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Turanganui Dec. 27/68. My dear McLean, I have sent up the ''Ahuriri'' to get biscuit if possible and to coal. Please put on board all the good biscuit you can lay hands on. Whitmore is now at Ngatapa. The place is a remarkably strong position and Kote seems likely to stand, Hotene, Ropata and the Ngatiporou are up, 300 strong, but as luck will have it Ropata has been seriously ill, and the tribe or rather the last detachment of 220 has stuck fast at Patutahi. He is recovering. They are very eager a young dreamer of their having dreamed that he saw a cat fish clasping a pot containing three crayfish, and putting out one arm with which it killed them. This most satisfactory dream overrules the unsatisfactory positions of the star and moon. We have 300 A.C., 60 A.C. (Arawa), 30 Pov. Bay Volunteers, 300 Ngatiporou, say 50 local Natives on the way. If they can all got up and fed we can hardly fail. The horses are the greatest anxiety. They knock up and stray and are stolen. If you could get a few at moderate prices please put them on board. This place has been horribly looted by your natives and Ngatiporou. The horses should be strong. We buy at £3 per head average. Ever yours truly, J.C. Richmond. Send me some stationery, ruled foolscap, notepaper, envelopes large and small, strong steel pens, and screw ink bottle. Turley has been most active as a carrier on dispatches. He is quite fearless and very laborious. I will give him some recognition of his thoroughly voluntary services; if you can spare him again he deserves to be gratified.
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2 pages written 27 Dec 1868 by James Crowe Richmond in Turanganui to Sir Donald McLean, Inward letters - J C Richmond

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Key Value
Document date 27 December 1868
Document MCLEAN-1006126
Document title 2 pages written 27 Dec 1868 by James Crowe Richmond in Turanganui to Sir Donald McLean
Document type MANUSCRIPT
Attribution ATL
Author 27464/Richmond, James Crowe, 1822-1898
Collection McLean Papers
Date 1868-12-27
Decade 1860s
Destination Unknown
Englishorigin ATL
Entityid 26
Format Full Text
Generictitle 2 pages written 27 Dec 1868 by James Crowe Richmond in Turanganui to Sir Donald McLean
Iwihapu Unknown
Language English
Name 27464/Richmond, James Crowe, 1822-1898
Origin 464741/Turanganui
Place 464741/Turanganui
Recipient 4809/McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877
Section Manuscripts
Series Series 1 Inward letters (English)
Sortorder 0186-0071
Subarea Manuscripts and Archives Collection
Tapuhigroupref MS-Group-1551
Tapuhiitemcount 35
Tapuhiitemcount 2 14501
Tapuhiitemcount 3 30238
Tapuhiitemdescription 33 letters written from Wellington, Turanganui, Ngatapa, Napier and Nelson, 1865-1870, & undated. Includes letter from Richmond to Ormond, Oct 1868; McLean to Richmond, 7 Jan 1869. Also piece-level inventory.
Tapuhiitemgenre 3 230058/Personal records Reports
Tapuhiitemname 27464/Richmond, James Crowe, 1822-1898
Tapuhiitemname 3 4809/McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877
Tapuhiitemref MS-Papers-0032-0534
Tapuhiitemref 2 Series 1 Inward letters (English)
Tapuhiitemref 3 MS-Group-1551
Tapuhiitemsubjects 3 1446/New Zealand Wars, 1860-1872
Tapuhiitemtitle Inward letters - J C Richmond
Tapuhiitemtitle 2 Series 1 Inward letters (English)
Tapuhiitemtitle 3 McLean Papers
Tapuhireelref MS-COPY-MICRO-0535-085
Teipb 1
Teiref ms-1337-243
Year 1868

2 pages written 27 Dec 1868 by James Crowe Richmond in Turanganui to Sir Donald McLean Inward letters - J C Richmond

2 pages written 27 Dec 1868 by James Crowe Richmond in Turanganui to Sir Donald McLean Inward letters - J C Richmond

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