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Moorhouse Statue Unveiled – 22nd December 1885
On 22 December 1885, the statue to honour the service of the late William Sefton Moorhouse was unveiled in the Christchurch Botanical Gardens. He had been Canterbury’s second Superintendent and served in this role twice – first in 1858 to 1862 and again in 1866 to 1868. He was further honoured in 1903 when the …
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New Zealand’s First Serious Fraud Case – 11th October 1885
On the morning of 11th October 1885, a neat pile of folded clothes were discovered by a young lad on Sumner Beach, not far from the Scarborough Heads. The owner was one Arthur Rennage Howard, a mechanic who worked at the Addington Railway Workshops and lived with his wife Sarah and two children at No. …
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The Women’s Christian Temperance Union Began – May 1885
Within seven months of the arrival of American-born Temperance Movement member, Mary Clement Leavitt, ten branches of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union were established across New Zealand, including Christchurch in May 1885. This was New Zealand’s first nationwide, all woman, mass organisation and it remains the world’s oldest voluntary, non sectarian organisation today. It was …
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St John Of New Zealand Founded In Christchurch – 30th April 1885
On 30th April 1885, a meeting was held in Christchurch concerning the formation of a St John medical service for those in desperate need in the city. For those who couldn’t afford a doctor, all sorts of treatments and cures were undertaken that were dangerously based on old wives tales and sketchy knowledge passed down …
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