The Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle (also known as The Nelson [Daily] Examiner, was the first newspaper published in New Zealand's South Island. It was launched in 1842 by Charles Elliott (1811–1876), a few weeks after New Zealand Company settlers arrived in Nelson, and folded in the face of competition in 1874.
The paper began as a weekly, was published twice weekly from July 1854, and went daily in July 1873.
Digital copies of all issues are available online via the National Library of New Zealand.