1838 in New Zealand
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The following lists events that happened during 1838 in New Zealand.
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Incumbents
Regal and viceregal
- Head of State â Queen Victoria
- Governor of New South Wales â Sir George Gipps, having been appointed on 5 October 1837, arrives in Sydney on 23 February.
Government and law
Events
- 10 January
- â Bishop Jean Baptiste Pompallier arrives in New Zealand at Totara Point on the Hokianga Harbour.[1]
- â Flax trader James Farrow purchases an acre of land at Otumoetai, Tauranga.[2]
- 13 January â Bishop Pompallier celebrates the first Catholic mass on land in New Zealand at the home of Thomas and Mary Poynton at Totara Point.[1]
- February
- â The offer of a Royal charter to the New Zealand Association to take responsibility for the administration of New Zealand is withdrawn. (see 1837, December).
- April
- â The French whaler Cachalot, commanded by Jean Langlois, arrives in New Zealand waters and commences whaling near the Chatham Islands.
- May
- â The Cachalot arrives at Banks Peninsula accompanied by the French corvette Héroine.
- 2 August â Jean Langlois completes the purchase of Banks Peninsula from local MÄori and makes a downpayment of goods to the value of 150 francs. Captain Cecille of the Héroine raises the French flag and proclaims French sovereignty over Banks Peninsula.
- August
- â The New Zealand Association is wound up. In its place the New Zealand Colonisation Company and the New Zealand Land Company are established. (see also 1839)
- Undated
- The Reverend Alfred Nesbitt Brown re-opens the Anglican mission at Tauranga.[3][4] (see also 1836 & 1837)
- Three Gisborne MÄori, having had Christian instruction in the Bay of Islands, return as catechists.[5]
Births
- 6 October (in Scotland): John McKenzie, politician.
- (unknown date, in Yorkshire England): Henry Hirst, politician.