1 Marlborough Express Weekly Edition, 23/1/1886, p. 10.

2 Ibid., 30/1/1886, p. 10.

3 Nelson Evening Mail, 19 & 25/1/1886.

4 Manawatu Standard, 13/1/1886.

5 Star (Christchurch), 5/12/85; Nelson Evening Mail, 23/1/1886; Otago Daily Times, 22/1/1886.

6 James Hight and C.R. Straubel (eds.), A History of Canterbury, 1, to 1854, Christchurch, 1957, pp. 2–3. For a particular example see W.J. Gardner, The Amuri: a county history, Culverden, 1956, p. 33.

7 LT, 19/1/1886.

8. LT, 26/1/1886.

9. Rollo Arnold, ‘The opening of the Great Bush, 1869–1991: a social history of the bush settlements of Taranaki, Hawke's Bay and Wellington’, PhD thesis, VUW, 1971, pp. 426–7.

10. Ibid., pp. 428–9.

11. Ibid., p. 429.

12. Ibid., passim, provides full documentation of the sources for the remainder of this chapter.

13. James Inglis, Our New Zealand Cousins, London, 1887, pp. 103–5.

14. HS, 26/10/1885.

15. Egmont Star, 7/2/1885, p. 9.