Editing Nelson, New Zealand (section)

===City status===
[[File:NZL-nelson-christ-church-turm.jpg|thumb|Church Steps (sometimes called the ''Cawthron Steps'') from Trafalgar Street up to the 1960s bell tower of Christ Church Cathedral]]
Nelson township was managed by the [[Nelson Province|Nelson Provincial Council]] through a Board of Works constituted by the Provincial Government under the Nelson Improvement Act 1856 until 1874. It was proclaimed a Bishop's [[Episcopal see|See]] and city under letters patent by [[Queen Victoria]] on 27 September 1858,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/civic-symbols |title=Civic symbols |publisher=Nelson City Council |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110120071325/http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/civic-symbols |archive-date=20 January 2011 }}</ref> the second New Zealand city proclaimed in this manner after [[Christchurch]]. Nelson only had some 5,000 residents at this time. [[Edmund Hobhouse]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theprow.org.nz/nelson-s-landmark-cathedral/ |title=Nelson's Landmark Cathedral |publisher=Prow |access-date=14 December 2010 |archive-date=30 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230054543/http://www.theprow.org.nz/nelson-s-landmark-cathedral/ |url-status=live }}</ref> was the first Bishop. The Municipal Corporations Act 1876 stated that Nelson was constituted a city on 30 March 1874.