reliable telegraph cable across Cook Strait. 28 August–15 September: 1879 New Zealand general election all men enfranchised. 1880s 1881 Parihaka community forcibly broken up by troops. Te Whiti, Tohu Kākahi and followers arrested and imprisoned. Wreck of SS Tararua, 131 people die. Auckland and Christchurch telephone exchanges open. The Māori King Movement under Tāwhiao makes peace with the Auckland settler government. 9 December: 1881 New Zealand general election. 1882 First shipment of frozen meat leaves Port Chalmers for England on the Dunedin. "State" visit of King Tawhiao to Auckland – civic reception, banquet & fireworks display. 1883 Te Kooti pardoned, Te Whiti and other prisoners released. Direct steamer link established between New Zealand and Britain. 1884 King Tawhiao visits England with petition to the Queen, appealing to the Treaty of Waitangi, and is refused access. First overseas tour by a New Zealand rugby team, to New South Wales. Construction of King Country section of North Island main trunk railway begins. 22 June: 1884 New Zealand general election. 1 August International Industrial Exhibition opened in Wellington. 9 September total Eclipse of the Sun observed at Wellington. November Russian Invasion Scare. 1885 Mary C. Leavitt, World Missionary for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, toured New Zealand setting up local branches; appointed Anne Ward of Wellington as the first national president to continue recruiting and organizing departments to advocate for women's political and socio-economic rights. 1886 23–24 February – First national convention of Women's Christian Temperance Union New Zealand held in Wellington, launching the organizational strategies for a campaign for women's right to vote in national elections. 29 March − 10 April – Visit of German warships to Auckland – SMS Gneisenau & SMS Olga. 11–21 May – Visit of Japanese warship Tsubka to Wellington. 23 May – 2 June surprise visit of Russian naval Vestnik to Wellington. 10 June Mount Tarawera erupts and the Pink and White Terraces are destroyed, 153 people die. Oil is discovered in Taranaki. 1887 New Zealand's first national park, Tongariro National Park, is presented to the nation by Te Heuheu Tukino IV. First inland parcel post service. 26 September: 1887 New Zealand general election. 1888 12 August: Reefton becomes first town in the Southern Hemisphere to have a public supply of electricity after the commissioning of the Reefton Power Station. 1889 Abolition of non-residential or property qualification to vote. First New Zealand-built locomotive completed at Addington Workshops.