New Zealand 1350
to 1939
No date – Find your family on the
internet. Ros Henry. A NZ guide. ISBN 1-877361-09-7.
1350 –
Maori ancestors arrived in New Zealand on seven canoes from Hawaiki.
The mother island of east Polynesians. First ancestors of Maori came
from Hawaikki.
15th
century – The records of Maori in the memory of the Tohungas, was
handed down from generation to generation. This dates their landing
in NZ at the beginning of the 15th
century. (Canterbury old and new. Whitcombe and Tombs ltd).
15th
century – Victoria uni archeologist Bruce McFardge said there is
evidence of huge waves hitting NZ in the 15th century.
Maori legend says waves reached up to the clifftops and tsumani.
(Chch Star NZ. 25 Sept 2015 Gabrielle Stuart).
1617 –
Transportation of poor children or orphans to Australia, Canada and
New Zealand began in 1617. (The peoples detective. Tom McGregor UK).
1640-1846 –
Pakeha presence, British in the 1640s. By 1840 NZ was annexed by the
UK, there were 7,000 British traders, whalers and settlers before
1846. (Family history monthly. August 2003 p74).
1642 - NZ was
first visited by Europeans in the reign of King Charles 1. In 1642 by
a Dutch explorer named Abel Jansen Tasman. (Canterbury old and new
1850-1900. Whitcombe and Tombs ltd).
1717 – The
Alpine fault in the South island there was an 8 quake. The last one
was in 1717. (Chch Star NZ. 7 Jan 2015).
1769-1779 –
Captain Cook in 1769, more than 100 years after the visit by Tasman.
Hawaii where captain Cook died in 1779. (Canterbury old and new.
Whitcombe and Tombs ltd).
1769-1869 – A
people’s history. Dept internal affairs. From the dictionary of NZ
biography vol 1 ©1992 ISBN 0-908912-20-x.
Oct 1769 –
Europeans arrived on the Endeavour with canons and muskets. (Asia
making of NZ. H Johnson B Moloughney)
1787-1968 –
About 60,000 ships sailed in Australian and New Zealand waters
between 1787 and 1968. Website run by Peter Larson. (Family history
monthly. August 2003 p62).
1790’s – New
Zealand was settled by whalers and traders. First free settlers
arrived in Australia. (The people detective. ©2001 T McGregor UK).
1792-1859 – NZ
trade with China dates back to 1792 with a shipment of sealskins.
China was still a market for NZ exports when the first trade meeting
was published in 1859. (Asia making of NZ. H Johnson B Moloughney).
1796-1852 –
James Cook explored NZ on the Endeavour in 1796. New Zealand was
under New South Wales Australia until it became a British colony in
1840. Fencible soldiers and families arrived between 1847 and 1852.
Irish settlers with pensions from the British army, escaped from the
great famine in Ireland, they were given free passage for their
families. (How to trace your Irish ancestors. ©2008 Ian Maxwell UK)
July 1796 – Charlotte Badger, one of
the first two pakeha women to live in NZ. In July 1796 she was
sentenced to seven years transportation to Australia, exile for life.
(Convicts NZ. M.Wright ©2012).
1800-1945 -
Settlers in New Zealand were immigrants from England, Ireland and
Scotland by Hearn Terry Phillips Jock. ISBN 1869404017 Publication
date 1/4/2008 Trade me $40.
1806
– First British women arrived in New Zealand. (Timeline NZ
internet).
1810-1814 – In 1814 John Lidiard
Nicholes who sailed on the “Active” to the Bay of Islands. Met an
Indian Lascar who had jumped ship from the ‘City of Edinburgh’ in
1810 and who lived with the Maoris, runaway Lascars were from India.
(Asia making of NZ. H Johnson B Moloughney).
1815 –
Thomas Holloway King became the first British child born in New
Zealand. (NZ in history. internet).
1815 – The
chief at Waimate was Horomona Pobie. Born at Waimate in 1815, he died
there and was buried in the cemetery with a fine tombstone.
(Canterbury old and new. Whitcome and Tombs ltd).
1815 – Eruption
occurred near Green lake Kermadec islands. Teara govt nz video 2006
eruptions.
1820’s –
Whaling stations began up the East Coast of the South Island, in
Marlborough, on Cook Strait and the Kapiti coast, Hawkes Bay and East
Cape in the 1820’s. Whale oil was in demand for lighting and
heating, soap and tanning leather. (Trackless sea. ©2008 Megan
Hutching).
1820-1839 – History of the Jews in
New Zealand. As early as 1820s Jewish traders were among the groups
of whalers, mariners, escaped convicts from Australia and
missionaries who explored New Zealand. Solomon and Bevan Levy, were
cabinet makers, who arrived on the ship “Oriental” in 1839.
Wikipedia.
1823-1846 – Maori warrior Te
Rauparaham with allied tribes from North Taranaki, settled in Kapati
in 1823, at Taupo Pa. Te Rauparaha was arrested in July 1846. (NZ
Memories. Feb March 2014).
1825-26 – In 1825 the first NZ
association was formed in London UK. The ship “Rosanna” conveyed
settlers here. Captain Herd arrived in Hauraki Gulf in 1826.
(Canterbury old and new. 1850-1900 Whitcombe & Tombs ltd).
1830s – The Colonization of New
Zealand began. (Hope for all. The hidden power. Hope project.co.nz).
1830 – A
whaling station was established at Te Awaiti on Cook strait. Also in
1830 Otakou shore whaling station was built in Otago harbour. (NZ a
short history. Laurie Barber ©1989).
1830-1840
– In 1830 there had been no more than 300 to 330 Europeans living
in NZ. By 1840 the number increased to 2,000. Most came to stay. Most
came from New South Wales Australia. In 1840 the year the Treaty was
signed, Maori outnumbered Pakeha in NZ by ten to one. (The story of
NZ. J Bassett. K Sinclair. M Sienson ©1985).
17 July 1831 –
Horrible cannibalism in NZ. The Observer 1791-1900 London UK.
1 October 1831 -
John Guard was the second European child born in the South Island.
(Trackless sea. ©2008 Megan Hutching).
1834 – William
Colenso brought the first printing press to New Zealand. (Hope for
all. The hidden power. Hope project.co.nz).
1835 – The
“Friendship” ship as wrecked at Norfolk island, prisoners.
Norfolk was a Penal Colony at that time, from Sydney NSW 1835.
(Trackless sea. ©2008 Megan Hutching).
1835-40 – Alexander McKenzie 1835
?-1840 (Migration. Rod Edmond ©2013 NZ).
21 December
1835 - HMS Beagle sailed to Bay of Islands NZ (Timeline internet).
19 Dec 1836 – Crew of schooner
“Marion Watson” ship Captain Harwood witheld provisions and water
from them and discharged 3 men. (R4086400) Restricted access. Record
is missing. Archives NZ. Archway records. British resident.
21 Dec 1836 – Record master of
“Marion Watson” ship. Bay of Islands. 1836 British resident.
Archives NZ. Archway records.
27 Dec 1837 – Colonization of NZ. The
Manchester Guardian 1828-1900 UK.
1839 – The NZ company arrived in
Lambton harbour, named it Wellington. (p7 colonial capital Wellington
1865-1910. Terence Hodgson ©1990).
1839 –
There were only 2,000 white Europeans in Aotearoa NZ and 114,000
Maori. (NZ a short history. Laurie Barber ©1989).
1839 – After
the British voted to abolish the slave trade, ( it still exists in
2015), NZ missionaries, the Reverend Brumby bought 20 slaves to
Wellington, to return to their Maori families. (NZ genealogist May
June 2011)
July 1839 –
March 1840 – The “Adelaide” with Hunt A Baker from Feoch in
Cornwall, arrived in port Nicholson and the “Glenbervie”. These
two ships were the last of six ships to reach Petone New Zealand.
(Trackless sea. ©2008 Megan Hutching)
1840
– M N Watt. Index to the NZ section of the register of all British
ships 1840-1950. NZ ship and marine society Wellington 1961.
1840
– Auckland maritime museum. Ancestors who came to NZ from the UK by
ship from 1840’s onwards. The museum holds lists of ships
passengers. Poor immigrants. Museums of all kinds in every town. (p64
Writing your family history. A NZ guide. Joan Rosier Jones
©1997).
1840 – Ship the
“Magnet” from Sydney to Otago.
1840 – Since 1840 about 10 tsunamis
bigger than 5m have hit NZ. A big one in 1868 following a 9
earthquake off Chile. (Chch Star NZ. 25 Sept 2015 Gabrielle Stuart.)
1840 – Hugh
and Lyn Hughes were discharged in NZ. Soldiers of the Imperial foot
regiments who took their discharge in NZ 1840-1870 NZGE Auckland
1988.
1840’s – Most of the
early NZ immigrants were young. Few old people could stand the long
sea voyage. The longest route for migrants in the world, of several
months. (The story of NZ. Bassett Sinclair Stenson ©1985).
1840s to 1850s – Florence Rebecca
Bensemann was born on 27 Jan 1877. All her grandparents emigrated
from northern Germany to NZ, to Nelson and spoke German. (NZ Memories
June July 2014).
1840-1870 – The Smith Nairn
commission reports, from the 1870s. The department of lands and
surveys had these documents. Maori lands in the 1840s, 50s and 60s in
the South island. Settlements, the legal personality of the group or
person, you have signed, but have been ignored. Recognise the legal
personality, of who you are dealing. Dehumanising tactics. (The
Bolger years. Margaret Clark ©2008 NZ)_.
1840-1900 -
NZ birth records from early newspapers CD extracted from newspapers
(Trade me $40).
1840-1902 - Henry
Brett. White wings Immigrant ships to NZ. Ed Cyril Bradwell Reed
Wellington NZ 1984.
1840-1944 – MP Lissington. New
Zealand and the United States. Wellington 1972. (The great wrong war.
Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).
1840-1960 – Between 1840 and 1860,
40,000 British emigrated to New Zealand by assisted passage. From
1890 to 1960 British emigration is found in passenger lists and
national archives. (Family tree. Dec 2009 p20).
4 Feb 1840 –
Henry Williams and his son Edward translated the Treaty of Waitangi
into Maori. (NZ a short history. Laurie Barber ©1989).
6 Feb 1840 – The treaty of Waitangi
was signed between 40 Maori chiefs and the British crown at Waitangi.
Shared sovereignty. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 6 Feb 2015).
12 Feb 1840 – The “Bengal Merchant”
Captain Henley carried 120 passengers to NZ arrived on 12 Feb 1840,
after a voyage of 104 days. Three other ships the “Ariel”,
“Aurora” and “Roxburgh” early settlers. (Canterbury old and
new 1850-1900. Whitcombe & Tombes ltd).
18 Apr 1840 –
The first newspaper was published in NZ, the NZ Gazette. (Tracing
family history in NZ. Anne Bromell).
1841 – The McKenzie family name was
recorded as MacKenzie in the 1841 census but not elsewhere.
(Migrations. Rod Edmond NZ ©2013).
1841 – The “Blenheim” arrived in
NZ. Captain Sinclair. In 1841 John Hay arrived on the “Mandarin”.
(Canterbury old and new 1850-1900. Whitcombe & Tombes ltd).
1841-1842 –
The voyage to NZ took four months, or longer if the ship struck bad
weather. It was crowded and uncomfortable, fresh food was scarce and
illness a constant worry. No fresh water for washing. For example the
ship “Lloyds”, which sailed for Nelson in 1842, 65 children died
during the voyage. 8 died from whooping cough, the rest died from
malnutrition, diarrhea and neglect. Small bodies were buried at sea
and were a common sight. (The story of NZ. Bassett Sinclair Stenson
©1985).
6 Jan 1841 –
Mount Stead cemetery, the first Roman Catholic cemetery in
Wellington, in NZ. It began 6 Jan 1841 Bishop Pompallier. Only about
200 headstones survive in the heritage site. (The NZ Genealogist.
Sept Oct 2010. 4.35am 4 Sept 2010 Christchurch Earthquake).
1842
– Old colonists jubilee Auckland NZ 1842 –92.
1842 – Thomas
Cole was born in Auckland NZ.
1842 – The Parkhurst boys were sent
to Auckland from a British jail in 1842. (Convicts NZ. M Wright
©2012).
1842 - 43 -
Convicts were sent to New Zealand. On the “St George”, 92 boys
arrived in Auckland on 25 October 1842, and the “Mandarin” with
31 boys on 14 November 1843. Boys aged between 12 and 16 were
sentenced to prison as convicts.
1842-62 - NZ Jury
lists. (NZ genealogist March April 2011).
9 January 1842 –
Juliette Daniell was born in Wellington. Her father Edward Daniell
was from a large Cornish family with property called Trelissick which
was sold. Corwall UK and settlements in New Zealand. (Trackless sea.
©2008 Megan Hutching).
7 March 1842 – The hanging of Maketu
in Auckland. The first person to be executed in NZ. Guilty of murder
in November 1841. (NZ crime timeline).
October 1842 – Ship “St George”
to Auckland. 92 convicts, boys aged 12 to 19 years from Parkhurst
prison on the Isle of Wight in the UK. (Find your family on the
internet. Ros Henry a NZ guide no date).
1843 –
Aliens naturalised in NZ 1843 – 1916. BAB Microfilming 4 Kathryn
ave Auckland. ph: 09-625 9778.
1843
– Newspaper, Daily Southern Cross Auckland 1843-76. Did this
newspaper change its name to the NZ Herald?
November 1843 – Parkhurst prison on
the Isle of Wight. A second group of 31 convict boys arrived on the
“Mandarin”. (Find your family on the internet. Ros Henry a NZ
guide no date).
1844-1939 – John Jackson, the second
Chinese immigrant arrived in 1844, and went to Palmerston North in
1870. More Chinese arrived in Palmerston North in the mid 1870s. Ex
miners from Guangzhou, Canton. In 1939 Chinese refugees moved into
NZ. (Heritage NZ. Winter 2012 p13).
Jan 1844 – Tom White was an American
whaler who lived in Port Levy, later in Pigeon bay. (Canterbury old
and new 1850-1900. Whitcombe & Tombes ltd).
1845 – H G
Longley. The NZ wars 1845-1866 2 vols. Wellington 1967 navy 1972
army.
