As part of school work, Blair wrote two poems that were published in the Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard, He came second to Connolly in the Harrow History Prize, had his work praised by the school's external examiner, and earned scholarships to Wellington and Eton Colleges.

Larger cities were comparatively safe, with Auckland City ( 28 ), Wellington ( 22 ) and Christchurch ( 28 ), while Dunedin had a higher rate of 43.

In 1843 a local militia had been formed in Wellington without official sanction.

Curiously, the newspaper article of the time notes that Wellington had a mounted Volunteer Corp.

Following on from this the local paper noted that the No 1 Company of the Wellington Militia had been called out, while the troops stationed in the town had been in the Hutt.

In 2005, Wellington Mara, who had been with the team since its inception in 1925 when he worked as a ball boy, died at the age of 89.

In recent years, Victoria has had to expand out of its original campus in Kelburn, and new campuses have been set up in Te Aro ( architecture and design ), Pipitea ( opposite Parliament, housing the law, and commerce and administration schools ) and Karori ( education )-the Wellington College of Education, established in 1880, merged with the University to become its revived Faculty of Education on 1 January 2005.

Wellington has retreated from Quatre Bras to Waterloo, but Ney returns to Napoleon to deliver his report on the Quatre Bras engagement, which angers Napoleon, who had expected Ney to pursue Wellington, who is now free to choose his own battlefield.

In reality, as the battle had been won, Blücher and Wellington met to signal the defeat of Napoleon, which is not seen in the film.

But with the Prussian retreat, Wellington too had to retreat.

Grouchy organized a successful and well-ordered retreat towards Paris, where Marshal Davout had 117, 000 men ready to turn back the 116, 000 men of Blücher and Wellington.

The Duke of Wellington, who had previously earned fame by leading the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, strongly opposed reform measures.

" Wellington was replaced by the Whig reformer Charles Grey, who had by this time the title of Earl Grey.

In these circumstances, the Duke of Wellington had great difficulty in building support for his premiership, despite promising moderate reform.

According to Lord Holland, the Duke of Wellington had claimed that it was Lady Jersey who had selected Caroline as George's bride.

In 1812, the Earl of Wellington ( the future Duke of Wellington ) again attempted to take Badajoz, which had a French garrison of about 5, 000 men.

At the cost of some 5, 000 British Army casualties, Wellington had succeeded in taking Badajoz.

He had a lifelong association with Victoria University College, which became Victoria University of Wellington, and after his death it named the archival collections after him.

The Provincial Council of New Munster had only one legislative session, in 1849, before it succumbed to the virulent attacks of settlers from Wellington.

French dominion in parts of Catalonia lasted until 1814, when the British General Wellington signed the armistice by which the French left Barcelona and the other strongholds that they had managed to keep until the last.

The band's first release came in 1999 with the Natural Compression EP, which had been recorded at Marmalade Studios in Wellington, with friend and Shihad drummer Tom Larkin producing.

* Men's: The State Shield ( formerly the Shell Cup )-played annually between six teams based upon the first class associations: The Northern Knights, Auckland Aces, Central Stags, Wellington Firebirds, Canterbury Wizards and Otago Volts.

* Women's: The State League-played annually between six teams based upon the first-class associations: Northern Spirit, Auckland Hearts, Central Hinds, Wellington Blaze, Canterbury Magicians, Otago Sparks.

There are also six public golf courses at Avon, Kearney Links, Lakeside, Meadowbrook, Tates Creek and Picadome and four dog parks, at Jacobson, Masterson Station, Coldstream, and Wellington.

The battle followed a frustrating period of six weeks for Wellington.

Wellington commanded six infantry divisions, Charles Ashworth's independent Portuguese brigade and three cavalry brigades.

Greater Wellington Regional Council is a statutory body made up of 13 regional councillors, representing six constituencies:

Born in Roseneath, Wellington, New Zealand in 1912, Wake was the youngest of six children.

This Act established the first six provinces of Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago.

It also owns and operates six wind farms in New Zealand, Australia and Antarctica, and a single turbine in Brooklyn, Wellington.

It is located at the northern end of the Hutt Valley, 45 kilometres northeast of Wellington City and six kilometres from the northern end of the Upper Hutt urban area.

Gibney was born the youngest of six children, and brought up in Wellington.

In the initial years of the competition the Hurricanes played once, or occasionally twice, away from their Wellington base depending on whether they had five or six games per year.

It cost the British one Bristol Beaufighter, two Beauforts, three ( out of six ) Blenheims and one Vickers Wellington.

He was buried in the church of St John the Baptist, Wellington where exists his large free-standing monument under an elaborate canopy showing effigies of himself and his wife recumbent in the centre, with many little figures praying around the base representing his parents, his six daughters, three maidservants, his only son and his wife and their thirteen children.

After the counting of special votes, Wade-Brown was declared the winner of a close Wellington mayoral contest by a one hundred and seventy six vote margin, ending nearly a decade of Prendergast's mayoralty.

and six men of the Duke of Wellington ’ s Regiment were fired on by a body of civilians outside a bakery in Church Street, Dublin.

After finishing sixth with a six win, four loss record, Southland were taught a lesson in the quarter final losing to Wellington 45-3.

Blundell was President of the Wellington District Law Society in 1951, President of the New Zealand Law Society for six years ( 1962 – 1968 ) and Vice-President of the Law Society of Asia and the Pacific 1966.

In New Zealand mounted rifles reinforcements trained at Featherston Camp north of Wellington where there were about 8, 000 men were housed in nearly 300 buildings, including three billiard rooms, a post office, a movie theatre, 16 dining halls, six cookhouses and stables for 500 horses.

The most successful teams in the Chatham Cup have been Mount Wellington ( seven wins, two of them since amalgamation with Auckland University ), and Christchurch United and North Shore United ( six wins each ).

He held the championship for over six months, having successful championship defenses against Adam Flash at Liberated and Coming Full Circle in March, Beef Wellington in April at Trifecta 3, and Chris Hero in July at High Stakes 3.

He then went to play for the Natal Sharks, but in the 2008 Super 14 season he was suspended for six weeks after headbutting a Wellington Hurricanes player, and was also suspended for two weeks in the IRB Pacific 5 Nations after dangerously tackling New Zealand Maori Number Eight, Tom Waldrom.

In his first match against Wellington he took six catches.

Firth also played six first-class cricket matches, five for Wellington and one for Nelson.