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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
(PROVINCE OF NELSON.)
Published by Authority.
All Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
ALFRED GREENFIELD, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XVI. NELSON, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1868. No. 19.
PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.
TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1868.
THE Eighteenth Session of the Provincial Council was opened this day at One o\'clock, when the following Address of his Honor the Superintendent was delivered:—
MR. SPEAKER, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL—
- I feel assured that you will join with me in regretting that the contemplated visit of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh to this colony is indefinitely postponed, and that you will desire, before proceeding to the ordinary business which you have met to consider, to convey to H.R.H. an expression of the abhorrence and detestation with which you, in common with all honest and true men, whatever may be their political opinions, regard the late treacherous and cowardly attempt to take his life.
To the Queen, also, I am confident you will wish to forward an assurance of the sympathy you feel with the pain which her Majesty will suffer from this lamentable occurrence, and of the affectionate loyalty with which she is regarded in this part of her dominions.
- You will have learned with regret that a breach of the peace has occurred in the neighbourhood of Westport, arising out of the excited state of public feeling caused by the sad event to which the preceding paragraphs refer, and that some serious assaults were committed.
Considerable excitement and some alarm still prevail at Addison\'s Flat and Westport, but I have too much reliance, both upon the good feeling of the people and the firm and judicious management of Mr. Commissioner Kynnersley, to apprehend any further serious disturbance of the public peace.
Should it unfortunately prove that this view of the matter has been too hopeful, I feel that I may depend upon your support in maintaining peace and good order, and in protecting every man in the exercise of his lawful occupation at whatever cost.
- The accounts for the financial year, ending on the 31st March, will show that the revenue has considerably exceeded the amount at which I estimated it, the actual receipts having reached the sum of £136,000, about £21,000 above my original estimate of £115,000. The expenditure during the year has, however amounted to the sum of £145,000, out of your total appropriations of £160,000, leaving a balance to the debit of the province at the Bank of New Zealand of £29,500. The provincial funds stand in this respect substantially in the same position as they did twelve months since on my entering into
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1868, No 19
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🏘️ Address of the Superintendent to the Provincial Council
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government21 April 1868
Provincial Council, Superintendent, Financial Report, Westport, Commissioner Kynnersley
- Duke of Edinburgh (H.R.H.), Subject of address regarding assassination attempt
- Queen (Her Majesty), Subject of address regarding loyalty
- Kynnersley (Commissioner), Managing public peace in Westport
- Alfred Greenfield, Provincial Secretary