Methodist Church - Missions - New Zealand - Waikato Region

Date: 1836

By: Wing, Thomas, 1810-1888

Reference: MapColl-832.14aj/1836/Acc.821

Description: Hydrographic map showing safe entry and the track of the ship 'Fanny' into the Whaingaroa (Raglan) Harbour, with soundings. Depicts north and south head, heavy breakers, woody head, native village (Maori pa) and the Wesleyan Mission Station (where M[r] Wallie is stationed). Under title of map, reads 'Sketch drawn by Captain Thomas Wing, January, 1836'. The right hand top corner of the sketch includes handwritten information by Wing about the voyage into the harbour. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 30 x 36 cm.

Date: 1830-1859

By: Woon, William (Rev), 1803-1858

Reference: qMS-2292-2293

Description: Deals mainly with the years 1830-1853 when Woon was a Wesleyan missionary in Tonga, in the Hokianga area, at Kawhia, Manukau and Heretoa. The journal which concludes with entries by Woon's wife Jane, is especially concerned with Woon's missionary work, domestic matters, his translation of the scriptures into Tongan and Maori, and with their printing. Included are transcripts of some letters sent to the Wesleyan Missionary Society, and reports received on Heke's war Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.06 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (33 cm; brown buckram, marbled boards, brown calf)

Date: 1836

By: Wing, Thomas, 1810-1888

Reference: MapColl-832.17aj/1836/Acc.1465

Description: Hydrographic map depicting Kawhia Harbour, soundings, high and low water marks recorded by the schooner 'Fanny' in January 1836. Text on the map provides landmarks and information for safe travel through the harbour. Two Wesleyan Mission stations and the river 'Wai Heragigi' are depicted. Inscriptions: Signed 'January 1836, ? T W.' Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, linen backed, front covered with gauze, scale indeterminable, 40 x 36 cm.

Date: 1836

By: Wing, Thomas, 1810-1888; Great Britain. Hydrographic Office; Wright, John, -1860

Reference: MapColl-832.17aj/1836/Acc.842

Description: Hydrographic map depicting Kawhia Harbour, soundings and the trek of the schooner 'Fanny' 12th January 1836. Text on the map provides information for safe travel through the harbour. The Wesleyan Mission Station, Maori villages (pa sites) and landmark references are depicted. New Zealand folio L2390. Written on map: 'This sketch is partly copied from one taken by Capt. Wright and since that several useful remarks with soundings have been added by Thos. [Thomas] Wing, Master of the schooner 'Fanny' of the Bay of Islands N.Z." Written on map: "Copied from a rough tracing belonging to Mr Wyld, May 12, 1841. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - 'Hydrog: Office 13 May '41' Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 61 x 45 cm.

Date: 13 Jun-ca 29 Dec 1840 (1840)

By: Buddle, Thomas (Rev), 1812-1883

Reference: MS-0343

Description: Describes his work for the Methodist Mission at Waipa. Written in different hands Quantity: 1 volume(s) (81 pages). Physical Description: Ms (18 cm; black linen)

Date: 1855

By: Smales, John Bumby, 1841-1869

Reference: MapColl-832.14gbbd/[ca.1855]/Acc.23678

Description: Plan of Wesleyan Mission Station showing church, missionary house, cottage, store, kitchen building, large garden, lands, boathouse, the road to the church, stream, swamp, ditches, banks, fences, post and rail fence between station and the harbour. Reference to fences is colour-coded indicating ditches, banks, sticks, and post and rail. Established by Reverend Gideon Smales in 1844 and originally called Beechamdale. See: 'Some notes on the Wesleyan mission at Aotea' by C.G. Hunt, [1965] Signed JBS. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, scale [ca.1:2 000], 39 x 30 cm on sheet 57 x 45 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS Papers 1018.

