Events
- 15 January: The New Zealand Mounted Rifles rout a Boer assault at Slingersfontein, South Africa.
- 9 February: Opening of the Wanganui Opera House by premier Richard Seddon.
- 15 February: New Zealand troops are part of the relief of Kimberley, South Africa.
- 3 May: Holy Cross College, Mosgiel (Roman Catholic seminary) established.
- May: Phosphate discovered on Nauru — mining begins later in the year.
- May–June: Tour of Pacific islands by Prime Minister Richard Seddon. Tonga, Niue, Fiji and the Cook Islands are visited.
- 28 September: The New Zealand Government votes to incorporate the Cook Islands into New Zealand.
- October: The number of European electorates in the New Zealand Parliament is increased to 76.
- 23 October: The country's first electric tram service begins, between Roslyn and Maori Hill in Dunedin.
- Unknown date
- Māori Lands Administration Act passed.
- George Hemmings brings the first motor car into the South Island.
- The General Assembly Library (part of the New Zealand Parliament Buildings) is built.
- 18 people die in a boating tragedy on the Motu River.
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“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)
“The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)
“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)