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	Wiremu Kingi - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Wiremu Kingi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Wiremu Kingi was involved in the major disturbances and migrations caused by the Musket Wars.
		Wiremu Kingi wrote to the Governor making it clear that they would not yield their tribal lands particularly around Waitara.
		Wiremu Kingi remained firm in his refusal to part with any of the tribal land.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Wiremu-Kingi.html (665 words)

	First Taranaki War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In response Wiremu Kingi departed from the block and with about eighty men hastily built a Pa, or defensive strong point, on a nearby headland and refused to evacuate it.
		When Wiremu Kingi returned to Taranaki he was accompanied by a Kingite war party.
		Kingi was too astute a strategist to let such an opportunity pass.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Taranaki_War (2585 words)

	Creative New Zealand: news archive
		Wiremu Kingi Kerekere (Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki ki Turanganui a Kiwa, Ngai Tai ki Tainui, Ngati Pukeko ki Maatua).
		Wiremu and his wife, the late Mihiata Parata Kerekere, have touched the lives of many people - young and old, Maori and Pakeha - with their aroha, wisdom and dignity.
		She was awarded a QSM in 1991 and was a member of the Waiariki representative executive council for the Maori Women's Welfare League from 1965-69.
	www.creativenz.govt.nz /news/archive.html?record=9 (685 words)

	Wiremu Kingi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Wiremu Kingi Te Rangtake, Maori Chief of the Te Ata Awa Tribe, c1795-1882, was leader of the Maori forces in the First Taranaki War.
		Wiremu Kingi was involved in the major disturbances and migrations caused by the Musket Wars, He and his father probably fought alongside Te Rauparaha during his tribe's journey from Kawhia to Waikanae.
		However Wiremu Kingi remained firm in his refusal to part with any of the tribal land.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/wiremu_kingi (641 words)

	New Zealand History : The New Zealand Wars : The Taranaki War 1860 - 1861 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In 1848, Wiremu Kingi, a chief who had supported the British forces in the Southern Wars, returned to his ancestral lands of Waitara and resisted pressure to sell to the British.
		The land holders were led by Wiremu Kingi and supported by southern Taranaki Tribes, while the land sellers were secretly supported by the settlers.
		Wiremu Tamihana the "King-maker", who is now regarded as the outstanding statesman of his day, did not want conflict with the British, instead a single Maori people under their own government that could co-exist with the settler government.
	www.godzone.com /aboutnz/history/wars/taranaki.htm (1211 words)

	Waitara, New Zealand - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Waitara, New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		When Pakeha settlers came to New Plymouth in the 1840s and '50s they found that it was not the place that they had hoped for and they attempted to move to better areas in Taranaki.
		Wiremu Kingi te Rangitake the paramount Te Atiawa chief, now living with his people some 150 miles (240 km) to the south at Waikanae, did not want Europeans to move anywhere else, especially into Waitara and would not sell the land.
		Wiremu Kingi replied that he did not want war but he would not give up the land.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Waitara-New-Zealand.html (945 words)

	The New Zealand Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Those objecting were led by Wiremu Kingi, regarded by Te Atiawa as their paramount chief.
		Wiremu Kingi therefore spoke for all Te Atiawa, especially for those who were actually living on the block itself (about 2000).
		Wiremu Kingi warned the Governor that 'he did not desire war against the Pakeha' - but he would not allow the sale to proceed.
	www.newzealandwars.co.nz /cam_northtaranaki.html (709 words)

	TE RANGITAKE, Wiremu Kingi - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		With regard to land, Wiremu Kingi said “that no Maori owned land, the land was owned by all the people to be used communally and individually and not to be possessed.
		Wiremu Kingi and his people promptly resisted by obstruction, and ignored the order from the Government to stop removing survey pegs and to cooperate.
		With the issue still undecided, Wiremu Kingi retired inland to the Ngati Maru district, where he lived in seclusion for the next 12 years in close association with the Maori King.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/R/TeRangitakeWiremuKingi/en (1001 words)

	First Taranaki War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In March, 1860 Governor Browne ordered the militia commanded by Colonel Gold to occupy the disputed block of land at Waitara.
		In response Wiremu Kingi with about eighty men hastily built a Pa or defensive strong point on the land and refused to evacuate it.
		He appears to have come down on the side of the Taranaki Maori but stopped short of a total commitment.
	1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/f/fi/first_taranaki_war.html (2600 words)

	1843. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Through the action of the brilliant Maori leader Wiremu Tamihana, the elderly Waikato chief Te Wherowhero was elected Maori king.
		The government attempted to force a land sale in the Waitara area of Taranaki that was opposed by the majority of the local tribe under the chief Wiremu Kingi.
		A temporary peace in the Taranaki area was negotiated by Wiremu Tamihana.
	www.bartleby.com /67/1502.html (612 words)

