Wade, John, 1814-1885

Date: 1849

From: New Zealand Founders' Society : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-0227-06

Description: Lease of town acre, 467 Wellington Terrace, and the premises known as `Wellington Breweries' there situated, to John Wade Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 piece). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1844-1846

From: Brandon, Ward, Macandrew & Co : Records

Reference: MSY-0537

Description: Entries pertaining to the following: Captain Daniell; C W Schultze; Robert Few; W McDougall of Inverness; Garrod's Estate; Richard Hughes (deceased); John Brander; James Jackson of Lowry Bay; John Wade; W S Loxley Esq; John Bryce; Israel/Hyam Joseph; F W Jerningham; R D Mangles; J M Taylor; Charles Clifford Esq; William Connell; Richard Eager; Major [Richard] Baker; T M Partridge; Hornbrook; George Baker Esq; Captain Joss. Also: W H Donald (Okiwi); Evans & Buckeridge; Mr Hempleman; Hurst (gardener); Samuel Duncan Parnell of Karori; Mr Meech; Robert McKinney of Te Aro; William Bannister; W B Rhodes; Messrs Lanon & Walker; James Symons of Ohiro; W D Scott of Kaiwarra; J S Macfarlane Esq; Alex White; J Dorset Esq; H S Harrison Esq; Mr Neale; Charles Rawson; H Hughlings; F V Martin. Also: Richard Johnson; Messrs Moore, Grace, Samuel & ors; Matthew Cook of Hutt; James Spencer; T M Partridge; Thomas Tomkes [?]; Will Fitzherbert; James Bicknell; William Woods (Goashore); Robert Stokes; Captain Walbank; S E Grimstone; George Jones; Wade v Lewyn; Wade v Waitt & Tyser; Wade v Potts; Partridge als Alzdorf; Rowland R Davis; D Wakefield; Robert Hart; G W Blathwaite Esq and other brief entries relating mainly to land transactions. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1842-1846, 1954

By: Wade, John, 1814-1885

Reference: MS-2200

Description: Business letters written from Wellington, dealing with the writer's shipping and whaling affairs; also some concerning his slander charge against Evans Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (82 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27cm, red linen)

Date: 1841 - 1890 - 1900

By: Nattrass, Luke, 1804-1875; Richardson, William, active 1842-1877; McKee & Gamble (Firm)

Reference: A-220-001

Description: Panoramic view from the sea of Wellington a year after settlement by Pakeha, showing named houses, businesses, pa and ships, drawn from on board the ship London. This copy is joined to form one long panorama. For copies still in their original separated form, see C-029-004 or the framed versions at G-612 and G-613 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithographs, black and white in three sections joined to form a long panorama 194 x 2200 mm

Date: 1841

By: Nattrass, Luke, 1804-1875; Richardson, William, active 1842-1877; Huggins Marine Mart (London, England); Dean & Munday (Firm)

Reference: A-220-007

Description: Panoramic view from the sea of Wellington a year after settlement by Pakeha, showing named houses, businesses, pa and ships, drawn from on board the ship London. Features numbered but with no accompanying text. See C-029-004 for text. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, black and white, 3 sections joined into one panorama 183 x 2000 mm

Date: 1841 - 1890 - 1900

By: Nattrass, Luke, 1804-1875; Richardson, William, active 1842-1877; McKee & Gamble (Firm); New Zealand Press Agency; Squires, Francis Westbrooke, 1908-2002

Reference: G-822-2

Description: A panoramic view from the sea of Wellington a year after settlement by Pakeha, showing named houses, businesses, pa and ships, drawn from on board the ship London. This is a complete framed version of the panorama Framed dimensions are 300 x 2257 mm On display in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room, from 2012 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithographs, black and white in three sections joined to form a long panorama 194 x 2202 mm Provenance: Donation: F W Squires, Wellington, 5 December 1961

