Canterbury 1889-1909, with an emphasis on 1901-1903. Series include: Wilson family portraits of Joseph Lowthian, his wife, son Leonard, daughter Estelle, and mother-in-law Mrs Emma Matthews; various views of Highfield Annan settlement land (including Wandle Valley, farmland) with land ballot at Waiau and Canterbury Land Board meeting relating to settlement; Maori performance group (kapa haka) and various unidentified portraits and group images; opening of the Kaiapoi Swimming Baths with Mayor J Daly and Premiere Richard Seddon; re-opening of Ashley Gorge bridge (between Glentui and Oxford); inspection of North Canterbury Volunteer Mounted Rifles by Colonel Porter [Woodend?], with officers including Captain R W Chaffey and Lieutenant Horne; flooding in Rangiora and Waverley; views of Hamner Springs; Kaiapoi railway station buildings (built 1872 and 1904 respectively) and trains, with J Ward opening new station; massed school display at Lancaster Park, with cadet competition and girls' drill; and Governor Lord Plunket (and Lady Plunket) visiting Kaiapoi and Tuahiwi. Events include general election at Tuahiwi schoolhouse, fire at Hobday's Drapery (Christchurch), Lady Stewart and A W Rutherford opening track at Conical Hill (Hamner), reception for General Booth at Cathedral Square (Christchurch), Amuri sheep sale (Culverden), Amberley South African War Troopers Memorial unveiling (with Sergeant Turner), J Ward laying foundation of Kaiapoi Post Office, Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Show, sheep sale at Rangiora, Mrs Harrison Lee addressing temperance rally at Junction Hotel (Rangiora), and Rangiora New Year's Day sports meeting with crosscut sawing event. Named figures include Charles Luger of West Oxford (with goat), Mr Thomas Leech of Brooklands (with woodcarvings), and G H Blackwell. Group photographs include Brown and Alexander wedding at Riverside, Mr Smith's family of nineteen (Oxford), Claire Parham's wedding party, Kaiapoi Men's Hockey Team in fancy dress (cross-dressing), and Leithead and Blackwell family members at Main Drain. Buildings include Jollie's Pass Hotel (Hamner Springs), R Evans' flour mill (Ohoka), Kaiapoi Borough School, John Sims residence (Kaiapoi), Tuahiwi Town Hall, Waverley Railway Station, Hamner Post Office, Hamner Plains Sanatorium, Blencowe Grammar School (Cumberland, England, 1859), Marston (Kaiapoi), and Cheviot Post Office. Interior of Wanganui Museum (featuring [whale?] skeleton) and Christchurch Cathedral. Miscellaneous images include various coach scenes, Paterson's Creek rail bridge (Otorama), sheep dipping in the high country, first grave and early working-man's cottage (Rangiora), scenic images of farmland and mountains in Canterbury Region, sheep at R W Chapman's estate (Lowland Leas), trees planted by J L Wilson and Inspector Buckley at post office site, cliffs at Summerhill, Waimakariri Water Supply (Brown Rock intake), shingle being carted to Main Drain (Skew Bridge, Flaxton), triumphant arc on Kaiapoi Bridge (coronation of Edward VII), Hereford Street (Christchurch), swans gifted to Kaiapoi Domain by Glenmark Station, R Evans' wheat crop at Clifton (Waikari), Waimakariri Gorge railway and dray bridge, entrance to Riccarton Racecourse, crowd in Runanga Hall courtyard (Tuahiwi), HMS 'Powerful' and HMS 'Challenger' docked at Lyttelton, and riverside camping and the bluff at Cheviot. Collected images by named photographers include Maori portraits and objects by Charles Spencer. Album includes cyanotype of Richard Seddon and a group of unidentified men. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1863-1921

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-1138

