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Edward William Stafford,
Theodore Minet Haultain,
John Hall,
James Crowe Richmond,
John Larkins Cheese Richardson,
John Hyde Harris,
Thomas Houghton Bartley,
John Johnston,
Ponsonby Peacocke,
Sir David Monro,
Alexander James Johnston,
Isaac Earl Featherston,
John Williamson,
Hugh Carleton,
Alfred Ludlam,
James Edward FitzGerald,

to be Reception Commissioners to devise and carry into effect all necessary arrangements for a fitting reception of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, and for paying suitable marks of respect to His Royal Highness during his visit to the said Colony.

And I do by these presents give and grant to you, or any three of you, full power and authority to carry into effect the purposes of this Commission by all lawful ways and means whatsoever. And I do call on all Public Officers to aid and assist you in the execution thereof: And I do by these presents ordain that this Commission shall continue in full force and virtue, and that you the said Commissioners, or any three of you, shall and may from time to time, and at any place or places, proceed in the execution, thereof, and of every matter and thing therein contained, although the same be not continued from time to time by adjournment.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies at the Government House, at Wellington, and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

E. W. Stafford.

Inhabitants of the Province of Auckland, for the purpose of adopting an Address to his Excellency Sir George Grey, K.C.B., Governor, &c., on the occasion of his departure from the colony of New Zealand.

(Signed)
Thornton, Smith, & Firth.
Owen and Graham, per J. C. Firth.
John Salmon.
J. Dilworth.
Brown, Campbell, & Co.
J. O’Neill, M.G.A.
Alexander Kerr.
Stannus Jones.
R. Whitson & Co.
John Buchanan.
Robert Graham, M.G.A.
Thos. Ball, M.G.A.
E. & H. Isaacs.
William T. Buckland.
John Scarrott.
A. K. Taylor.
Geo. Matson.
W. Fraser, Tauranga.
Henderson & Macfarlane.
Robert J. Creighton.
David Nathan.
Jackson & Russell.
Chas. Walton, Maungatapere, Whangarei.
John Roberton.
James Burtt.
Jno. Styak, Green Mount, Tamaki.
U. Petschler.
Jno. Wallace, Flat Bush.
Walter Grahame.
Cruickshank and Smart.
E. Louis Bucholz.
Chas. Davis.
J. H. Burnside, & Co.
James Wrigley.
John Woodhouse.
Richard Hobbs.
Chas. J. Taylor.
Turrell and Tonks.
W. C. Wilson.
Masefield & Co.
T. & S. Morrin.
Walter Evon.
Alex. Kennedy

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 4th December, 1867.

In compliance with the foregoing Requisition, I hereby convene a Public Meeting of the Inhabitants of Auckland, to be held on Saturday next, the 7th instant, at two o’clock, p.m., in the Hall of the Mechanics’ Institute.

J. Williamson,
Superintendent.

PROPOSED ADDRESS TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR GEORGE GREY, K.C.B.

To His Honor John Williamson, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Auckland.

Sir,—We, the undersigned, request that your Honor will convene a meeting of the

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Auckland by W. C. Wilson, Wyndham-street, Auckland, Printer for the time being to the Provincial Government.