Old NZ photos

Row of businesses along Lambton Quay, Wellington, north of the Crown and Anchor Hotel. The waterfront is on the left. Photograph taken in the 1860s...

About 1600 troops invaded the western Taranaki settlement of Parihaka, which had come to symbolise peaceful resistance to the confiscation of Māori land.

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Some of the major events that occurred in Wellington city between 1865 and 1890.

Sergeant-Major Lucas, 40th Regiment, Defending a Postion against the Maoris, on the 18th of March, 1861. Illustration from The Boy's Own Volume (Beeton, c 1860).

This year, for the first time in the 150-year saga of Parihaka, the government is preparing to apologise for one of New Zealand history’s most deplorable acts: the invasion and sacking of a Māori pacifist community and the imprisonment without trial of its leaders, Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi. Yet for many New Zealanders, the word “Parihaka” still draws a blank. On hearing the story for the first time, they ask: why wasn't I told?

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Some of the major events that occurred in Wellington city between its pre-European settlement and 1865.

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Cuba Street, Wellington, circa 1870s, showing Anderson & Janson's store and a branch of Kirkcaldie & Stains. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptio...

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