1845-1875 – More gold was
found than in the whole previous 350 years. California in the late
1840’s. Australia in the 1850’s. New Zealand in the 1860’s and
70’s. (Costly gold. JS & RW Murray. Clutha riches and their
human toll. Reed publishers).
11 March 1845 – The Flagstaff war.
Chief Hone Heke and Kawiti led 700 Maori to chop down the British
flagstaff. For the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi grievances. (Chch Star NZ.
Today in history 11 March 2015).
7 May 1846 –
A devastating landslide at Lake Taupo killed about 60 people. (NZ
disasters. timeline internet).
1847-48 –
Clementina Burns was the wife of Rev Dr Thomas Burns, a pioneer
Presbyterian minister and coloniser of Otago. Scotland 1842 “New
Edinburgh” as Dunedin was first named sail on the Philip Laing 27
November 1847. The Philip Laing arrived in Port Chalmers on15 April
1848, about three weeks after the arrival of its sister ship the John
Wycliffe. In June the Burns family went to live in their half built
house in Dunedin, near Princess street at the intersection of Jetty
street. Arthur, son, started farming on land his father chose at
Andersons bay. (Petticoat pioneers. ©1980 B Harper).
1847-1850 – The
first police magistrate used armed police to collect the census info.
In 1847 police magistrates were abolished, but the armed police
continued going door to door, under the Superintendant of resident
magistrates, as late as 1850 it was their beat. (NZ genealogist May
June 2011).
1847-1851 Arrived
in NZ in 1851 on the “Cornwall” John Mackenzie emigrated to
Australia 1845 and 1847 left Australia for NZ. (Canterbury old and
new 1850-1900. Whitcombe & Tombes ltd).
1848 – There
was a severe earthquake in Wellington. Otago settlement founded.
(Tracing family history in NZ. Anne Bromell ©1996).
1848 –
Presbyterian minister, Biography first church of Otago 1848-1920
archives Presbyterian.org.nz (Find your family on the internet. Ros
Henry).
1848 – In NZ
the registration of UK births and deaths began in 1848. Marriages are
registered for 1854 onwards. Before these dates, vital events were
recorded in parish registers. (Oxford guide to family history. David
Hey ©1993).
1848 – Samuel
Finch was born in Milton Otago New Zealand.
1848-49 – In
Dunedin and Christchurch the new settlers stayed in special barracks,
until they were ready to build their own houses. 1849 Dunedin making
damper bread. Landing of the first Otago immigrants in 1848. (The
story of NZ. Bassett Sinclair Stenson ©1985).
1848-53 –
Christchurch began in 1848. On 1 Sept 1850 the first emigrants, the
Canterbury pilgrims arrived. Three days later four ships with 800
passengers left Gravesend for NZ, Lyttelton in December. By the first
year of Christchurch, 19 ships and 3,000 immigrants arrived in
Lyttelton. James Edward Fitzgerald was the migration agent for the
Canterbury association in London. He founded the Press newspaper and
was the first Superintendant in July 1853. (History Today. May 2014
UK).
1848-1855 –
Earthquakes in 1848 and 1855 destroyed the Fort and only the
foundations remain. The Fort was built by troops from Sydney during
the Hutt war. Plimmerton area. Fort Paremata or Taupo Pa. (NZ
Memories. Feb March 2014).
1848 & 1855 –
Two earthquakes in Wellington 1848 and 1855. (Colonial capital
Wellington 1865-1910 Terence Hodgson ©1990).
1848-1859 –
Settlement of Otago began in 1848. Arrival of the John Wyckliffe and
the Phillip Laing. Dunedin was by 1859 a town of 2,262 inhabitants.
(NZ a short history. Laurie Barber ©1989).
1848-1898 – NZ
in 1848 the colonial office began to collect details of births,
deaths and marriage registration. ACT 1854 established a registry of
marriages. Divorce in NZ began in 1867. The 1898 NZ six pence stamp
with a kiwi. (Family tree. Dec 2009 p19-20).
Jan 1848 –
Emily McNamara was born in Liverpool, she went to NZ on the “Clifton”
in Jan 1848, with her parents, John McNamara, a Fencible and his wife
Mary (nee Drayton) retired soldiers from the UK.
June 1848 – The
chiefs and people of the Ngai Tahu met at Akaroa and sold lands, to
the NZ company, from Kaiapoi to Port Chalmers. (Canterbury old and
new. Whitcombe and Tombs ltd).
17 June 1848 –
Joseph Burns was hanged on the site of the murders. The first pakeha
convicted of murder in NZ. (Law breakers mischief. ©2009 Bronwyn
Sell).
17 June 1848 –
The hanging of Joseph Burns, Devonport Auckland. The first European
to be hanged in NZ under British law. He was convicted of murder. (NZ
crime timeline).
October 1848 –
The earthquakes of October 1848. The first quake was big and caused
much damage in Wellington. Many brick buildings were damaged and half
of the chimneys fell down. The Wesleyan chapel, the jail and other
public buildings were badly damaged. Frightening aftershocks. Then on
17 October 1848 there was another sharp quake. The Wellington
Independent described it, several buildings fell down and two
children were killed by falling bricks. (Trackless sea. ©2008 Megan
Hutching)
1849 – “Ajax”
London UK to Otago NZ ship.
1850s and 1860s –
Jessie Finnie was one of a large number of, sex slaves, in Auckland
NZ. Constable Thomas Powley of Auckalnd province. armed police, was a
regular visitor at the brothels. Most of the Auckland brothels were
in Chancery st. Early sex slavery in NZ. (A peoples history. ©1992
p71 & 72 NZ).
1850 –
worldatlas.com Christchurch was founded.
1850s – Pioneer
days when many homes had patchwork bedcovers. Women were thrifty and
saved old clothing fabrics. Candles and lamps were used at night.
Sewing and mending clothes and bedcovers. Sewing was part of a
woman’s daily work. (Patchwork. Lauri Tapsell ©1979 NZ).
1850-1867 – By
the late 1850’s there were 1.5 million sheep in New Zealand, with
most in Canterbury and Hawkes Bay. Wool was central to New Zealand’s
economy. By 1867 sheep numbers grew to 8.5 million, mainly in the
South Island. (Trackless sea. ©2008 Megan Hutching).
1850-1900 –
Canterbury old and new 1850-1900. Whitcombe and Tombs ltd., Old
pioneers early history of Canterbury.
1851 – Clues
about family history in old newspapers. The earliest census was taken
in NZ in 1851. (Find your family on the internet. Ros Henry. p39 no
date).
1851 – Some
headstones date back 150 years. Established in 1851 the Barbadoes st
cemetery was the first in Christchurch, it was severely damaged in
the 2011 earthquakes. (NZ genealogist July Aug 2011).
1851 – 1900 –
Otago death records from early newspapers CD (Trade me $20).
1851 – 1900 –
Canterbury death records from early newspapers CD Colonial books
(Trade me $20).
11 Jan 1851 –
The first issue of the Lyttelton Times was on a Saturday. (Canterbury
old and new 1850-1900. Whitcombe & Tombs ltd).
1852 –
Canterbury, a few sheep in the settlement. Sheep, cattle and horses
were being brought from Australia, imported by Charles Sidey. Also
stock brought by Sefton Moorhouse. (Canterbury old and new. Whitcombe
abd Tombs ltd.).
1852 – 1923 –
Passenger lists Victoria Australia outwards to NZ. Gold miners
moving. a CD, ISBN 9781877217517 (Trade me $30).
1853 – James
George Deck, his wife and 8 surviving children arrived on the
“Cornwall” in Wellington . (A peoples history. ©1992 p58 NZ).
Sept 1853 –
Elections for Christchurch provincial council. Christchurch, until
the earthquake of 2011. (History Today. May 2014 UK).
1855 –
Wairarapa 8.2 quake. NZs most powerful recorded quake in which about
nine people died. (NZ newswire Te Ara).
1855 – Malay
mail online Malaysia. 6 Jan 2015 AFP. Wellington NZ most powerful
quake 8.2 quake. Four people died. It pushed the shoreline up 650
feet and the harbour floor up.
1855 – Highway
to the Hutt valley, the 1855 earthquake pushed up the shoreline by
about a metre, making more land available for a road. (Trackless sea.
©2008 Megan Hutching).
23 January 1855 –
Wairarapa earthquake. The 8.2 quake struck the lower north island
and killed between 5 to 9 people and altered the Wellington region.
(NZ disasters timeline internet).
23 Jan 1855 –
The most powerful earthquake recorded in NZ. Altered the geographical
landscape of Wellington 8.2 (On this day in NZ. Ron Palenski ©2010).
23 Jan 1855 –
Wellington an 8 earthquake. 4 people died. USGS historic world
earthquakes.
March 1855 –
James Mackenzie shepherd, drover, sheepstealer by Cathy Marr.
Mackenzie emigrated to Australia in about 1849. North of Timaru in
March 1855. Lyttelton Times 12 May 1855. (A peoples history. ©1992
NZ)
March 1855 –
About six weeks before this, there was a large earthquake in
Wellington. Windows broken, chimneys fell down, plaster peels from
the walls and furniture flying all over the place. Shock after shock
continued. (Trackless sea. ©2008 Megan Hutching).
4 March 1855 –
James Mackenzie was found with 1,000 sheep stolen from south
Canterbury. Mackenzie country named after him. (NZ crime timeline).
4 March 1855 –
Sheep rustler James Mackenzie caught in a pass, in the upper Waitaki
river basin, with 1,000 sheep missing from the Levels station, north
of Timaru. (Today in history. Chch Star NZ. 4 March 2015).
1856 – Auckland
Almanack and directory W Lambert. Auckland public library POBox 4138
Auckland NZ.
1856 – Archives
NZ. Christchurch was chartered as a city in 1856, the first city in
NZ. NZ history.
1856-1862 –
Martin Cash was a convict, policeman and brothel keeper. He moved to
New Zealand from Hobart Australia in 1856. In 1860 Cash was in
Christchurch as a constable in the Canterbury province armed police
force, which he joined in 1859. His main line of work was brothel
keeping. (He was a pimp), His identity and activities were eventually
investigated. In March 1860 Cash was sacked and fined for keeping a
brothel. Many others like him moved to NZ after the decline of the
Australian goldfields. Cash returned to NZ by December 1862. He
continued to operate several brothels in Christchurch, red light
districts and Salisbury street, including the Red house. He moved to
Otago gold fields then returned to Christchurch. (p35 A peoples
history. ©1992 NZ).
1857 – Prince
Edward Islanders on the “Gertrude” to NZ. (Australian family
tree. September 2010)
1857-1860 –
Thomas Hammond’s parents and siblings left Clee Hill in Shropshire
UK to migrate to NZ arriving in 1857. Dinah Hammond was born 1838
while in NZ, married James Galbritte children Alice, Lavina, Patty,
John and James. During the latter part of the 19th
century they returned to the UK. Galbraith in 1860. In the UK in 1881
census. Islington and London from the early 20th
century in Surrey. (Practical family history. July 2003 p20).
1857-1863 – For
the four years 1857-60 the total gold exported from NZ was nearly
36,000 ounces. In 1861 alone 400,000 ounces. In 1863 625,000 ounces.
Most came from the Clutha areas. Gold quantities were expressed in
troy ounces. One troy ounce is equal to 31.1035 grams. (Costly gold.
JS RW Murray Clutha riches and their human toll).
1857-1898 – On
15 April 1857 the “Maori” laid anchor outside Otago heads. Uncle
Donald Borrie’s farm. John the oldest son went to work at James
Macandrew’s store in Dunedin. As the news of gold spread, Dunedin
began to boom including Macandrew’s store. The port became packed
with shipping, and the customs officer was overworked. So John Borrie
left the store to join the customs staff. The influx of gold
speculators meant the need for more productive farms. On Sunday Janet
Borrie attended church, Rev W Gillies was the minister. Janet died in
1898 and was buried in the west Taieri cemetery bedside her husband
near the church. (Petticoat pioneers. B Harper ©1980).
1857-1957 – Old
historical records The Cromwell Argus weekly from 1869-1947. In the
century between 1857 and 1957 NZ exported gold valued at nearly 120
million pounds, most gold was in the Clutha area. (Costly gold. JS RW
Murray 1978 Clutha riches and their human tol.l ISBN 0-589-01132-4).
1858-1958 –
From distant villages, the lives and times of Croatian settlers in NZ
1858-1958 by Stephen A Jelicich. (NZ society of genealogists inc.
Nov-Dec 2011 p253).
1858-1980 – NZ
Maori land claims. (NZ genealogist March April 2011).
7 May 1858 –
Sarah Jane Finch was born in Milton Otago.
1859 –
“Cheviot” From Glasgow Scotland to Port Chalmers Otago, ship.
1859 – The
“Strathallah” in 1859 in south Canterbury. The “Lancashire
witch” the “Victory” and the “Tiptree” and other ships,
each with many immigrants. Those on the “Tiptree” were mostly
Cornishmen from Cornwall or from the south of England. Flour was
imported from Adelaide Australia. (Canterbury old and new. Whitcombe
and Tombs ltd).
1860’s – Iwi
receive multimillion dollars settlement, by Rebecca Quilliam 17
December 2012. NZ Herald APMZ. Maori wars of 1860’s.
1860 – Martin
Cash in Christchurch, was a constable in the Canterbury province
armed police force, which he joined in 1859. His main line of work
was brothel keeping. His identity and activities were ‘eventually’
investigated. In March 1860 Cash was sacked and fined for keeping a
brothel. Many others like him moved to NZ after the decline of the
Australian goldfields. (p35 A people history. ©1992 NZ).
1860s – Gold
rush of the 1860s with immigrants from Australia and California in
the US. 2,000 Chinese moved from the Pearl Delta region of Guangdong
province. The Chinese often stayed on as laundrymen and fruiterers.
Market gardeners, hawking fruit and veges from door to door. (Chch
crime and scandals. Geoffrey W Rice ©2013).
1860-61 –
Taranaki records 1860 Taranaki Herald 21 July 1860. 19 May 1860 sent
to Nelson. Taranaki war 28 June 1861. 174 Maoris were killed and 14
settlers killed. (NZ genealogist March April 2011).
1860-1862 – The
Dunedin’s synagogue was built in the 1860s for Dunedin’s Jewish
congregation. The story of the world’s southernmost synagogue began
in 1862. Discovery of gold in Otago the previous year, with an
increase in Jewish numbers. Among the early congregation was Julius
Vogel. (Heritage NZ. Winter 2012 p7).
