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Colonist

639 records about Christchurch, the oldest first. The originals live at Papers Past, where each row links.

On this shelf
639
records
By size
#17
of 278 mastheads
Reaches
1885–1885
Surfaced in
23
suburbs' searches

Its patch

Where this paper’s records surfaced in the archive’s searches, the searches that returned it, not a claim it covered them.

Suburbs: Bishopdale · Christchurch Central City · Saint Martins · McLeans Island · Hornby South · Hei Hei · Burwood · Waltham · Shirley · Purau · New Brighton · Halswell · Fendalton · Woolston · Wainoni · Sumner · Sockburn · Richmond Hill · Riccarton · Redcliffs · Rapaki · Port Levy · Ouruhia

The wider field: names its searches used that no suburb owns: Rolleston · Coastal Ward · Takamatua · Styx · Otautahi

Streets: slater street, Richmond · bishopdale court, Bishopdale · lois place, Richmond · chancellor street, Richmond · n parade, Richmond · grahams road, Bishopdale · st, Christchurch Central City · brighton road, New Brighton · ealing street, Redwood · draper street, Richmond · guild street, Richmond · cheviot street, Spreydon · show place, Addington

  1. toCleanings of News. FROM ENGLISH PAPERS TO 16TH DECEMBER. (Colonist, 30 March 1858), , Colonist
  2. Shipping News. (Colonist, 30 March 1858), , Colonist
  3. Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Colonist, 14 June 1859), , Colonist
  4. LYTTELTON. (Colonist, 04 November 1859), , Colonist
  5. Commercial. (Colonist, 06 December 1859), , Colonist
  6. CLIFTON, GOLDEN BAY. (Colonist, 09 February 1866), , Colonist
  7. Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 (Colonist, 05 June 1866), , Colonist
  8. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (Colonist, 21 August 1868), , Colonist
  9. NELSON DIOCESAN SYNOD, (Colonist, 18 September 1868), , Colonist
  10. MARRIAGES. (Colonist, 06 October 1868), , Colonist
  11. NELSON REGATTA. (Colonist, 12 February 1869), , Colonist
  12. Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Colonist, 17 August 1869), , Colonist
  13. KIDNAPPING SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS (Colonist, 26 November 1869), , Colonist
  14. NEW ZEALAND INTELLIGENCE (Colonist, 15 February 1870), , Colonist
  15. NEW ZEALAND INTELLIGENCE. (Colonist, 29 March 1870), , Colonist
  16. CANTERBURY PROVINCE. FEARFUL FIRE AT LYTTELTON. (Colonist, 04 November 1870), , Colonist
  17. FARMING ITEMS. (Colonist, 10 February 1871), , Colonist
  18. NEW ZEALAND. (Colonist, 16 May 1871), , Colonist
  19. Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 (Colonist, 30 June 1871), , Colonist
  20. NEW ZEALAND. (Colonist, 04 August 1871), , Colonist
  21. NEW ZEALAND GENERAL NEWS. (Colonist, 24 November 1871), , Colonist
  22. NEW ZEALAND.-GENERAL NEWS. (Colonist, 16 February 1872), , Colonist
  23. NEWS OF THE DAY (Colonist, 08 March 1872), , Colonist
  24. NEWS OF THE DAY (Colonist, 12 March 1872), , Colonist
  25. COLONIAL TOPICS. (Colonist, 28 August 1872), , Colonist
  26. A TEIP TO THE SOUTH. (Colonist, 17 September 1872), , Colonist
  27. VANDALISM AT THE TERRACES IN THE LAKE DISTRICT. (Colonist, 27 September 1872), , Colonist
  28. Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 (Colonist, 29 April 1873), , Colonist
  29. THE LATE MR, H. REDWOOD. (Colonist, 24 June 1873), , Colonist
  30. Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Colonist, 21 February 1874), , Colonist
  31. Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Colonist, 14 March 1874), , Colonist
  32. NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL. (Colonist, 21 April 1874), , Colonist
  33. DEATHS. (Colonist, 26 May 1874), , Colonist
  34. Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Colonist, 22 December 1874), , Colonist
  35. BIRTH. (Colonist, 24 December 1874), , Colonist
  36. BIRTHS. (Colonist, 16 January 1875), , Colonist
  37. Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 (Colonist, 23 October 1875), , Colonist
  38. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS. (Colonist, 24 February 1876), , Colonist
  39. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS. (Colonist, 09 September 1876), , Colonist
  40. THE TRADE OF OUR PORT. (Colonist, 23 January 1877), , Colonist
  41. Untitled (Colonist, 24 March 1877), , Colonist
