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Wiremu Piti Pōmare
Wiremu Piti Pōmare (? – 29 January 1851) was a chief of Ngāti Mutunga, a Māori iwi originally of Taranaki, then of the Wellington region, then the Chatham Islands, in New Zealand. He was often known as Pōmare Ngātata, taking the name ''Wiremu Piti'' when he was baptised a Christian in 1844. Pōmare's birth date is not known; he was about 30 in 1834, according to information collected by Percy Smith. His parents' names are not known. He was closely related to Ngātata-i-te-rangi, a chief of Te Āti Awa. While he was young, Ngāti Mutunga lived in north Taranaki, with Te Āti Awa to their west and Ngāti Tama to their north. In the early 1820s parts of Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama migrated with other Taranaki peoples and Ngāti Toa to the southern North Island. Pōmare was among the Ngāti Mutunga who migrated to Waikanae in about 1824, along with other Taranaki people, including Ngātata. Ngāti Mutunga moved on to Wellington Harbour a year later. Pōmare settled unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngāti Mutunga
Ngāti Mutunga is a Māori iwi (tribe) of New Zealand, whose original tribal lands were in north Taranaki. They migrated, first to Wellington (with Ngāti Toa and other Taranaki hapū), and then to the Chatham Islands (along with Ngāti Tama) in the 1830s. The ''rohe'' of the iwi include the Chatham Islands and part of north Taranaki. The principal marae are at Urenui in Taranaki, and on the Chatham Islands. The eponymous ancestor Mutunga, from whom Ngāti Mutunga claims its lineage, is a grandfather of Toa-rangatira, the eponymous ancestor of the Ngāti Toa tribe. “Mai Titoki ki Te Rau o Te Huia” saying, mentions their northern boundary with Ngāti Tama (Titoki), and southern boundary with Te Āti Awa (Te Rau o Te Huia). History Leaving Taranaki for Wellington Ngāti Mutunga's original territory, in north Taranaki, was invaded by Waikato tribes during the Musket Wars after a series of longstanding intertribal wars stretching back to at least 1807.Kelly, L. ''Tainui''. N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kāpiti Coast District
The Kāpiti Coast District (officially the Kapiti Coast District), is a Districts of New Zealand, local government district of the Wellington Region in the lower North Island of New Zealand, north of Wellington, Wellington City. The district is named after Kapiti Island, a prominent island offshore. The population of the district is concentrated in the chain of coastal settlements along State Highway 1 (New Zealand), State Highway One: Ōtaki, New Zealand, Ōtaki, Te Horo, Waikanae, Paraparaumu, Raumati Beach, Raumati South, and Paekākāriki. Paraparaumu is the most populous of these towns and the commercial and administrative centre. Much of the rural land is given over to horticulture; market gardens are common along the highway between the settlements. The area available for agriculture and settlement is narrow and coastal. Much of the eastern part of the district is within the Tararua Forest Park, which covers the rugged Tararua Range, with peaks rising to over . Geogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of Birth Uncertain
A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years. The term 'year' is also used to indicate other periods of roughly similar duration, such as the lunar year (a roughly 354-day cycle of twelve of the Moon's phasessee lunar calendar), as well as periods loosely associated with the calendar or astronomical year, such as the seasonal year, the fiscal year, the academic year, etc. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngāti Mutunga People
Iwi () are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. In Māori, roughly means or , and is often translated as "tribe". The word is both singular and plural in the Māori language, and is typically pluralised as such in English. groups trace their ancestry to the original Polynesian migrants who, according to tradition, arrived from Hawaiki. Some cluster into larger groupings that are based on (genealogical tradition) and known as (literally , with reference to the original migration voyages). These super-groupings are generally symbolic rather than logistical. In pre-European times, most Māori were allied to relatively small groups in the form of () and (). Each contains a number of ; among the of the Ngāti Whātua iwi, for example, are Te Uri-o-Hau, Te Roroa, Te Taoū, and Ngāti Whātua-o-Ōrākei. Māori use the word ''rohe'' for the territory or boundaries of iwi. In modern-day New Zealand, can exercise significant political power in the manageme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1851 Deaths
Events January–March * January 11 – Hong Xiuquan officially begins the Taiping Rebellion in China, one of the bloodiest revolts that would lead to 20 million deaths. * January 15 – Christian Female College, modern-day Columbia College (Missouri), Columbia College, receives its charter from the Missouri General Assembly. * January 23 – The flip of a coin, subsequently named the Portland Penny, determines whether a new city in the Oregon Territory will be named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland, Oregon, Portland winning. * January 28 – Northwestern University is founded in Illinois. * February 1 – ''Brandtaucher'', the oldest surviving submersible craft, sinks during acceptance trials in the German port of Kiel, but the designer, Wilhelm Bauer, and the two crew escape successfully. * February 6 – Black Thursday (1851), Black Thursday occurs in Australia as Bushfires in Australia, bushfires sweep across ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Octavius Hadfield
Octavius Hadfield (6 October 1814 – 11 December 1904) was Archdeacon of Kāpiti, Bishop of Wellington from 1870 to 1893 and Primate of New Zealand from 1890 to 1893. He was a member of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) for thirty years. He was recognised as an authority on Māori customs and language. His views on Māori rights, expressed in several books strongly criticised the actions of the New Zealand Government. Hadfield married Catherine (Kate) Williams (24 February 1831 – 8 January 1902) a daughter of the Rev. Henry Williams and Marianne Williams, on 19 May 1852. Background He was born into an affluent family but often had very poor health and nearly died on several occasions. He received an excellent university education but did not finish his degree due to ill health. As a member of a wealthy family he was able to tour though Europe. Normally, lack of a degree would have prevented him being ordained but he was able to secure a position in New Zealand. Church Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moriori