1860-1900 –
Otago marriage records from early newspapers. Otago and Southland CD
Colonial books Trade me.
1861 –
Melbourne to Port Chalmers Otago the“Oscar”. Also Glasgow to Port
Chalmers Otago the “Lady Egidia”.
1861-1911- Berge
Picalmot left Italy in 1855 and arrived in NZ in 1861. In Greymouth
1865. In 1874 he was appointed Italian consul until his death in
1911. (Alan Poletti).
4 Oct 1861 –
Charles C Cole moved to Dunedin on 4 Oct 1861. Coach company Cobb and
co, Cole and co. The Otago gold rush was on. Hundreds of miners
supplies needed to be transported into central Otago. (NZ Memories
June July 2014).
1862 – Old NZ
pics. City road Auckland. Buff.ly/19F1/02 photo. (Twitter 1 March
2015).
1862-1863 –
Gold strike on the Arrow river 1862. The first gold discovered was
attributed to Jack Tewa (Maori Jack) Otago. Chinese miners and a
speech by Madam Xiutian Tan, Chinese Consul General. The gold escort
left Arrow township on 18 Jan 1863 with 12,000 ounces of gold.
Subsequent escorts carried over 20,000 ounces. During the winter of
1863, 2,000 miners in Arrow district sent 6,000 ounces of gold a
month. One ounce of gold was worth 3 pounds 15 shillings in the
1860s. (NZ Memories Dec Jan 2012 2013).
Sept 1862 –
Emigrant ship the “Pladda” New Zealand from Ireland. 193 girls
were on the ship. (NZ Memories Dec Jan 2014).
December 1862 –
Martin Cash retuned to NZ by December 1862. He continued to operate
several brothels in Christchurch, red light districts and Salisbury
street Red house. He moved to the Otago gold fields then returned to
Christchurch. (p35 A people history. ©1992 NZ).
1863 – A first
year in Canterbury settlement by Samuel Butler London Trade me $188.
1863 – Otago
Dunedin Gold rush, miners from Melbourne and mounted police from
Melbourne arrived. Illegitimate children. Villians were now at the
goldfields in Otago. Agents in Otago arranged for young single women
from Ireland to be sent here as sex slaves. (NZ Memories Dec Jan 2012
2013).
March 1863 – Mr
A Raper. City of Hobart – Otago NZ. (Public records office Victoria
Australia). (15 July 2013).
13 April 1863 –
Official details of the loss of the HMS Orpheus in NZ, list of
survivors. Chares Hill. The Observor 1791-1900 London UK.
21 Nov 1863 –
Maori Battle of Rangiriri, casualties were among the worst of the NZ
wars. 132 British and 70 Maori were killed or wounded. 280
casualties. (Chch Star 21 Nov 2014. Today in history.)
1864 –
Widespread financial crisis NZ. (A peoples history. ©1992 NZ)
1864 – 1964 –
NZ National mortgage and agency co 100 years by G Parry 1st
ed 1964 Trade me $5.
26 Aug 1864 –
The NZ war. The Manchester Guardian 1828-1900 UK.
17 Oct 1864 –
The war in NZ. The Irish Times Daily Advertiser. 1859-1874 Dublin
Ireland.
5 December 1864 –
Samuel Finch and Elizabeth Strain were married in Milton Otago.
1865 – The
Maori land courts were formed to determine the ownership of Maori
land. (Family tree. Dec 2009 p20).
1865 – 1954 -
NZ electoral rolls.
1865 –
Newspaper, Evening Post Wellington.
19 Jan 1865 –
(papers past) Bruce Heald p12. Otago Princess st. James Pryor
Clovers, ryegress and lucerne.
4 May 1865 –
(papers past) Bruce Herald p12. Agricultural and garden seeds. Otago
seeds. Princess st south near Jetty st Dunedin. James Pryor and co,
seeds, clovers, ryegrass and lucerne.
Sept 1865 –
Otago’s first hanging. William Jarvey from Dunedin prison. (NZ
genealogist March April 2012 p94).
1866 –
Directory of the city and suburbs of Auckland 1866-67 Mitchell and
Seffern.
1866 – Chinese
first arrived in 1866 mainly from Pon Yu regioin of southern China
headed for the Otago goldfields. (Th NZ Gnealogist p212 Sept Oct
2010).
7 Jan 1867 –
The first recorded murder in the region was Military settler Alfred J
Campbell Oropi who died of a gunshot wound. (Tauranga murders in
history. 23 Sept 2014 Sun Live).
12 June 1867 –
The Mongonui murder. Wanganui Herald.
13 June 1867 –
The murder of Mr Burke. Wanganui Herald.
20 June 1867 –
Death. Wanganui Herald.
30 June 1867 –
Abraham Bennett White, a settler in the Bay of Plenty, was murdered
at Ohiwa river. The head of Mr White was found in a sandhill near the
Ohiwa, his body was never found. (NZ genealogist Jan Feb 2009)
(Nelson Examiner and NZ Chronicle 20 July 1867).
July 1867 –
Canterbury had a large snow storm which lasted six days. Half a
million sheep were killed. Provisions got very low. Storm damage.
(Trackless sea. ©2008 Megan Hutching).
2 July 1867 –
The earthquake at Mytelene. Wanganui Herald.
3 Aug 1867 –
Reported murder of four Europeans and four Maoris. Wanganui Herald.
21 Aug 1867 –
The murderers of Mr Burke. Wanganui Herald.
21 Aug 1867 –
Death. Wanganui Herald.
1868 – 150
years ago Lyttelton and a 7m wall of water, the tsunami waves smashed
ships in the harbour against the wharf. A man in the chatham islands
was killed in the tsunami. The tsunami was caused by a 9 earthquake
off Chile, which killed thousands of people. Since 1840 about 10
tsunamis larger than 5m have hit NZ. (Chch Star NZ. 25 Sept 2015.
Gabrielle Stuart).
1868 – natlib
nz govt journals homocide. The death of Frederick Rasmus Kornerup. NZ
Genealogy. Bryan Bang. Danish migrant murdered in 1868.
1868 –
Canterbury provincial roll 1868-69, 1870-71, 1972-73, 1873-74. BAB
Microfilming.
1869 – 1873 –
Tower NZ formed in 1869, as the Government life insurance office,
department. Tower corp in 1987. In 1989 Tower brought National
insurance company of NZ, head office in Dunedin Otago. Formed in
1873. (Wikipedia. Tower).
7 Sept 1869 –
NZ and the colonial office. The Manchester Guardian 1828-1900 UK.
1870 – Eruption
occurred near Green lake Kermadec islands. Teara govt nz video 2006
eruptions.
1870’s –
Chinese immigrants arrived in Palmerston North in the mid 1870’s.
Ex miners from Guangzhou (Canton), who went to the Otago goldfields.
(NZ Heritage. winter 2012)
1870-1878 –
Cardrona was at its peak in the 1870s, the residents were mainly
Chinese miners, about 1,000 people, seven stores, a post office, a
bank, a school, a jail and a police HQ, 4 butchers, a baker and a
blacksmith. By 1878 Cardrona had a population of only 200. (Heritage
NZ. Winter 2012 p7).
1870-1977 –
Martin Cash autobiography by James Lester Burke published in 1870 The
adventures of Martin Cash. He died on 27 august 1877 in Tasmania
Australia. (p35 A people history. ©1992 NZ).
1870-1880 – In
the 1870s and 1880s the appearance of Russian explorers in the south
Pacific and Antarctica waters brought fear of the Russian raids on NZ
ports. (NZ a short history. Laurie Barber ©1989).
28 September 1871
– Wilfred von Sturmer was born in Auckland.
1872 – Wises NZ
Directory NZ Post office 1872, 1880, 1900, 1955.
1872-1873 –
Newspaper, Standard and peoples Advocate Gisbourne.
1873 – Susan
Love Noone was born in Alexandra Otago.
1873 – Chapmans
Auckland directory for 1873 and 1874.
19 April 1873 –
Elizabeth Catherine Finch was born in Dunedin Otago.
24 Nov 1873 –
Consecration of the Masonic hall Timaru. Press NZ. Papers past.
1874 –
Melbourne to Otago the “Alhambra”. Also London to Port Chalmers
the “Christian McAusland”. Photo. Also Gravesend to Port Chalmers
the “Sussex”.
1874-75 –
Greenock to Otago the “Wild Deer”.
1874-1895 – In
1895 the Bank of NZ bought the Colonial BNZ, which was founded in
Dunedin in 1874. The BNZ archives hold the Colonial BNZ staff
registers, but it is incomplete. Many were from Scotland. (NZ
genealogist March April 2012).
1874-1968 –
Italian migration and settlement in New Zealand. J H Burnley. 30 July
2009.
8 Aug 1874 –
The “Adamant” ship arrived in Nelson from Plymouth UK. The trip
took 93 days. There were nine voyages of the “Adamant”
altogether. (NZ genealogist Jan Feb 2009).
7 January 1875 –
Agnes Finch was born in Milburn Otago
4 October 1875 –
Thomas Pryor was born in Dunedin Otago.
1876 – St
Vincent de Paul industrial school Dunedin. NZ Christian brothers
Catholic in NZ since 1876.
1876 –
Christchurch in 1876, had a population of about 30,000. (Chch crimes
scandals. Geoffrey W Rice (c)2013).
2 April 1876 –
Leaders of the first NZ Catholic Christian brothers, br Dunne, Healey
and McMahon arrived in Port Chalmers on the “Arawata”. Christian
brothers school in Dunedin 1876 to 1886.
1877 – There
were 53 Italians in Okura in 1877. (Alan Poletti).
1877 – Charles
Kenneth Cotton was born Lyttelton Christchurch. Boer war and World
War One. Married Ethel Kate Bromley. NSW Australia info wanted.
sheila.faulkner3@gmail.com
(Chch Star NZ. 18 March 2015. public notices).
15 Sept 1877 –
(papers past) Otago Witness p13. James Pryor calender of gardening
for Otago. Rye grass, clovers, lawn grasss and seeds. Fruiterer
George st Dunedin.
16 September 1877
– Lucille Evelyne Finch was born in Dunedin Otago.
29 Sept 1877 –
(papers past) Otago Witnesss . James Pryor calendar of garden
operation for Otago. Seeds.
1878 –
Liverpool to Port Chalmers the “Invercargill” diary.
1878 – Turtons
land deeds of the North Island pre 1878. Alexander Turnbull library
POBox 12-349 Wellington NZ.
1878-1879 –
Records, Maori prisoners were arrested by the Crown during the 1878
South Taranaki resistance at Waimate and Parihaka, archives NZ
records are limited. 1878 the first arrests by armed police on 30
June 1879. July 1879, 180 arrests were made. 40 of them were given
two months jail, sent to Wellington. (NZ genealogist July Aug 2011).
5 February 1878 –
Sarah Jane Finch was married in Milton Otago.
7 Feb 1878 – A
42 year old Chinese hawker, Yan Quam Quam Yan aka Quam Yam was
arrested and accused of raping a ten year old girl in Opawa, Alice
Maud. He spoke very little English and needed an interpretor. He
pleased not guilty. (Chch crimes and scandals. Geoffrey W Rice
©2013).
1 April 1878 –
Quam Yan appeared in court, accused of the rape of a 10 year old
girl, he pleaded not guilty. No lawyer. (Chch and scandals Geoffrey W
Rice ©2013).
24 Sept 1878 –
(papers past) Westport Times. Suez mail. James Pryor, colonel Mahon
MP for Clare. Lombard depot bank forgery, minute books and bank
defrauded..
30 Sept 1878 –
Great flood hit the South island. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 30
Sept 2015).
1879 – Long
lost relatives Timaru Rootsweb. John Thomas Webber went from Plymouth
UK to NZ in 1875. He was last heard of in Timaru Canterbury in 1879.
1879 – The
Prison department correspondence to native department in 1879. About
the arrest of Maori prisoners. This file no longer exists, it was
destroyed in the Hope Gibbons fire of 1952, which burnt the records
of seven government departments. (NZ genealogist July Aug 2011).
1879 –
Bankruptcy files Barclay. William Pryor.Deed of assignment. Archives
NZ. Archway records. (R23213287) Open access.
1879-1880 –
Taranaki maori arrested in 1878 were moved to Mt Cook barracks in
Wellington, where prisoners were first sent 10 July 1879. James
Mackay inspected the 600 Maori prisoners, who arrived by 9 July 1879.
By 29 Oct 1879 there were 131 Maori prisoners at Mt Cook jail. One
prisoner, Tami Raiha could not be sent to another prison and he died
on 7 April 1880. On 22 July 1990 Watene Tupuhi died in Dunedin jail
of consumption, 25 years old. (NZ genealogist July Aug 2011).
27 May 1879 –
Ada Lillian Finch was born in Dunedin Otago.
19 June 1879 –
Great fire in Wellington. Colonist NZ. Papers past.
26 Sept 1879 –
Opium smoking. NZ Tablet. Papers Past.
1880 – On 23
Sept 1880 Pirerangi died in Dunedin jail of consumption. (NZ
genealogist July Aug 2011).
1880 – Italians
were living in Westland NZ in 1880. Italian census NZ by Alan Poletti
a.poletti@xtra.co.nz
ancestors and archives.
1880-1928 –
Deceased estates under public trust in NZ. Trade me $5 1931-1950 CD
Colonial books 1929 and 1930 and missing.
1880 – 1950 –
Italians in NZ Wellington area 1940s and 50s. The came from Stromboli
offshore from Naples, or a town off Massaburense, they started
arriving from the 1880s. (NZ Memories. Feb March 2014).
23 January 1880 –
Amelia Rosetta Williams was born in Auckland
26 July 1880 –
(papers past) Southland Times p3. Wanted weekly about 150 pair good
rabbits. James Pryor 193 George st Dunedin.
1881 – Archives
NZ. 1881 Chinese immigrants Act by NZ Parliament. NZ history.
1881 – The
first Chinese gold miners arrived in NZ in 1866 and 3 years later
there were more than 2,000 immigrants, mainly from Guangzhou China.
By 1881 there were about 5,000 Chinese in NZ. Mr Sew Hoy in 1883.
(Maritime executive 19 Nov 2014).