Description: News and personal photographs, taken and collected by J L Wilson, featuring North Canterbury 1863-1921, with the majority dated 1908-1919. Also includes coverage of South Africa's Eastern Cape and England. Series include: Wilson family portraits, with Joseph Lowthian, his wife, son Leonard, daughter Estelle, mother-in-law Emma Matthews, and brother Thomas. Estelle's children also feature, with some images taken in their adopted home in South Africa. Also Wilson family dogs Bruce and Nigger appear in a number of images. Street scenes and buildings in Kaiapoi are emphasised, with many taken following the July 1918 and 2 September snow storms. A number also depict World War One peace celebrations (including Kaiapoi 'tank' and parade). Interior and exterior images of Kaiapoi Woollen Mills and buildings in Hamner Springs (including Jollie's Hotel, Hamner Hall, Post Office, churches, and Public School) also feature. Events include funeral procession of trooper Nicholson (Kaiapoi) who was killed in the South African War, parade with decorated traction engine (Rangiora), celebration of coronation of Edward VII (Oxford), an unidentified shipwreck, street scene of 1908 Christchurch fire, the relocation of St Paul's Presbyterian Church (Kaiapoi), crowd at collie dog trials (Waikari), delivery of Anderson's boiler to Woollen Mills factory, railway accident at Chaimey's corner and funeral of R J Alexander, Armistice Day celebrations (Rangiora), Lord Ranfurly's visit to Kaiapoi Woollen Mills, Ashley water supply project luncheon, and the relocation of assembly rooms building. Named figures include J Lang, J Perrin, and J M McGarvy; Mrs W A Parham with her flock of turkeys; J R Leithead; Chief Dinizulu (postcard from Estelle Wilson, annotated); portraits of soldiers Ralph and Leslie Feldwick (both killed in action in Dardanelles) and soldier C J Brighing; Reverend Wynter Blathwayt, Maaka Hape, and T Hape of St Stephen's Maori Church, J Murray and his three boys in Highland dress; cyanotype of Edward Devine, Miss Alice Bennett and her nieces; Mr Jeffrey; and S Johnston (Kaiapoi Postmaster). Group photographs depict [1st Wellington Battalion?] in France, the officers of the 1st Battalion of the Canterbury Rifles on Queen Victoria's 1887 jubilee, group (mainly Maori) at the Kaiapoi Bridge (1869 visit of the Duke of Edinburgh), Woodend Volunteer Rifles, unidentified Maori group outside Runanga Hall (Tuahiwi), and territorial soldiers in 1913 (Rangiora). Premiere Richard Seddon [last photograph before death?] with group at Newport Railway Workshops (Melbourne), soldiers at Trentham Military Camp (1918), Sir Apirana Ngata and the Mahaanui Maori Council, wedding party photographs from the Leech and Parsons wedding, old scholars of Kaiapoi Church School, North Canterbury Ploughing Match organisers (figures named), Kaiapoi Woollen Mills directors (1879), Captain Chaffey and Lieutenants Douglas and Grey of the Amuri Mounted Rifles, Parham family, and the Matthews family outside school house at Kaiapoi Church Day School. Buildings include Bruce Hotel (Akaroa), Hydro Grand Hotel (Timaru), Kaiapoi Parish Church, Wellington Post Office, Bank of New Zealand (Kaiapoi), Beauthorne, W J Robinson's stables and manager's house (Cheviot), Christ's College (Christchurch), South British Insurance (also Press Office, Kaiapoi), S Baldwin's home (Canada), Buckeye Hotel (with Cob and Co coach outside), Marston (Kaiapoi), J Sim's sawmill and store, Kaiapoi Parish Church, Glenmark Station homestead, Church of the Holy Innocents (Amberley), Woollen Mills Cashel Street, Maori pa formerly at site of Woollen Mills (painting), Malcolm Ross Cottage, and Glen Hoon (Hamner). Miscellaneous images include a volunteer camp in Oamaru (Easter, 1886), Akaroa monument to Captain Stanley, Dunedin (from Roslyn Hill), the construction of the Kaiapoi