The Anglican missionary Samuel Marsden noted in his journal that he had just planted 100 vines at Kerikeri and that New Zealand 'promises to be very favourable to the vine.'
At Oihi Beach in the Bay of Islands, Marsden preached in English to a largely Māori gathering, launching the Christian missionary phase of New Zealand history.
Ururoa, the brother-in-law of Hongi Hika, responds to a rival who has cursed him and his Ngai Tawake people after a fight between girls on the beach at Kororareka. Many are killed in the conflict that follows.
