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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | New Zealand Company, Correspondence. Wellington Original Despatches, 1847 |
| Date | Jan-Dec 1847 |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Reference | CO 208/105 |
| Library / Archive | The National Archives |
| Collection Name | New Zealand Company Original Correspondence, etc. |
| Description | Letters refer principally to surveying trips for selecting the site of the second colony of the New Zealand Company. Other letters refer to trips made by Governor George Grey to southern settlements to discuss with William Fox, and others, the recently passed act to make provision for the government of New Zealand, and to resume suspended proceedings in the settlement of the Company's titles to land. There are several letters and papers recording statements and notices of land transfers, orders and exchanges in Wellington, with later letters referring to draft grants sent to the New Zealand Company for the Port Nicholson district. Many letters are sent between Governor Grey and Francis Dillon Bell, and refer directly to the Company's attempts to acquire Wairarapa, and the obstacles posed by the Māori. Military detachments raised against Māori forces and hostilities are also referred to. |
| Series Description | This series contains original correspondence and entry books of the New Zealand Company which were handed over to the Colonial Office after the surrender of the company's charters in 1850. Also included are minutes, accounts, registers of emigrants and land transfer records. |
| Biographical Note / History | The New Zealand Company was a chartered company formed in 1839 and incorporated in 1841 with power to buy, sell, settle and cultivate land in New Zealand. It did not prove a satisfactory agency for colonising New Zealand and was induced to surrender its charters in 1850. It was finally dissolved in 1858. |
| Theme(s) | Politics, Legislation and Governance; Colonisation Companies and Emigration Societies |
| Places | Auckland, Nelson, Whanganui, Wairarapa, New Zealand |
| Ports | Wellington, New Zealand |
| Nationality | English; European; Māori |
| Ships | Caledonia; Raymond; Louisa Campbell; Racehorse; Victory; Eleanor Lancaster |
| People | Harrington, Thomas Cudbert; Wakefield, Edward Gibbon; Wakefield, Arthur; Fox, William; Grey, Sir George; Symonds, John; Lewis, David; Bell, Sire Francis Dillon; Brees, Samuel Charles; Goldsmith, Isaac Lyon; Eyre, Edward John; Heapley, Charles |
| Keywords | New Zealand Company, emigrant, emigration, emigration scheme, colony, colonisation, agent, surveying, land grant, land, settlement, agriculture, indigenous people, land sale, purchase agreement, compensation, finance, border, allotments, town planning, expedition, exploration, steamboat, legislation, provisions, indigenous people, law, police, government, crown lands, livestock, agriculture, Union Bank of Australia, banking, conflict, military, army, advertisement, shipping, return passage |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |
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