See also:FREDERICK See also:EDWARD See also:MANING (1812-1883)
, New See also:Zealand See also:judge and author, son of See also:Frederick See also:Maning, of Johnville, See also:county See also:Dublin, was See also:born on the 5th of See also:July 1812
.
His See also:father emigrated to See also:Tasmania in the See also:ship " Ardent " in 1824 and took up a See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
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 See also: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 See also: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
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white adventurers of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, he paid full value
.
When New Zealand was peacefully annexed in 1840, Maning's See also:advice to the Maori was against the arrangement, but from the moment of See also:annexation he became a loyal friend to the See also:government, and in the See also:wars of
1845–46 his See also: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 See also:language, customs, traditions and prejudices was of solid value
.
In this See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
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 See also: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 See also:Pembroke
.
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