Events
- 26 March: Brunner Mine disaster; 65 miners killed in explosion
- 13 April: National Council of Women of New Zealand is founded, with Kate Sheppard as its first president.
- 13 October: First public screening of a motion picture in New Zealand, in Auckland.
- 4 December: New Zealand general election, 1896.
- Undated
- Census measures national population as 743,214.
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““The ideal reasoner,” he remarked, “would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.””
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