1832 in New Zealand

The following lists events that happened during 1832 in New Zealand.

← 1831 1830 1829 1832 in New Zealand → 1833 1834 1835
Decades:	1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	Other events of 1832 Timeline of New Zealand history

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 is appointed in March[1] but does not arrive in New Zealand until 10 May 1833.

Events

• 19 April – Construction of the Stone Store at Kerikeri begins.
• December – Missionary Henry Williams records the first mention of cricket being played in New Zealand, on the beach at Paihia.[2]

Undated

• The Weller brothers whaling station at Otakou is destroyed by fire before whaling operations have begun. It is soon rebuilt.[3] (see 1831 & 1835)
• Ngāti Toa under chief and war leader Te Rauparaha capture and destroy the Ngāi Tahu stronghold of Kaiapoi pa.
• Te Rauparaha and Ngāti Toa capture the Ngāi Tahu pā at Onawe on Akaroa harbour and massacre the inhabitants.
• Ngā Puhi attack Otumoetai pā.[4]
• British merchant and ship owner Captain James Clendon buys land and sets up a trading station at Okiato in the Bay of Islands. The location would be renamed Russell and become the first capital of New Zealand in 1840.

Births

• 14 March (in Scotland): Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet, 6th Governor of New Zealand.[5]
• 20 November William Gilbert Mair, soldier and judge

Unknown date

• Frederic Jones, politician.[6]
• (in England): John Davies Ormond, politician.[7]
• Arthur Seymour, politician, Superintendent of Marlborough.[6]
• Alexander Sligo, politician.[6]
• Thomas Thompson, politician.[6]

Approximate

• Te Kooti, Māori leader, religion founder and guerilla.[8]

Deaths

• 6 August: Thomas Kendall, Missionary and Pākehā Māori[9]

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

1. New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Busby Biography
2. SuperSport: New Zealand Cricket Team
3. Weller family Tree: Joseph Brooks
4. "Tauranga History Timeline". Archived from the original on 14 January 2006. Retrieved 9 October 2007.
5. V. A. Edgeloe (2006). "Fergusson, Sir James (1832 - 1907)". Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition. Australian National University.
6. Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
7. Foster, B.J. (1966). "ORMOND, Hon. John Davies". An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
8. Binney, Judith - Redemption songs: a life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1995. ISBN 1-86940-131-X, ISBN 978-1-86940-131-3. p 16
9. Binney, Judith. (22 June 2007). "Kendall, Thomas 1778? - 1832". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.

External links

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