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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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“At all events there is in Brooklyn
something that makes me feel at home.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)