1873 in New Zealand
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The following lists events that happened during 1873 in New Zealand.
Incumbents
Regal and viceregal
- Head of State — Queen Victoria
- Governor of Victoria. His replacement, The Rt. Hon Sir James Fergusson, takes up his appointment on 14 June.
Government and law
The 5th New Zealand Parliament continues.
- Speaker of the House — Sir Francis Dillon Bell
- Premier — William Fox, "caretaker" Premier since the sudden resignation of George Waterhouse on 3 March, steps down in favour of Julius Vogel on the latter's return to New Zealand on 8 April.
- Minister of Finance — Julius Vogel
- Chief Justice — Hon Sir George Arney
Main centre leaders
- Mayor of Auckland — Philip Philips
- Mayor of Christchurch — Henry Sawtell followed by Edward B. Bishop
- Mayor of Dunedin — Henry Fish
- Joseph Dransfield
Events
- 17 February: The Daily Southern Cross Newspaper prints a hoax report of a Russian invasion of Auckland.[1]
- 3 May: Catholic Church until 1996.[2]
- Late August: A cyclone hits the South Island east coast, wrecking several ships.[3]
- December: The Onehunga Branch railway line from Auckland to Onehunga (via Newmarket, Ellerslie, and Penrose) is opened.[4]
Sport
Horse racing
Major race winners
- New Zealand Cup: Kakapo
- New Zealand Derby: Rapapa
Rugby union
- The Auckland and Thames football clubs adopt rugby union, having previously played association football.[5]
- North Shore rugby club founded.[5]
Shooting
Ballinger Belt: Lieutenant Hoskins (Thames)
Births
- 17 February: Emily Hancock Siedeberg, New Zealand's first female medical graduate.
- 21 October (in New South Wales): Bob Semple, politician and unionist.
- 9 December (in Ireland): James McCombs, politician
- 18 December (in Tasmania): Edith Joan Lyttleton, writer.
Unknown date
- Benjamin Sutherland, railway clerk, grocer, businessman and philanthropist[6]
- (in England): Lionel Terry, white supremacist, murderer.
Deaths
- 6 or 7 August: Phillip Tapsell mariner, whaler and trader[7]
See also
- List of years in New Zealand
- Timeline of New Zealand history
- History of New Zealand
- Military history of New Zealand
- Timeline of the New Zealand environment
- Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica
References
- General
- Romanos, J. (2001) New Zealand Sporting Records and Lists. Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett. ISBN 1-86958-879-7
- Specific
- ^ New Zealand History online: Today in history - 17 February
- ^ "New Zealand Tablet 3 May 1873 – 30 December 1909 (1913 issues)". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 23 June 2008.
- ^ Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association. pp. 187–188.
- ^ "Onehunga Dateline". Archived from the original on 20 July 2008. Retrieved 11 June 2008.
- ^ a b "RUGBY UNION FOOTBALL". from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966. Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Archived from the original on 20 February 2009. Retrieved 9 February 2009.
- ^ Beaglehole, Diana. "Benjamin Sutherland". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- ^ W. T. Parham, Tapsell, Phillip, from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 19-Jan-12
External links
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