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1870 in New Zealand

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Decades:
  
1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s

See also:
  
Other events of 1870 Timeline of New Zealand history

Regal and viceregal

  • Head of State — Queen Victoria
  • Governor — Sir George Ferguson Bowen

    • Government and law

    The 4th New Zealand Parliament continues.

    Contents

  • Speaker of the House — Sir David Monro stands down at the end of the year. He will be replaced after the 1871 election by Sir Francis Dillon Bell
  • Premier — William Fox
  • Minister of Finance — Julius Vogel
  • Chief Justice — Hon Sir George Arney

    • Voting in New Zealand elections is changed to a secret ballot.

    Main centre leaders

  • Mayor of Christchurch — John Anderson followed by Andrew Duncan
  • Mayor of Dunedin — Thomas Birch followed by Henry Fish
  • Mayor of Wellington — Joseph Dransfield

    • Archery

  • The first club meets at One Tree Hill, Auckland.

    • Golf

  • New Zealand's first golf course was opened in Dunedin.

    • Horse racing

    There are 2 races for both the New Zealand Cup and New Zealand Derby (presumably at the beginning and end of the calendar year).(Confirmation required)

    Major race winners

  • New Zealand Cup: Knottingley
  • New Zealand Cup: Knottingley
  • New Zealand Derby: Malabar
  • New Zealand Derby: Envy

    • Rugby union

    Charles Monro, son of the Speaker of the House, Sir David Monro, introduces rugby to the Nelson Football club.

  • 14 May — First rugby club match, Nelson College versus Nelson Football Club "The Town" at the Botanical reserve. This was the first interclub game of rugby union played in New Zealand.
  • 12 September — A Nelson team, the "Lunatics", defeats Wellington at Petone.
  • — The first "international" between Wellington and a team from HMS Rosario.

    • Shooting

    Ballinger Belt: Lieutenant Goldie (Otago)

    Births

  • 14 April: James Cowan, writer.
  • 20 October: C. F. Goldie, painter.

    • Deaths

  • 16 July: Elizabeth Guard, of pioneering whaling family.

    • References

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