Sedition
Muir, Thomas, 1765-1799 : Letter relating to his arrest and transportation to Botany Bay
Date: 3 Dec 1793
Reference: MS-Papers-3049
Description: Muir was convicted of sedition in 1793, transported on the `Surprize' to Botany Bay for 14 years. He arrived in Sydney in Oct 1794, but escaped in 1796. The letter is to a friend who has supported him. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (with annotation in pencil)
Papers relating to the Timaru Unitarian Church and Rev James Chapple
Date: 1911-1918
From: Trimble, William Heywood, 1860-1927: Papers relating to the Unitarian Church
Reference: MSX-9265
Description: Includes printed leaflets, cuttings, calendars of events, poems printed speeches and 'open letters' relating to the Timaru Unitarian Church while Rev James Chapple was a minister. Also includes correspondence between William Trimble and Chapple as well as cuttings on Chapple's trial for sedition. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Provenance: From the Dunedin Public Library where it was originally held as Archives 157
Extracts and writing
Date: [1922-1988]
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5714-062
Description: Includes circular, Royal Society of St George (1947); biographical piece on the Russell family; extract from Blue Book re Wairarapa meeting (1848); the `Mayflower's operations during 1940; poems, phrases and political items; speech by Semple (1916); Riddiford family matters, religion; `The Spectator' (12 Nov 1988) and other clippings From unlabelled arch file Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989:'No more tear gas - he's agreed to assist us in our inv...
Date: 1973
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: B-134-803
Description: This cartoon relates to the impeachment of the President of the United States, Richard Nixon, and features armed police (from the unions and congress) firing tear gas at a building. From an upper storey window from which smoke is pouring Nixon can be seen surrendering with his arms outstretched. One of the cops is telling the others that as Nixon has agreed to help with their investigations no more tear gas is needed Label on recto dated Wed 24/10/73 Extended Title - Impeachment Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon, 318 x 388 mm
"It says here that Maurice Gee's FRACTURE is 'indelibly Wellingtonian'" "Doesn't THAT j...
Date: 2004
From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]
Reference: DCDL-0008201
Description: "Jitterati" cartoon strip. Shows Debbie reads a film review of Maurice Gee's 'Fracture'. She reads that it is 'indelibly Wellingtonain' therefore not to see it would be an act of sedition. She gets so empassioned that she violently shakes Jaimee. She then reads further that it also 'resonates well beyond the city boundaries'. Jaimee thinks it sounds like an earthquake warning. Other Titles - "Don't you SEE, Jaimee? If it's indelibly Wellingtonian, then NOT going to see it would be an act of SEDITION! Oh no, wait... It also 'resonates well beyond the city boundaries'. Can't have it BOTH ways" "Sound like an earthquake warning...." Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"I didn't know these sedition laws they're going to scrap could be used by governments ...
Date: 2007
From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0003289
Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The politician wishes he had known that the sedition laws about to be scrapped could be used to quell political dissent but now it is too late. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Sedition n. agitation against the authority of the state; conduct or speech tending to ...
Date: 2007
From: Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- :Digital caricatures and cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0004396
Description: Shows two frames. In the first frame the sedition law is thrown into a rubbish bin as 'useless'. In the second frame a judge and a policeman regret the fact that the sedition law has been thrown out and try to retrieve it from the rubbish. Refers to the decision to get rid of the sedition law but then shortly after to be creating laws like the suppression of terrorism law that could have the similar effect of gagging freedom of speech and the right to protest. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).