New Zealand Gazette – 1854 – No. 2

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✨ Proclamations and Official Notices



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, JAN. 20, 1854. [ No. 2. ]

PROCLAMATION.

By Lieutenant-Colonel ROBERT
HENRY WYNYARD, Companion
of the Most Honour-
able Order of the Bath, and
Chief Officer in Command
of Her Majesty's Military
Forces within the colony of
New Zealand, &c., &c., &c.

W HEREAS by an Act made and
enacted in the Parliament holden in
the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the
Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, in-
tituled "An Act to grant a Representative
Constitution to the Colony of New Zea-
land," it is amongst other things enacted
that the General Assembly of New Zea-
land shall be holden at any place and time
within New Zealand which the Governor
shall from time to time by Proclamation
for that purpose appoint. Now therefore,
I, the Officer administering the Govern-
ment of New Zealand, Do hereby proclaim
that the said General Assembly
shall be holden, and shall meet for the Dis-
patch of Business at Auckland, on the 24th
day of May next ensuing, at twelve
o'clock at noon. And the members of the
said Assembly are hereby warned to give
their attendance at the said time and place
accordingly.

Given under my hand, and is-
sued under the Public Seal
of the Islands of New Zea-
land, at Auckland, this
eighteenth day of January,
in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-
four.

R. H. WYNYARD,
Chief Officer in Command of Her Majesty's
Military Forces within the colony of
New Zealand.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency ROBERT HENRY
WYNYARD, Companion of
the Most Honourable Or-
der of the Bath, the Officer
administering the Go-
vernment of New Zealand,
&c., &c., &c.

W HEREAS by Letters Patent under the
Great Seal of the High Court of Ad-
miralty of England, bearing date the 30th
day of December, 1846; Her Majesty was
graciously pleased to ordain, constitute, and
depute GEORGE GREY, Esquire, Governor-in-
Chief in and over the Islands of New Zea-
land, and in his absence the Officer exercising
the Office of Governor of New Zealand, to be
Her Majesty's Vice Admiral, Commissary,
and Deputy in the Office of Vice Admiralty
in the said Islands of New Zealand; And
whereas the said Sir GEORGE GREY is now



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🏛️ Proclamation appointing General Assembly meeting date and location

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
18 January 1854
General Assembly, Meeting, Proclamation, Auckland, May 1854
  • R. H. Wynyard, Chief Officer in Command of Her Majesty's Military Forces within the colony of New Zealand
  • Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary

🏛️ Proclamation regarding Vice Admiralty powers of George Grey

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Vice Admiralty, Letters Patent, Governor, George Grey, Appointment
  • George Grey (Esquire), Appointed Vice Admiral
  • George Grey (Sir), Mentioned regarding Vice Admiralty

  • Robert Henry Wynyard, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, the Officer administering the Government of New Zealand