New Zealand Gazette – 1854 – No. 11

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✨ Official Appointments and Notices

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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, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

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

VOL. II.] AUCKLAND, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1854. [No. 11

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
19th May, 1854.

WEDNESDAY NEXT, the 24th inst.,
being the Anniversary of Her Ma-
jesty's Birthday, His Excellency the Officer
Administering the Government has been
pleased to direct that it be observed as a
holiday at the Public Offices.

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

NOTICE.

Private Secretary's Office,
May 19, 1854.

HIS Excellency the Officer Administering
the Government directs it to be notified
for general information, that he will hold a
Levee at the Council Chamber, on WEDNES-
DAY next, the 24th inst., at two o'clock P.M.,
in honour of Her Majesty's Birthday.

By command,
W. COCKCRAFT.
Private Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
16th May, 1854.

HIS Excellency the Officer Administering
the Government directs it to be notified
for general information that, in virtue of the
power vested in him by the New Zealand
Constitution Act, 15 and 16 Victoria, Sec-
tion 38, he has been pleased to appoint
WILLIAM SWAINSON, Esq.,
to be Speaker of the Legislative Council of
New Zealand.

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

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Lieu-
tenant Colonel ROBERT
HENRY WYNYARD, Com-
panion of the Most Hon-
ourable Order of the Bath,
the Officer administering
the Government of the
Islands of New Zealand,
&c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance passed by
the Governor-in-Chief of the New
Zealand Islands, by and with the consent of
the Legislative Council thereof, intituled "An
Ordinance for the Naturalization of certain
persons in the Islands of New Zealand,"
Sess. 11, No. 9, it is enacted that all and sin-
gular the persons who shall be declared to
come within the operation of such Ordinance
by any Proclamation to be issued in that be-
half by His Excellency the Governor-in-
Chief shall be deemed and taken until the
next Session of the General Legislature
within the Islands of New Zealand, to be
natural born subjects of Her Majesty.

Now, therefore, I, the Officer administering
the Government, in pursuance of the power
and authority in me vested by the said in
part recited Ordinance, Do hereby Proclaim
and Declare that the person whose name
is underwritten, shall be deemed and taken
to be a natural born subject of Her Majesty
from the date set opposite his name until the
next Session of the General Legislature of
the Islands of New Zealand as fully to all in-
tents and purposes as if his name had been
inserted in the Schedule annexed,

CARL FRANK FISCHER, 27th April, 1854.

This Proclamation shall take effect from
and after the twenty-seventh April, 1854.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1854, No 11

Parliament sat at General Assembly House (nicknamed the 'Shedifice') in Auckland from 1854-1864, sharing the building with the Auckland Provincial Council.

Ironically the Upper House met on the lower story, and the Lower House on the upper story.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏛️ Public Offices Holiday for Queen's Birthday

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated19 May 1854
KeywordsHoliday, Public Offices, Queen's Birthday, May 24th
👩‍💼 Officials

ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary

🏛️ Levee to be held for Queen's Birthday

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated19 May 1854
KeywordsLevee, Council Chamber, Queen's Birthday, May 24th
👩‍💼 Officials

W. COCKCRAFT, Private Secretary

🏛️ Appointment of Speaker of the Legislative Council

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated16 May 1854
KeywordsAppointment, Speaker, Legislative Council, Constitution Act
👱🏽 Names

WILLIAM Swainson (Esquire), Appointed Speaker of Legislative Council

👩‍💼 Officials

ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary

🏛️ Proclamation declaring naturalization status

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated19 May 1854
KeywordsProclamation, Naturalization, Ordinance, Her Majesty's subject
👱🏽 Names

CARL FRANK Fischer, Declared natural born subject

👩‍💼 Officials

Lieutenant Colonel ROBERT HENRY WYNYARD, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Officer administering the Government

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