1830 in New Zealand

← 1829 1828 1827 1830 in New Zealand → 1831 1832 1833
Decades:	1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	History of New Zealand List of years in New Zealand Timeline of New Zealand history

The following lists events that happened during 1830 in New Zealand.

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

• Head of State – King George IV dies on 26 June and is succeeded by his brother King William IV.
• Governor of New South Wales – General Ralph Darling

Events

• 10 January – The first whaling ship, the Antarctic, enters Lyttelton Harbour, which Captain Morell calls 'Cook's Harbour'. ^[1]
• 3 February – John Guard arrives in Sydney with a cargo of whale oil, the first to be shipped from the South Island. ^{[2] [3]}
• 21 April – Phillip Tapsell is married to Karuhi, sister of a Ngā Puhi chief, by Samuel Marsden. ^[4]
• 31 July – William Yate returns from 6 months 'training' in printing at Sydney with a printing press. His attempts at printing are not particularly successful. ^{[5] [6]} (see also 1834 & 1835)
• 19 August – Captain William Stewart leaves for Kapiti Island, where Te Rauparaha has promised him a cargo of flax in return for transporting a large Ngāti Toa party to Akaroa. ^[7]
• 26 October – Te Rauparaha and 120 Ngāti Toa warriors leave Kapiti Island for Akaroa on the hired brig Elizabeth. ^[8]
• 6 November – After 3 or 4 days hidden aboard the Elizabeth while anchored in Akaroa, Te Rauparaha and his warriors attack and massacre a village ^[9] of local Kāi Tahu, and then cannibalise them. ^[8]
• November
  • Phillip Tapsell settles in Maketu in the Bay of Plenty and begins trading for flax. ^[4] (see also 1828)

Undated

• John Guard marries Elizabeth 'Betty' Parker in Sydney. She leaves Sydney on the schooner Waterloo on 7 November, arrives at Te Awaiti before the end of the year, and is the first European women to settle permanently in the South Island. ^[10]
• A whaling station is operating from Porirua.
• Jack Duff, a trader, is the first known European to visit the Palmerston North area. He travels by whaleboat up river as far inland as Woodville and returns to Porirua. ^[11]
• The first inland mission is started at Waimate North. ^[12]

Births

• 2 May (in Ireland): Maurice O'Rorke, politician. ^[13]
• 29 August (in Ireland): Charles Bowen, politician. ^[14]
• 22 October (in Scotland): Arthur John Burns, businessman and politician.

Unknown date

• (in England): Edwin Blake, Member of Parliament
• (in Ireland): Charles Bowen, politician.
• (in England): Henry Miller, politician. ^[15]
• (in Ireland) Thomas Russell, founder of the Bank of New Zealand

See also

• List of years in New Zealand
• Timeline of New Zealand history
• History of New Zealand
• Military history of New Zealand
• Timeline of the New Zealand environment
• Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica

References

1. Christchurch: a chronology
2. New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Guard Biography
3. New Zealand Electronic Text Centre: The Old Whaling Days 1
4. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Phillip Tapsell
5. Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 185
6. New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Printing
7. New Zealand Hhiistory online: 'Captain Stewart and the Elizabeth - a frontier of chaos?'
8. New Zealand Electronic Text Centre: The Old Whaling Days 2
9. This village is not to be confused with the much larger pā at Onawe which Te Rauparaha destroyed in late 1831 or early 1832.
10. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Elizabeth Guard
11. New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Palmerston North
12. Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 474.
13. Rogers, Frank. (1993). "O'Rorke, George Maurice 1830 - 1916". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
14. Lineham, Peter J. (1990). "Bowen, Charles Christopher 1830 - 1917". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
15. Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC   154283103.