1874 in New Zealand

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The following lists events that happened during 1874 in New Zealand.

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

• Head of State — Queen Victoria
• Governor — The Rt. Hon Sir James Fergusson resigns and is replaced by The Marquess of Normanby

Government and law

The 5th New Zealand Parliament continues.

• Speaker of the House — Sir Francis Dillon Bell
• Premier — Julius Vogel.
• Minister of Finance — Julius Vogel
• Chief Justice — Hon Sir George Arney

Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland — Philip Philips followed by Henry Isaacs followed by Frederick Prime
• Mayor of Christchurch — Michael Brennan Hart followed by Fred Hobbs
• Mayor of Dunedin — Henry Fish followed by Andrew Mercer
• Mayor of Wellington — Charles Borlase

Events

• 1 January: Wreck of the Surat, carrying 271 passengers and 37 crew, on the Catlins coast. All survived. ^[1]
• 5 January: The Poverty Bay Herald begins publishing in Gisborne. It is initially bi-weekly. The paper changed its name to The Gisborne Herald in 1939, and continues to publish as a daily today ^[update] . ^[2]
• 15 January: The Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, first published in 1842, produces its last issue. ^[3]
• 30 June: The Wellington Independent publishes its final issue, and is replaced by The New Zealand Times. The newspaper started in 1845. ^[4]
• 18 November: Fire and sinking of the Cospatrick carrying emigrants to New Zealand near the Cape of Good Hope; one of New Zealand's worst disasters as only three of the 472 on board survived. ^[5]
• The Marlborough Times begins publication bi-weekly, and absorbs The Marlborough News. It became a daily in 1882. The Marlborough Express bought it in 1895 and closed it in 1905. ^[6]
• The Marine Department employs Capt. B.A. Edwin to provide weather maps and forecasts to ships, establishing New Zealand's first weather service. ^[7]

Sport

Horse racing

• 25 May — Recorded by some sources as the date of first race meeting at Ellerslie.(see also 1857)
• The Auckland Cup is established at Ellerslie Racecourse.
• The Wellington Cup becomes an annual race. The first winner of which evidence survives is recorded.

Major race winners

• New Zealand Cup: Tambourini
• New Zealand Derby: Tadmor
• Auckland Cup: Templeton
• Wellington Cup: Castaway

Rugby union

• Rugby union spreads quickly, with many new clubs being formed: Ngāruawāhia, Hamilton, Cambridge, New Plymouth (Taranaki club) Hawera (Egmont club), Parnell, Grafton, Ponsonby, and Mount Hobson. Rugby was also taken up at Auckland College and Auckland Grammar School. ^[8]

Shooting

Ballinger Belt: Captain Skinner (Waiuku Rifles)

Births

• 8 February: Edmund Anscombe , architect. ^[9]
• 20 September: George Smith , athlete and rugby player.

Deaths

• 22 April: Thomas Brunner , surveyor and explorer.

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

General

• Romanos, J. (2001) New Zealand Sporting Records and Lists. Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett.

Specific

1. Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association. pp. 189–190.
2. "Poverty Bay Herald". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 21 September 2008.
3. "Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 21 May 2008.
4. "Wellington Independent". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 23 May 2008.
5. "NZ-bound emigrants died on burning ship". Stuff (Fairfax) New Zealand. 2 February 2019.
6. "History in the making". The Marlborough Express. 6 July 2004. Archived from the original on 1 August 2008. Retrieved 17 June 2008.
7. Dunmore, Patricia, ed. (1977). The Dunmore Book of New Zealand Records. p. 19.
8. "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 8 January 2009. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
9. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Edmund Anscombe

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