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See also:MANING, See also:FREDERICK See also:EDWARD (1812-1883) , New See also:Zealand See also:judge and author, son of Frederick 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.
End of Article: MANING, FREDERICK EDWARD (1812-1883)
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