dredge, Rangiora War Memorial, Tikitere (Rotorua), Ashburton Domain, Wellington (from Te Aro Hill), Challenge Shield trophy (of the 1st Battalion, Canterbury Rifle Volunteers), Volunteer Rifle target practice on Kaiapoi beach, Cam bridge (with unidentified family group), the ferry 'Windermere' with Coniston Lake coach on board, Gore Bay and other images from Cheviot area, Reece Valley, Shetland pony Wee Davie, Kingston-Invercargill coach (cyanotype of photo taken by American Astronomical Mission), Purau farm panorama (site for 1893 volunteer military camp), fancy dress, the ketch 'Jannet', Lyttelton Harbour, the steamer 'Kairaki', farmland at Highfield (Waiau), Amuri, Dogs Creek intake, Otira Gorge, various Blue Mountain scenes (New South Wales), Conical Hill (Hamner), Rogerson Valley, D Rutherford Bridge and upper bridge cutting (Waiau River), an original pen drawn caricature, a copy of a painting of a coach by E M Lovell-Smith, and a number of river, garden, and street scenes. Various images (some postcards) from South Africa include three men in front of a cave, St Andrew's College and St Aiden's College (Grahamstown), Prince Alfred's Guards Memorial and Port Elizabeth, Hellgate, and the road to Walmer. Also images (many postcards) of England, including Penrith, Keswick, Braithwaite, Torquay, Boscobel House and Royal Oak (Shropshire), Cumberland Church, and Christchurch Gate (Canterbury). Collected photographs include many Burton Brothers' images of various New Zealand scenes (mainly scenic, including Wanganui River, Waitakere area, Manawatu Gorge, and Lake Manapouri) and work by other unidentified photographers. Album includes cyanotypes, copies of daguerreotypes, postcards, hand coloured images as well as original and reproduced artworks. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album Provenance: Purchase, 2011. The album was purchased from Mr Robin Rapley of Christchurch.

Date: 1859-1907

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-1136

Description: News and personal photographs, taken and collected by J L Wilson, featuring North Canterbury 1859-1907, predominantly dated 1900-1902. Series include: Akaroa (1876); 1901 Royal Tour of Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, with events including review of volunteer rifles (Christchurch) and parade in Auckland; South African War departures, transport ships (including 'Tongariro'), and return celebrations (Dunedin, Lyttelton, and Christchurch), as well as training and volunteer camps (Woodend, Redcastle, and Newtown), peace announcement, and various related events and images; Birch Hill bush, logging, sawmill and bullock teams; flood damage to Ashley rail bridge; and potatoes being sent to South Africa. Events include opening of Lyttelton dock, jubilee celebration for deaf and dumb community, Amuri cattle sale at Culverden (with Captain R A Chaffey and Lieutenant Wynaham-Grey), wedding breakfast at Ashley, funeral in Rangiora [Mr A Foreman?], Lyttelton Regatta, Kaiapoi boat race, Grand National Steeplechase and races at Riccarton Racecourse, public school displays at Lancaster Park, wreck of the SS 'Taupo' at Greymouth (also 'Hesketh' run aground), crowd in Cathedral Square for Bishop Wilson's wedding, bazaar in Nelson, religious gathering in tent (Christchurch Showgrounds), Premiere Richard Seddon's visit to Kaiapoi, Rangiora sheep sale, J G Ward visit to Kaiapoi [Kaiapoihia monument?], Imperial Troops marching through Christchurch, Waikari sheepdog trials (judge W Rutherford), Rangiora Agricultural and Pastoral Show, washout at Cam flour mill (Leech Brothers), Governor Ranfurly at A & P Show, opening of Canterbury Hall by Ranfurly and Seddon, dispersal sale of R W Chapman's sheep, Mayor J Daly turning over first sod of Coronation