New Zealand Gazette – 1846 – No. 17

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✨ Legislative Proceedings & Despatch

NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
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.

By His Excellency's Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.

VOL. VI.] AUCKLAND, FRIDAY, OCT. 23, 1846. [No. 17.

JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS
IN THE
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

MONDAY, 5TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1846.

PRESENT:
His Excellency George Grey, Lieutenant-
Governor,
The Honorable Andrew Sinclair, Colonial
Secretary,
The Honorable William Swainson, Attorney
General,
The Honorable Alexander Shepherd, Colonial
Treasurer,
William Donnelly, Esquire,
Alfred Domett, Esquire,
Alexander Kennedy, Esquire.

The Council met pursuant to summons.
The Rev. J. F. Churton, Colonial Chap-
lain, being in attendance, read prayers.
The Lieutenant Governor then opened the
Session with the following address:
[For address see Government Gazette, No. 15,
October 6, 1846.]

The Lieutenant Governor laid on the Table
a Draft of the proposed Rules and Orders for
the Legislative Council.

On motion of the Colonial Secretary, the
said Rules read and adopted.

On motion of Mr. Donnelly, it was ordered
that His Excellency's Address to the Council,
together with the following papers laid on the
Table by His Excellency, be printed.

No. 12.

Extracts from a Despatch from the Secretary of
State, dated

Downing-street,
March 18, 1846.

Sir, I have received Capt. Fitz Roy's Des-
patches of the numbers and dates specified in the
margin, relating to the Peace, Finance, and the
general state of New Zealand, as well as to the
question of the Land Claims—and transmitting
also the proceedings of the Executive Council
for the half year ending the 30th of June, 1845.

I am now in communication with the New Zea-
land Company upon the subject of the future
form of the Institutions of the Colony as well as
on the questions more immediately relating to
the interests of that body. But I shall of course
conduct those communications in such a manner
as in no degree to prejudge the important ques-
tions of the former class now pending for consi-
deration, in regard to which I look with great
anxiety for the receipt of your Reports in due
time. In the mean time I cannot say that with
my present information I lean to the idea which
the Company has heretofore been disposed to fa-
vour, of placing in its hands the general respon-
sibilities of government, either with respect to
the whole Colony, or to a portion of it. I have
as yet learned nothing to convince me that either
commercial interest or public spirit would enable
such a body to surmount the difficulties which
Her Majesty's Government have found so serious
in the administration of the affairs of this distant
dependency of the Crown. I incline to think
that the Company, invested with such powers,
would if well advised, make a delegation of them
as complete as possible to local persons or bodies,
and I do not know why such delegation, if it be
wise, may not as well and as soon be made by a
department of the Queen's Government acting
under habitual responsibility, while, as to the

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