New Munster Gazette – 1849 – No. 10

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✨ Legislative Council Proceedings



NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF NEW MUNSTER.)

Published by Authority.

All Public 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.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ALFRED DOMETT, Colonial Secretary.

VOL. II.] WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1849. [No. 10.

JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS
IN THE
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1849.

Present—
His Excellency EDWARD JOHN EYRE, Lieutenant-Governor.
The Hon. Lieut.-Colonel M’Cleverty, Senior Military Officer.
The Hon. Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary.
The Hon. D. Wakefield, Attorney-General.
The Hon. W. H. Petre, Colonial Treasurer.
The Hon. Wm. M’Leod Bannatyne.
,, ,, Wm. Hickson.
,, ,, Geo. Hunter.
,, ,, A. Ludlam.
,, ,, Geo. Moore.

Absent—
The Hon. Francis Dillon Bell, and the Nelson Members.

The Council met pursuant to summons.

The Rev. Robert Cole, Colonial Chaplain, being in attendance, was introduced, and read prayers.

His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor then opened the Council by reading his address :—

GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,—

It affords me much satisfaction to be enabled to call you together for the despatch of public business, and to have it in my power now for the first time to resort to the advice and assistance of a Legislature in carrying on the Government of the Province; nor is it a source of less gratification to me to reflect that, in thus calling you



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🏛️ Journal of Proceedings in the Legislative Council

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
1 May 1849
Legislative Council, Proceedings, Wellington, Members, Absentees, Address
12 names identified
  • Edward John Eyre (Lieutenant-Governor), Presided over the Legislative Council
  • M’Cleverty (Lieut.-Colonel), Senior Military Officer present
  • Alfred Domett (Honourable), Colonial Secretary present
  • D. Wakefield (Honourable), Attorney-General present
  • W. H. Petre (Honourable), Colonial Treasurer present
  • Wm. M’Leod Bannatyne (Honourable), Member present
  • Wm. Hickson (Honourable), Member present
  • Geo. Hunter (Honourable), Member present
  • A. Ludlam (Honourable), Member present
  • Geo. Moore (Honourable), Member present
  • Francis Dillon Bell (Honourable), Member absent
  • Robert Cole (Reverend), Colonial Chaplain read prayers

  • Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary