Akaroa CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS

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CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL

NTERBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY

Foreword

T HE &t settlement of ha roa by a little company of French colon&ts is one of the most picturesque incidents in the munor* pageant which the

Centennial year is unfolding before us. These paople aune here in 1840 believing their settlement would be lwed on Fiench soil, but they voluntaiily stayed t~

ome British citizens. To-day the traditions of the &c French and British peoples are so dosely ideneified as to be one. We are proud to h d that the blood of out two peoples has mgled henat Akarop with ouch happy cansequmces.

In view of the eeatef probability of good weathq:" .this time of the year, it was decided to hold OW "-:

National Catanaid Celebrations at Akaroa in ad van^^ '

of the true anniversary of the histotical events, thep commanorate. This3 will not in any way destroy our appreciation of those events. It was on 10th August. 1840 that

A k o a Next day British magistrates courts in most of the bays of 19th August that the shb Corn& de Paris disembarked its French

b a has worn well ia its &st hund~ed years. It is probale that the. &st inhabitants would find it quite ls chmi.iing today as when they &st set foot on its still wooded shores. It is a place of marked &dividuaUy. May it 1oq8 piesenre its unique chatncter and &a$pl.

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Decendants of the Ori~inal French I,

The First Exercise of British

S d r s Sovereignty at Akaroa

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a representative of his Govemmt to prevent a6y encroachment on writory d r d y acquired by Britain.

~ o q r t s were held at neatly every bay on B~&S The French at Akaroa Peninsula where there was a ~ W g ~ s d e r n e n t . Whether or not any cases were brought at these sittingsand there are hints that cases were tried at Port Gmper (Lytte1ton)- they constituted the mercis.e of the hdoizs of soverei ty over f h i ~ prt o f ~ e w ~aland and showed the w!Le mzld that the near British ,Go'~e'imnent of New & b d was in effective occa tion of rhe terdto included in its f o d y p r o w 4 g undaiies. Mt Ro ? lnson remained ' as Resideat Magistrate at h m a for some years. It, is interesting to note that even in 1 8 ~ the French settlers were outnumbered in Banks Peninsula by the residents of Bdtlsh stock, although their di8txibution round the &mt bays, while the French were concentrated in one spot. t d e d to disguise this fact.

There can be no doubt that Hobson's fimnnas 2nd promptitude in aert5sin.g British s o v a e w saved Britain mtemational embass;J,en.t. It was not till - r 846 thlt Frvlce f o d g r lecoed Bdtish sovercipty over the whole of New 2kdaad. Bq~&pto remgmtion had bcm ,

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Pqgu Six 1 nart to the main settlement. Whatever was the lepl md intemadod position, these good people of both nations sim 1y ot on with the job of s ~ ~ t .

ftlcsfSepasitiao vss left vague, to be thrzahcd out Th"r' latcr y the Fimch and British Govwegts;. La* ooatrq to the mud legend which cndits hLn with mciag for possession of Akacms was oaly too anxious to wait for new instructions from his awn bvemment. There was, however, a w e for Ajuwoa in a bmakf sewer foi if Flrmtx had moved a little fister d settled h r o a MQPC H o b n hded at the Bnv of hlands in ~mwryd 1840, then d d have French sovereignty.

JIMMY ROBINSON CLOUGH - T. Robinson \

GREm - .I) - .I - - W. Davis

SE.cOND SETTLER - - - J. E. Armstrang

BUGLER - '"(M c. He Miaihe .I, L - -

OFJ?EERS of the W t w t 9 Sailors, M a h a , JklioZis

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THE NATIONAL Cl3LDMTIONS AT AKAROA

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Ea~liest Akama I LOCAL a a ~ ~ r n ~ s

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wete fouowed by dat Wdhn. A h a ans o* i gnat w&8 Cent@, and the hill eXVt% tk3.e l%aSXE

MONDAY a AlYUL x$p- of rhe kt9 (spade) of the lesdg paopk farmed a lage dam in the No& h h d pop*,

~ ~ ~ & o ~ ~ a t e ~ t w i l l k @ v t n . tim prior to thc 1350 ilea: The aerrt moe was the -

Rapuwai* W w d to b pex d w e d d gingcx m A Y o3 MWL rpqo- hired. A Polp~~esbtn tribe,% Np-, mqwrd

A prmsion comistiag of flats the resident Nativeis ia the a k t ~ t h century. Severat IaihXie% d abkox genieratloas lrtct the Ngnitahu b d d the South I e W ~o~iplimpaapncq p l s ~ and b e the do-t tribe. Tnhu a yoan t

. AJwoa. brother. og tpcmpous ancest~~ of thc p w e I f l t h e & e r n o w k a ( 3 d s d a P ~ d b c h & .

& Ngati Porou of rbc East Cape. Thc N&t&u sgxd

A G r a a d C e n t m d d ~ d b e h c I d i n t b c e ~ ~ ~ soatkwaxd~ from h~~ry b y tu w&a, Eketaqp, and the csst coast of Hawke"s Bay, w h w miptims wcnt to && *&

Balks Peniasula School About the year 1700 a woman named Rnurek~ c r w d

TbR od8fd0~8' f&& T P ~ where old reaidcnts 'may met.

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r& Ngdhhu CWB whose nana wwe weU ka~m to ! $e wr1y settiers and W M ~ . (me T ~ W

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. . & TeqBjb-4 vas amrddpom& SO so ma, -2- ta won sax m a e a ae an object of. dread emq by his f.&. EEisthoaoq- was bsdted when a womPd t ~n oae.oh,his-mt~;. ind ip zpnwqum~ *here f ogU owed. g wa ?w~lc~r

, regarded emn by the ccmW2tlt~~ wjth shce lrin fbught agahst lria h4My were depop*tcd, apd the f d by the co,&gg of &up&. . , : s . I . . . . . ,

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