• happened during 1888 in New Zealand. Head of State – Queen Victoria Governor – Lieutenant-General Sir William Jervois. The 10th New Zealand Parliament continues...
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    The 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team was a New Zealand rugby union team that toured Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand in 1888 and 1889...
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    The 1888 British Isles tour to New Zealand and Australia was a tour by a British rugby union team, known at the time as the "English Footballers", throughout...
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    1888–89 New Zealand Native football team played 107 rugby union matches during their 14-month tour of the British Isles, Australia, and New Zealand....
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  • Palmerston North Nelson Rotorua New Plymouth Whangārei Invercargill Whanganui Gisborne The word city took on two meanings in New Zealand after the local government...
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    This tradition began with the 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team tour and has been carried on by the New Zealand rugby union team (known as the...
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  • New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF; Māori: Te Ope Kātua o Aotearoa, lit. "Line of Defence of New Zealand") is the three-branched military of New Zealand...
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  • earthquake List of earthquakes in New Zealand List of historical earthquakes Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1888 North Canterbury earthquake. "M...
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    This is a list of large earthquakes that have occurred in New Zealand. Only earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.0 or greater are listed, except for a few...
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  • the New Zealand Maori, New Zealand Maoris and New Zealand Natives, are a rugby union team from New Zealand. They are a representative team of the New Zealand...
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    Rail transport in New Zealand is an integral part of New Zealand's transport network, with a nationwide network of 4,375.5 km (2,718.8 mi) of track linking...
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  • The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks, represents New Zealand in men's international rugby union, which is considered...
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  • Australia in 1887–88. They are generally known as A. Shrewsbury's XI and G. F. Vernon's XI. Shrewsbury's XI also visited New Zealand in March. In previous...
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    Zealand (Danish: Sjælland [ˈɕeˌlænˀ]) at 7,031 km2 is the largest and most populous island in Denmark proper (thus excluding Greenland and Disko Island...
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  • The electricity sector in New Zealand uses mainly renewable energy, such as hydropower, geothermal power and increasingly wind energy. As of 2021, the...
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  • describes the history of New Zealand cricket to 1890. European colonisation of New Zealand, particularly by British settlers, began in earnest after 1800....
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    New Zealand on their 1884 tour to Australia and later captained the 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team that embarked on a 107-match tour of New...
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    The New Zealand Wars took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand colonial government and allied Māori on one side, and Māori and Māori-allied...
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    Reefton Power Station (category 1888 in New Zealand)
    Reefton in New Zealand and was the first power station to supply municipal electricity in the Southern Hemisphere. It started operation on 4 August 1888. Reefton...
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  • (1885–1915), Scottish-American golfer Tom Anderson (trade unionist) (1888–1964), New Zealand seaman and trade unionist Tom Anderson (fiddler) (1910–1991), fiddler...
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  • Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1888. 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting...
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    largest city in the South Island and the second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand, after Auckland. Christchurch lies in the Canterbury...
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    New Zealand literature is literature, both oral and written, produced by the people of New Zealand. It often deals with New Zealand themes, people or...
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    to List of years in New Zealand. 85 mya: Around this time New Zealand splits from the supercontinent Gondwana. 5 mya: New Zealand's climate cools as Australia...
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  • Millicent Baxter (category New Zealand expatriates in England)
    Millicent Amiel Baxter (8 January 1888 – 3 July 1984) was a New Zealand peace activist and pacifist. Baxter was the eldest daughter of John Macmillan...
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    The New Zealand falcon (Māori: kārearea or kāiaia; Falco novaeseelandiae) is New Zealand's only falcon. Other common names for the bird are bush hawk and...
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    small settlement at the northern end of Lake Wakatipu in the South Island region of Otago, New Zealand. It is approximately 45 km (28 mi) by road or boat...
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    in 1873, was published as an enlarged version in 1888 and became a New Zealand classic. Buller was born at Newark, the Wesleyan mission at Pakanae in...
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    New Zealand royal honours system, a system of orders, decorations and medals, recognises achievements of, or service by, New Zealanders or others in connection...
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    New Zealand flax describes the common New Zealand perennial plants Phormium tenax and Phormium colensoi, known by the Māori names harakeke and wharariki...
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