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From: "Olwyn Whitehouse" <>
Subject: [NZ] Otago Witness - PapersPast
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 09:56:14 -0500


Thanks to PapersPast!

I have been following the comments regarding the PapersPast website through
the mailing list Archives. Liked the idea of OCRing. PaperPast is wonderful
especially for me being out of the country (7000 miles away) and I don't
have any problems connecting to the site, viewing or enlarging the pages. I
think the coverage is very good for the bottom half of the South Island with
the Otago Witness (Dunedin) and the Star (Christchurch).


from Te Puna's quarterly newsletter 'Connect' online.
Latest update was end of June 2002, five more 19th century New Zealand
newspapers have been added to the PapersPast collection. Over 105,000 new
pages. The papers are
The Star (Christchurch)
The Northern Advocate
The North Otago Times (Oamaru)
the Taranaki Herald
The Inangahua Times.

The advantage of searching 'The Star' is that it is only four or so pages.
'Otago Witness' is a bit lengthy. I have pulled out some items from various
newspapers and placed them online.

The Otago Witness 1851 to 1860
BDMs and all passenger arrivals and departures including coastal, Melbourne,
and direct from and to London.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nzbound/nzbound/otago1851.htm

Still working on 1860
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nzbound/nzbound/otago1860.htm

John MacGibbon site lists of emigrant ship arrivals for the Otago
Settlement, 1848-1851 Lists only the passengers who disembarked at Port
Chalmers. So between Peter's, John's and my site we have Otago covered from
1848 to 1860. Way to go!
http://www.ngaiopress.com/drhocken.htm



Thanks to PapersPast I was able to do a study of shipwrecks at Timaru. Neat.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nzlscant/wrecks.htm



BDM from the Waimate Advertiser 1899-1900
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nzlscant/waimate_news.htm


Oamaru Times 1864
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nzlscant/oamarutimes.htm


Mount Cook - near ascent 1882
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nzlscant/mountcook.htm
I took that photo of Mt. Cook (viewed from the West Coast side) in 1986 from
a plane. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE PEAK on the arete please? (two back)

For other newspaper items on South Canterbury items navigate to Newspapers
from the menu on the South Canterbury NZGenWeb Project site

Cheers,
Olwyn
Kiwi in TX
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nzlscant/

NZ Bound
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nzbound/


P.S. The newspapers also have a lot of international news including major
shipwrecks around the world.

e.g.
Otago Witness July 30 1859 page 6
Wreck on the Irish Coast. 386 lives lost. Pomona emigrant ship from
Liverpool for America on April 29 on Blackwater Bank, near Wexford. Out of
the 375 emigrants only four were saved. Of the crew of thirty, fifteen were
lost....

Otago Witness July 25th 1857
The Wreck of the 'Joseph Soames'
The Joseph Soames, of London, was a barque of 780 tons register. She sailed
from the East India Docks for Melbourne on the 15th December 1856, under the
Command of Captain Elmstone, Passengers listed. She was off Tristan d'
Acunha 25th February. There was a fire on board the ship. The ship wrecked
crew and passengers were treated with greatest kindness by the inhabitants
of the island. On 5th March, the Nimroud, Captain Tillman, hove in sight,
and at once took the whole of the unfortunates, fifty-two in number, on
board, and directed his course to the Cape of Good Hope....

Dec. 1 Otago Witness page 6
Wreck of the Lady Elgin on Lake Michigan

January 13 1883 Otago Witness
Wreck of the ship Wild Deer. Glasgow to New Zealand.

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