1893 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia

Summary

P	W	D	L

Total

10	9	0	1

Test match

0	0	0	0

The 1893 New Zealand tour rugby to Australia was the second tour by the New Zealand national rugby union team to Australia. Ten matches were played against regional and district sides, but no Test matches were played. It was first tour arranged by New Zealand Rugby Football Union which was founded the year before. The only previous New Zealand national team was the side that toured New South Wales in 1884. Immediately before departing for Sydney, the tourists played a match against a "Combined XV" in Wellington, which New Zealand won 7–4.^[1]

A series of sketches published in The Queenslander of one of New Zealand's matches against Queensland.

Matches

28 June 1893

Cumberland County	0–8	New Zealand XV
	report

Parramatta Ground,Sydney

1 July 1893

New South Wales	8–17	New Zealand XV
	report

Cricket Ground, Sydney

4 July 1893

N.S.W. Junior XV	0–19	New Zealand XV
	report

Cricket Ground, Sydney

6 July 1893

Northern Districts	3–25	New Zealand XV
	report

Newcastle

8 July 1893

New South Wales	25–3	New Zealand XV
	report

Cricket Ground, Sydney

15 July 1893

Queensland	3–14	New Zealand XV
	report

Brisbane Exhibition Ground, Brisbane

19 July 1893

Queensland 2nd XV	0–6	New Zealand XV
	report

Brisbane Exhibition Ground, Brisbane

22 July 1893

Queensland	0–36	New Zealand XV
	report

Brisbane Exhibition Ground, Brisbane

26 July 1893

Western Districts	5–24	New Zealand XV
	report

Bathurst

29 July 1893

New South Wales	0–16	New Zealand XV
	report

Cricket Ground, Sydney

Touring party

Manager: G.F.C. Campbell
Captain: Thomas Ellison

Name	Position	Province
Archie D'Arcy	Fullback	Wairarapa
Henry Clarke Wilson	Fullback	Wellington
Alan Good	Wing	Taranaki
George Harper	Three-quarter	Nelson
Francis "Doss" Mahon Jervis	Wing	Auckland
William Thomas Wynyard	Three-quarter	Wellington
Henry Butland	Half back	West Coast
David Gage	Utility back	Wellington
Maurice Herrold	Half back	Auckland
Graham Shannon	Half back/Forward	Manawatu
Alfred Bayly	Loose forward	Taranaki
Sam Cockroft	Hooker	Manawatu
Thomas Ellison	Forward	Wellington
John Henry Gardner	Forward	South Canterbury
Rod Gray	Forward	Wairarapa
James Taylor Lambie	Forward	Taranaki
Charles Nicholson Macintosh	Forward	South Canterbury
Robert Hugh McKenzie	Forward	Wellington
William McKenzie	Wing forward	Wairarapa
John Mowlem	Forward	Manawatu
Frederick Steele Miller Murray	Forward	Auckland
Robert Oliphant	Wing forward	Wellington
Walter Pringle	Forward	Wellington
Charles Speight	Forward	Auckland
Angus Stuart	Forward	Wellington
Hoeroa Tiopira	Forward	Hawke's Bay
Billy Watson	Forward	Wairarapa

New Zealand rugby union tours

Australia	1884 1893 1897 1903 1905 1907 1910 1914 1920 1922 1924 1925 1926 1929 1932 1934 1938 1947 1951 1957 1960 1962 1968 1974 1979 1980 1984 1988 1991 1992

South Africa	1928 1949 1960 1970 1976 1992 1996

British Isles	1905-06 1924–25 1935–36 1953–54 1963–64 1967 1972–73 1974 1978 1979 1980 1983 1989 1993 1997 2001 2002 2004 2005 2006 2008

France	1906 1925 1964 1967 1972–73 1977 1981 1986 1990 1995 2000 2002 2004 2006

Italy and Romania	1977 1979 1981 1995 2000 2004

North and South America	1906 1913 1925 1936 1953–54 1964 1967 1972 1976 1980 1985 1989 1991 2001 2006

Asia and Oceania	1968 1974 1980 1984 1987

Notes

↑ "10th All Black Game". New Zealand Rugby Union. Retrieved 3 September 2014.

Sources

Tour in New South Wales and Queensland

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