Deep Creek

Date: 1866

By: Illustrated Sydney news (Newspaper); Calvert, Samuel, 1828-1913

Reference: A-343-028

Description: Shows a group of four men and a horse beset by four men with guns. The scene is a country road, with bush on the high bank at the right, and a small ravine at the left. There are telegraph poles and electric wires along the road. This is a depiction of the Maungatapu murders at "Murderers' Rock" on 12 June 1866, four Londoners (Richard Burgess, Thomas Kelly, Philip Levy, and Joseph Sullivan) waylaid and murdered a party of four prospectors (James Dudley, John Kempthorne, Felix Mathieu, and James de Pontius) en route from Canvastown to the West Coast goldfields. Deep Creek is 9 km from Canvastown. Contemporary illustrations by Theophilus Mabille (See ATL NZ&P Box 364.1523 MAB 1866) show that there were indeed telegraph poles and wires along the road. Illustrations of the scene were also made by Hodgson of Nelson (See ATL NZ&P Pam 1866 HOD). This image is not the same as either of those sources. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 166 x 227 mm.

Date: [1930-1934]

By: Bledisloe, Charles Bathurst, Viscount, 1867-1958

Reference: PA1-f-015

Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific taken 1930-1934 by Lord Bledisloe, comprising views of Government House (Wellington), Queen Charlotte Sound, Treaty House (Waitangi), Kawau Island, Whanganui River, Pipiriki,Jerusalem, Galatea, Ranana, Ruatahuna, Whakarewarewa, North Cape, Deep Creek (Nelson), Lake Waikaremoana, Mt Ngauruhoe, Lake Rotoroa (Nelson), Franz Joseph Glacier and environs, Rarotonga, Pago Pago, and Tongatapu. Also included are portraits of Mita Taupopoki, Honi Te Heu Heu, Guide Rangi, and Lord & Lady Bledisloe; a Cutty Sark seaplane of the New Zealand Permanent Air Force, the interior of a Ringatu meeting house at Ruatahuna, Maori groups, swordfish and trout fishing, and a scheelite mine at Deep Creek. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: The album was presented by Lord Bledisloe to the Duke of Gloucester in Christmas 1934, during his visit to New Zealand.

Date: 1864

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :South Island sketchbook 1864

Reference: E-174-066

Description: View looking down the Wakamarina River Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawing 128 x 173 mm.

Date: 1864

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :South Island sketchbook 1864

Reference: E-174-067

Description: View looking up the river towards a small hut on the bank Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawing 128 x 173 mm.

Date: 1864

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :South Island sketchbook 1864

Reference: E-174-068

Description: A bridge over a narrow river Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawing 128 x 173 mm.

Date: 1864 - 1880

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :Recollections of travel in New Zealand. London, Trubner, 1880.

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: PUBL-0085-261

Description: Two men panning for gold at the foot of the steep banks of Deep Creek in Marlborough. The tops of the banks are covered in bush. On the right side, a man is stirring a cauldron in front of a tent Extended Title - From Crawford, J. C. Recollections of travel in New Zealand. London, Trubner, 1880, p. 261 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 99 x 61 mm