✨ Proclamation of Fast Day
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
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, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1854. [No. 20
PROCLAMATION.
FOR A DAY OF SOLEMN FAST, HUMILIATION,
AND PRAYER.
By His Excellency Lieutenant-
Colonel ROBERT HENRY WYN-
YARD, a Companion of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath,
the Officer Administering the
Government of New Zealand,
&c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS, taking into Her most serious
consideration the just and necessary
War in which Her Majesty is engaged, Her
Majesty, by a Royal Proclamation bearing date
the Twenty-fourth day of April, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four, hath commanded
that a Public Day of Solemn Fast, Humilia-
tion, and Prayer, be observed throughout the
United Kingdom of England and Ireland, so
that Prayer and Supplication may be made to
the Divine Majesty for imploring His Blessing
and Assistance on Her Majesty's arms for the
restoration of Peace to Her Majesty and her
Dominions, and hath charged and commanded
that such Public Fast Day be reverently and
devoutly observed.
And whereas it is fitting that a day be se
apart to be observed in like manner in this por-
tion of Her Majesty's Dominions: Now there-
fore I, the Officer administering the Govern-
ment, in pursuance of the authority in me
vested, do hereby proclaim and declare that a
Public day of Solemn Fast, Humiliation, and
Prayer be observed throughout the Islands of
New Zealand, that is to say, throughout the
Province of Auckland in the said Islands, on
Tuesday, the 22nd day of August instant, and
throughout the other Settlements of the
Islands aforesaid, that is to say in the
Province of New Plymouth, the Province of
Wellington, the Province of Nelson, the Pro-
vince of Canterbury, and the Province of
Otago, on such day as may be named for that
purpose by the Superintendents of each of the
said Provinces respectively, so that we may
humble ourselves before Almighty God, and
send up our Prayers and Supplications to the
Divine Majesty for imploring His Blessing and
assistance on Her Majesty's arms for the re-
storation of Peace. And I hereby charge and
enjoin that the said days be reverently and de-
voutly observed.
Given under my hand and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Islands of New Zealand, at
Auckland, this eighth day
of August, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and fifty-four.
R. H. WYNYARD,
The Officer Administering the Government of
the Islands of New Zealand.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
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NZ Gazette 1854, No 20
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🏛️ Proclamation for a Day of Solemn Fast, Humiliation, and Prayer
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration8 August 1854
Proclamation, Fast Day, Prayer, War, Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, Otago
- Lieutenant-Colonel ROBERT HENRY WYNYARD, Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand
- R. H. WYNYARD, The Officer Administering the Government of the Islands of New Zealand
- ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary