You can purchase Nieuw Zeeland An English-Speaking Polynesian Country With A Dutch Name: A Humorous History of New Zealand by Geoffrey Corfield from Amazon today. Britain sends some 11,000 soldiers to New Zealand from 1840-1872. Although casualties are small (total British-Maori killed – 3,000), there are many engagements off
You can purchase Nieuw Zeeland An English-Speaking Polynesian Country With A Dutch Name: A Humorous History of New Zealand by Geoffrey Corfield from Amazon today. Land Ownership In New Zealand The problems in New Zealand after 1840 between the British and the Maori, were mainly due to two peoples having
You can purchase Nieuw Zeeland An English-Speaking Polynesian Country With A Dutch Name: A Humorous History of New Zealand by Geoffrey Corfield from Amazon today. Hobson arrives in Russell on 29 January 1840, and then he too, like Busby, proceeds to do some quite incredible things, and in an incredibly
GOVERNMENT COMES TO NEW ZEALAND A British ship is wrecked on the coast of Taranaki and is attacked by the Maori. Twelve are killed or wounded, one woman and two children are captured, and a few survivors escape back to Australia. A warship is sent out from Sydney to rescue
GOVERNMENT COMES TO NEW ZEALAND The Governor of New South Wales wants to appoint a “British Resident in New Zealand” (a position transplanted from colonial India), to go with the Justice of the Peace already appointed. The British Secretary of State approves. James Busby, a grape grower from New South
By 1842, 3,000 Maori had converted to Christianity. Or had they? The Maori are a complicated people. They take what they like from the new religions and convert it to their own use. Some begin to believe that they are one of the “Lost Tribes of Israel”. Others use
Hongi Hika learns that the Rotorua Maori had supported the Waikato, Auckland and Thames Maori. So he puts his warriors and his muskets in his war canoes and paddles south again to attack the Rotorua Maori, starting with their coastal forts at Maketu and Mount Maunganui at Tauranga. The fortress
Hongi Hika did not go to Britain just to work on a Maori dictionary. He went to learn about guns and to see the King. He tours the Tower of London (his favourite place), reviews soldiers and armaments, and meets King George IV who presents him with a suit of
The next white turnips to wander into this wild, lawless mix of Maori, muskets, traders, sealers, whalers, ex-convicts from Australia, and “adventurers” from all over the world; are missionaries. The saviour of souls. Samuel Marsden is an Anglican missionary sent from Britain to be a convict chaplain in Australia. On
After Cook’s last trip (1777), there are no more foreign visitors to New Zealand for some time. The fierce reputation of the Maori has spread and put off tourists (especially the people-eating part); and the major exploring nations of the world at this time (Britain, France, Spain), have other
At Cape Runaway Cook sees for the first time the large double-hulled Maori war canoes who he has to fire on and run away from as they are decidedly not friendly. In the Bay of Plenty (which Cook thought looked fertile, cultivated and well-populated), the mood of the people is
Jean Francois Marie de Surville is a French explorer (all French explorers have long names). He is looking for a fabled rich Pacific Island in 1769 (Tahiti), when he goes south from the Solomon Islands, becomes caught in a storm, and decides to try to find Tasman’s squiggly line
Sailing east from there, Tasman sights the west coast of yet another unknown land on 13 December 1642. It’s the west coast of the South Island of New Zealand, somewhere in the vicinity of Hokitika and Perpendicular Point (“a large, high-flying land” 171oE, 42oS). Tasman sails north along the
THE DUTCH IN NEW ZEALAND The first people to come to New Zealand after the Maori, and the first people to put the location of New Zealand on a map, record its existence in writing, and give it its name; are the Dutch. Yet the Dutch never stepped foot on
Battles with enemy tribes were conducted at fixed times, under a strict code of warfare, and were melees of stabbing spears and swinging clubs. The object was to kill more of them than they killed of you; and seize the dead bodies of the killed enemy, or the live bodies
Somehow, sometime and from somewhere, the Maori (who didn’t have their name yet), came to New Zealand. And stayed. If they came from the Cook Islands or the Society Islands, it was a voyage of over 2,000 miles by outrigger canoe and sails in all kinds of weather.