Baths (Kaiapoi), unveiling of Queen Victoria Jubilee memorial, and Victoria Jubilee celebrations (Auckland). Identified figures include Reverend Garbett and Dr J E Weld, H Marton and Mark Scott, A S Clarkson (in South Africa), Rev Canon James Wilson, W Stapleforth (with dog), Colonel Stuart Newall, Miss Ethel Bell, Richard Seddon, E G Wakefield (bust), Pohipi and his wife, and Mr G Leech. Group photographs include: R J Alexander and [M J] Lynskey and Kaiapoi Borough School Cadets; Christchurch Hockey Club men's team; staff of A Moore coach builders, including H Land, J Jeffrey, A Moore, and W Baker; Kaiapoi Hinemoa Hockey Club (and instructor Mr Kinvig); Mrs W R May and troupe of entertainers from Richmond, Nelson; Amberley Caledonian Society; wedding of A Pearce and Miss Zuppicich; Colonel H Gordon and North Canterbury Volunteer Rifle group (including nurses), also Lieutenant A Horne with volunteers, and Lieutenant E B Millton, Captain H Lance, and Lieutenant Johnson of Cust Mounted Rifles; telegraph staff at Bloemfontein; Rev Wynter Blathwayt and St Stephen's Maori Church Choir; Rev H H Mathias and Kaiapoi Church Sunday School teachers and church choir members (including Estelle Wilson); Mrs J G Blackwell (chaperone) and campers on Sumner trip; Archdeacon B Dudley, Fanny Dudley, and Mrs Dudley at Earnley (Rangiora); Kaiapoi football [rugby] team; Dr H C Parsons and family; staff at Kaiapoi Woollen Mills; crew of the ship 'Discovery' (Tuahiwi visit); Rangiora Oddfellows; Mahaanui Maori Council; Rev Nicholls wedding (Ravenstone); and Wesleyan Church Conference. Also soldiers Rule, Moody, and Sanson (departing for South Africa). Buildings include Canterbury Provincial Chambers, Kaiapoi Woollen Mills, Kaiapoi Methodist Church, East Oxford Church, Johnsons Building (Rangiora), Press agency (Kaiapoi), Red Lion Hotel (Oxford), Masonic Lodge (Rangiora), Lyttelton Times and Warner's Commercial Hotel (Christchurch), Building and Land Society (Christchurch), Moore's Beehive store, round house with turf roof and punga trunk walls (Water of Leith, Dunedin), Rangiora Post Office, ruins of early Rangiora house, Kaiapoi Borough School, H Martin's house (site of murder) and St Thomas's Church (East Eyreton), Boys High School (Christchurch), Mrs Lamhert's house (Jack's Pass), Canterbury Museum, Bank of New South Wales and church (Amberley), Waiau ferry [terminal?], creamery (Woodend), A S Clarkson's office and Presbyterian church (Rangiora), Wilson residence Marston (Kaiapoi), Kaiapoi Railway Station, and Colonial Bank of New Zealand (Rangiora). Interior of Kaiapoi church (featuring decorated font) and Wellington Public Library. Also garden at Beauthorne. Miscellaneous images include Maori scenes [ca 1860s], motorised quadricycle, Purau Bay, unidentified sports team [rugby?], J Pearson's wool being carted and shearing at Burnt Hill, High Street (Rangiora), ambulance tent for mounted rifles (Tuahiwi), boats moored at Lyttelton, hot springs at Hamner, Boyd and Kier contractors, trappe bridge (Kaiapoi), brass band outside Mrs Moorhouse's dining rooms, Manchester Street and Hagley Park (Christchurch), Napier, Thames, Ashley Bridge protective works, race at sports day, and unidentified men on railway jigger. Illustrations include various scenes of early Kaiapoi, Queen Victoria portrait, and soldier [South African War?] by R Caton of Woodville. Named photographers of collected images are Burton Brothers and [Deale?]. A small number of photographs in album are hand coloured. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1863-1918

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-1131