1881-1882 –
Trustee Executors was established in 1881. Will and Trust Deeds,
Otago. Private Act of Parliament. Statutory Trust Company in 1882. In
the 1970s Tower, in 1988 and 1999. Mid 2003 Trustee executors name
again. (Website).
22 Jan 1881 –
(papers past) ODT magistrates court. James Pryor versus James Denton.
.
29 Jan 1881 –
An English lady is murdered in NZ. Weekly Irish Times 1876-1920
Dublin Ireland.
1 March 1881 –
William John Finch was born in Dunedin Otago.
May June 1881 –
24 May 1881 several severe shocks of earthquake. 26 June 1881
Earthquake most prolonged felt. (NZ Memories June July 2014 p56).
5 Dec 1881 –
Very severe shocks of earthquake. (NZ genealogist March April 2011).
12 Dec 1881 –
(papers past) Otago Witness. James Pryor cash purchase of provincial
grown fruit. 62 Princes and 193 george st Dunedin.Turkey’s for
christmas, one shilling per pound if delivered before 21 Dec 1881.
Pryor 62 Princess and 193 George st Dunedin.
1882 – Auckland
city and suburban directory Ingram and Gardner.
1882 – NZ
property tax department a return of the freeholders of NZ Government
printer Wellington.
1883-4 –
Auckland city suburban and provincial directory Ingram and Gardner.
11 Aug 1883 –
(papers past) Otago Witness p16. White flint corn. James Pryor
puchased the crop of Mr Cormack, St Andrews corn. 62 Princess st 193
George st Dunedin.
9 Jan 1884 –
(papers past) Daily Telegraph p2. Death at the Hawkes bay hospital
Napier. On 9 Jan 1884 James Pryor of Napier aged 74 fractured his
neck, of the thigh bone on 10 Dec 1883.
1 May 1884 –
Murder suicide rape. Poverty Bay Herald.
1885 – The
earthquake of 1885, in which people died. (NZ Memories June July
2013.
1886 – Sir
Hepi’s great grandfather in 1886. Apparently gave the central
mountains of the north island to the crown?. (The Bolger years.
Margaret Clark ©2008 NZ).
1886 – Stone’s
Dunedin and Invercargill directory.
1886 – The
defenders of NZ TW Gudgeon Brett.
1886 – Kevin
Ryan’s grandfather was the engineer on the ship the “penguin”
which hurried to the nearest port of Tauranga when mount Tarewa
erupted. (Justice. Kevin Ryan ©1997 NZ).
1886-1917 – RS
Hill. The iron hand in the velvet glove. The modernisation of
policing in NZ. Palmerston North 1995. (The great wrong war. Stevan
Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).
1886-1986 –
Wanganui police history. Charles E Spicer Trade me $24.
10 June 1886 –
The great Tarawera eruption left 153 people dead and damaged homes.
(NZ Memories Dec Jan 2014).
10 June 1886 –
Mount Tarawera in the Bay of Plenty, a noisy eruption. (Spies
revolutionaries (c)2007 Graeme John Hunt NZ).
19 June 1886 –
The eruption of Lake Tarewera, Ta Wairoa. 31 May 1886 the eruption of
mount Tarawera and on 10 June 1886 Mount Trawera burst into life. The
volcano erupted with a force so large that the number of those killed
will never be known, officially 153 dead. (NZ mysteries. Nicola
McCloy. ©2005 NZ).
1887 – Giant
squid. In 1887 scientists documented a giant squid found in New
Zealand. 55 feet. (Washington Post AP Lindsay Bever 15 May 2005).
1888 – Alpine
fault and northern Canterbuiry. 7.3 earthquake.
1888-1915 –
Coroners inquest records NZ 1888 to 1915. Archives NZ in Wellingon.
The Cause of death and surname. (The NZ Genealogist. May June 2009).
1889 – Cleaves
Auckland city and suburban directory 1889, 1890, 1891 until 1923.
1889 – Italian
immigrant Louis Chemis was convicted for the murder of a rich
landowner, Thomas Hawkins of Kaiwharawhare Wellington. (NZ
Genealogist. March April 2010).
1889 – Chinese
in Nelson. The first ‘naturalised’ Chinese in NZ. A house was
built by Wong Ah Poo Hoc Ting, aka Appo Hocton. (NZ Memories. Feb
March 2014).
17 Aug 1889 –
NZ at present, Canterbury and Christchurch. Weekly Irish Times
1876-1920 Dublin Ireland.
1890 – Maori
skulls in macabre collection to be brought back to New Zealand. 800
human skulls in Sweden at the Karolinska institute in Solna north of
Stockholm Sweden. Maori skulls in 1890 from a zoologist Conrad
Fisredt were used for scientific racism. (Bernard Orsman NZ Herald
APNZ. ODT 27 Jan 2015).
1890-1892 – In
Jan 1890 Arthur Bentley Worthington, his wife Mary and children
arrived in Christchurch from the US. A sect called the students of
truth. 400 Christchurch members. 1892 the temple of truth in Latimer
square Christchurch. (NZ mysteries. Nicole McCloy ©2005 NZ).
1890s – 1900s –
William Pryor was born 3 June 1867 in Dunedin. Dominion organiser of
the NZ employers association in the 1890s and 1900s. Industrial
disputes around NZ, and ran for parliament in 1905. He died 56 years
old on 26 Feb 1922.
1890s –
American fraudster Arthur Bently Worthington and his Temple of Truth
in Latimer square Christchurch. He later went to Australia. (Chch
crimes scandals. Geoffrey W Rice ©2013).
5 March 1890 –
David Nicol died in Dunedin NZ
8 April 1890 –
Supposed murder of a tourist. Ashburton Guardian.
15 Sept 1890 –
(papers past) Colonist p3. Fatal accident at Collingwood. James Pryor
was killed in the Johnston united mine by a fall of earth.
16 Sept 1890 –
(papers past) Nelson Evening Mail p2. Johnstons united mine. James
Pryor was accidently killed in the Johnston united mine. Fired a
shot, the face of the stope, a slab of rock fell from the roof onto
his head. He had been working in the mine for 8 years. Inquest.
7 Sept 1891 –
Importation of opium. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
1 Dec 1891 –
(papers past) Auckland Star p6. Masonic news. Bro James Pryor IG
Ponsonby.
2 Dec 1891 –
(papers past) NZ Herald. Ponsonby Masonic meeting, annual meeting
James Pryor IG.
2 Dec 1891 –
(papers past) Auckland Star. Masonic news. Grand lodge EC Masonic
lodge Ponsonby hall. Bro James Pryor IG.
1892 – George
William was found dead in the bush while on a visit to his sister
Susannah. (NZ genealogist Jan Feb 2009).
1892 – Grace
Emma Munro, 30 years old was killed by her husband. (Tauranga murders
in history. 23 Sept 2014 Sun Live).
12 Feb 1892 –
Mysterious murder. Auckland Star.
23 March 1892 –
James Pryor and Emily Jane Cole were married in Ponsonby Auckland.
30 April 1892 –
(papers past) ODT Meeting of creditors. Re JJ Pryor, estate of James
John Pryor, fruiterer NZ bancruptcy and estate.
1 Dec 1892 –
(papers past) Auckland Star p8. Births. Pryor on 18 Oct 1892 Dedwood
tce Ponsonby, wife of James Pryor a son born.
1893 – The
Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act of 1893. It was rewritten
in the 1990s. (The Bolger years. Margaret Clark ©2008 NZ).
1893 – NZ
became the first country in the world to give women the right to
vote. Newstalk ZB 120th
anniversary womens sufferage.
1893-1904 – NZ
bankruptcy notices CD PDF file Trade me.
30 Oct 1893 – A
wealthy young man meets a mysterious death. Thames Star.
27 Nov 1893 –
Smuggling opium. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
13 June 1894 –
(papers past) The Press Chch p6. Passenger southern express for
Christchurch. Messrs James Pryor.
14 June 1894 –
(papers past) ODT p1. Trains from Dunedin for the north. Mr James
Pryor overland passenger.
17 September 1894
– Raper. Sydney to NZ. (NZ immigration passenger list 1855-1973)
(14 July 2013).
26 October 1894 –
1 November 1894 Raper.
1 November 1894 –
Raper. Sydney NZ. Born 1849 British female aged 45. Ship “Tasmania”
(14 July 2013).
5 November 1894 –
Raper. Lyttelton NZ (NZ immigration passenger list 1855-1973).
8 Feb 1895 –
(papers past) Evening Post p2. Ignoring the half holiday. James Pryor
fruiterer, seeds, vegeatables and plants. Convicted and fined with
costs.
8 Feb 1895 –
(papers past) Auckland Star p3. Police court. James Pryor fruiterer
and seedsman was charged with failing to close his shop. Fined 5
shillings and costs.
8 Feb 1895 –
(papers past) Marlborough Express p2. The weekly half holiday.
Dunedin police court. James Pryor fruiterer and seedsman charged with
failinhg to close his shop. He sold seeds on that day. Fined one
shiling and costs 7 shilingsa 6d.
8 Feb 1895 –
(papers past) The Press Chch p6. The half holiday Dunedin. 7 Feb 1895
police court. James Pryor failure to close his shop. Fined 1s and
costs 17s 6s. Wellington 7 Feb 1895 the Labour dept also prosecuted
20 Chinese fpr not closing in the afternoon.
9 Feb 1895 –
(papers past) Nelsom Evening Mail p3. The half holiday. James Pryor
fruiterer and seedsman was charged with failing to close his shop. He
sold seeds on that day. Combined trade of seedsman and fruiterer. He
was fined a shilling and costs.
9 Feb 1895 –
(papers past) Ignoring the half holiday. Wairarapa Daily Times p3.
Dunedin fruiterer and seeds, vegetables and plants. James Pryor was
convicted and fined with costs.Two Chinamen were also fined under the
Act.
20 July 1895 –
Archives NZ. Archway records. (R20803341) Eric Nicol Pryor WW1 army.
Restricted acess. Newspaper reporter before enlistment. Born 20 July
1895 in Auckland. His parents were James Pryor and Emily Jane Pryor
(nee Cole).
6 Aug 1895 –
Chinese opium dens. Nelson Evening Mail. Papers Past.
6 Aug 1895 –
Chinese opium dens. Press. Papers Past.
6 Aug 1895 –
Chinese opium dens. Papers Past.
2 August 1895 –
Minnie Dean was a baby farmer, she was found guilty of murder and
hanged at Invercargil prison on 12 august 1895. The only women
executed in NZ. Southland Times reports. (Law breakers mischief.
©2009 Bronwyn Sell).
1896-97 –
Dunedin. The sisters of mercy of Aotearoa NZ. Michael Verdon took
over in Dunedin, the second Catholic bishop in 1896.
1896-1920 – The
hawkers prevention bill of 1896. The immigration restriction ACT of
1899. The immigration restriction amendment ACT of 1920. (Shot in the
dark. Scott Bainbridge ©2010 NZ).
1896 – Agnes
Finch married Joseph Robinson in Milburn Otago
1896 – A Census
measured the population at about 743,214 (Timeline NZ internet).
19 March 1896 –
Shocking murder. Evening Post.
27 April 1896 –
A shocking murder. Feilding Star.
27 April 1896 –
Brutal murder. Hawera Normanby Star.
10 June 1896 –
Earthquakes at Napier, a series of violent quakes. Marlborough
express p2 vol xxxi issue 132.
15 Dec 1896 –
Another man missing. Marlborough Express.
29 Dec 1896 –
(papers past) Auckland Star p8. Births. At her home in Northcate, the
wife of James Pryor, a daughter was born.
1897 –
Cyclopedia of NZ vols 1-6 Christchurch NZ 1897-19087.
1897-1898 –
Principle of the Christian brothers school in Dunedin br Bodkin.
Catholic.
1897-1968 –
Economist Dr Bill Sutch and Rhodes scholar Ian Milner. Both
Communist,s but not members of the party. Dr Bill Airey taught
history at university. One of his students was Des Costello aka Paddy
Costello. The NZ peace council was another Comunist front group.
(Spies and revolutionaries. Graeme John Hunt. (c)2007 NZ).
5 August 1897 –
Frederick John von Sturmer died in Hamilton Waikato.
27 Aug 1898 –
NZ rabbit exportation. Weekly Irish Times 1876-1920 Dublin Ireland.
12 Oct 1898 –
William Larnach walked into a parliament committee room in Wellington
and shot himself dead. Its now the Parliament house library. (NZ
mysteries. Nicola McCloy. ©2005 NZ).
1 Nov 1898 –
The Old age pensions Act became law. A means tested pension for the
elderly. NZ history.
1899 – Every
place in NZ the NZ index Wises Christchurch.
1899 – Oil
lamps. Large oil lamps were used to read, write and do craftwork
Colza oil from Rape seed for lighting. (NZ Memories. Aug Sept 2014).
1899 – 1919 –
Charles Kenneth Cotton (R20519509) SA7543. Archives NZ. Archway
records. WW1 26995 army NZ defence force personnel.
3 Feb 1899 –
The NZ gold mines. The Manchester Guardian 1828-1900 UK.
24 Feb 1899 –
Illegally importing opium. Wanganui Chronicle. Papers Past.
24 Feb 1899 –
Importing opium. Hawkes Bay Herald, Papers Past.
24 Feb 1899 –
Charge of importing opium. NZ Herald. Papers Past.
1 March 1899 –
Samuel Finch died.
22 Dec 1899 –
St Andrews orphanage and sex abuse. Colonist.
1900 –
Christchurch population was about 50,000. (Chch crimes scandals.
Geoffrey W Rice ©2013).
1900-1940 – NZ
police gazette. In 1915 there were reports of opium smoking. (NZ
genealogist Jan Feb 2011).
24 July 1900 –
(papers past) Birth. Auckland Star, at her home in Northcote, the
wife of James Pryor, a son.
24 July 1900 –
(papers past) Auckland Star p8 on 24 July 1900 at her home Northcote
wife of James pryor a son born.
1901 – The NZ
Socialist party was founded in New Zealand. Karl Marx and Engles
(internet).
1901 – Census
out of a Chinese population of 2,792 only 30 were women. There were
82 Chinese men in Christchurch. Racism against them. Gambling dens
and opium smoking. Poor English. (Chch crimes and scandals. Geoffrey
W Rice ©(2013).
