Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State
  Head of State
  A head of state is the individual that serves as the chief public representative of a monarchy, republic, federation, commonwealth or other kind of state. His or her role generally includes legitimizing the state and exercising the political powers, functions, and duties granted to the head of...
  
   — Queen Victoria
• Governor
  Governor-General of New Zealand
  The Governor-General of New Zealand is the representative of the monarch of New Zealand . The Governor-General acts as the Queen's vice-regal representative in New Zealand and is often viewed as the de facto head of state....
  
   — David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow
  David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow
  David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow, GCMG was a Governor of New Zealand.-Royal Navy:Boyle served with the Royal Navy during the Crimean and Second Opium Wars...
  
  

Government and law

• Speaker of the House
  Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives
  In New Zealand the Speaker of the House of Representatives is the individual who chairs the country's legislative body, the New Zealand House of Representatives...
  
   — Sir Maurice O'Rorke
  Maurice O'Rorke
  Sir George Maurice O’Rorke was a New Zealand politician, representing the Auckland seat of Onehunga, and later Manukau, and was Speaker of the House of Representatives. He was a committed provincialist and was the eighth Superintendent of the Auckland Province...
  
  
• Prime Minister
  Prime Minister of New Zealand
  The Prime Minister of New Zealand is New Zealand's head of government consequent on being the leader of the party or coalition with majority support in the Parliament of New Zealand...
  
   — Richard Seddon
  Richard Seddon
  Richard John Seddon , sometimes known as King Dick, is to date the longest serving Prime Minister of New Zealand. He is regarded by some, including historian Keith Sinclair, as one of New Zealand's greatest political leaders....
  
  
• Minister of Finance
  Minister of Finance (New Zealand)
  The Minister of Finance is a senior figure within the government of New Zealand. The position is often considered to be the most important Cabinet role after that of the Prime Minister....
  
   — Joseph Ward
  Joseph Ward
  Sir Joseph George Ward, 1st Baronet, GCMG was the 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand on two occasions in the early 20th century.-Early life:...
  
   resigns on 16 June and is replaced by Richard Seddon
  Richard Seddon
  Richard John Seddon , sometimes known as King Dick, is to date the longest serving Prime Minister of New Zealand. He is regarded by some, including historian Keith Sinclair, as one of New Zealand's greatest political leaders....
  
  
• Chief Justice
  Chief Justice of New Zealand
  The Chief Justice of New Zealand is the head of the New Zealand judiciary, and presides over the Supreme Court of New Zealand. Before the establishment of the latter court in 2004 the Chief Justice was the presiding judge in the High Court of New Zealand and was also ex officio a member of the...
  
   — Hon
  The Honourable
  The prefix The Honourable or The Honorable is a style used before the names of certain classes of persons. It is considered an honorific styling.-International diplomacy:...
  
   Sir
  Sir
  Sir is an honorific used as a title , or as a courtesy title to address a man without using his given or family name in many English speaking cultures...
  
   James Prendergast
  James Prendergast (judge)
  Sir James Prendergast GCMG was the third Chief Justice of New Zealand. Prendergast was the first Chief Justice to be appointed on the advice of a responsible New Zealand government, but is chiefly noted for his far-reaching decision in Wi Parata v The Bishop of Wellington in which he described the...
  
  

Parliamentary opposition

Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland
  Mayor of Auckland
  The Mayor of Auckland is the directly elected head of the Auckland Council, the local government authority for the Auckland region in New Zealand...
  
   — James Holland followed by Abraham Boardman
• Mayor of Christchurch
  Mayor of Christchurch
  The Mayor of Christchurch is the head of the municipal government of Christchurch, New Zealand, and presides over the Christchurch City Council. The mayor is directly elected using a First Past the Post electoral system...
  
   — Walter Cooper followed by Henry Joseph Beswick
• Mayor of Dunedin
  Mayor of Dunedin
  The Mayor of Dunedin is the head of the municipal government of Dunedin, New Zealand, and presides over the Dunedin City Council. The Mayor is directly elected, using the Single Transferable Vote system in 2007....
  
