5 January: The Poverty Bay Herald begins publishing in Gisborne. It is initially bi-weekly. The paper changed its name to The Gisborne Herald in 1939, and continues to publish as a daily today[update].[2]
15 January: The Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, first published in 1842, produces its last issue.[3]
30 June: The Wellington Independent publishes its final issue, and is replaced by The New Zealand Times. The newspaper started in 1845.[4]
18 November: Fire and sinking of the Cospatrick carrying emigrants to New Zealand near the Cape of Good Hope; one of New Zealand's worst disasters as only three of the 472 on board survived.[5]
The Marlborough Times begins publication bi-weekly, and absorbs The Marlborough News. It became a daily in 1882. The Marlborough Express bought it in 1895 and closed it in 1905.[6]
The Marine Department employs Capt. B.A. Edwin to provide weather maps and forecasts to ships, establishing New Zealand's first weather service.[7]
Sport
Horse racing
25 May — Recorded by some sources as the date of first race meeting at Ellerslie.(see also 1857)
Romanos, J. (2001) New Zealand Sporting Records and Lists. Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett.
Specific
^Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association. pp. 189–190.
^"Poverty Bay Herald". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 21 September 2008.
^Dunmore, Patricia, ed. (1977). The Dunmore Book of New Zealand Records. p. 19.
^"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 8 January 2009. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