1902 – Troy
More in 2001 posted on Coldcases, then moved to New Zealand from the
US. One of New Zealand’s oldest cases, an unidentified women found
floating in Wellington harbour in 1902. (The Sketeton crew. Deborah
Helber ©2014 US).
1902 – The SS
Ventnor was a British ship in 1902 Cheong Sing Tong, a charity led by
Dunedin businessman Choie Sew Hoy. Remains of Chinese gold miners who
died being sent back to China for reburial. (Maritime executive 19
Nov 2014).
1902-1905 –
Police gazette. George Skidmore aka Malone aka Whitten, was wanted
for the murder of a Sydney policeman. Last seen at a hotel in Te Aro
Wellington. The murder occurred in 1902 and in 1905 he was still at
large. (NZ genealogist Jan Feb 2011).
3 Feb 1902 – NZ
and the war. The Manchester Guardian 1901-1959 UK.
11 Feb 1902 –
Immigration Sydney to Wellington ship “Cornwall” name Raper.
28 Feb 1902 –
(papers past) NZ Herald law and police p7. Magistrates court. Joseph
Mrs Shrewsbery versus James Pryor, 6 pounds costs 23s.
19 March 1902 –
Charles Kenneth Cotton orderly room sergeant rank. North island
regilent. Christchurch. Clare rd St Albans Christchurch. South
African war service .
23 April 1902 –
Raid on opium dens. Taranaki Daily news. Papers Past.
24 April 1902 –
Raid on opium dens. Colonist. Papers Past.
24 April 1902 –
The raid on opium dens. Wanganui Chronicle. Papers Past.
24 April 1902 –
An opium raid. Fielding Star. Papers Past.
29 Sept 1902 –
Smuggling opium. Wanganui Chronicle. Papers Past.
29 Sept 1902 –
Opium smuggling. Taranaki Herald. Papers Past.
Oct 1902 – The
Ventnor project, the wreck of a ship that sank in Oct 1902. 13 crew
and 499 Chinese from the Otago goldfields. (Waatea news 20 Nov 2014).
28 Oct 1902 –
499 coffins on the lost ship. Duncan Sew Hoy, aged 79. The vessels
went down with the ship. The SS Ventnor sunk off the Hokianga coast.
(ODT. NZ Herald. 14 Nov 2014).
29 Oct 1902 –
The SS Ventnor sank off Hokianga. The ship left Wellington bound for
Hong Kong on 26 Oct 1902. The next day it sank on a reef off the
Taranaki coast. (Maritime executive 19 Nov 2014).
20 Nov 1902 –
Missing. German sailor arrested. Grey River Argus.
13 Dec 1902 –
Opium smuggling. Manawatu Herald. Papers Past.
13 Dec 1902 –
Opium smuggling. Papers Past.
15 Dec 1902 –
Alleged opium smuggling. NZ Herald. Papers Past.
1903 – James
Pryor and Emily (nee Cole) were living in Christchurch. Richmond the
Bowhill street New Brighton and children.
1903-21 – The
NZ police fingerprint bureau was set up in 1903 and by 1921 it had
22,000 sets of fingerprints. (Shot in the dark. Scott Bainbridge
©2010 NZ)
20 Jan 1903 –
Smuggling opium. Wanganui Herald. Papers Past.
3 April 1903 –
A warning to chemists. Wanganui Herald. Papers Past.
3 April 1903 –
Opium sale and chemists. Nelson Evening Mail. Papers Past.
3 April 1903 –
Chemists and opium. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
4 April 1903 –
Chemist and the sale of opium. Otago Daily Times. Papers Past.
16 April 1903 –
Smuggling opium. Feilding Star. Papers Past.
16 April 1903 –
Smuggling opium. Hawera Star. Papers Past.
16 April 1903 –
Importing opium. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
16 April 1903 –
An opium smuggler. West Coast Times. Papers Past.
17 April 1903 –
Opium smuggling. Press. Papers Past.
17 April 1903 –
An opium smuggler. West Coast Times. Papers Past.
25 June 1903 –
Chinese laundry raided. NZ Herald. Papers Past.
25 June 1903 –
Raid on opium den. Taranaki Daily news. Paper Past.
23 July 1903 –
Chinese and opium. Nelson Evening Mail. Papers Past.
24 July 1903 –
Chinese and opium. Press. Papers Past.
24 July 1903 –
Opium and leprosy. Bay of Plenty Times. Papers Past.
28 Sept 1903 –
Opium imports. Wanganui Herald. Papers Past.
11 Feb 1904 –
Opium smuggling at the Bluff. Nelson Evening Mail. Papers Past.
11 Feb 1904 –
Opium smuggling. Bush Advocate. Papers Past.
11 Feb 1904 –
Smuggling opium. Wanganui Herald. Papers Past.
12 Feb 1904 –
An opium smuggler. Press. Papers Past.
28 April 1904 –
(papers past) The Press Chch p2. Supreme court. Disputed will. James
Pryor and O’Connor in his kitchen. Emily Pryor and O’Connor while
he was in Mr Pryor’s home, he had a stroke. Michael O’Connor and
a will.
12 May 1904 –
Opium smuggling. Manawatu Times. Papers Past.
12 May 1904 –
Importation of opium. West Coast Times. Papers Past.
19 July 1904 –
Missing American emissary. Auckland Star.
13 Aug 1904 –
Smuggling opium. Thames Star. Papers Past.
16 Aug 1904 –
Opium smuggling. Press. Papers Past.
19 Sept 1904 –
Raid on an opium den. Feilding Star. Paper Past.
19 Sept 1904 –
Raid on an opium den. Wanganui Herald. Papers Past.
27 Sept 1904 –
Opium raids. Star. Papers Past.
28 Sept 1904 –
Another opium raid. Press. Papers Past.
31 Jan 1905 –
Chinamen fined. Taranaki Herald. Papers Past.
4 April 1905 –
A Chinese opium monopoly. Marlborough Express. Papers Past.
11 April 1905 –
Alleged opium smoking. Colonist. Papers Past.
18 April 1905 –
Opium in New Zealand. Taranaki Herald. Papers Past.
8 May 1905 –
Christchurch Socialist. Manawatu Times. Papers Past NZ.
18 May 1905 –
Opium smuggling on the increase. Nelson Evening Mail. Papers Past.
18 May 1905 –
Opium smuggling. Herald. Papers Past.
19 May 1905 –
Opium smuggling. Thames Star. Papers Past.
22 May 1905 – A
crusade against opium. Wanganui Herald. Papers Past.
4 July 1905 – A
Chinaman fined. Evening Post. Papers Past.
4 July 1905 –
Chinese and opium. Taranaki Herald. Papers Past.
5 July 1905 –
Chinese and opium. Nelson Evening Mail. Papers Past.
12 Sept 1905 –
A Chinaman and his opium. NZ Herald. Papers Past.
22 Sept 1905 –
Chinese and opium. Nelson Evening Mail. Papers Past.
22 Sept 1905 –
Chinese and opium. Taranaki Herald. Papers Past.
30 Sept 1905 –
Chinese and opium. Hawera Star. Papers Past.
9 Oct 1905 - A
Chinaman and his opium. Wanganui Herald. Papers Past.
16 Dec 1905 –
Chinese and opium. Taranaki Herald. Papers Past.
29 Dec 1905 –
James John Pryor died in Dunedin aged 68. It was an unexpected sudden
death. Coroners report. Mr CC Graham coroner.
29 Dec 1905 –
(papers past) Auckland Star p3. In Dunedin, James Pryor aged 68 of
Tomahawk died suddenly last night.
29 Dec 1905 –
(papers past) Feilding Star p3. Accidents and fatalities. Dunedin
.James Pryor aged 68 died suddenly in Tomahawk while undressing.
30 Dec 1905 –
(papers past) Oamaru Mail p2. Telegraphic news. James Pryor aged 68
of Tomahawk Dunedin died suddenly last night while undressing.
30 Dec 1905 –
(papers past) Marlborough Express p3. Accidents and fatalities.
Dunedin James Pryor aged 68 of Tomahawk died suddenly last night
while undressing.
30 Dec 1905 –
(papers past) NZ Herald p5. A sudden death. Dunedin James Pryor aged
68 of Tomahawk died suddenly last night while undressing.
30 Dec 1905 –
(papers past) Accidents fatalities. The Star Chch p5. Dunedin Mr
James Pryor aged 68 of Tomahawk died suddenly last night while
undressing.
1906 – Mr Wong
Mee Chang who left NZ to return to China in 1906. His friend Ah Ming.
Children in NZ, three generations of the Meechang’s family in NZ.
(NZ Memories June July 2013).
1906 – New
Zealand's first Catholic PM, Joseph Ward took office in 1906.
Wikipedia.
1 Jan 1906 –
(papers past) ODT p7 Inquest. Jame John Pryopr aged 68. Seedsman and
fruiterer died suddenly at his home in Tomahawk Andersons bay
Dunedin. Inquest coroner. Jury, Mr Henry Duckworth. Dr Church said it
was a heart affection.
2 Jan 1906 –
(papers past) Waiganui Chronicle p5. Accident in Dunedin. James Pryor
aged 68 of Tomahawk died suddenly while undressing.
3 Jan 1906 –
(papers past) Fatalities. Colonist. James Pryor aged 68 of Tomahawk
died suddenly last night while undressing.
3 Jan 1906 –
(papers past) Otago Witness Inquest. James John Pryor aged 68
seedsman and fruiterer. Died sudenly at Tomahawk Andrsens bay
Dunedin. Inquest CC Graham coroner. Dr Church said it was a heart
affection.
12 Feb 1906 – A
missing school master. Waikato Times.
15 Aug 1906 –
Portion of body still missing. Marlborough express.
27 Dec 1906 –
China and opium traffic. Colonist. Papers Past.
21 Feb 1907 –
Raid on Chinese houses. Wanganui Chronicle. Papers Past.
23 March 1907 –
Reefton Chinese in trouble. Grey River Argus. Papers Past.
30 April 1907 –
Raid on opium dens. Nelson Evening Mail. Papers Past.
30 April 1907 –
Raid on opium dens. Colonist. Papers Past.
10 June 1907 –
Chinese. Press. Papers Past.
19 June 1907 –
(papers past) ODT p12 Matthews Pryor marriages. Presbyterian.
Percival Haxtron Matthews Auckland to Ellen Nell Pryor, third
daughter of the late James John Pryor Andersons bay Dunedin
19 June 1907 –
(papers past) Otago Witness. Percival Haxton Matthews Auckland to
Ellen Nell Pryor, third daughter of the late James John Pryor
Andersons bay Dunedin. 19 June 1907. Andersons bay presbyterian
minister A Cameron.
25 June 1907 –
(papers past) Oamaru Mail p4. James Pryor school committee and bibles
in schools.
27 June 1907 –
NZ spy, Dr William Ball Sutch was born in Southport Lancashire UK.
Arriving in NZ at 8 months old with his family. (Spy. Kit Bennetts
SIS (c)2006 NZ).
8 July 1907 –
Opium raids on Chinese den. Papers Past.
8 July 1907 –
Opium smuggling. Marlborough Express. Papers Past.
13 July 1907 –
Dr Barnardos homes and sex abuse. Thames Star.
12 Aug 1907 –
Opium dens closed. Feilding Star. Papers Past.
12 Aug 1907 –
Opium dens. Star. Papers Past.
16 Aug 1907 – A
Chinese raid. Bush Advocate. Papers Past.
16 Aug 1907 –
Opium dens. Star. Papers Past.
24 Aug 1907 –
Chinese opium smokers. NZ Herald. Papers Past.
24 Aug 1907 –
International Socialist congress. Ashburton Guardian. Papers Past NZ.
26 Aug 1907 –
International Socialist congress. Ashburton Guardian. Papers Past NZ.
29 Aug 1907 –
An opium raid. Star. Papers Past.
7 Sept 1907 – A
Chinaman’s opium. Taranaki Herald. Papers Past.
17 oct 1907 –
(papers past) Oamaru Mail p1. Otago education board meeting. Mr James
Pryor of Oamaru.
11 Dec 1907 –
The NZ parliament was destroyed by fire, saving the library. The
Manchester Guardian 1901-1959 UK.
26 Dec 1907 –
An Italian crime. NZ Herald.
2 Jan 1908 –
Smuggling of opium. Taranaki Herald. Papers Past.
28 Feb 1908 –
Opium smuggling. Otago Daily Times. Papers Past.
29 Feb 1908 –
Opium smuggling. Otago Daily Times. Papers Past.
29 Feb 1908 –
Opium smuggling. Papers Past.
11 March 1908 –
Opium smuggling. Evening Post. Papers Past.
12 March 1908 –
Opium smuggling. Marlborough Express. Papers Past.
24 March 1908 –
Smuggling opium. Nelson Evening Mail. Papers Past.
24 March 1908 –
Opium smuggling. Bush Advocate. Papers Past.
24 March 1908 –
Opium smuggling. Thames Star. Papers Past.
25 March 1908 –
Opium smuggling. West Coast Times. Papers Past.
25 March 1908 –
Opium smugglers arrested. Bay of Plenty Times. Papers Past.
24 April 1908 –
Opium dens closing. Grey River Argus. Papers Past.
25 March 1908 –
Opium smuggling. Wanganui Chronicle. Papers Past.
22 April 1908 –
Chinese opium dens. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
24 April 1908 –
Opium dens. Ohinemuri Gazette. Papers Past.
26 May 1908 –
Chinese and opium. Evening Post. Papers Past.
22 July 1908 –
NZ premier and the ‘yellow peril’, the welcome to the American
fleet. The Manchester Guardian 1901-1959 UK.
31 July 1908 –
Opium smugglers fined. Star. Papers Past.
31 July 1908 –
Opium smuggling. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
31 July 1908-
Smuggling opium. Grey River Argus. Papers Past.
1 Aug 1908 –
Opium smuggling. Colonist. Papers Past.
18 Sept 1908 –
Opium smuggling. Grey River Argus. Papers Past.
2 Oct 1908 –
The opium traffic. Wanganui Herald. Papers Past.
19 Oct 1908 –
Smuggling opium. Mataura Ensign. Papers Past.
19 Oct 1908 –
Smuggling opium. Taranaki Herald. Papers Past.
