http://www.theprow.org.nz/events/?start=0 Stories about significant, interesting or unusual events in history which have occurred in the Marlborough, Nelson and Tasman regions of New Zealand en http://www.wotzwot.com/rssxl.php http://www.theprow.org.nz/maungatapu-murders/ The trial of the notorious Burgess gang caused a sensation in the small town of Nelson in 1866. Murder was a rare crime and this one involved not just... http://www.theprow.org.nz/nelson-becomes-a-city/ The small town of Nelson became a City in 1859 with the installation of the first Bishop http://www.theprow.org.nz/new-zealand-first-game-of-rugby/ The crowd of Nelsonians gathered at The Botanics one May day in 1870 had no idea that they were witnessing the birth of a New Zealand tradition, rugby... http://www.theprow.org.nz/the-first-meeting-abel-tasman-and-maori-in-golden-bay/ When the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman sailed into Golden Bay in 1642, a brief violent encounter with local Maori appears to have resulted from ... http://www.theprow.org.nz/the-murchison-earthquake/ Nelson and Marlborough's earliest European settlers found the land, which they sought to tame, could produce terrifying tremors. http://www.theprow.org.nz/the-separation-of-nelson-and-marlborough/ The separation of Marlborough from Nelson came about when the opinions of two very different groups, were in accord, even though this was for very dif... http://www.theprow.org.nz/the-southern-cross-at-woodbourne/ The Southern Cross arrived at Woodbourne airport to a tumultuous welcome in September 1928. http://www.theprow.org.nz/wreck-of-the-queen-bee/ The Queen Bee was one of the earliest vessels to bring immigrants to New Zealand. She had made eleven passages from England, when disaster struck, on ... http://www.theprow.org.nz/the-execution-of-the-maungatapu-murderers/ The Maungatapu Murders, and the subsequent trial and executions of the murderers, were sensational events in Nelson in 1866. http://www.theprow.org.nz/the-great-blenheim-flood/ Blenheim was built at the junction of two rivers close to sea level. Its early history was one of frequent flooding until extensive river works and d...