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• The Ghost of Tophouse

  Tophouse Hotel Tophouse Hotel Click image to enlarge I am the new owner of Tophouse, since September 2007, and have researched the history of Tophouse and have found that apparently...

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• Events

  Stories about significant, interesting or unusual events which have occurred in the top of the South Island of New Zealand. See related stories on this site: The Wairau Affray Wreck...

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• Tophouse

  Tophouse, the scene of a murder/suicide in 1894, was the natural pass between the Wairau, Motupiko and Buller Rivers, and was commonly used by Māori in pre-European times. Tophouse...

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• John Sylvanus Cotterell

  Surveyor, settler, explorer If John Cotterell had not been killed, in the Wairau Affray,  at the tender age of 23, it is likely he would have become a person...

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• John Kidson 1808-1875

  Gardener, Nelson settler, participant in Wairau Affray and New Zealand Company agitator John and Amelia Kidson both had secure jobs in England - he was a gardener at the...

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