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Officials and missionaries had their own positions and reputations to protect. Māori chiefs were motivated by a desire for protection from foreign powers, for the establishment of governorship over European settlers and traders in New Zealand, and for allowing wider European settlement that would increase trade and prosperity for Māori. [67]
European settlers in New Zealand, also known locally as Pākehā settlers, began arriving in the country in the early 19th century as immigrants of various types, initially settling around the Bay of Islands mostly. Large-scale organised migration from Britain to other regions began in the 1840s, such as to Wellington, Canterbury and Otago.
The human history of the Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau) metropolitan area stretches from early Māori settlers in the 14th century to the first European explorers in the late 18th century, over a short stretch as the official capital of (European-settled) New Zealand in the middle of the 19th century to its current position as the fastest-growing ...
The French were among the earlier European settlers in New Zealand, and established a colony at Akaroa in the South Island. [2] Captain Jean-François-Marie de Surville is the first known Frenchman to have visited New Zealand, [3] in 1769, and by the 1830s, French whalers were operating off the Banks Peninsula. [3] [4]
Passengers disembarking from Cressy.In the background are Lyttelton town and other ships riding at anchor in Port Victoria, December 1850. The First Four Ships refers to the four sailing vessels chartered by the Canterbury Association which left Plymouth, England, in September 1850 to transport the first English settlers to new homes in Canterbury, New Zealand.
The Weller Brothers in the 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand; Entwisle, P. in Griffiths G. (ed) (1974) The Advance Guard Series 3 Edward Weller Dunedin, NZ: Otago Daily Times. Entwisle, P. (1998) Behold the Moon the European Occupation of the Dunedin District 1770–1848 Dunedin, NZ: Port Daniel Press. ISBN 0-473-05591-0. King, Alexandra (2010).
The 1858 New Zealand census was the second national population census held in the self-governing colony of New Zealand.The date used for the census was on 24 December 1858 and the first census after the passing of the 1858 Census Act, which stated that a census of Europeans (but not Māori) was to be held every three years.
In the interim, a small group of enterprising Wellington settlers, of whom William Deans was the first, decided that the risks and the hardship of isolation involved in settling in the south were preferable to the slow frittering away of their resources in Wellington, where the uncertainty concerning the New Zealand Company's land claims and ...