1830 in New Zealand

The following lists events that happened during 1830 in New Zealand.

Decades:

Incumbents

10 January â The first whaling ship, the Antarctic, enters Lyttelton Harbour, which Captain Morell calls 'Cook's Harbour'.^[1]
3 February â John Guard arrives in Sydney with a cargo of whale oil, the first to be shipped from the South Island.^[2]^[3]
21 April â Phillip Tapsell is married to Karuhi, sister of a NgÄ Puhi chief, by Samuel Marsden.^[4]
31 July â William Yate returns from 6 months 'training' in printing at Sydney with a printing press. His attempts at printing are not particularly successful.^[5]^[6] (see also 1834 & 1835)
19 August â Captain William Stewart leaves for Kapiti Island, where Te Rauparaha has promised him a cargo of flax in return for transporting a large NgÄti Toa party to Akaroa.^[7]
26 October â Te Rauparaha and 120 NgÄti Toa warriors leave Kapiti Island for Akaroa on the hired brig Elizabeth.^[8]
6 November â After 3 or 4 days hidden aboard the Elizabeth while anchored in Akaroa, Te Rauparaha and his warriors attack and massacre a village^[9] of local KÄi Tahu, and then cannibalise them.^[8]
November
- Phillip Tapsell settles in Maketu in the Bay of Plenty and begins trading for flax.^[4] (see also 1828)

John Guard marries Elizabeth 'Betty' Parker in Sydney. She leaves Sydney on the schooner Waterloo on 7 November, arrives at Te Awaiti before the end of the year, and is the first European women to settle permanently in the South Island.^[10]
A whaling station is operating from Porirua.
Jack Duff, a trader, is the first known European to visit the Palmerston North area. He travels by whaleboat up river as far inland as Woodville and returns to Porirua.^[11]
The first inland mission is started at Waimate North.^[12]