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		Hura was one of seven children of Te Urumanaao Ngapaki and Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana at Orokeinui, Waipu block.
		Until she was 14 she was the tamaiti whangai of elderly relatives named Wiremu...
		Ratana was the son of Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana, the founder of the Ratana church of New Zealand, which draws its membership overwhelmingly from the Maori people.
	famous.adoption.com /famous/index-other-religions.html (310 words)

	G21 ASIA - "Whither the Maori?"
		Governor Grey was sympathetic to their plight, approached individual tribes in the area and by 1859 was able to claim, despite protests to the contrary, that all land north of the town of New Plymouth had been bought- all except that in a settlement called Waitara.
		Wiremu Kingi was the leader of Maori who opposed Waitara's sale.
		Kingi was ordered to mark out his own piece of land but refused, on the grounds that it was collectively owned.
	www.g21.net /asia27.htm (1240 words)

	Opunake Te Namu opunake surfhighway 45 taranaki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		There is no doubt that Wiremu Kingi was one of the most notable men in the history of Opunake.
		For his co-operation, friendship and wisdom, Wiremu Kingi and his people were restored virtually all of their confiscated lands, apart from the square mile on which Opunake now stands, by a Royal Commission in the 1880’s.
		Wiremu Kingi lived to a great age and continued to be held in high regard by both the Maori and European people.
	www.opunake.co.nz /opunake_te_namu.htm (1299 words)

	Early Crimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A year later, widow Roberton was still on the island employing a Thomas Bull as manservant and a native youth, Wiremu Kingi Maketu as an occasional general hand.
		Wiremu Kingi Maketu went on trial for the multiple murders committed at the Bay of Islands.
		C D Brewer a former registrar of the courts of consent was appointed by the crown to defend Maketu.
	www.nzcrime.com /early_crimes.HTML (4341 words)

	Puke Ariki - Ngā kōrero mō Taranaki - Land Wars Start Over Pekapeka Block
		Leader of Land: Wiremu Kingi Te Rangitāke fought to hold on to tribal land at Waitara.
		A death-bed request led Te Atiawa chief Wiremu Kingi Te Rangitāke to protect a controversial piece of Taranaki land, known as the Pekapeka Block.
		Kingi (as paramount chief) said 'no' and Teira was annoyed and to get back at him, offered his land for sale to the chief crown purchasing agent, a guy called Donald McLean."
	www.pukeariki.com /mi/stories/conflict/pekapekablock.asp (2227 words)

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		Taranaki Wars 1860-1861 Wiremu Kingi of the Atiawa tried to stop his people losing their land by selling it to the settlers.
		He said Kingi had no right to say who could sell their land and who could not.
		The British and settler forces numbered 14000 men by the end of the fighting; the Waikato and their allies probably were never more than 4000.
	www.geocities.com /nzyester/nztimeline/maoriwars.html (1025 words)

	WIREMU KINGI
		Wiremu Kingi was involved in the major disturbances and migrations caused by the Musket Wars, He an dhis father probably fought alongside Te Rauparaha during his tribes journey from Kawhia to Waikanae.
		Over the next eleven years both the government and the settlers made numerous attempts to ge tehir hands on more of the tribal land, they were restricted to about 2000 hectares around New Plymouth.
		As recently as August 2003 the New Plymouth District Council which found itself owning 140 hectares of the controversial land decied to invesitgate the means by which it could be returned to Maori ownership.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/WIREMU+KINGI (604 words)

	Land Sale Agreements
		This payment was in addition to earlier payment made to Chief Wiremu Kingi at Waikanae by William Wakefield or additional repayments to purchase the same territories, several times over, in the years to follow.
		William King [Wiremu Kingi] then rose, but before addressing the Governor, said to his people" I wish only to say a few words and then we will depart.Then, turning to the Governor, he said "Listen, Governor: notwithstanding Teira's offer, I will not permit the sale of Waitara to the Pakeha.
		King [Wiremu Kingi] himself does not assert a right of property, as plainly appears from Mr Parris's official report of the meeting, already referred to, of 29th November 1859 (app No 2).
	www.treatyofwaitangi.net.nz /LandSaleAgreements.html (7752 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Wiremu Kingi
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Wiremu Kingi
		Kingi, Wiremu (1795?-1882), Maori chief of the Te Atiawa tribe in New Zealand who opposed the British takeover of Maori land and whose defeat became...
		The King Movement gained urgency in 1858 after a census showed for the first time that Europeans in New Zealand outnumbered Maori.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Wiremu_Kingi.html (84 words)

	Find Free Essays on Battle of Puketakeure
		Rawiri was subsequently shot dead by the landholding group (supported by Wiremu Kingi — also known as Te Rangitake).
		This left an opportunity open for Te Teira (a minor chief of Wiremu Kingi’s hapu of Ati Awa).
		Wiremu Kingi objected to this immediately ; “Listen Governor, not withstanding Teira’s offer, I will not permit the sale of Waitara to the Pakeha.
	www.findfreeessays.com /show_essay/46929.html (278 words)