   — Nathaniel Young Armstrong Wales
  Nathaniel Young Armstrong Wales
  Nathaniel Young Armstrong Wales was a 19th century Member of Parliament and Mayor in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.Wales was born in Northumberland, England. He trained as an architect in Jedburgh, Scotland...
  
   followed by Hugh Gourley
• Mayor of Wellington
  Mayor of Wellington
  The Mayor of Wellington is the head of the municipal government of Wellington, New Zealand, and presides over the Wellington City Council. The Mayor of Wellington administers only Wellington City itself — other municipalities in adjacent areas of the Wellington Region such as Lower Hutt, Upper...
  
   — George Fisher
  George Fisher (New Zealand)
  George Fisher was a four-time Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand from 1882 to 1885, and in 1896. He represented various Wellington electorates in Parliament for a total of 18 years...
  
  

Events

• 26 March: Brunner Mine disaster
  Brunner Mine disaster
  An explosion deep in the Brunner Mine at 9:30am on Thursday 26 March 1896 killed all 65 miners inside, and was the worst mining disaster of New Zealand’s history....
  
  ; 65 miners killed in explosion
• 13 April: National Council of Women of New Zealand
  National Council of Women of New Zealand
  The National Council of Women of New Zealand is a lobbying group for women's rights. The Council was established in 1896.-Establishment of the Council:...
  
   is founded, with Kate Sheppard
  Kate Sheppard
  Katherine Wilson Sheppard Some sources, eg give a birth year of 1847; others eg give a birth year of 1848. was the most prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage movement, and is the country's most famous suffragette...
  
   as its first president.
• 13 October: First public screening of a motion picture
  Cinema of New Zealand
  New Zealand cinema, can refer to films made by New Zealand-based production companies in New Zealand. However, it may also refer to films made about New Zealand by filmmakers from other countries...
  
   in New Zealand, in Auckland.
• 4 December: New Zealand general election, 1896
  New Zealand general election, 1896
  The New Zealand general election of 1896 was held on Wednesday, 4 December in the general electorates, and on Thursday, 19 December in the Māori electorates to elect a total of 74 MPs to the 13th session of the New Zealand Parliament...
  
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• Census measures national population as 743,214.

Media

• The Waikato Argus starts publication. The newspaper runs until 1915.
• The Gisborne Times is founded. It became a daily in 1901, and continued to publish until being bought out by The Poverty Bay Herald in 1938.
• July: The Waikato Times
  Waikato Times
  The Waikato Times is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Hamilton, New Zealand, with a circulation to the greater Waikato region.The Waikato Times started out as the tri-weekly Waikato Times and Thames Valley Gazette, first published on 2 May 1872...
  
  and Waikato Advocate merge, and the former moves to daily publication.

Anglican

• Primate of New Zealand
  Archbishop of New Zealand
  The Archbishop of New Zealand is the primate, or head, of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. However, since Whakahuihui Vercoe stepped down at the end of his two-year term as archbishop in 2006, the church has decided that three bishops shall share the position and style of...
  
   — William Garden Cowie
  William Garden Cowie
  William Garden Cowie was bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Auckland, New Zealand, from 1870 to 1902. Although he succeeded George Augustus Selwyn in having jurisdiction in this portion of New Zealand, he was the first bishop to be known specifically as Bishop of Auckland...
  
   (Bishop of Auckland)
• Bishop of Christchurch — Churchill Julius
  Churchill Julius
  Churchill Julius was an Anglican cleric in England, then in Australia and New Zealand, becoming the first Archbishop of New Zealand.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bishop of Dunedin — Samuel Tarratt Nevill
  Samuel Tarratt Nevill
  The Most Reverend Samuel Tarratt Nevill, DD was the first Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Dunedin in Dunedin, New Zealand....
  
  
• Bishop of Nelson
  Diocese of Nelson
  The Diocese of Nelson is one of the thirteen dioceses and hui amorangi of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. The Diocese covers the top part of the South Island of New Zealand, which is mostly the area north of a line drawn from Greymouth to Kaikoura.The diocese was...
  
   — Charles Oliver Mules
  Charles Oliver Mules
  The Rt Rev Charles Oliver Mules, DD was the third Anglican Bishop of Nelson, whose Episcopate spanned a 20 year period during the late 19th and early 20th centuries....
  
  
• Bishop of Waiapu
  Diocese of Waiapu
  The Diocese of Waiapu is one of the thirteen dioceses and hui amorangi of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. The Diocese covers the area around the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand, including Tauranga, Taupo, Gisborne, Hastings and Napier. It is named for the...
  
