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1873 in New Zealand

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

See also:
  
Other events of 1873 Timeline of New Zealand history

Regal and viceregal

  • Head of State — Queen Victoria
  • Governor — Sir George Ferguson Bowen is transferred, on 19 March, to Australia to become 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.

    Contents

  • 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
  • Mayor of Wellington — Joseph Dransfield

    • Events

  • 17 February: The Daily Southern Cross Newspaper prints a hoax report of a Russian invasion of Auckland.
  • 3 May: The New Zealand Tablet begins publication in Dunedin. The newspaper was published weekly by the Catholic Church until 1996.
  • December: The Onehunga Branch railway line from Auckland to Onehunga (via Newmarket, Ellerslie, and Penrose) is opened.

    • 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.
  • North Shore rugby club founded.

    • Shooting

    Ballinger Belt: Lieutenant Hoskins (Thames)

    Births

  • 17 February: Emily Hancock Siedeberg, New Zealand's first female medical graduate.

    • Unknown date

  • (in Tasmania): Edith Joan Lyttleton, writer.
  • (in England): Lionel Terry, white supremacist, murderer.

    • Deaths

  • 6 or 7 August: Phillip Tapsell mariner, whaler and trader

    • References

    1873 in New Zealand Wikipedia
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