Description: Personal and news photographs taken and collected by J L Wilson featuring North Canterbury 1863-1918, predominantly dated 1905 to 1918. Series include: miscellaneous Wilson family photographs, including group and individual portraits (Estelle and family, Joseph Lowthian and wife, and more), Christmas at T R Leithead's home Lindean in 1917, [holidays?], croquet games, river (boating), beach, and garden scenes [Beauthorne?], pets including dogs Bruce and Nigger, Marjorie's canaries, and cat Billy Buster; and numerous street scenes of Rangiora and Kaiapoi with many taken during July 1918 snowstorm. Images of news and events cover the traffic bridge at Kaiapoi being re-decked and damage after a flood, flooding at Waverley (railway line), sheep shearing competition and equestrian parade at the Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Show, Mr Donald of Rangiora show jumping on horse, North Canterbury plowing match at Cunningham Farm (Rangiora), opening of Stoke traffic bridge by William Hall-Jones, Governor Plunkett's visit to Kaiapoi (including Mayor A Pierce), roasting bullock at Queen Victoria Jubilee, and Coronation procession. Named figures include J L Wilson and his grandson Lionel, Manahi, G S Porter, Johnny McLay Captain H Oram (with golfing trophy) and Major B S Jordan (in Cairo with horse presented by Northern A & P Association). Group photographs include G H Oram and family, reunion of shipmates from 'Chariot of Fame', Cass Volunteer Rifles, Captain Horne and North Canterbury Mounted Rifles, Oxford Resident's Committee, Waimate Ploughing Match Committee, Ashley Road Board, Turnbull family at Timaru, Christchurch Ladies' Hockey Club, Northern A & P officers, Oxford Sports Committee, Superintendant J Higgins and the Kaiapoi Fire Brigade, 47th Reinforcements non-commissioned officers (Trentham), Mr C Trelaven and family, and Kaiapoi [influenza relief?] Committee. Buildings include J C Porter's residence, G H Moore's mansion Glenmark, Trinity Presbyterian Church, Hamner Hall (W H Milliken & Co general store and tearooms, library, hairdresser, tobacconist and billiard hall), Kaiapoi golf pavillion, J Ingram's house (Oxford), Bramton Town Hall, John Barlow's house, Wilson's residence Marston (Kaiapoi), Marston Church (Oxfordshire), Dunedin Railway Station, Lincon Agricultural College, Kaiapoi Press Agency (J L Wilson's office), T R Leithead's home Lindean (Stonehurst), Woollen Mills (Kaiapoi), Sanson's shop and Red Lion Hotel (Rangiora), St Stephen's (Tuahiwi) and Christ's College and chapel (Christchurch). Miscellaneous images include unidentified Maori portraits, coach outside Culverdon Hotel, Ashburton Domain, flax at C Leech's Cam Mill and growing on farm, M J Dixon's scrub cutting machine, Tuahiwi scene, land clearance and timber milling at Kaiapoi Domain, sheep shearing at Glentui Station (including woolshed), horse and cart at Waikari, Dunedin in 1918 (street scenes, SS 'Marama' hospital ship at Port Chalmers), street scene after a fire, steamer on Kaiapoi River, Cure Club landing, Ashley roading development panorama, Corsair Bay (Lyttelton), and sailing on Akaroa harbour. Collected images, many colour photomechanical postcards including Kaiapoi (scenes, buildings, and landmarks), Hamner Springs (including Queen Mary's military hospital and The Lodge), Kaikoura, Timaru, Napier, South Africa (Capetown, Durban, Port Elizabeth), England, France, and Indonesia. Further miscellaneous postcards include one sent from Egypt by Major Gordon, the boat SS 'Maori' Queen's Statue (Ohinemuri), an Australian swag man, the Tarawera eruption, the arrest of King Dinizulu, and other images. Named photographers Burton Brothers and Wheeler and Son, with scenic images featuring Glen Dhu (Lake Wanaka), Toi Toi Valley (Nelson), Otira Gorge, and Bealey Road to West Coast, as well as Maori portraits. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album