Date: 1841 - 1843

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: E-106-f-047-3

Description: View from Clay Point hill above the junction of modern Willis St and Lambton Quay. The beach in the foreground is lower Willis Street, while upper Willis Street passes up the rise on the far right. The beach in the background is modern Mercer and Wakefield Streets. Cows, goats, two Maori canoes, a couple on horseback and Bethune & Hunter's Stores are in the foreground, with a jetty and sailing ships in the harbour. Further jetties and public and private buildings are in the background on Te Aro Flat. The most prominent building along the waterfront, with a Grecian-style frontage, is the Exchange Building. Mounts Cook, Albert and Victoria are indicated in the skyline above their relevant peaks. From water-colour by Charles Heaphy; engraver unknown. For a key to the identity of individual buildings, see negative 15576 1/2. T. M. Hocken's 'Key plan of Heaphy's View of a part of the town of Wellington ... 1885'. The original for this key is in the Hocken Library Pictures Collection. A watercolour was the original for the lithograph of the same title, published in London in 1842. There were also later prints from the same stone produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See reference number C-026-002 for copies of the lithograph. Reproduced by the Library in 1963 as one of the Queen's Prints, along with its companion view `Thorndon Flat and part of the city of Wellington, 1841' and Heaphy's `View of Nelson Haven', also dating from 1841. Very similar image at copy negative 1/2-005440 Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Vol 2 II, p 206 [1843 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 95 x 155 mm

Date: 1841 - 1890 - 1900

From: Nattrass, Luke, 1804-1875: City of Wellington, New Zealand. 1841. [W. Richardson lithographer from a sketch by L. Nattrass. 2nd edition]. Wellington, McKee & Gamble [ca 1890]

By: Nattrass, Luke, 1804-1875

Reference: G-612-1

Description: The centre section of a three-part view from the sea of Wellington a year after settlement by Pakeha, drawn from on board the ship London. Shows part of the north end of Wellington and Thorndon, from the centre of Lambton Quay to the centre of Thorndon Quay. Properties and businesses along the waterfront and further back are named. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, black and white, 194 x 734 mm

Date: 1842

From: Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington (sketched in the middle of the year 1842). Plate IV.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: B-110-058

Description: Right-hand third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows Maori group sitting near flagpole at left, smoking long pipes, other Maori figures and three thatched buildings on the foreshore. On centre foreshore is Messrs Ridgways and Co's wharf and stores. At right is Willis Street with the Southern Cross Hotel and further back the Ship Hotel. On the other side of the bay are the Customhouse Office, Post Office, Waitt's Wharf and stores, John Wade's store, the Exchange, and Rhodes's Wharf and store. Willis and Co's store is in the left background near Te Aro Pa. In the distance are Mount Albert and Mount Cook. There are colour transparencies available (photographed from better copies of this work, in volume of Wakefield's book). Extended Title - From Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1845. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Te Aro Flat; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - bottom right - Day & Haghe, Lithrs to the Queen Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 453 mm.

Date: 1841 - 1890 - 1900

By: Nattrass, Luke, 1804-1875; Richardson, William, active 1842-1877; McKee & Gamble (Firm)

Reference: G-613

Description: Left-hand side of a three-part panoramic view from the sea of Wellington a year after settlement by Pakeha, drawn from on board the ship London. Shows Te Aro and Manners Street to Clay Point, and half of Lambton Quay. The ships Portenia and Lady Nugent are anchored to the left. Te Aro Pa is on the far left, Rhodes' wharf is visible, various businesses and homes are named, the New Zealand Company flag flies in the front garden of Charles Heaphy at Clay Point. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, black and white, 194 x 734 mm

Date: 1841 - 1890 - 1900

From: Nattrass, Luke, 1804-1875: City of Wellington, New Zealand. 1841. [W. Richardson lithographer from a sketch by L. Nattrass. 2nd edition]. Wellington, McKee & Gamble [ca 1890]

Reference: C-029-004-1-1

Description: View from the sea of Te Aro, with the Pa, the barque Lady Nugent, Barney Rhodes' store and wharf, the house of Captain Daniell, Ridgway Guyton and Earp's stores and wharf, the Commercial Inn, Wade's auction rooms, Watt and Tyser, France's stores. The view is along the waterfront (modern Wakefield Street and Manners Street) with partially-cleared lower slopes and bush-clad hills behind. Numbers indicate the location of each feature listed along the bottom of the print Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, black and white 194 x 734 mm (whole image)

Date: 1841 - 1890 - 1900

By: Nattrass, Luke, 1804-1875; Richardson, William, active 1842-1877; McKee & Gamble (Firm); Barnill, J (Mrs), active 1959

Reference: G-612/613

Description: Panoramic view from the sea of Wellington a year after settlement by Pakeha, showing named houses, businesses, pa and ships, drawn from on board the ship London. These are separate framed examples of the three sections of this panorama Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithographs, black and white in three sections, framed, joining to form a long panorama 194 x 734 mm each

Date: 1842-1846 (1925?)

