The following lists events that happened during 1873 in New Zealand.
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Incumbents edit
Regal and viceregal edit
- 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 edit
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 edit
Events edit
- 17 February: The Daily Southern Cross Newspaper prints a hoax report of a Russian invasion of Auckland.[1]
- 3 May: The New Zealand Tablet begins publication in Dunedin. The newspaper was published weekly by the 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 edit
Horse racing edit
Major race winners edit
- New Zealand Cup: Kakapo
- New Zealand Derby: Rapapa
Rugby union edit
- The Auckland and Thames football clubs adopt rugby union, having previously played association football.[5]
- North Shore rugby club founded.[5]
Shooting edit
Ballinger Belt: Lieutenant Hoskins (Thames)
Births edit
- 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 edit
- Benjamin Sutherland, railway clerk, grocer, businessman and philanthropist[6]
- (in England): Lionel Terry, white supremacist, murderer.
Deaths edit
- 6 or 7 August: Phillip Tapsell mariner, whaler and trader[7]
See also edit
References edit
- 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 edit
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