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1863 when the fifth issue was being printed a war party under
Rewi Maniapoto seized the press and flung it into the Waikato
river bringing production to an abrupt end. Only two copies
in variant forms are known to have survived the pillage. They
are in the Grey Collection, Auckland Public Library and the
Hocken Library, Dunedin.
Although short lived this is one of the most important and rare
early Maori news papers surrounded by an aura of romance. It is
said the Maori raiders acted with great chivalry. BM S15
$2000 – $4000
325. Te Waka Maori O Ahuriri 1863-1871
‘The Maori Canoe of Hawke’s Bay’; pro – government paper
published in Napier, No 1 June 13, 1863, Vol. 1. 1 folded sheet
on blue paper, 4 pages, Printed by James Wood (‘Hemi Wuru’)
at the office of the Hawke’s Bay Herald. BM S16. Te Haeata
1859 – 1862. No 7 Auckland October 1, 1861. Vol 3. ‘The dawn’;
Wesleyan newspaper published in Auckland, issued monthly, 4
pages, Auckland, W.C. Wilson. BM S9 The first denominational
newspaper published in New Zealand.
$200 – $300
326. Te Waka Maori O Nui Tirani 1878-1879
The Maori Canoe of New Zealand. Paper published in Gisborne
then Napier, Vol 1 Nos 2 & 13 1878, text in Maori and English,
printed and published for the Gisborne Maori Newspaper Company
by James Grindell at the Waka Maori Office. BM S21
$100 – $200
327. Te Korimako 1882-1888
‘The bellbird’, monthly paper. Published in Auckland, an
incomplete but important run comprising, complete No 1 – 10,
March – December 1882: No 11 – 22, (lacking No 12) January
– December 1883, : complete No 23 – 35 January – December
1884, : No 36-41 (lacking 38) January – June 1885: No 54
– 57 August – November 188.: No 74 –75 April-May, 1888,
supplements, map, advertisements, quarto, bound in red cloth, Henry
Brett Auckland, BM S25 :Union List 16
$1500 – $3000
328. Te Manukura (Maori Recorder) Akarana, Nui
Tireni Auckland. Unbroken run, Vol 1 Nos 1-12, 1916-1923.
Union List 23: Pipi-Wharauroa He –kupu whakamarama
1899-1913, Nos 155 & 158, Gisborne, Maehe, Hune
1911.‘The shining cuckoo’ a monthly paper published in
Nelson then Gisborne BM S42
$300 – $400
Proclamations in Maori
329. Rare Maori Deed. The Pre Treaty of Waitangi Maori
Private Land Purchase of the Waikanae Block, 1839. Signed
with the moko signatures of Chiefs ‘A’Ready’ and ‘Tuanini’and
marks of ‘Te ropera alias Robulla’, ‘Eko of Eiko’ and Rangihero’.
To all Chieftains and others of New Zealand and to all
Christian People we ‘A’ ready & Tuanini, Chiefs of New
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Zealand send Greeting Know Ye that we the said ‘A’ready &
Tuanini for and in consideration of the sum of one Hundred
and Fifty pounds sterling supplied to us in Arms, Ammunition,
Tobacco and various merchandize to me in hand paid and
delivered by Daniel Cooper of London, Merchant, James
Holt of Sydney, Merchant, and William Barnard Rhodes of
Sydney, master mariner before and at the time of the sealing
and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof we do hereby
acknowledge we the said ‘A’ready &Tuanini have granted,
bargained, sold aliened, enfeoffed and confirmed by these
presents do grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff and confirm
unto the said Daniel Cooper, James Holt and William Barnard
Rhodes, heirs and assigns for ever. All the tract of land on the
North Island of New Zealand bounded on the West by the
waters of Cook’s Straits near the Isle of Capiti commencing
at the mouth of the or entrance of the Wikinie River Capiti
bearing N.W. by W. by S 1 /2 S. Magnetic thence in a Northerly
direction about twelve miles along the Coast to the entrance
to the Otaikie River, and from thence turning to the Eastward
along the banks of the Otaikie so far as it runs, bounded on
North by the said river to its source or to the termination of an
Easterly line forty miles from the mouth of the said River….[etc
dated] Sixth day of November One Thousand Eight Hundred
and Thirty-nine.
[Signed] Tuanini his mark X and Tattoo, ‘A’ready his mark X
and Tattoo
The above written document was signed, sealed and delivered
by the said ‘A’ready and Tuanini, Chieftains the same having
been first read over and explained to them in the presence of
– Te ropera alias Robulla his mark x, [signatures of ] Jas Cole,
W, Burton Interpreter, John Lemon, Wm shearer, James Bain,
Robert Johnson, George Coglan [also] Eko or Eiko his mark x,
Rangihero his mark x. [followed by three separate but related
signed agreements, receipts and memoranda. Including an
agreement that one tenth of the land should be reserved for the
use of the within mentioned chiefs and their dependents, signed
by William Barnard Rhodes].
Legal document 48 x 61cms, drafted in clerical hand in four
sections, originally folded, cover title. ‘Conveyance, dated Fifth
day of November 1839, Tuanini and ‘A’ready, Registered in the
Supreme Court of New South Wales 20 May 1840, Daniel
Cooper, James Holt and William Barnard Rhodes 256 000 Acres,
Conveyance of Lands at New Zealand, D. Poote, Soliciter, George
Street Sydney, New South Wales’. Note and attached receipt signed
by Alfred Elyard from the Registrars Office Sydney N.S.W. dated
20th May 1840 -12-oclock [numbered] 937 BR. Cover title
annotated top right ‘Registered in N.S. Wales 937 BR’, bottom
left, ‘[original] Ented in Court of Claims New Zealand 17 March
1843. R.T.O.Yates’. Later notation: ‘True Copy A.S. Barker,
Clerk Wellington 20/11/72
In 1839 William Barnard Rhodes [1807-1878] entered into
partnership with the Sydney firm of Cooper and Holt. He left
for New Zealand on the Eleanor in October 1839 to acquire
land from the Maori and establish cattle runs and trading
stations. He secured deeds purporting to give title to nearly
two million acres in both islands. Many of his land claims from