1862 in New Zealand

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1862 in New Zealand:

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Contents 1 Incumbents 1.1 Regal and Vice Regal 1.2 Government and law 2 Events 2.1 Undated 3 Arts and literature 3.1 Music 4 Appointments and awards 5 Sport 5.1 Cricket 5.2 Horse racing 5.2.1 Major race winner 5.3 Lawn Bowls 5.4 Rowing 5.5 Shooting 6 Births 6.1 Unknown date 7 Deaths 8 See also 9 References

The Gabriel's Gully gold rush is eclipsed by Horatio Hartley and Christopher Reilly's discoveries at Dunstan, and Dunedin is almost emptied of able-bodied men when the news breaks.

[edit] Incumbents

[edit] Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - Queen Victoria
• Governor – Sir George Grey

[edit] Government and law

The 3rd Parliament continues.

• Speaker of the House – David Monro
• Premier – Alfred Domett replaces William Fox on 6 August after Fox loses a vote of no-confidence.
• Minister of Finance – Reader Wood loses the post on 6 August with the fall of the Fox government, and is replaced by Dillon Bell, but is reappointed just 15 days later on 21 August.
• Chief Justice – Hon Sir George Arney (he is knighted during the year)

[edit] Events

• 27 January: The Auckland Register, which started in 1857, ceases publication.^[1]
• 1 July - The first telegraph transmission in New Zealand is made from Lyttelton Post Office to Christchurch.^[2][3][4]
• 7 July – Parliament meets in Wellington for the first time. (see also 1863; 1865)
• 12 November: The Invercargill Times publishes its first issue. It changed its name to The Southland Times two years later, and became a daily in 1875. It continues to publish today^[update].^[5]

[edit] Undated

• The Nelson Intelligence is a short-lived newspaper in the Nelson, New Zealand area.^[6]

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Music

[edit] Appointments and awards

• Primate of New Zealand - George Augustus Selwyn (Bishop of Auckland)
• Bishop of Christchurch - Henry John Chitty Harper
• Bishop of Nelson - Edmund Hobhouse
• Bishop of Waiapu - William Williams
• Bishop of Wellington - Charles John Abraham

[edit] Sport

[edit] Cricket

The second inter-provincial game is played. Nelson defeat Wellington.^[7]

[edit] Horse racing

[edit] Major race winner

• New Zealand Derby - Emmeline

[edit] Lawn Bowls

The Auckland club is now playing on its own green.^[7]

[edit] Rowing

1 January – The first recorded rowing regatta takes place on Lyttelton Harbour.^[7]

Later in the year the Canterbury Rowing Club is formed to row on the Avon River in Christchurch.^[7]

[edit] Shooting

Ballinger Belt - Private Holt (Nelson)

[edit] Births

[edit] Unknown date

• John Findlay, politician.
• Albert Pitt, politician.

[edit] Deaths

• 5 June: Charles Kettle, surveyor of Dunedin.

[edit] See also

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

For world events and topics in 1862 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1862

[edit] References

General

• Romanos, J. (2001) New Zealand Sporting Records and Lists. Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett. ISBN 1-86958-879-7

Specific