Palmerston North's second production of Chess ran from August 17-August 25, 2012, in the Regent On Broadway.

Palmerston North's climate is temperate with maximum daytime temperatures averaging in summer and in winter.

* 1886 The Wellington and Manawatu Railway opens between Wellington and Longburn railway ( later the North Island Main Trunk ), superseding the Foxton link and ensuring Palmerston North's growth.

After gaining an MA in sociology from Palmerston North's Massey University ( 1972 – 1976 ), he was a lecturer at that institution from 1978, teaching both sociology and business administration.

Ashhurst is the location of Palmerston North's second bridge crossing over the Manawatu.

Ashhurst-Fitzherbert Ward is Palmerston North's largest ward covering the area from James Line to part way through the Manawatu Gorge, to just north of Ashhurst township.

In the years after Grey's retirement the party was led first by Lord Melbourne, a fairly traditional Whig, and then by Lord John Russell, the son of a Duke but a crusading radical, and Lord Palmerston, a renegade Irish Tory and essentially a conservative, although capable of radical gestures.

The Whig-Radical amalgam could not become a true modern political party, however, while it was dominated by aristocrats, and it was not until the departure of the " Two Terrible Old Men ", Russell and Palmerston, that Gladstone could become the first leader of the modern Liberal Party.

Surprisingly, Cook never sighted the largest island, Rarotonga, and the only island that he personally set foot on was tiny, uninhabited Palmerston Atoll.

The settlement there became the town of Palmerston in 1869, and was renamed Darwin in 1911.

Remains of Palmerston Town Hall, destroyed by Cyclone TracyIn 1863, the Northern Territory was annexed from New South Wales by the young colony of South Australia.

One of the foreign policy issues on which Palmerston and Russell disagreed apparently was the type of relationship that England should have with France and especially France's ruler, Louis Bonaparte.

Lord Palmerston, who at the time of Louis Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup was serving as the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Whig government of Prime Minister Lord John Russell.

However, he was following the pressure that was being exerted on him from some members of his cabinet, including Palmerston, who in this rare instance was actually being supported by John Russell, both of whom were in favor of a more aggressive policy against perceived Russian expansion.

An extramural branch of Victoria was founded at Palmerston North in 1960.

Boggs claims Pitt the Elder was the greatest Prime Minister to Barney's Lord Palmerston, causing Barney to punch Boggs in the face, knocking him unconscious.

Once in London, Jardine ’ s first order of business was to meet with Lord Palmerston.

In the ' Jardine Paper ', Jardine emphasized several points to Palmerston in several meetings and they are as follows: There was to be complete compensation for the 20, 000 chests of opium that Lin had confiscated, the conclusion of a viable commercial treaty that would prevent any further hostilities, and the opening of further ports of trade such as Fuzhou, Ningbo, Shanghai, and Keeson-chow.

Queen Victoria was not pleased with this statement, and an outraged Palmerston considered it seditious incitement to agitation.

The Liberal Party ( the term was first used officially in 1868 but had been used colloquially for decades beforehand ) arose from a coalition of Whigs, free trade Tory followers of Robert Peel, and free trade Radicals, first created, tenuously under the Peelite Lord Aberdeen in 1852, and put together more permanently under the former Canningite Tory Lord Palmerston in 1859.

In particular the main shopping centre, Palmerston Road, was almost completely destroyed.

At the end of Palmerston Road where it joins the Ladies Mile a plaque on a house records that it was once the home of Fred Jane, the creator of the standard naval reference book Jane ’ s Fighting Ships.

In 1960 a branch of VUW was established in Palmerston North to teach students by distance education, known as extramural study.

A blue commemorative plaque was erected on her home in Palmerston Road, Wimbledon by The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America in November 2010.

On 15 October 1862, the Hartley Institute was opened by the Prime Minister Lord Palmerston in a major civic occasion which exceeded in splendor anything that anyone in the town could remember.

After the outbreak of war with Japan, the Treaty was placed with other state documents in an outsize luggage trunk and deposited for secure custody with the Public Trustee at Palmerston North by the local MP, who did not tell staff what was in the case.

In 1855 he refused from Lord Palmerston an office not connected with foreign affairs, was elected lord rector of Aberdeen university, and on June 15 moved a resolution in the House of Commons ( defeated by a large majority ) declaring that in public appointments merit had been sacrificed to private influence and an adherence to routine.

An attempt was made by the Duke of Wellington in September 1830 to induce Palmerston to re-enter the cabinet, but he refused to do so without Lord Lansdowne and Lord Grey, two notable Whigs.

It was in this speech, which lasted five hours, Palmerston made the well known declaration that a British subject ought everywhere to be protected by the strong arm of the British government against injustice and wrong ; comparing the reach of the British Empire to that of the Roman Empire, in which a Roman citizen could walk the earth unmolested by any foreign power.

Being impossible for them to form a government without Palmerston, he was made Home Secretary in December 1852.

After the election, Palmerston passed the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 which for the first time made it possible for courts to grant a divorce and removed divorce from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts.

Palmerston introduced a Conspiracy to Murder Bill which made it a felony to plot in Britain to murder someone abroad.

In 1859, following another short-lived Conservative government, Palmerston and Russell made up their differences, and Russell consented to serve as Foreign Secretary in a new Palmerston cabinet-usually considered the first true Liberal Cabinet.

Upon the reconstitution of the Whig administration in 1859, Lord John Russell made it a condition of his acceptance of office under Lord Palmerston that the foreign department should be placed in his own hands, which implied that Lord Clarendon should be excluded from office, as it would have been inconsistent alike with his dignity and his tastes to fill any other post in the government.

He was at once elected member for the Radnor boroughs, and Lord Palmerston made him Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The original subdivision of Palmerston North was made in 1866, in the natural clearing in the Papaioea Forest, as found by Hartley.

However, others would argue that the Land League had its direct roots in tenant associations formed in the period of agricultural prosperity during the government of Lord Palmerston in the 1850s and 1860s, who were seeking to strengthen the economic gains they had already made.

In 1863 he was made a Privy Counsellor and Secretary of State for War under Palmerston, with a seat in the cabinet.

From there they made their way to Palmerston, then the capital of the Northern Territory, and they arrived on 7 October 1879.

Of several names offered " Tiverton " was chosen, it being the name of the borough for which Lord Palmerston, the English Prime Minister, sat in Parliament, and this no doubt had something to do with the choice made.

He again held this post under Lord Aberdeen from 1852 to 1855, and in the latter year was made Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department by his stepfather Lord Palmerston when he became Prime Minister.

In the US, impeachment was used as recently as 1999, but in the UK the most recent previous impeachment motion was made in 1848 ( by Thomas Chisholm Anstey against the Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston, who was accused of concluding a secret treaty with Russia ).

In March 1855, when Lord Palmerston became prime minister and the Peelites withdrew from the cabinet, Horsman was made Chief Secretary for Ireland, and was sworn a member of both the British and Irish Privy Councils.

In 1855, under Lord Palmerston, he was made Chief Secretary for Ireland, but resigned in 1857.

He was a Radical in politics, and expected no appointment from Government, until he was made an advocate depute in 1861, under Palmerston ; he prosecuted Jessie McLauchlan in the 1863 Sandyford murder case.

The Liberals returned to office under Palmerston already in June 1859, when Sydney was made Lord Chamberlain of the Household, a post he held until 1866, the last year under the premiership of Lord Russell.