1830 in New Zealand

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

• Head of State – King George IV dies on 26 June and is succeeded by his brother King William IV.
• Governor of New South Wales – General Ralph Darling

  Events

• 10 January – The first whaling ship, the Antarctic, enters Lyttelton Harbour, which Captain Morell calls 'Cook's Harbour'.
• 3 February – John Guard arrives in Sydney with a cargo of whale oil, the first to be shipped from the South Island.
• 21 April – Phillip Tapsell is married to Karuhi, sister of a Nga Puhi chief, by Samuel Marsden.
• 31 July – William Yate returns from 6 months 'training' in printing at Sydney with a printing press. His attempts at printing are not particularly successful.
• 19 August – Captain William Stewart leaves for Kapiti Island, where Te Rauparaha has promised him a cargo of flax in return for transporting a large Ngāti Toa party to Akaroa.
• 26 October – Te Rauparaha and 120 Ngāti Toa warriors leave Kapiti Island for Akaroa on the hired brig Elizabeth.
• 6 November – After 3 or 4 days hidden aboard the Elizabeth while anchored in Akaroa, Te Rauparaha and his warriors attack and massacre a village of local Kāi Tahu, and then cannibalise them.
• November
• * – Phillip Tapsell settles in Maketu in the Bay of Plenty and begins trading for flax.

• John Guard marries Elizabeth 'Betty' Parker in Sydney. She leaves Sydney on the schooner Waterloo on 7 November and arrives at Te Awaiti before the end of the year. Betty Guard is the first European women to settle permanently in the South Island.
• A whaling station is operating from Porirua.
• Jack Duff, a trader, is the first known European to visit the Palmerston North area. He travels by whaleboat up river as far inland as Woodville and returns to Porirua.
• The first inland mission is started at Waimate North.

  Births

• 2 May : Maurice O'Rorke, politician.
• 29 August : Charles Bowen, politician.
• 22 October : Arthur John Burns, businessman and politician.

• : Edwin Blake, Member of Parliament
• : Charles Bowen, politician.
• : Henry Miller, politician.
• Thomas Russell, founder of the Bank of New Zealand

  Deaths