Date: 4 Feb 1835

By: White, William, 1794-1875

Reference: MS-Papers-0465

Description: Letter to Rev John Beecham, London, attesting to obstruction & jealousy against his Wesleyan missionary endeavours by the Church Missionary Society. Also asking for a small ship to aid expansion of the mission to the Waikato Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1832-1849

By: Woolfe, A John, active 1990s

Reference: MS-Papers-8707

Description: Five letters collected as examples of early New Zealand postal history. They comprise: Letter to Richard Kemp, Wymondham, Norfolk, from his son Rev James Kemp, written from Kerikeri,4 November 1832; letter to his father sent via Wesleyan Mission House, London, from Rev John Whiteley, written from Waiharakeke, Waikato, 4 October 1835; Duplicate copy of the minutes of the annual meeting of the preachers of the New Zealand District held in the mission house at Mangungu, 12 Oct 1837. Present were Revs Turner, Whitely, Wallis and Woon. The minutes were posted to the Secretary of the Wesleyan Missionaru Society, London; letter to Rev John Frederick Lloyd, Wellington from Bishop Selwyn, St John's College, Auckland, 16 November 1849 and letter to David Kennedy, New York from James Busby, Bay of Islands, 17 September 1852 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Originally collected by John Woolfe as part of a postal history collection. Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Spink, London

Date: 1863

By: Cochran, John, active 1821-1869

Reference: A-039-016

Description: Seated half-length portrait of Rev Thomas Buddle, an eye glass around his neck and his hand on a Bible. The portrait bears his signature as part of the title Buddle was a Wesleyan missionary on the Waipa River, Waikato, in the 1840s Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 125 x 115 mm

Date: 1840 - 1860

By: Bannister, J, active 1850s

Reference: A-015-025

Description: A church and mission station on the north side of the Waingaro (Raglan) Harbour, Waikato. Te Horea, the first mission station of James and Mary Ann Wallis is shown. There are Maori and Pakeha walking up the path to the church, others standing on the bank of the river and two canoes emptying their passengers, with three more drawing up. The library holds a similar view at B-088-014. Derived with considerable alteration from Baxter print in: The Wesleyan juvenile offering. London, 1846. Frontispiece. (B-088-014) Ellis [Early prints of New Zealand] no. 1778 Other Titles - Whaingaroa Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Col. lithograph 97 x 160 mm

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-005

Description: A European house behind a long wooden fence, with other buildings beyond it, including a large whare to the right. A bell is at the top of a tall post in the middle distance. Mount Kakapuka is identified in the background. The stumps of two trees and fallen trunks are in the foreground Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Other Titles - Kakepuku Sketched near Te Kopua on Ashworth's trip up the Waikato and Waipa Rivers, December 1843 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink 100 x 205 mm

Date: 1846

By: Wallis, James (Rev), 1809-1895; Baxter, George, 1804-1867; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: B-088-014

Description: A church and mission station on the north side of the Waingaroa (Raglan) Harbour, Waikato. The mission station and church established by the Rev. James Wallis at Nihinihi is shown. There are Maori and Pakeha walking up the path to the church, others standing on the bank of the river and two canoes emptying their passengers, with three more drawing up. Based on an original ink and watercolour by Rev. James Wallis, 1809-1896, showing the Wesleyan settlement at Te Horea (on the north side of Raglan Harbour), ca 1836. Original held in Methodist Missionary Society, London. The Library holds a photograph of the original, negative 22548 1/2. cf. A-015-025, a chomolithograph by an unknown artist derived from this print, but altered in a number of details, most noticeably in the configuration of the canoes. Note that the Ellis number for the Baxter print (Ellis 168), while correctly describing the Baxter print, is illustrated on the opposite page with the later chromolithograph. (E. M. & D. G. Ellis. Early Prints of New Zealand (Christchurch, 1978), p. 64 & 65. Other Titles - Waingaro George Baxter Extended Title - From: Wesleyan Juvenile Offering; a miscellany. London, Vol. 3, 1846, frontispiece. Rev. James Wallis occupied two different mission stations on the shores of Raglan Harbour, the first, Te Horea near the northern mouth of the harbour, the later, from 1838-1862, at Nihinihi, somewhat inland and south of the harbour. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Baxter print 94 x 160 mm

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-006

Description: An extensive view from a high standpoint, looking down over Raglan Harbour. A tree fern, ferns and tree trunks with epiphytes in the foreground, and the church and mission station of Rev. James Wallis at Nihinihi in the distance, close to the water. Further hills in the background Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Other Titles - Whaingaroa Sketched on Ashworth's trip to the Waikato, December 1843 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink 167 x 238 mm