1861 Colour-Sergeant James Collins fatally shot Ensign William Alexander at the Rutland Stockade in Whanganui. Collins was hung for his crimes.
1883 Pheobe Veitch found dead at the mouth of the whanganui river. Killed by her mother. She was 4 years old.
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Haunted buildings
Cameron Blockhouse
The Cameron Blockhouse is a timber blockhouse in Wanganui, New Zealand, built during the New
Zealand Wars in the mid-1800s. Farmer John Cameron built this blockhouse at Marangai in 1868 as a
place of refuge for his family. Though war never actually reached this locality between Whanganui and
Turakina, fears at the time were well-founded. That winter and spring, the growing forces of the Ngati
Ruanui leader Riwha Titokowaru won a series of stunning victories over the small New Zealand army in
south Taranaki. In November, with Titokowaru just west of Whanganui, the colony was rocked by Te
Kooti Rikirangi’s raid on Poverty Bay, in which about 30 Maori and a similar number of Pakeha were
killed.
Wakefield chambers
Lake Alice
Built as a psychiatric hospital the complex. The hospital slowly shut down during the mid 1990's as
apart of merging patients back into the community as institution's where seen as a negative look upon
the mental health sector at that time although they had talked about shutting Lake Alice and many of
the other institutions around New Zealand down for a few years priors.