Events
- The Tohunga Suppression Act is passed by parliament, sponsored by Maui Pomare.
- Rua Kenana, a self proclaimed prophet, establishes a religious community at the foot of Maungapōhatu, the sacred Tūhoe mountain in the Ureweras.
- The Colonial Secretary’s Office is renamed the Department of Internal Affairs.
- St Paul's Church in Dunedin is consecrated by Bishop Churchill Julius.
- Highest ever recorded flooding along the Taupo, Tongariro, Waipa, and Waikato river systems.
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“Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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