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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor’s command,
JOSEPH BRITTAN,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. III.] WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1856. [No. XIV.
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, July 7, 1856.
HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs the publication of the following letter for general information.
Joseph Brittan,
Provincial Secretary.
To his Honor the Superintendent of Canterbury.
SIR,
Copies of the Ordinance for the settlement of the affairs of the Canterbury Association as passed by the Legislature of the Province, have lately reached England accompanied by reports of some of the debates during its progress, and by some account of the feeling in the Colony on the subject.
Though these accounts are not yet very full, we cannot but take the first opportunity of expressing to the Legislature and the people of Canterbury, the feeling of pleasure and gratitude with which this intelligence has filled us.
When we undertook, now several years ago, the enterprise of founding the Colony of Canterbury, none of us could doubt the probability, that a work of such magnitude and uncertainty might be attended at some stage of its progress with difficulty, mortification, obloquy, or loss: possibly with all of these.
That in some degree, such has been its course, is well known, whether it has been so to a greater or less extent than might have been anticipated, we need not consider. But what has been altogether unexpected is this; not merely that we should be assured by the general voice of the colony that whatever labour and anxiety have been undergone have not been fruitless, but have met with their abundant reward in the existence of a happy and well-conditioned community—but that our exertions, such as they were, should be acknowledged in so generous a manner, and that that community should be both able and willing to exonerate us from pecuniary obligations which we incurred in their service.
What you have done, and the way in which you have done it, furnish the best reply to the charges which have been made, both as to the conduct and the results of our enterprise. Upon both these points, your verdict is decisive.
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🏛️ Governance & Central Administration7 July 1856
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- Joseph Brittan, Provincial Secretary
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