1896 in New Zealand
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Incumbents
Regal and viceregal
Government and law
The Liberal Party is re-elected and begins the 13th New Zealand Parliament.
- Speaker of the House — Sir Maurice O'Rorke
- Prime Minister — Richard Seddon
- Minister of Finance — Joseph Ward resigns on 16 June and is replaced by Richard Seddon
- Chief Justice — Hon Sir James Prendergast
- The Female Law Practitioners Act was passed in 1896, and Ethel Benjamin who had graduated in law from the University of Otago in 1896 was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in 1897.
Parliamentary opposition
Leader of the Opposition — William Russell.[1]
Main centre leaders
- Mayor of Auckland — James Holland followed by Abraham Boardman
- Mayor of Christchurch — Walter Cooper followed by Henry Joseph Beswick
- Mayor of Dunedin — Nathaniel Young Armstrong Wales followed by Hugh Gourley
- Mayor of Wellington — George Fisher
Events
- 26 March: Brunner Mine disaster; 65 miners killed in explosion [2]
- 13 April: National Council of Women of New Zealand is founded, with Kate Sheppard as its first president.[3]
- 13 October: First public screening of a motion picture in New Zealand, in Auckland.[4]
- 4 December: New Zealand general election, 1896.
- Undated
- Census measures national population as 743,214.
Arts and literature
Music
Media
- The Waikato Argus starts publication. The newspaper runs until 1915.[5]
- The Gisborne Times is founded.[6] It became a daily in 1901, and continued to publish until being bought out by The Poverty Bay Herald in 1938.[7]
- July: The Waikato Times and Waikato Advocate merge, and the former moves to daily publication.[8]
Sport
Athletics
National Champions, Men [9]
- 100 yards — E. Robinson (Canterbury)
- 250 yards — W. Kingston (Otago)
- 440 yards — W. Low (Otago)
- 880 yards — W. Low (Otago)
- 1 mile — W. Bennett (Otago)
- 3 miles — W. Bennett (Otago)
- 120 yards hurdles — W. Martin (Auckland)
- 440 yards hurdles — J. Thomas Roberts (Auckland)
- Long jump — Leonard Cuff (Canterbury)
- High jump — P. Brown (Canterbury)
- Pole vault — tie R. Hunter (Hawkes Bay) and H. Kingsley (Wanganui)
- Shot put — W. Rhodes (Wellington)
- Hammer throw — P. Brown (Canterbury)
Chess
National Champion: W. Meldrum of Rangitikei.[10]
Cricket
Golf
- Men's national amateur champion — M.S. Todd (Otago)[11]
- Women's national amateur champion — L. Wilford (Hutt)
Horse racing
Harness racing
- Auckland Trotting Cup (over 3 miles) is won by Fibre [12]
Thoroughbred racing
- New Zealand Cup — Lady Zetland
- New Zealand Derby — Uniform
- Auckland Cup — Nestor
- Wellington Cup — Brooklet
Season leaders (1895/96)
- Top New Zealand stakes earner — Euroclydon
- Leading flat jockey — C. Jenkins
Lawn Bowls
National Champions[13] There are no national championships this year.
Polo
- Savile Cup winners — Manawatu
Rowing
National Champions (Men)
- Single sculls — C. Chapman (Wairewa)
- Double sculls — Wairewa, Little River
- Coxless pairs — Canterbury
- Coxed fours — Queen’s Dr, Port Chalmers
Rugby union
Shooting
Ballinger Belt — Sergeant Wakelyn (Honorary Reserve Corps, Christchurch)
Soccer
Provincial league champions:[14]
- Auckland: Auckland United
- Otago: Roslyn Dunedin
- Wellington: Wellington Swifts
Swimming
Not held
Tennis
National Championships
- Men's singles — H. Parker
- Women's singles — Kathleen Nunneley
- Men's doubles — R. Harman and D. Collins
- Women's doubles — Kathleen Nunneley and T. Trimmell
Births
- 15 June (in England): Archie Fisher, painter.[15]
Deaths
- 2 August: James FitzGerald, politician (born 1818).
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. ISBN 1-86958-879-7
- Specific
- ^ "Elections NZ — Leaders of the Opposition". Retrieved 6 April 2008.
- ^ Brunner mine disaster
- ^ NCWNZ History
- ^ MIC - Film pioneers Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Waikato Times". National Library of New Zealand.
- ^ "Poverty Bay Herald". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 21 September 2008.
- ^ Mackay, Joseph Angus (1949). "Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.: Earliest Journals and Their Founders".
- ^ "Mayor's chair bonds present with past". Waikato Museum.
- ^ Athletics NZ senior mens champions (MS Word)
- ^ List of New Zealand Chess Champions Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ edited by A. H. McLintock (1966). "Men's Golf — National Champions". An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Te Ara — The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
{{cite web}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ^ Auckland Trotting cup at hrnz.co.nz Archived 17 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ As the New Zealand Bowling Association at this time consists entirely of South Island clubs, the first truly "national" championships are not deemed to have begun until 1914.
- ^ "New Zealand: List of champions". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 1999.
- ^ Blackley, Roger. "Fisher, Archibald Joseph Charles 1896–1959". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
External links
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