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Sir George Grey. Since the outbreak of the First Taranaki War at Waitara in March 1860, the New Zealand Government had been engaged in armed conflict with Māori who refused to sell their land for colonial settlement or surrender the "undisturbed possession of their lands and estates" the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi had promised them.
Governor Thomas Gore Browne.. The catalyst for the war was the disputed sale of 600 acres (2.4 km 2) of land known as the Pekapeka block, or Teira's block, at Waitara.The block's location perfectly suited European settlers' wish for a township and port to serve the north of the Taranaki district and its sale was viewed as a likely precedent for other sales that would open up for settlement all ...
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By 1860 the whole of the South Island had been acquired by the Crown. [1] However, while Ngāi Tahu signed land sale contracts with the Crown for some 34.5 million acres between 1844 and 1864, this amounts to approximately 80 per cent of the land mass of the South Island. [ 2 ]
Halo’s land mine clearance in Sri Lanka has allowed 280,000 displaced people to return to their homelands, with locally trained staff removing more than one million pieces of ordnance that were ...
The Government claimed to have bought land at Waitotara in 1863, and in turn had sold more than 12,000 acres (49 km 2) in October 1864, but the sale was disputed by some Māori, who refused to leave. A secure route from Wanganui to Patea would form a key part of the Government's strategy for a thoroughfare between Wanganui and New Plymouth ...
Sri Lanka were skittled out for 247 in their second innings, succumbing to an innings-and-242-run drubbing. Their previous heaviest test defeat was an innings-and-239-run loss to India in Nagpur ...
Taranaki Volunteer Rifles in 1860. In March 1860 war had broken out in Taranaki between the European settlers and local Maori over land ownership. In November Te Wetini Taiporutu, a chief of Ngāti Hauā and a passionate supporter of the Maori King Movement, lead a warband of some 150 warriors from the Waikato to "kill soldiers" in Taranaki. [1]