Events
- The Capital of New Zealand is moved from Auckland to Wellington.
- The Marlborough Times ceases publication. It was founded in 1864.
- February — The start of the West Coast Gold Rush with rumours of gold being found.
- 18 February: The Press in Christchurch starts publishing a magazine, The Weekly Press. The magazine ran until 1928.
- May — The West Coast Times is founded. It began as a weekly newspaper and became a daily in January 1866. It ceased publishing in 1917.
- 4 June: The Evening Herald is founded in Wanganui. Around the turn of the 19th to 20th century, it changed its name to The Wanganui Herald, and continued to publish until 1986.
- 26 July: Parliament officially sits in Wellington for the first time, in the former Provincial Council chambers. (see also 1862)
- 30 August: The New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian publishes its last issue. It began in 1844.
- November: The Grey River Argus begins publication in Greymouth. It published three times a week until becoming daily in 1871. The paper folded in 1966.
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“One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
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“It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.”
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