1836 in New Zealand

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The following lists events that happened during 1836 in New Zealand.

Incumbents[]

Regal and viceregal[]

  • Head of State – King William IV
  • Governor of New South Wales – Major-General Sir Richard Bourke

Government and law[]

  • British Resident in New Zealand – James Busby
  • Additional British Resident in New Zealand – Thomas McDonnell until his resignation in July.[1]

Events[]

  • July
    • – Additional British Resident in New Zealand, Thomas McDonnell resigns.[1]
  • 26 December – John Hughes, W.I. Haberfield and others from the Weller brothers whaling station at Otakou arrive in the Magnet and set up a whaling station on the north side of Moeraki Point.[2]
Undated
  • Captain John Howell is sent by whaler and merchant Johnny Jones to establish a whaling station at Riverton to replace that recently abandoned at Preservation Inlet.[3][4] (see also 1829 and 1835)
  • The Stone Store at Kerikeri, the oldest stone building in New Zealand, is completed mid-year.
  • Late in the year Alfred Nesbitt Brown closes the mission at Matamata.[5] (see also 1835 & 1838)

Sport[]

Cricket[]

Births[]

  • 14 January (in England): Thomas Hocken, collector and bibliographer.
Unknown date

(in Ireland) Richard Reeves, politician.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966:McDonnell Snr. Biography
  2. ^ Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 265.
  3. ^ Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 377.
  4. ^ 1937 also suggested
  5. ^ New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Brown Biography

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