By: Wade, John, 1814-1885

Reference: qMS-2085-2086

Description: Business letters, written from Wellington, dealing with the writer's shipping and whaling affairs. Also some concerning his slander charge against Evans Quantity: 1 volume(s) (91, 10 leaves). Physical Description: Typescripts (34 cm; ½ red calf, red linen) Finding Aids: Indexed.

Date: 1840-1871

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1003A

Description: Papers mostly pertain to land transactions in the Wellington and Wanganui area. Some names have been entered in the Name field. Includes papers re creditors meeting re firm of Durie and Millar Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: C-025-010

Description: View from Clay Point (the bank above the junction of modern Willis Street and Lambton Quay), with the New Zealand Company flag flying, looking north along the beachline (Lambton Quay) towards a sandspit (Midland Park), past the low hill with the house of Colonel William Wakefield (the site of The Beehive today) to Thorndon, with Pipitea Pa close to the point of land on the waterfront in the distance. There are several ships in the harbour, the largest being the "London". The clearings in the bush on Tinakori Hill are Maori potato plantations. On the beach are a cart being drawn by four bullocks, other carts, small boats and several men. The original for the lithograph "Part of Lambton Harbour in Port Nicholson, New Zealand, comprehending about one third of the waterfront of the town of Wellington." (C-026-001). A key published to the lithograph identifies the names of several of the ships and the names of most of the owners of the properties along the beachline. The names supplied on the key (from the nearest point in Lambton Quay to the more distant northern part of the view) were Messrs Willis Storehouses, Mess.rs Wade's storehouses. Losack's Store. Durie & Co's store. Mr Grace's Academy. Mess.rs Waters & Smith's stores. Allen's store. Taine's store. Residence of Captain Cole. Residence of L. Nattrass Esq., Residence of Dr Johnstone. Mess.rs Cook's Storehouse. Residence of Col. Wakefield. Residence of Dr Evans. Residence of Mr St Hill Esq. J. P. Residence of R. Stokes Esq. Temporary Exchange and Library. Barrett's Hotel. Houses belonging to F. A. Molesworth Esq. Residence of Dr Fitzgerald. Hornbrooke's Store. Mess.rs Hay & McHattie's storehouses. Residence of Dr Dorset. [New Zealand] Company's Immigration Depot. Court House. Residence of Michael Murphy Esq. Residence of Michael Harrison Esq. Jail. Residence of Captain Chaffers. Riddiford & Co.'s storehouses. Residence of K. D. Harrison Esq. Path to Ohario [Ohariu]. Southern Road to the Porirua Valley. Belsize [Pipitea] Point. The ships in the harbour are listed as Schooner Jane. Schooner Elizabeth. Cutter Harriet. Brig Patriot. N.Z. Co's Barque Cuba. Ship London. American Brig Emigrant. Chilean ship Morley. Chilean brig Heron. N.Z. Co's Barque Brougham. Schooner Kate. Ship Martha Ridgeway. Extra topographical details listed on the hills are Kumototo Point. Town Acre no. 512. Native potatoe [potato] plantations. Although the view was completed in April 1841, a number of the ships shown in the harbour were no longer present by April 1841. The view is therefore a progressive one, showing Wellington from December 1840 to April 1841. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in the hand of Charles Heaphy. Signature lower right Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 419 x 612 mm Provenance: Purchased from Francis Edwards & Co., London, as part of the New Zealand Company collection, by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull in London, 1915.