19 Oct 1908 –
Smuggling opium. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
20 Oct 1908 –
Opium smuggling. Otago Daily Times. Papers Past.
21 Oct 1908 –
Opium monopoly. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
2 Dec 1908 –
(papers past) North Otago Times. P2 Property and occupied by Mrs
James Pryor, half an acre of land. 7 room house, property sale Mrs
Pryor’s household effects.
11 Dec 1908 – A
haul of opium. Nelson Evening Mail. Papers Past.
11 Dec 1908 –
An opium haul. Papers Past.
8 Jan 1909 –
Opium traffic. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
8 March 1909 –
The opium curse. Hawera and Normanby Star. Papers Past.
29 April 1909 –
Opium smuggling. Mataura Ensign. Papers Past.
29 April 1909 –
Opium frauds. Bush Advocate. Papers Past.
23 July 1909 –
Raid on opium smokers. Papers Past.
23 July 1909 –
An opium den. Marlborough Express. Papers Past.
23 July 1909 –
Opium den raided. Bay of Plenty Times. Papers Past.
23 July 1909 –
Raid on opium smokers. Nelson Evening mail. Papers Past.
23 July 1909 –
An opium den raided. Taranaki Herald. Papers Past.
23 July 1909 –
Chinese and opium. Wanganui Chronicle. Papers Past.
23 July 1909 –
An opium den. Harewa. Papers Past.
26 July 1909 –
An opium den. Ashburton Guardian. Papers Past.
18 Aug 1909 –
Smuggling opium. Manawatu Times. Papers Past.
18 Aug 1909 –
Smuggled opium. Wairarapa Times. Papers Past.
18 Aug 1909 –
Opium smuggling. Evening Post. Papers Past.
18 Aug 1909 –
Opium smuggling. Wanganui Herald. Papers Past.
18 Aug 1909 –
Opium smugglers charged. Bay of Plenty Times. Papers Past.
19 Aug 1909 –
Opium smuggling. Hawewa Star. Papers Past.
20 Aug 1909 –
Opium smuggling. Grey River Argus. Papers Past.
20 Aug 1909 –
Opium smuggling. West Coast Times. Papers Past.
23 Aug 1909 –
Chinese and opium. Mataura Ensign. Papers Past.
19 Sept 1909 –
Smuggled opium. Ashburton Guardian. Papers Past.
20 Sept 1909 –
Smuggling opium. Colonist. Papers Past.
20 Oct 1909 –
Christchurch murder. Marlborough express.
22 Nov 1909 –
Charles Kenneth Cotton was a teller at the BNZ in Lyttelton. Supreme
court fruad case alleged forger. Chch Star p2 Christchurch (Papers
past).
17 Dec 1909 –
(papers past) Wairarapa Daily Times p6. Annual sucessful candidates
Masterton district high school, proficiency certificate boys Eric
Pryor. Promoted to student girl Olave Pryor.
21 Dec 1909 –
Chinaman and opium. Mataura Ensign. Papers Past.
2 March 1910 –
Opium on Cable steamer. Oamaru Mail. Papers Past.
3 March 1910 –
Opium dens. Fielding Star. Paper Past.
31 March 1910 –
The Hocken library opened at the University of Otago museum. A
storehouse and a large collection of manuscripts, charts, files, old
newspapers and documents. A research library. (On this day in NZ. Ron
Palenski ©2010).
5 April 1910 –
Military and opium growers. Wanganui Chronicle. Papers Past.
5 April 1910 –
Raid on opium growers. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser.
Papers Past.
7 April 1910 –
Chinese and opium. Mail. Papers Past.
8 April 1910 -
Chinaman fined. Wanganui Chronicle. Papers Past.
27 Aug 1910 –
Smuggled opium. Horowhenua Chronicle. Papers Past.
27 Aug 1910 –
Smuggled opium. Manawatu Times. Papers Past.
30 Aug 1910 –
International Socialist Congress. Hawera Normanby Star. Papers Past
NZ.
13 Sept 1910 –
Smuggling opium. Ashburton Guardian. Papers Past.
13 Sept 1910 –
Smuggling of opium. Evening Post. Papers Past.
14 Sept 1910 –
Opium smuggling. Otago Daily Times. Papers Past.
14 Sept 1910 –
Opium smuggling. Grey River Argus. Papers Past.
8 Oct 1910 –
Chinese and opium. Mataura Ensign. Papers Past.
8 Oct 1910 –
Chinese and opium. Nelson Evening Mail. Papers Past.
12 Dec 1910 –
Opium and Chinamen. Ashburton Guardian. Papers Past.
12 Dec 1910 –
Smuggling opium. Papers Past.
12 Dec 1910 –
Opium and Chinese. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
12 Dec 1910 –
Opium raid. Star. Papers past.
12 Dec 1910 – A
customs haul. Mataura Ensign. Papers Past.
12 Dec 1910 –
Opium and Stowaways. Post. Papers Past.
13 Dec 1910 –
Opium smuggling. Press. Papers Past.
13 Dec 1910 –
An opium syndicate. Dominion. Papers Past.
24 Dec 1910 –
Chinese opium evil. Papers Past.
19 Jan 1911 –
The oil fields of NZ. The Irish Times 1874-1920 Dublin Ireland.
24 Jan 1911 –
Opium smuggling. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser. Papers
Past.
11 Feb 1911 –
Chinese opium smuggling. Nelson Evening Mail. Papers Past.
11 Feb 1911 –
Smuggling opium. Papers Past.
13 Feb 1911 –
Opium smuggling. Wanganui Chronicle. Papers Past.
13 Feb 1911 –
Opium smuggling. Papers Past.
23 Feb 1911 –
Opium smuggling. Wanganui Chronicle. Papers Past.
10 April 1911 –
A Chinaman fined. Bay of Plenty Times. Papers Past.
1 May 1911 –
Opium smuggling. Thames Star. Papers Past.
30 May 1911 –
Smuggled opium. Northern Advocate. Papers Past.
14 June 1911 –
Smuggling opium. Grey River Argus. Papers Past.
22 June 1911 –
Chinese opium ring. Papers Past.
24 June 1911 –
Chinese and opium. Colonist. Papers Past.
27 June 1911 –
An opium ring. Auckland Star. Papers Past
27 June 1911 –
An opium ring. Northern Advocate. Papers Past.
28 June 1911 –
An opium ring. Thames Star. Papers Past.
28 June 1911 –
An opium ring. Dominion. Papers Past.
30 June 1911 –
NZ Socialist party. Maoriland worker. Papers Past NZ.
11 July 1911 –
Chinese and opium. Mataura Ensign. Papers Past.
1 Sept 1911 –
Murder mysteries. Nelson Evening Mail.
2 Sept 1911 –
Mysterious disappearance. Dominion Wellington.
22 Sept 1911 –
Opium smuggling. Waikato Times. Papers Past.
23 Sept 1911 –
Opium smuggling. Otago Daily Times. Papers Past.
23 Sept 1911 –
Opium smuggling. Northern Advocate. Papers Past.
26 Sept 1911 –
Smuggling opium. Papers Past.
3 Oct 1911 –
(papers past) Wairarapa Daily Times p3. Debating society Masterton
James Pryor. Should women enter parliament.
1912 – Thomas
Sedgwick. Youth migration to Australia and NZ for farm work. Youths
15-19 years. Child migrants under 14. Sedgwick the first groups of 50
youths from London and Liverpool were sent to NZ.
1912 – Mines in
Waihi. A political strike, unions. William Parry was a member of the
Socialist party and a union leader. Many were arrested by police.
Shots were fired Constable Wade was shot. The shooter was Fredrick
Evans. He was taken to Waihi police station and then to Waihi
hospital where he died. Constable Wade made a full recovery. (NZ
Memories. Oct Nov 2012 ).
1912 – Archives
NZ. Archway records. (R23157172) James Pryor. Masterton Draper. 18576
Masterton probate files 1910-1923 Masterton district court 1910-2004.
Open access.
25 Jan 1912 –
Big opium seizure. Poverty Bay Herald. Papers Past.
30 Jan 1912 –
Big opium seizure. Grey River Argus. Papers Past.
12 Feb 1912 –
Chinaman and opium. Mataura Ensign. Papers Past.
3 May 1912 –
(papers past) Wairarapa Daily Tims p5. Mr James Pryor was elected to
the NZ hockey association
22 May 1912 –
Opium den raided. Colonist. Papers Past.
17 June 1912 –
Chinese arrested. Post. Papers Past.
18 Sept 1912 –
James Pryor died aged 43 or 46? In Masterton. Buried in Masterton
cemetery. He made a will in July 1912.
18 Sept 1912 –
(papers past) Dominion Wellington p4. Death at his residence in
Bannister st Masterton. James Pryor husband of Emily Pryor, brother
of Ms Win Pryor of Haitaitai Wellington, died in his 44th
year.
18 Sept 1912 –
(papers past) Wairarapa Daily Times p4. Bannister st Masterton James
Pryor’s death, husband of Emily Pryor.
18 Sept 1912 –
(papers past) Wairarapa Age p4. Death of James Pryor at his home in
Bannister st Masterton. Husband of Emily Pryor.
19 Sept 1912 –
(papers past) Obituary. Wairarapa Age p5. Mr James Pryor died
suddenly at his home in Bannister st. He had an operaton for varicose
vains in July 1911. he got pleurisy and pseumonia. Violent pains
after tea. Unconscious and died. Internal Hemmorrhage at 46 years
old. He came to Masterton from Oamaru in Nov 1908, a draper
19 Sept 1912 –
(papers past) Obituary. Wairarapa Age p5. Mr James Pryor was a member
of the horticultual society, a poultry farmer and officer at Knox
church. He left a widow and 4 sons, one daughter. One of his sons,
David is studying in Dunedin for the Presbyterian ministry. Mr
William Pryor, brother of James Pryor.
19 Sept 1912 –
(papers past) Obituary. Wairarapa Age. James Pryor brother, late rev
David Pryor, Knox church Dunedin.
21 Sept 1912 –
(papes past) Dominion p4. Death. On 18 Sept 1912 at his Bannister st
Masterton home, James Pryor, husband of Emily Pryor, brother of WW
Pryor of Hataitai, in his 46th
year died.
25 Sept 1912 –
(papers past) Wairarapa Daily Times p5. Suceeded the late James Pryor
as head of the drapery dept WFCA Masterton.
28 Sept 1912 –
(papers past) Wairarapa Daily Times . Personal. Late Mr James Pryor
Wairarapa Amateur athletics club vote.
19 Oct 1912 –
(papers past) Wairarapa Daily Times p5. Widow and family of the late
James Pryor.
31 Oct 1912 –
Shocking murder. Wairarapa Daily Times.
12 Nov 1912 –
Waihi. The strike, policeman Gerald Wade, police shot on Black
Tuesday. The truth about what happened may never be known. Workers
and police. (NZ Memories. June July 2013).
1913 – 14 year
old Sally Kent in Dunedin, was raped and stabbed in a school yard.
(By a person or persons unknown. George Joseph ©1982 NZ).
1913 – There
were no laws requiring Maori to register births, deaths or marriages
until 1913. (NZ Memories Dec Jan 2014).
1913-18 – Bill
Bayly’s neighbour, Samuel Pender Lakey, migrated to NZ from the UK
in 1913. Released from the army in 1918. (By a person or persons
unknown. George Joseph ©1989 NZ).
9 Jan 1913 –
The opium trade. Press. Papers past.
9 Jan 1913 –
The opium traffic. Colonist. Papers Past.
21 Jan 1913 –
Smuggling opium. Ashburton Guardian. Papers Past.
30 Jan 1913 –
Big opium crops. NZ Herald. Papers Past.
24 April 1913 –
Opium dens. Poverty Bay Herald. Papers Past.
15 May 1913 –
Chinese opium smokers. NZ Herald. Papers past.
1914 – Donald
Fraser was born in Queensland Australia 1892. In 1914 Fraser was
charged with a sex assault on a teenage girl. In 17 Nov 1933 unsolved
murder, Riccarton Christchurch. (Shot in the dark. Scott Bainbridge
©2010 NZ)
1914 –
Historians get hold of the details. British General S Alexander
Godley was sent to New Zealand. Training and advisor to NZ troops.
Military preparedness and 1914. (Hidden history. Gerry Docherty. Jim
Macgregor (c)2013 UK).
1914 – Archives
NZ. Archway records. William Pryor. (R27219697) Open access.
1914-18 – NZ
lost about 18,000 soldiers during World War One. Following the war
the Spanish flu epidemic swept through NZ killing more than 8,500
people. (Shot in the dark. Scott Bainbridge ©2010 NZ).
1914-18 – Women
in NZ were knitting in support of the war effort. (NZ Memories Aug
Sept 2014).
1914-18 –
Archives NZ. Archway records. William Antony Pryor.WW1 army.
(R20803230) Restricted access.
1914-18 –
Archives NZ. Archway records. (R20803337) Harry Kininmont Pryor WW1
army. Restricted access.
1914-1945 –
Archives NZ. Archway records. James John Pryor WW1 army. (R24062704)
Restricted access.
14 Jan 1914 –
Chemist and opium. Star. Papers Past.
14 Jan 1914 –
Chemists and opium. Manawatu Standard. Papers Past.
20 Jan 1914 –
Chinese and opium. Wanganui Chronicle. Papers Past.
20 Jan 1914 –
An opium den. Press. Papers Past.
7 March 1914 –
A Wellington opium den. Press. Papers Past.
14 April 1914 –
Chinese opium smuggler. Northern Advocate. Papers Past.
9 May 1914 – NZ
police force, an increase of pay. Weekly Irish Times 1876-1920 Dublin
Ireland.
8 June 1914 –
Chinese and opium. Sun. Papers Past.
3 July 1914 –
Chinese and opium. Evening Post. Papers Past.
4 July 1914 –
Chinese and opium. Feilding Star. Papers Past.
11 Aug 1914 – A
week after the outbreak of World War One, 12 year old Kiri Waihinga
was raped and murdered, she was found in the Wanganui river. Murder
unsolved. (By a person or persons unknown. George Joseph (c)1989 NZ).
12 Sept 1914 –
North Waikato town of Huntly. An explosion at Ralph mine, 43 people
were killed and many more injured. (NZ Memories. Aug Sept 2014).
15 Sept 1914 –
Chinese with opium. NZ Herald. Papers Past.