	Puke Ariki - Resources - March (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Wiremu Kingi Te Rangitāke: Refused to sell Peka Peka Block.
		1860 - Wiremu Kingi and warriors occupy Te Kohia (L Pa) on the western side of Peka Peka Block above Waitara.
		1860 - Wiremu Kingi and his men abandon Te Kohia (L Pa), leaving British troops shooting at an empty pa. Kingi's people draw support from other Taranaki tribes in armed resistance to the land sales.
	www.pukeariki.biz /en/resources/taranakitrivia/trivia03.asp (940 words)

	The Long White Cloud - Ao Tea Roa by William Pember Reeves eBook by BookRags
		The head of their tribe, however, Wiremu Kingi, vetoed the sale.
		Then, as Kingi threatened war, an armed force was sent to occupy the plot.
		Kingi, thus attacked, astutely made the disputed piece over to the King tribes, and forthwith became their protege.
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	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
		The defeat was avenged in 1847 by the killing of the Taranaki mission teachers Kereopa and Te Manihera.
		When Katatore was murdered in January 1858, Te Matakatea joined Wiremu Kingi Te Rangitake in laying siege to Te Karaka pa, on the Waitara River, which they burnt in July after allowing Ihaia Te Kirikumara to escape.
		Wiremu Kingi Te Matakatea, an old warrior turned man of peace, died on 14 February 1893.
	www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=1T50&QuickSearch=true (1123 words)

	Kingi, Wiremu -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		In the Taranaki province, where the land shortage was acute, both settlers and those Maori willing to sell were opposed by Wiremu Kingi (Te Rangitake),...
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		At the latter place fell in with Wiremu King who was full of the subject of the contemplated survey of Te Teiras land and his determination to resist it.
		This is not surprising, for Wiremu Tamihana, while committed to the King Movement, had been baptised in 1839, and was deeply influenced by his knowledge of the Bible, and staunchly upheld christian principles.
		The emergence of Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana after the first world war as a new prophetic leader and founder of a new movement, Ratana, needs to be understood against the background of these factors.
	www.massey.ac.nz /~plineham/pubs/ch3.doc (20310 words)

	Capital punishment in New Zealand:
		However, Kihi died of dysentry before the sentence could be carried out.
		The first person to actually be executed was Wiremu Kingi Maketu, who was found guilty of murdering several people on Motuarohia Island, in the Bay of Islands.
		The people killed were relatives of Captain Richard Roberton, who was accused of swindling and kidnapping Maori from the Chatham Islands—Maketu appears to have been acting in revenge.
	wikipedia.openfun.org /wiki/Capital_punishment_in_New_Zealand (731 words)

	Legislative Violations of the Treaty of Waitangi: 1840 - 1990 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Te Ati Awa Chief Teira sold the Governor land at Waiata without seeking the agreement of the other chiefs who had an interest in the land, especially the Senior Chief Wiremu Kingi.
		This was a breach of the Treaty's land guarantee.
		Wiremu Tahopotiki Ratana was snubbed when he took Treaty grievances to King George.
	twm.co.nz /Tr_violn.html (997 words)

	Opunake History opunake surfhighway 45 taranaki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Te Namu Pa was presided over by Wiremu Kingi Matakatea, and the hapu consisted of some 400 men, women and children.
		In spite of this imbalance in firepower, the Taranaki tribes fought and defeated the invading Waikato warriors who were well equipped with muskets in 1833, at Te Namu Pa. Wiremu Kingi had the one and only Taranaki musket and accounted for nearly a quarter of all Waikato casualties.
		It has been said that Wi Kingi Matakatea gave one square mile of land to build Opunake but Wiremu may have only intended a small area of land near the redoubt to be used by the recently arrived Pākehā.
	www.opunake.co.nz /opunake__history.htm (3070 words)

	Heads of Agreement between the Crown and and Te Atiawa
		The prevention of the survey of this block by unarmed Maori was viewed as rebellion by the Crown, and it proclaimed martial law throughout Taranaki.
		War finally broke out when the Crown attacked the pa of Wiremu Kingi and his supporters that had been built on the Waitara block.
		While the Crown subsequently renounced the Waitara purchase, it was too late to halt the continuing conflict and the Crown continued armed campaigns in Taranaki until 1869.
	www.executive.govt.nz /96-99/minister/graham/te_atiawa/01.html (573 words)

	MATAKATEA, Wiremu Kingi, or Moki - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		MATAKATEA, Wiremu Kingi, or Moki - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		In 1860 Matakatea sided with Wiremu Kingi Te Rangitake in the Waitara dispute and fought in the Waireka engagement.
		Wiremu Kingi Matakatea was one of the greatest war chiefs of his day, and in this ranks with Te Rauparaha and Tuhawaiki.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/M/MatakateaWiremuKingiOrMoki/en (619 words)

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