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The Farthest Promised Land — English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s

3 Agents and Emigrants, 1871–73

3 Agents and Emigrants, 1871–73

1 Carter, Life and Recollections, III, p.226

2 AJHR 1872, D-1A, p.4

3 Ibid

4 Latiffa Khan, ‘Immigration into Wellington Province, 1853–1876’ (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, 1968), p.350

5 AJHR 1872, D-1A, pp.5–6

6 New Zealand Statutes, 1871, pp.329–332

7 AJHR 1872, D-1A, pp.10–12

8 Ibid., p.15

9 Ibid., p.10

10 Ibid., p.16

11 See e.g. Appendices to the Journal of the Legislative Council, 1873, No.12, pp.1–2

12 AJHR 1872, D-7c, pp.1–2

13 AJHR 1872, D-1, p.6

14 AJHR 1873, D-10, p.1

15 W. J. Gardner, ed., A History of Canterbury, II, Christchurch, 1971, p.314

16 Carter, Life and Recollections, III, p.227

17 Great Britain, Public Record Office, CO 209/226, Minute, 29 March 1872, on Bowen to Kimberley, 15 January 1872.

18 AJHR 1873, D-2A, pp.16–17

19 Ibid., & D-2, p.32

20 AJHR 1872, D-1, p.43

21 AJHR 1872, D-1, p.42; 1873, D-1, pp.1 & 17

22 AJHR 1873, D-1, p.105

23 Unsourced newspaper clipping in IM 5/4

page 362

24 Lyttelton Times, 27 November 1873, p.3

25 AJHR 1873, D-2A, p.17

26 Carter, Life and Recollections, III, pp.233–35

27 Pamela Horn, ‘Agricultural Trade Unionism and Emigration, 1872–1881’, The Historical Journal, XV, 1 (1972), pp.89–91

28 Lyttelton Times, 27 November 1873, p.3

29 The Times (London), 26 September 1872, p.12; Kent Messenger (Maidstone), 28 September 1872, p.5

30 Kent Messenger (Maidstone), 17 May 1873, p.7

31 AJHR 1872, D-3, p.23; Carter, Life and Recollections, III, p.228

32 AJHR 1873, D-2D, p.16

33 AJHR 1874, D-3, p.54

34 AJHR 1873, D-1A, p.6

35 AJHR 1873, D-1, p.105

36 AJHR 1873, D-3, pp.28–9

37 Appendices to the Journal of the Legislative Council, 1873, No.12

38 AJHR 1874, D-1, p.4

39 Ibid., p.6

40 Ibid., pp.10–11

41 Duncan to Provincial Government, Papers Laid on the Table, Canterbury Provincial Council. Session XLI, No.2, MS, Canterbury Museum Library

42 A. Peacock, The Revolt of the Fields in East Anglia, n.p., 1968, p.12

43 Ibid

44 AJHR 1874, D-3, p.54

45 See Chapter 6 below for a fuller treatment of emigration from this district.

46 AJHR 1874, D-3, p.23

47 For the details of Holloway's career, I am indebted to Pamela Horn, ‘Christopher Holloway: an Oxfordshire Trade Union Leader’, Oxoniensia, XXXIII (1968), pp.125–36.

48 AJHR 1874, D-3, p.54

49 Lytteton Times, 12 February 1875, p.2

50 Ibid

51 LUC, 29 November 1873, p.1

52 LUC, 22 November 1873, p.7

53 Horn, Arch, p.48

54 LUC, 20 December 1873, p.3. The main details of the railway journey are taken from this source.

55 Church Gazette (Auckland), April 1874, p.56

56 AJHR 1874, D-1A, p.9; IM 5/4/10, Evidence taken by Royal Commision on ship ‘Scimitar’.

57 LUC, 20 December 1873, p.3

58 Ibid

59 Although signing his name to the affidavit, he made his mark on a document in IM 5/4/7.

60 Christopher Holloway, ‘Journal of a Visit to New Zealand, 1873–1875’, Typescript copy, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, pp.2–7.

61 Evidence of W. H. Hosking, Surgeon, ship ‘Scimitar’, IM 5/4/10; but see AJHR 1875, D-2, p.58

62 AJHR 1874, D-2, p.32

63 Ibid

64 AJHR 1875, D-3, p.55

65 LUC, 2 May 1874, p.7. Gore's diary, 22 December 1873 to 19 January 1874. The diary was to be continued in the next issue of the Chronicle, of which no copies appear to be extant.

66 IM 5/4/7

67 Church Gazette (Auckland), April 1874, pp.56–8

68 AJHR 1874, D-2, pp.35–6

69 Information from Miss G. Robertson, Eltham, N.Z., (a granddaughter of Joseph Johnson).

70 LUC, 28 October 1874, p.3

71 LUC, 26 June 1875, p.3

72 CNZ, 1, p.944

73 Alan Bott, The Sailing Ships of the New Zealand Shipping Company, 1873–1900, London, 1972, p.53

74 RFNZ, p.P33