28 Sept 1914 –
Sex slave Frances Marshall was murdered in Auckland. Unsolved crime.
(NZ crime timeline).
20 Oct 1914 –
Chinaman with opium. NZ Herald. Papers past.
20 Oct 1914 –
Chinese and opium. Wairarapa Daily Times. Papers Past.
20 Oct 1914 –
Chinese and opium. Evening Post. Papers Past.
5 Dec 1914 – NZ
and the war. The Irish Times 1874-1920 Dublin Ireland.
19 Jan 1915 –
(papers past) Public service. Dominion. James Patrick Ward. Hokitika.
Entrance exams passses.
21 Jan 1915 –
International Socialist conference. Colonist. Papers Past NZ.
3 March 1915 –
Chinamen and opium. Papers Past.
19 March 1915 –
Alleged opium smuggling. Hawera Star. Papers Past.
19 March 1915 –
(papers past) Dominion. The recruiting. Wellington 39 recruits for
active service. James John Pryor Hataitai.
21 May 1915 –
Opium smuggling. Northern Advocate. Papers Past.
29 June 1915 –
Chinaman and opium. Evening Post. Papers Past.
30 June 1915 –
Chinamen and opium. NZ Herald. Papers Past.
8 Sept 1915 –
Smuggling opium. NZ Herald. Papers Past.
17 Sept 1915 –
Opium smuggling. Sun. Papers Past.
17 Sept 1915 –
Opium smuggling. Nelson Evening Mail. Papers Past.
8 Oct 1915 –
Opium smuggling. Wairarapa Daily Times. Papers Past.
12 Oct 1915 –
Big seizure of opium. Ashburton Guardian. Papers Past.
12 Oct 1915 –
Haul of opium. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
13 Oct 1915 –
Opium smuggling. Papers Past.
14 Oct 1915 –
(papers past) Dominion p6. A country’s call. Enlistments. 145
registered at the Town Hall. James John Pryor motor mechanic.
5 Jan 1916 –
Opium smuggling. Wanganui Chronicle. Papers Past.
5 Jan 1916 –
Chinaman and opium. Nelson Evening Mail. Papers Past.
5 Jan 1916 –
Chinamen and opium. Colonist. Papers Past.
24 Jan 1916 –
Chinese stock of opium. NZ Herald. Papers Past.
11 May 1916 –
Mr and Mrs JF Holland were murdered at their Raven st home in
Kaiapoi. Their young child was in the house unharmed. Unsolved. (Nine
unsolved murders in Canterbury. The Press. Stuff.co.nz. 30 March
2012).
29 July 1916 –
Mysterious murder. Northern Advocate.
29 July 1916 –
Mysterious murder. Marlborough Express.
3 Aug 1916 –
The NZ military service bill. The Manchester Guardian 1901-1959 UK.
15 Aug 1916 –
Chinese opium smugglers. Marlborough Express. Papers Past.
23 Sept 1916 –
Charles Kenneth Cotton WW1 Wellington NZ to Devon UK. Cape of good
hope South Africa. Departed 23 Sept 1916 arrived 19 Nov 1916. WW1 New
Zealand Expeditionary force. (See Auckland war memorial museum).
1917 – NZ
census and statistics office. Register of aliens 1917. Confidential
for use of alien registration officers only. Wellington 1917. (The
great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).
1917 – The
clergy and conscription. Manifesto of the Catholic hierarchy of NZ.
Dunedin. (The great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).
1917 – The NZ
census and statistics office register of aliens. Confidential, for
use of register officers only. Wellington. (The great wrong war.
Stevan Eldred Grigg (c)2010 NZ).
1917-1918 –
Capture of the US schooner Winslow in June 1917. SMS Wolf was a
German navy warship, which returned to Kiel Germany 24 Feb 1918 with
crew and 600 prisoners, all ill with scurvy. SMS Wolf German navy
1918. (NZ Memories Dec Jan 2012 2013).
1917-1918 – 2
June 1917 NZ, SS Wairuna Raoul island. The 5th
victim of the Imperial German navy SMS Wolf armed merchant vessel.
From April to June 1917 Wolf was in Australia and NZ waters. Wolf
laid minefields off the NZ coast on the tip of the North Island. Loss
of the steamer Wimmera in July 1918. (NZ Memories Dec Jan 2012 2013).
1917-1923 – Br
F P Bowler Christian brothers school Catholic hostel for 12 boys. 2
Bishop place Dunedin. Rattray st. 30 boys until 1923 when he went to
Adelaide Australia.
1917-1928 –
Nana Chhiba, a Hindu was born on 19 Jan 1900 in Surat Bombay, he
arrived in NZ in 1917. In 1917 the Chhiba brothers sailed to NZ,
Wanganui, In 1927 Nana returned to the India village of Mataud in
Bombay. He returned to NZ, 1926 fruit store in the Taranaki town of
Hawera. Returned to NZ in May 1928, and was donating fruit to the
poor. (Shot in the dark. Scott Bainbridge ©2010 NZ).
14 March 1917 –
Chinese and opium. Evening Post. Papers Past.
21 May 1917 –
International Socialist conference. Wanganui Chronicle. Papers Past
NZ.
9 June 1917 –
Eric Nicol Pryor (R20803341) embarked WW1 army Wellington. To Devon
UK then to Cape of good Hope South Africa. NZEF.
22 June 1917 –
The Socialist Internationale. Colonist. Papers Past NZ.
1918 – NZ
Marxian association was founded in 1918 a Marxist (Socialist), party
in New Zealand.
1918 – The
Sisters of mercy in NZ Catholic. The works of mercy during the 1918
Spanish flu epidemic.
1918 – War in
Europe, a memorial for 48 New Zealanders, whose bodies were never
found, most of the New Zealander’s were killed at the beginning of
the war. 1916-17. Grave memorials are in Belgium. (NZ genealogist
July Aug 2011).
1918 – The 1918
flu epidemic killed over 8,500 people and is part of New Zealand's
World War One history. (Radio NZ. 9 Aug 2015).
15 Feb 1918 –
(papers past) Engagement lieut OG Jarrett, son of Mr Mrs RO Jarrett.
Olave Pryor daughter of James Pryor. Pine street. Lieut Jarrett who
left with the NZ rifle brigade, on duty as 38th
reinforcments at Trenthem. Wairarapa Age 15 Feb 1918 p5. personal.
27 Jan 1919 –
International Socialist Delegation. Marlborough express. Papers Past
NZ.
7 Feb 1919 –
International Socialist conference. Colonist. Papers Past NZ.
24 Feb 1919 –
(papers past) Public service scholarships examinations. Oamaru Mail
p6. David Nicol Pryor, Oamaru.
6 Oct 1919-1 Apr
1921 – On 6 Oct 1919 Constable Vivian Duddy was shot dead in
Wellington. Passing of the Arms Act in 1920. Register firearms was
required by 1 April 1921. 200,000 firearms were registered. Many were
not. (Shot in the dark. Scott Bainbridge ©2010 NZ).
1920s 30s –
Murder mystery. An old rest home matron Elspeth Kerr aka the Granny
killer. Kerr murdered elderly patients by poisoning them during the
1920s and 30s she worked in North Shore Auckland. Skeletons were
found at the property of a house owned by Kerr. Residents also found
skeletons while gardening. Elspeth Kerr was an abortionist, she also
killed several young children. Hunt for more bodies. (The paradise
conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).
18 March 1920 –
Ponsonby murder. Evening Post.
21 June 1920 –
Ponsonby murder. Evening Post.
21 June 1920 –
Ponsonby murder. Marlborough express.
18 Nov 1920 – A
corpse missing. Marlborough Express.
19 Nov 1920 –
Timaru murder. Marlborough Express.
16 Dec 1920 –
Trade in opium. Ashburton Guardian. Papers Past.
July-Sept 1921 –
17 July 1921 Albert Prosser Auckland boxers found the body and told
police. The deceased was Francis Edward Jew aged 19. The inquest into
the death of Francis Edward Jew opened in Auckland magistrates court
on 12 Sept 1921. On 16 July 1921 he had been beaten with a batten.
(Shot in the dark. Scott Bainbridge ©2010 NZ).
27 August 1921 –
Murder of policeman James Dorgan outside a Timaru drapery. He was
shot dead and the killer was never found. (NZ crime timeline).
27-30 Aug 1921 –
Death recorded on 27 Aug 1921, 37 year old policeman James Dorgan.
Funeral for James Dorgan was held on 30 Aug 1921 in Timaru. (Shot in
the dark. Scott Bainbridge ©2010 NZ).
25 Sept 1921 –
Birthday of Robert Muldoon, former NZ PM. (Chch Star NZ. Today in
history. 25 Sept 2015).
28 Dec 1921 –
Murder mystery. Ashburton Guardian.
31 Dec 1921 –
Sex abuse in Catholic orphanages. NZ Herald.
1922-23 –
William Oates was released from hospital on 2 Nov 1923. Unsolved
murder of an elderly Chinese market gardener named Chow Yat, shot
dead a year earlier. Inquest into the murder of Margaret Emily Oates
was held in Wanganui district court on 23 Nov1923. Murder unsolved,
26 Oct 1923 at her residence. (Shot in the dark. Scott Bainbridge
©2010 NZ).
1923 –
(R23089791) Thomas James Pryor. Stillwater miner. Open access.
Archives NZ. Archway records.
9 Jan 1923 – NZ
writer Katherine Mansfield died of tuberculosis, institute for
harmonic development in Fontaineblou. Greek American psychologist
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was accused of killing her. (The lawn road
flats. David Burke (c)2014 UK).
1 May 1923 -
Smuggling of opium. Press. Papers Past.
24 Aug 1923 –
Smuggled opium. Northern Advocate. Papers Past.
25 Aug 1923 –
Smuggled opium. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
25 Aug 1923 –
Opium smuggler caught. NZ Herald. Papers Past.
29 Aug 1923 -
Supreme court. The Press Christchurch p7. Charles Kenneth Cotton for
being 8 pounds 10 shillings in arrears on a maintenance order.
Convicted and sentenced to one month imprisonment. Release on payment
of arrears. (Papers past.
17 Sept 1923 –
Murder mystery. Hawera Normanby Star.
27 Sept 1923 –
Medal of action completed. Charles Kenneth Cotton. Last known address
273 Kilmore street Christchurch. sheila.faulkner3@gmail.com
14 Nov 1923 –
Chinese fined 30 pounds. NZ Herald. Papers Past.
17 Nov 1923 –
Opium smokers. NZ Truth. Papers Past.
12 Dec 1923 –
The courts. The Press p6. Charles Kenneth Cotton disobedience of a
mainenance order, convicted and sentenced to 2 months imprisonment.
Release on payment of 7 pounds. (Papers past).
30 Jan 1924 –
Socialist international. Evening Post. Papers Past NZ.
11 Feb 1924 –
Opium raid. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
16 Feb 1924 –
Boy immigrants. Northern Advocate.
16 Feb 1924 –
Orphans as immigrants. Hawera and Normanby Star.
16 July 1924 –
Chinamen fined for opium smoking. Papers Past.
25 July 1924 –
Opium smuggling. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
16 Sept 1924 –
Smuggled opium. Hawera Normanby Star. Papers Past.
8 Oct 1924 –
Another haul of opium. Papers Past.
17 Nov 1924 –
Smuggled opium. Northern Advocate. Papers Past.
2 Dec 1924 –
Chinamen fined. Hawera Star. Papers Past.
1925 – Police
Gazette. Ellen and Frederick Mouat in Christchurch. Ellen was missing
and Frederick was accused of her murder. (NZ genealogist Jan Feb
2011).
1925 – Loyalty
league. What is the red menace. The secret history of the forces
behind Socialism and Communism. The Labour party Wellington. (The
great wrong war. Stevan Eldrid Grigg (c)2010 NZ).
1925-37 – The
disappearance of Nellie Mouat in Christchurch in 1925. Her husband
Fred was charged and convicted of her murder. Fred was released in
1937 after 12 years of hard labour. (Shot in the dark. Scott
Bainbridge ©2010 NZ).
23 Jan 1925 –
Opium traffic. Evening Post. Papers Past.
9 Feb 1925 –
Opium traffic. Evening post. Papers Past.
16 Feb 1925 –
Arms and opium. Evening Post. Papers Past.
23 July 1925 –
Smuggled opium. Press. Papers Past.
1926 – The New
Zealand Communist party was set up. (Spy. Kit Bennetts (c)2006 NZ).
1 Feb 1926 –
Chinese and opium. Evening Post. Papers Past.
20 May 1926 –
Opium smuggling. Press. Papers Past.
16 Sept 1926 –
Child welfare in NZ. The Manchester Guardian 1901-1959 UK.
Dec 1926 –
Allan Eaglesham became gen sec of the Communist party of NZ. (Spies
and revolutionaries. Graeme John Hunt (c)2007 NZ).
1927-38 – Rewi
Alley, was a Marxist (Socialist), in Shanghai China and a friend of
Communist spy Agnes Smedley. Rewi Alley was a factory inspector in
Shanghai from 1927 to 1938. Rewi Alley remembered M15 Hollis in
China. (Too secret too long. p12. Chapman Pincher. ©1984 US).
8 March 1927 –
Chinaman with opium. Auckland Star, Papers Past.
21 April 1927 –
Rewi Alley from Canterbury, arrived in China, where he stayed until
his death 60 years later. He died on 27 Dec 1987. (On this day in NZ.
Ron Palenski ©2010).
12 May 1927 –
The Arcos raid in the UK lead the British to sever diplomatic
relations with the Soviet Union. The All Russian coop society ltd,
aka Arcos. (Spies and revolutionaries. Graeme John Hunt (c)2007 NZ).
20 June 1927 –
Murder mystery. Auckland Star.
11 July 1927 –
Chinese with opium. Auckland Star, Papers Past.
18 July 1927 –
Chinese smoking opium. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
15 Nov 1927 –
Gwen Scarff, Cashmere Christchurch. The criminal sessions at
Christchurch supreme court, Murder unsolved. (Shot in the dark. Scott
Bainbridge ©2010 NZ).
1928 – The
Elsie Walker case rocked the Te Puke community in 1928. Her
disappearance, an unsolved mystery. 1928 newspaper clippings. (NZ
Memories p53 Dec Jan 2014).