   — William Leonard Williams
  William Leonard Williams
  William Leonard Williams was an Anglican Bishop of Waiapu. He was regarded as an eminent scholar of the Māori language.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bishop of Wellington
  Diocese of Wellington
  The Diocese of Wellington is one of the thirteen dioceses and hui amorangi of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. The Diocese covers the area between the bottom of the North Island of New Zealand up to the area of Mount Ruapehu....
  
   — Frederick Wallis

Athletics

• 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
  Leonard Cuff
  Leonard Albert Cuff was a sportsman and sports administrator from New Zealand...
  
   (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)

Golf

• Men's national amateur champion — M.S. Todd (Otago)
• Women's national amateur champion — L. Wilford (Hutt)

Thoroughbred racing

• New Zealand Cup
  New Zealand Cup
  The New Zealand Cup is a thoroughbred horse race held at Riccarton Park racecourse in Christchurch, held on the final Saturday of New Zealand Cup week in November. The week also features the New Zealand 1000 and 2000 Guineas, with the New Zealand Trotting Cup on the Tuesday at Addington being the...
  
   — Lady Zetland
• New Zealand Derby
  New Zealand Derby
  The New Zealand Derby is a set-weights Thoroughbred horserace for three-year-old, run over a distance of 2,400 metres at Ellerslie Racecourse in Auckland, New Zealand. It is held on the first Saturday in March, as the opening day of Auckland Cup Week. From 2009, it was run for a purse of $2.2...
  
   — Uniform
• Auckland Cup
  Auckland Cup
  The Stella Artois Auckland Cup is an annual race held by the Auckland Racing Club . It is an Open Handicap for thoroughbred racehorses competed on the flat turf over 3200 metres at Ellerslie Racecourse in Auckland, New Zealand. The race is graded as a Group One and was first contested in 1874...
  
   — Nestor
• Wellington Cup
  Wellington Cup
  The Wellington Cup is a Group 2 Thoroughbred horse race in New Zealand held annually in late January at Trentham Racecourse in Trentham by the Wellington Racing Club....
  
   — Brooklet

Season leaders (1895/96)

• Top New Zealand stakes earner — Euroclydon
• Leading flat jockey — C. Jenkins

Rowing

• Single sculls — C. Chapman (Wairewa)
• Double sculls — Wairewa, Little River
• Coxless pairs — Canterbury
• Coxed fours — Queen’s Dr, Port Chalmers

Soccer

• Auckland: Auckland United
• Otago: Roslyn Dunedin
  Roslyn-Wakari
  Roslyn-Wakari A.F.C. is an amateur association football club in Dunedin, New Zealand. They compete in the ODT Footballsouth Premier League.-History:...
  
  
• Wellington: Wellington Swifts

Tennis

• 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

See also

• List of years in New Zealand
• Timeline of New Zealand history
  Timeline of New Zealand history
  This is a timeline of the history of New Zealand and only includes events deemed to be of principal importance - for more detailed information click the year heading or refer to List of years in New Zealand.- Prehistory :...
  
  
• History of New Zealand
  History of New Zealand
  The history of New Zealand dates back at least 700 years to when it was discovered and settled by Polynesians, who developed a distinct Māori culture centred on kinship links and land. The first European explorer to discover New Zealand was Abel Janszoon Tasman on 13 December 1642...
  
  
• Military history of New Zealand
  Military history of New Zealand
  The military history of New Zealand is an aspect of the history of New Zealand that spans several hundred years. When first settled by Māori almost a millennium ago, there was much land and resources, but war began to break out as the country's carrying capacity was approached...
  
  
• Timeline of environmental history of New Zealand
  Timeline of environmental history of New Zealand
  This is a timeline of environmental history of New Zealand. These events relate to the more notable events affecting the natural environment of New Zealand as a result of human activity.-Pre 1800s:...
  
  
• Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica
  Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica
  This is a timeline of the history of New Zealand's involvement with Antarctica.-Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries:1773*17 January Captain James Cook and the crews of his expedition's ships, Resolution and Adventure, become the first explorers to cross the Antarctic Circle1770s – 1830s*Sealers and...
  
  

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