The White Ferns have lost their T20 series against England with two matches still remaining. It was their sixth consecutive defeat on the current tour.
The game was a better performance from the New Zealand, but the home side still won by six wickets chasing down the total of 141 -8 with four balls to spare at Canterbury in Kent.
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Player of the match Alice Capsey and Freya Kemp saw England home with Kemp smashing a couple of boundaries off the penultimate over from Leigh Kasperek to help gain victory..
Suzie Bates brought up her 10,000th international run with a brilliant straight drive for four off the first ball of the match, but the visitors lost Georgia Plimmer later in the same over.
Bates made 38 and Melie Kerr (23) kept the early run rate ticking over before both fell to Sophie Ecclestone's bowling in the same over.
Captain Sophie Devine top-scored with an unbeaten 58 off 42 balls, but none of the remaining batters stayed with her for too long. Ecclestone took four for 25.
In the field Hannah Rowe struck with the first ball of England's innings, getting Maia Bouchier lbw, but 19-year-old Capsey and Sophia Dunkley put on 66 for the second wicket.
Left arm spinner Fran Jonas broke through for the White Ferns, taking the wickets of Dunkley and Nat Sciver-Brunt with successive balls.
Capsey hit a huge six off Kerr when England needed 28 off 17, and then teamed up with Kemp to see England to victory. They were helped by a Jonas misfield granting them a boundary when they needed four runs off the final ball.
Capsey was unbeaten on 67 and Kemp made 16 off eight balls.
The fourth match is at the Oval on Sunday.