  42. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS (Colonist, 07 April 1877), , Colonist
  43. SUPREME COURT CASES. (Colonist, 20 October 1877), , Colonist
  44. CORRESPONDENCE. (Colonist, 13 November 1877), , Colonist
  45. LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Colonist, 04 May 1878), , Colonist
  46. CHRISTCHURCH. (Colonist, 25 July 1878), , Colonist
  47. NEW ZEALAND RACERS. (Colonist, 12 September 1878), , Colonist
  48. TELEGRAPHIC. (Colonist, 03 April 1880), , Colonist
  49. NEW ZEALAND NOTES. (Colonist, 10 February 1881), , Colonist
  50. UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS] (Colonist, 07 July 1881), , Colonist
  51. CHRISTCHURCH. (Colonist, 11 July 1881), , Colonist
  52. CHRISTCHURCH. (Colonist, 09 September 1881), , Colonist
  53. A CLERGYMAN'S LETTER. (Colonist, 28 October 1881), , Colonist
  54. CHRISTCHURCH. (Colonist, 12 January 1882), , Colonist
  55. CHRISTCHURCH. (Colonist, 25 April 1882), , Colonist
  56. COLLING WOOD. (Colonist, 15 June 1882), , Colonist
  57. CHRISTCHURCH. (Colonist, 29 August 1882), , Colonist
  58. CHRISTCHURCH. (Colonist, 21 November 1882), , Colonist
  59. CHRISTCHURCH. (Colonist, 24 November 1882), , Colonist
  60. THE COLONIST. PUBLISHED DAILY. NELSON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1882. CHEESE AND BUTTER FACTORY. PUBLIC MEETING AT RICHMOND. (Colonist, 30 November 1882), , Colonist
  61. TELEGRAMS. (Colonist, 12 February 1883), , Colonist
  62. CHRISTCHURCH, (Colonist, 12 February 1884), , Colonist
  63. CHRISTCHURCH. (Colonist, 01 March 1884), , Colonist
  64. CHRISTCHURCH. (Colonist, 31 May 1884), , Colonist
  65. Births, Marriages, and Deaths. (Colonist, 19 July 1884), , Colonist
  66. CHRISTCHURCH, (Colonist, 07 November 1884), , Colonist
  67. TELEGRAMS. (Colonist, 10 July 1885), , Colonist
  68. THE MOORHOUSE STATUE. (Colonist, 15 August 1885), , Colonist
  69. Births, Marriages and Deaths. (Colonist, 24 April 1886), , Colonist
  70. GREAT FLOOD IN CANTERBURY. (Colonist, 17 May 1886), , Colonist
  71. CHRISTCHURCH, (Colonist, 16 June 1886), , Colonist
  72. CHRISTCHURCH, (Colonist, 24 July 1886), , Colonist
  73. CHRISTCHURCH (Colonist, 27 July 1886), , Colonist
  74. CHRISTCHURCH, (Colonist, 28 July 1886), , Colonist
  75. CHRISTCHURCH, (Colonist, 04 November 1886), , Colonist
  76. CHRISTCHURCH. (Colonist, 24 November 1886), , Colonist
  77. CHRISTCHURCH, (Colonist, 12 January 1887), , Colonist
  78. CHRISTCHURCH, (Colonist, 22 April 1887), , Colonist
  79. CHRISTCHURCH. (Colonist, 23 May 1887), , Colonist
  80. CHRISTCHURCH, (Colonist, 09 July 1887), , Colonist
  81. CANTERBURY. (Colonist, 27 September 1887), , Colonist
  82. CANTERBURY (Colonist, 06 October 1887), , Colonist
  83. CHRISTCHURCH, (Colonist, 12 January 1889), , Colonist
  84. CHRISTCHURCH, (Colonist, 24 January 1889), , Colonist
  85. CHRISTCHURCH. (Colonist, 26 February 1889), , Colonist
  86. CHRISTCHURCH (Colonist, 20 June 1889), , Colonist
  87. TELEGRAMS (Colonist, 09 December 1889), , Colonist
  88. CHRISTCHURCH. (Colonist, 24 January 1890), , Colonist
  89. CHRISTCHURCH, (Colonist, 30 January 1890), , Colonist
  90. CHRISTCHURCH, (Colonist, 24 February 1890), , Colonist
  91. CHRISTCHURCH. (Colonist, 07 April 1890), , Colonist
  92. CHRISTCHURCH. (Colonist, 30 April 1890), , Colonist
  93. CHRISTCHURCH. (Colonist, 01 May 1890), , Colonist
  94. CHRISTCHURCH, (Colonist, 16 June 1890), , Colonist
  95. CHRISTCHURCH. (Colonist, 24 June 1890), , Colonist
  96. CHRISTCHURCH, (Colonist, 07 July 1890), , Colonist
  97. CHRISTCHURCH, (Colonist, 28 July 1890), , no. 16.2, Colonist
  98. CHRISTCHURCH, (Colonist, 28 July 1890), , no. 18.1, Colonist
  99. CHRISTCHURCH. (Colonist, 17 October 1890), , Colonist
  100. CHRISTCHURCH (Colonist, 05 November 1890), , Colonist

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Questions, answered briefly

What was the Colonist?

A newspaper on the Papers Past shelf, the archive holds 639 of its records that mention Christchurch, 1885. The full run lives at the National Library, not here.

How much of the Colonist does the archive hold?

639 records, the #17 heaviest file of the 278 mastheads on the shelf.

Where are the Colonist originals?

Papers Past, the National Library’s newspaper archive, every record row here links out to the issue it came from.

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