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Captain James Cook arrived at Poverty Bay, NZ

First women settlers arrived In New Zealand

Henry Williams arrived in New Zealand from England

Approximately 30 stations and 700 people settled in the shore-based whaling stations

By December there were 14,000 people on the Tuapeka field in Otago

The immigration restriction act was passed in 1899

Non-Māori population of New Zealand rose from under 30,000 to over 250,000.

The non-Māori population was just over a quarter of a million; over the next 15 years much more numbers flooded into the country

Approxiametly 800 people settled at Waipū in Northland