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1859 in New Zealand

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Other events of 1859Timeline of New Zealand history

Regal and viceregal

  • Head of State — Queen Victoria
  • Governor — Colonel Thomas Gore Browne

    • Government and law

    The 2nd Parliament continues.

    Contents

  • Speaker of the House — Sir Charles Clifford
  • Premier — Edward Stafford.
  • Minister of Finance — William Richmond is briefly replaced by Henry Sewell between 25 February and 26 April.
  • Chief Justice — Hon George Arney

    • Events

  • 10 January: Pencarrow Head Lighthouse becomes the first permanent lighthouse in New Zealand. Its first keeper is Mary Jane Bennett, the only woman to hold the position.
  • 13 April: The New Zealand Advertiser starts publishing in Wellington. In 1867 it is incorporated into the New Zealand Times, but it is restored for six months in 1868.
  • 3 October: The Auckland Independent begins publishing. It barely survives into the following year.

    • Undated

    The first wharf is built at Onehunga.

    Births

  • 1 January (in England): John Dumbell, rugby union player.

    • Unknown date

  • Thomas Field, politician.

    • Deaths

  • 7 April – John Gray, soldier, politician (born 1801)
  • 20 April – James Kelly, Australian explorer who was involved in a feud on Otago Peninsula (born 1791)
  • 30 April – Henry Despard, soldier (born c.1784)
  • 20 July – Alexander Shepherd, public servant and second Colonial Treasurer (born c.1797)

    • References

    1859 in New Zealand Wikipedia
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