The Moriori are the first settlers of the Chatham Islands ( in Moriori language, Moriori; in Māori language, Māori). Moriori are Polynesians who came from the New Zealand mainland around 1500 AD, which was close to the time of the shift from the archaic to the classic period of Polynesian Māori culture on the mainland. Oral tradition records migration to the Chathams in the 16th century. The settlers' culture diverged from mainland Māori, and they developed a distinct Moriori language, mythology, artistic expression and way of life. Currently there are around 700 people who identify as Moriori, most of whom no longer live on the Chatham Islands. During the late 19th century some prominent anthropologists proposed that Moriori were Pre-Māori settlement of New Zealand theories, pre-Māori settlers of mainland New Zealand, and possibly Melanesians, Melanesian in origin; this hypothesis has been discredited by archaeologists since the early 20th century, but continue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moriori Genocide
The Moriori genocide was the mass murder, enslavement, and cannibalism of the Moriori people, the indigenous ethnic group of the Chatham Islands, by members of the mainland Māori New Zealand iwi Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama from 1835 to 1863. The invaders murdered around 300 Moriori and enslaved the remaining population. This, together with diseases brought by Europeans, caused the population to drop from 1,700 in 1835 to 100 in 1870. The last full-blood Moriori, Tommy Solomon, died in 1933. There remain just under a thousand people of mixed descent who identify as Moriori. Background Moriori The Moriori are the indigenous population of the Chatham Islands (Moriori: ), specifically Chatham Island and Pitt Island. Moriori share the same Polynesian ancestry as Māori people. According to oral tradition the Moriori came to the Chatham Islands from Eastern Polynesia around 1500 AD, a couple of hundred years after Māori first arrived on the mainland, and that later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Te Pēhi Kupe
Te Pēhi Kupe (–1828) was a Māori rangatira and war leader of Ngāti Toa. He took a leading part in the Musket Wars. Born at Kāwhia, Te Pēhi Kupe was the elder son of Toitoi, son of Pikauterangi, and in the senior line of descent from Toarangatira, after whom Ngāti Toa is named. Te Pēhi's mother was Waipunāhau of Ngāti Mutunga in northern Taranaki. In his portrait painted in the mid-1820s he looks about 30, so it is estimated that he was born around 1795. In 1819 he and other Ngāti Toa joined northern tribes on a war expedition that raided as far south as Wellington Harbour. After the Ngāti Toa party's return to Kāwhia, their region was attacked by Waikato and Ngāti Maniapoto. Ngāti Toa were defeated and migrated to Taranaki. From there they migrated to Horowhenua in 1822. Te Pēhi led the force that captured Kapiti Island from Muaūpoko and Ngāti Apa. When Ngāti Apa made a surprise attack on Ngāti Toa at Waikanae, four children of Te Pēhi were among the 60 o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ōtaki River
The Ōtaki River is in the southwestern North Island of New Zealand, located in the Kāpiti Coast District Geography It originates in the Tararua Range and flows for , heading southwest through a valley in the Tararua Ranges. It turns northwest in the area of Ōtaki Forks, where it is joined by the Waiotauru River. After continuing through Otaki Gorge towards Kāpiti Coast, it crosses State Highway 1 (SH1) south of Ōtaki and reaches the Tasman Sea The Tasman Sea is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand. It measures about across and about from north to south. The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman, who in 1642 wa ... south of the settlement of Ōtaki Beach. Around 80% of the catchment area of the river is within the Tararua Forest Park. The Ōtaki River is one of the major rivers that formed the fertile floodplains of the Kāpiti Coast. The Ōtaki Forks area, accessible via Otaki Gorge Road, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Te Horo
Te Horo and Te Horo Beach are two localities on the Kāpiti Coast of New Zealand's North Island. Te Horo Beach is the larger of the two settlements and, as its name implies, is located on the Tasman Sea coast. Te Horo is located to the east, a short distance inland. They are situated between Peka Peka and Waikanae to the south and Ōtaki to the north. "Te Horo" in the Māori language means "the landslide". Demographics Te Horo Beach Te Horo Beach is defined by Statistics New Zealand as a rural settlement and covers . It had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Before the 2023 census, the settlement had a smaller boundary, covering . Using that boundary, Te Horo Beach had a population of 342 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 60 people (21.3%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 117 people (52.0%) since the 2006 census. There were 153 households, comprising 177 males and 162 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.09 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ōtaki, New Zealand
Ōtaki is a town in the Kāpiti Coast District of the North Island of New Zealand, situated halfway between the capital city Wellington, to the southwest, and Palmerston North, to the northeast. Ōtaki is located on New Zealand State Highway 1 and the North Island Main Trunk Rail transport, railway between Wellington and Auckland and marks the northernmost point of the Wellington Region. The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "place of sticking a staff into the ground" for . History Since the early 19th century, the area has been home to Māori people, Māori of the Ngāti Raukawa iwi who had migrated from the Waikato area from about 1819, under the leadership of Te Rauparaha amongst others. They had supplanted the Rangitāne and Muaūpoko people. At the request of Te Rauparaha, missionaries Henry Williams (missionary), Henry Williams and Octavius Hadfield visited the area in December and Hadfield opened the first mission in the Wellingto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