Date: 1841

By: Nattrass, Luke, 1804-1875; Richardson, William, active 1842-1877; Huggins Marine Mart (London, England); Dean & Munday (Firm)

Reference: C-029-003

Description: Panoramic view from the sea of Wellington a year after settlement by Pakeha, showing named houses, businesses, pa and ships, drawn from on board the ship London. Features numbered but with no accompanying text. See C-029-004 for text. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, black and white, triple tier on one sheet 553 x 762 mm

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-025-009

Description: View from Clay Point hill above the junction of modern Willis St and Lambton Quay. The beach in the foreground is lower Willis Street, while upper Willis Street passes up the rise on the far right. The beach in the background is modern Mercer and Wakefield Streets. Cows, goats, two Maori canoes, a couple on horseback and Bethune & Hunter's Stores are in the foreground, with a jetty and sailing ships in the harbour. Further jetties and public and private buildings are in the background on Te Aro Flat. The most prominent building along the waterfront, with a Grecian-style frontage, is the Exchange Building. Mounts Cook, Albert and Victoria are indicated in the skyline above their relevant peaks. For a key to the identity of individual buildings, see negative 15576 1/2. T. M. Hocken's 'Key plan of Heaphy's View of a part of the town of Wellington ... 1885'. The original for this key is in the Hocken Library Pictures Collection. This watercolour was the original for the lithograph of the same title, published in London in 1842. There were also later prints from the same stone produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See reference number C-026-002 for copies of the lithograph. Reproduced by the Library in 1963 as one of the Queen's Prints, along with its companion view 'Thorndon Flat and part of the city of Wellington, 1841' and Heaphy's 'View of Nelson Haven', also dating from 1841. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil. This is not in Heaphy's hand. It has been taken from the title of the matching lithograph Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 442 x 620 mm on sheet 518 x 698 mm Provenance: Purchased in London in 1915 by Alexander Turnbull Library along with 114 other New Zealand Company drawings

Date: 1842

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

By: Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: PUBL-0011-16-3

Description: Right-hand third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows Maori group sitting near flagpole at left, smoking long pipes, other Maori figures and three thatched buildings on the foreshore. On centre foreshore is Messrs Ridgways and Co's wharf and stores. At right is Willis Street with the Southern Cross Hotel and further back the Ship Hotel. On the other side of the bay are the Customhouse Office, Post Office, Waitt's Wharf and stores, John Wade's store, the Exchange, and Rhodes's Wharf and store. Willis and Co's store is in the left background near Te Aro Pa. In the distance are Mount Albert and Mount Cook. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Te Aro Flat; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - bottom right - Day & Haghe, Lithrs to the Queen Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 453 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: [Brees, Samuel Charles] 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. Colonel Wakefield's residence Wellington, 47 ; Kai Warra Warra saw mill, 48 ; The Bank, Wellington. 49. Engraved by Henry Melville drawn by S C Brees. [London, 1847]

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-109-034

Description: Street with row of houses behind picket fence, with soldiers from barracks next door marching past, with another soldier on horseback in the street. A Maori adult and child watch from the right and the harbour is shown at the end of the street with a tower-like construction. In the original watercolour on which the engraving is based, this tower is a sailing ship. In: Brees, S C Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. No 49 Text p 29 Note that soldiers from the th Regiment are shown with their muskets incorrectly on their right shoulders. Extended Title - From: Brees, S.C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand. London, 1847, no. 49 Privately-owned original for this image: neg 1/2-035176-F, titled "Bank, Wellington" Brees' text in "Pictorial Illustrations" reads: This view is taken from the corner of Mr Jenkins' tavern; the bank is close in the foreground. The premises next the harbour were formerly Mr John Wade's stores, but are now [1845-6] occupied as barracks." Wade's auction rooms are shown in the lower Willis St or Manners St area in Nattrass' 1841 view of Wellington Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand coloured 84 x 133 mm

Date: 1841

From: [Hilliard, George Richard] b 1801 :[Panorama of Port Nicholson 1841]

Reference: C-012-005-1

Description: Far left section (of six) of a detailed drawing of Wellington from the harbour, showing the Te Aro end of the view, with position of houses and other buildings, and inscribed l to r Guyton, Native Pah, jetty [i.e. Barney Rhodes' jetty], Lyons & Co., Captn Rhodes, Brown's Inn, Proposed jetty, Ridgeway, Guyton & Earp, UBA [i.e. Union Bank of Australia], J & G Wade, Waitt & Tyser. See also Embarkation Register Vol. 1 p. 51 Other Titles - Pa Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 124 (irreg) x 640 mm Provenance: Purchased with Hilliard Journal qms Papers, 1972