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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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• 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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• Judge Conolly

  Lawyer Edward Tennyson Conolly came to New Zealand from Middlesex, England in 1865, and settled in Picton, becoming one of the town’s leading personages.  Conolly.jpg Edward Tennyson...

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• Maungatapu Murders

  The trial of the notorious Burgess gang caused a sensation in the small town of Nelson in 1866. Murder was a rare crime and this one involved not...

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