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See also: judge and author, son of See also: Frederick See also: Maning, of Johnville, county See also: Dublin, was See also: born on the 5th of See also: July 1812
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His See also: father emigrated to See also: Tasmania in the See also: ship " Ardent " in 1824 and took up a See also: grant of
See also: land there
.
See also: Young Maning served in the fatuous expedition which attempted to drive in the Tasmanian blacks by sweeping with an unbroken See also: line of armed men across the See also: island
.
Soon afterwards he decided to try the See also: life of a trader among the See also: wild tribes of New Zealand, and, landing in the beautiful inlet of Hokianga in 1833, took up his abode among the Ngapuhi
.
With them the tall Irish lad—he stood 6 ft
.
3 in.—full of daring and See also: good-See also: humour and as fond of fun as of fighting, quickly became a See also: prime favourite, was adopted into the tribe, married a chief's daughter, and became a " Pakeha-See also: Maori " (foreigner turned Maori)
.
With the profits of his trading he bought a See also: farm of 200 acres on the Hokianga, for which, unlike most See also: white adventurers of the
See also: time, he paid full value
.
When New Zealand was peacefully annexed in 1840, Maning's advice to the Maori was against the arrangement, but from the moment of annexation he became a loyal friend to the See also: government, and in the See also: wars of
1845–46 his influence was exerted with effect in the settlers' favour
.
Again, in 1860, he persuaded the Ngapuhi to volunteer to put down the insurrection in Taranaki
.
Finally, at the end of 1865, he entered the public service as a judge of the native lands See also: court, where his unequalled knowledge of the Maori language, customs, traditions and prejudices was of solid value
.
In this office he served until 1881, when See also: ill-See also: health drove him to resign, and two years later to seek surgical aid in See also: London, where, however, he died of See also: cancer on the 25th of July 1883
.
At his wish, his See also: body was taken back to New Zealand and buried there
.
A bust of him is placed in the public library atieluckland . Maning is chiefly remembered as the author of two See also: short books, Old New Zealand and See also: History of the War in the See also: North of New Zealand against the Chief Heke
.
Both books were reprinted in
.
London in 1876 and 1884, with an introduction by the See also: earl of Pembroke
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