1928-29 –5 Oct
1928 Auckland Elsie Walker, aged 17, disappeared several nights
before she was found dead. A girl abused? Elsie could not drive. On 8
Oct 1928 Elsie Grace Walker was buried at Purewa cemetery. Elsie
Walker disappeared on 1 Oct 1928. The inquest in Auckland magistrates
court on 10 Jan 1929. No arrests were made. (Shot in the dark. Scott
Bainbridge (c)2010 NZ).
18 June 1928 –
(papers past) NZ Herald. Weddings. Knox church in Masteton on the 4
June 1928 Olave Pryor. Frederick Anderson of Timaru.
13 Aug 1928 –
(papers past) NZ Herald p8. While playing football at Waimauku on
Saturday Mr James Pryor aged 24 fractured his leg. Auckland hospital.
20 Aug 1928 –
Opium traffic. Evening Post. Papers Past.
1 Oct 1928 –
Elise Walker aged 17, her dumped body was found in Taranaki on 1 Oct
1928. (Tauranga murders in history. 23 Sept 2014 Sun Live).
2-5 Oct 1928 –
Elsie Walker, 17 years old, died on 2 Oct 1928, Papamoa near Te Puke
Tauranga. Her body was found later on 5 Oct 1928. (By a person or
persons unknown. George Joseph ©1989 NZ).
1929 – In
Murchisen a 7.8 earth earthquake, and a landslide that killed 14
people. (NZ newswire Te Ara).
1929 – The Wall
street crash and the start of the great depression. (The lawn road
flats. David Burke (c)2014 UK).
1929-32 – The
New York stock exchange crashed on 24 Oct 1929 causing the Great
Depression. Poverty in April 1932 and violence in Auckland. The Cuba
street riots on 10 May 1932. Mounted police in Wellington. Old age
pensions were cut, poverty as the govt took money out of circulation.
Work for the dole. Clothes were made from old suger sacks, also
called the sugar bag years. (The great depression NZ. Kevin Boon
(c)1994).
1929-33 – The
Wall street stock market crash of 1929, which began the Great
Depression. In 1933 there were 80,000 unemployed in NZ. (Shot in the
dark. Scott Bainbridge ©2010 NZ).
9 March 1929 –
Chinese opium dens. Evening Post. Papers Past.
11 May 1929 –
Murder mystery. Auckland Star.
8 Aug 1929 –
The NZ earthquake, extent of damage. The Manchester Guardian
1901-1959 UK.
26 Aug 1929 –
The NZ earthquake, devastated areas. Manchester Guardian 1901-1959
UK.
11 Oct 1929 –
(papers past) NZ Herald. Benefit concert and dance for Mr James
Pryor, Waimauku who was injured at football, 12 months, Coronation
hall.
5 Dec 1929 –
Opium trafficker fined. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
1930 – The
World socialist party in New Zealand was set up in 1930. The
socialist party of NZ was affiliated to the world socialist movement.
1930 – Alex
Galbraith visited the Soviet Union in 1930. NZ delegation to the red
international of trade unions. Alex Galbraith 1883-1959. (Spies
revolutionarires. Graeme Hunt (c)2007 NZ).
1930-31 – In
April 1930, Nana in Hawera, 29 Jan 1931 Nana Chhiba victim in New
Plymouth. Walter Tinsley was suspected of murdering Nana Chhiba in
Hawera on 31 Jan 1931 he was tried and acquitted. Walter John Tinsley
was born in Masterton on 15 Dec 1904. (Shot in the dark. Scott
Bainbridge ©2010 NZ).
1930-64 – Paddy
Costello was at Trinity college Cambridge in the early 1930s, in the
NZ legation to Moscow from 1944-50, NZ diplomatic service in Paris
1950-55. He died on 23 Feb 1964. The two diplomats expelled in NZ
were Andraev and Shtyko.
Early 1930s –
New Zealander Rewi Alley was a friend of Agnes Smedley. Alley was a
Communist/Socialist and a friend of M15 Hollis in China. (Treachery.
C Pincher ©2011 UK).
24 Jan 1930 –
Smuggled opium. NZ Herald. Papers Past.
15 March 1930 –
Smuggling opium. Evening Post. Papers Past.
9 Sept 1930 –
Chinaman fined 50 pounds. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
7 November 1930 –
Ernie Burr was missing in Marsden NZ. The identity of a body has
never been confirmed nor the cause of death. Burr has not been seen
alive since 7 November 1930 West Coast. (Still missing. Scott
Bainbridge ©2008 NZ).
1931 – The land
district Wellington, Taranaki and Hawkes Bay. The Hawkes Bay Deed
indexes and registers, were destroyed by the 1931 Napier earthquakes,
so there is little available before that date. (NZ genealogist Nov
Dec 2011).
1931 – During
the Great Depression the 1931 census was cancelled. (NZ genealogist
May June 2011).
2 Feb 1931 –
Hawkes bay 7.9 earthquake. 256 people died. USGS historic world
earthquakes.
3 Feb 1931 –
Hawkes Bay earthquakes magnitude 7.3 on 13 Feb 1931 Napier Hastings.
Hundreds of people were killed or trapped. 256 death toll. 593 people
were seriously injured. More than 5,000 people were evacuated. On 3
Feb 1931 earthquake 7.9 Hawkes Bay, Napier, Hastings. (NZ genealogist
Jan Feb 2012).
4 Feb 1931 –
The NZ earthquake. The Manchester Guardian 1901-1959 UK.
5 Feb 1931 –
The NZ earthquake. worlds unstable belt. Prof J W Gregory The
Manchester Guardian 1901-1959 UK.
5 Feb 1931 – NZ
loss estimated earthquake death toll 1,000. Army of rescuers hard at
work. The Manchester Guardian 1901-1959 UK.
7 Feb 1931 –
Relief in NZ, order in devastated district. Napier bankrupt,
complications of burnt documents. The Manchester Guardian 1901-1959
UK.
10 Feb 1931 - The
NZ earthquake, governor general tribute to inhabitants. The Irish
Times 1921-curent Dublin Ireland.
11 Feb 1931 –
The NZ earthquake official statistics of casualties. The Irish Times
1921-current. Dublin Ireland.
27 Feb 1931 –
The NZ earthquake. appeal by former governor general. The Manchester
Guardian 1901-1959 UK.
19 March 1931 –
NZ legal system. Lawyer Kevin Ryan, Irish ancestry, was born in
Westport. (Justice Kevin Ryan ©1997 NZ).
6 April 1931 –
Chinese charged. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
13 May 1931 –
Murder mystery. Evening Post.
1 June 1931 –
NZ earthquake, the task of reconstruction. The Manchester Guardian
1901-1959 UK.
22 Aug 1931 –
Chinese and opium. NZ Herald. Papers Past.
30 Oct 1931 –
Death of Arthur Blomfield in Auckland, a 75 year old chemist in a
pharmacy, drug related, possible. (Shot in the dark. Scott Bainbridge
©2010 NZ).
10 Dec 1931 –
Missing woman’s body. Evening Post.
1932 – 80,000
unemployed in Dec 1932 in NZ. 100,000 people did not “qualify”.
April 1932 violence in Auckland. 20,000 people met at the town hall.
Police attacked people with battons. Many people were injured. Queen
street Auckland windows were broken. Looting. Called the Queen street
riot. Also violence in Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. 10 may
1932 protests at parliament. (The great depression NZ. Kevin Boon
(c)1994)
1932-33 –
Oswald Laurence Coulton aged 24, Australian born. Inquiry into the
murder of Arthur Blomfield, Auckland 20 March 1932. On 15 Oct 1933
Christobal Lakey went missing. Auckland taxi driver James Blair.
(Shot in the dark. Scott Bainbridge ©2010 NZ).
14 April 1932 –
Riots broke out in Queen street Auckland. There was more than 200
injuries and widespread looting. (Spies and revolutionarires. Graeme
John Hunt. (c)2007 NZ).
23 April 1932 –
Catholic orphanages and child sex abuse. Auckland Star.
3 Sept 1932 –
Opium den. Evening Post. Papers Past.
15 Dec 1932 –
Chinese fined 40 pounds. NZ Herald. Papers Past.
1933 – The
minimum age of marriage was raised to 16 in 1933. Previously it was
14 for males and 12 for females. (Family tree. Dec 2009).
1933-34 –
Christobel Lakey was killed by asphyxia. Samuel Lakey disappeared.
Bayly was charged with the murder of Christobel Lakey on 5 Dec 1933
and on 10 Jan 1934 he was charged with the murder of Samuel Lakey.
Bill Bayly’s trial was on 21 May 1934 in the Auckland supreme
court. In Mt Eden prison, then he was executed, hanged. (Shot in the
dark. Scott Bainbridge ©2010 NZ).
1933-34 –
William Alfred Bayly 3 Nov 1933 was arrested and charged with the
murder of Samuel Pender Lakey and Christobel Lakey. Date of Bayly’s
execution Auckland 20 July 1934. (By person or persons unkown. George
Joseph ©1982 NZ).
26 Oct 1933 –
Sex abuse in Dunedin orphanages. Evening Post.
4 Nov 1933 –
Opium growing. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
17 Nov 1933 –
Unsolved murder, in Christchurch, Riccarton. Donald Fraser was born
in Queensland Australia in 1892. In 1914 Fraser was charged with the
sex assault of a teenage girl. (Shot in the dark. Scott Bainbridge.
©2010 NZ).
17 Nov 1933 –
Donald Frazer at the Racecourse hotel was shot dead. Unsolved NZ
murders. Facebook.
17 Nov 1933 –
Racecourse hotel. Donald Fraser was shot in the chest with both
barrells of a shotgun. The shotgun was never found. Unsolved. (Nine
unsolved murders in Canterbury. The Press. Stuff.co.nz 30 March
2012).
1934 – HJ
Wilson. The Bayly case. magazine ltd Wellington.
16 April 1934 –
Opium den. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
5 Aug 1934 –
Truth newspaper article. Bill Bayly was hanged several weeks earlier
and could not be questioned. (Shot in the dark. Scott Bainbridge
©2010 NZ).
1935-36 –
Northland, Ernest Severin Nelson, was born in Sweden in 1881 and
emigrated to NZ when he was 3 years old. He was shot dead, an
unsolved murder. Kaikohe. (Shot in the dark. Scott Bainbridge. ©2010
NZ).
18 May 1935 –
Importing opium. NZ Herald. Papers Past.
31 May 1935 –
James Brendon “Jim” Bolger was born in Opunake Taranaki. His
parents emigrated from Ireland in 1930. Roman Catholics. (Wikipedia.
Jim Bolger).
11 Oct 1935 –
Gambling in NZ betting and lotteries. The Manchester Guardian
1901-1959 UK.
14 Oct 1935 –
Murder mystery. Auckland Star.
1936 – Dunedin
Catholic Sisters of Mercy opened. Orphanages and children's homes in
Otago and Southland. Archives at NZ Dunedin regional office records,
a report of inmates. Catholic Sisters of Mercy.
1936 – Dr
Harold Silverstone was a Wellington insurance clerk. He was the son
of Mark Silverstone, who was a founder of the Labour party in 1916.
He was a member of the Communist party from at least 1936. (Spies and
revolutionaries. Graeme John Hunt (c)2007 NZ).
10 Feb 1936 –
Opium raid. Evening Post. Papers Past.
10 Feb 1936 –
Opium den raid. Auckland Star. Papers past.
2 April 1936 –
Raid on opium den. NZ Herald. Papers Past.
1937 – No
welfare and people had to fend for themselves. The system of them and
us. (Justice. Kevin Ryan ©1997 NZ).
1937 – Bill
Sutch was born in Lancashire UK in 1907. Sutch came to NZ with his
family in 1908. Wellington, Nelson and Wanganui. PHD in New York,
Colombia uni. He moved from the US in late 1932. In 1937 he was a NZ
government worker. British M15 put Dr Sutch under surveillance. He
was the NZ delegate to the UN. (NZ mysteries. Nicole McCloy ©2005
NZ).
1937 – Florence
Pryor. (R23117718) Wellington married. Open access. Archives NZ.
Archway records.
1937-54 – Dr
Bill Sutch and an anti American speech he gave about the Korean war
in 1952. New Zealand born Soviet spyies Ian Milner and Wally Clayton.
19 April 1954.(Spies revolutionaries. Graeme Hunt (c)2007 NZ).
6 Nov 1937 –
Chinese fined 100 pounds. NZ Herald. Papers Past.
7 Dec 1937 –
(papers past) Evening Post, traffic offences p13. Driving without due
care and attention. Jame John Pryor fined 10s and costs.
1938 –
Greengrocer Dalu Desai disappeared without trace in Taharoa. He
arrived in NZ in 1911 aged 15. Case of missing Hindu. A reward of 250
pounds, but no info was forthcoming. His body was never found, how he
was killed and by who? (Still missing. Scott Bainbridge ©2008 NZ).
4 April 1938 –
Chinese charged. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
11 April 1938 –
Chinese fined. Auckland Star. Papers Past.
25 May 1938 –
Missing Indian. Evening Post.
1939 – An alien
enemy within the meaning of the enemy property emergency regulations
1939, estate?.
1939 –
Christian brothers. Br Allen was assistant to sa uperior at a school
in Dunedin.
1939-40 – Ian
Milner returned to NZ in Aug 1939. Dept of education in Wellington, a
government worker. Wellington Peace committee, a Communist front
group. 8 Jan 1940 Communists in NZ. Wellington trades hall meeting of
the Peace committee. Ian Milner and Dr Bill Sutch. Soviet intel. Dr
Martyn Finlay a Communist lawyer. (Spies revolutonaries. Graeme Hunt
(c)2007 NZ).
6 March 1939 –
Opium aboard Aorangi. NZ Herald. Papers Past.
15 March 1939 –
Opium shops. Evening Post. Papers Past.
Sept 1939 - April
1940 – Fraser became PM in April 1940, after the death of Michael
Savage. Emergency regulations were introduced in Sept 1939. Two days
later, war was declared. (Spies and revolutionaries. Graeme John Hunt
(c)2007 NZ).
3 Sept 1939 –
Outbreak of the Second World War. The war ended in the Pacific on 2
Sept 1945. (Practical family history. Feb 2010 p50).
17 Nov 1939 –
New boys home and sex abuse. NZ Herald.
