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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 — 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.

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.^[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

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]

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

Media related to 1873 in New Zealand at Wikimedia Commons

[1] New Zealand History online: Today in history - 17 February

[2] "New Zealand Tablet 3 May 1873 – 30 December 1909 (1913 issues)". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 23 June 2008.

[3] Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association. pp. 187–188.

[4] "Onehunga Dateline". Archived from the original on 20 July 2008. Retrieved 11 June 2008.

[union-5] "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.

[DNZB_Sutherland-6] Beaglehole, Diana. "Benjamin Sutherland". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.

[TeAra-7] W. T. Parham, Tapsell, Phillip, from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 19-Jan-12

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1873 in New Zealand

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

Government and law

Main centre leaders

Events

Sport

Horse racing

Major race winners

Rugby union

Shooting

Births

Unknown date

Deaths

See also

References

External links