1873 in New Zealand

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1873
in
New Zealand

Decades:
See also:

The following lists events that happened during 1873 in New Zealand.

Incumbents[edit]

Regal and viceregal[edit]

Government and law[edit]

The 5th New Zealand Parliament continues.

Main centre leaders[edit]

Events[edit]

Sport[edit]

Horse racing[edit]

Major race winners[edit]

  • New Zealand Cup: Kakapo
  • New Zealand Derby: Rapapa

Rugby union[edit]

  • The Auckland and Thames football clubs adopt rugby union, having previously played association football.[5]
  • North Shore rugby club founded.[5]

Shooting[edit]

Ballinger Belt: Lieutenant Hoskins (Thames)

Births[edit]

Unknown date[edit]

Deaths[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

General
  • Romanos, J. (2001) New Zealand Sporting Records and Lists. Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett. ISBN 1-86958-879-7
Specific
  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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Beaglehole, Diana. "Benjamin Sutherland". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  7. ^ 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[edit]

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