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By His Excellency & Command
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.
VOL. I. AUCKLAND, THURSDAY, SETH 7, 1854: [No. 25.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Anakland,
6th Sept., 1854.
HIS Excellency the Officer Administering
the Government directs the publication
for general information, of the following cor-
respondence which has passed between His
Excellency and the Houses of the Legislature.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
To His Excellency, Lieutenant-Colonek, R. H.
WYNYARD, C. B., the Officer administering
the Government of New Zealand.
May it please your Excellency :-
We, the Legislative Council of New Zea-
land, desire, respectfully to address your Ex-
cellency in reply to the speech with which
your. Excellency Excellency has has been been pleased to open the
second Session of the General Assembly, and
to assure your Excellency, that whatever
Measures may be brought before us by your
Government, or by the House of Repre-
sentatives, will receive our most careful con-
sideration, or
(Signed) W. SWAINSON,
Legislative-Council Chamber,
Auckland, 1st Sept., 1854.
Speaker.
TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER
ADMINISTERING THE GOVERN-
MENT OF NEW ZEALAND.
We, the Commons of New Zealand, assem-
bled in the House of Representatives, ac-
knowledge with great respect "the address
delivered by your Excellency to this House
at the opening of the present Session.
Heartily concurring in the wish expressed
by your Excellency, to avoid reference to past
differences between your Excellency and this
House, and anxious to devote the small space
of time which remains available of the session
before us to measures of Immediate impor-
tance, we respectfully point your Excellency's
attention to the fact, that a large proportion
of the Members of the Legislature drawn from
the southern parts of the Colony have already
been detained from their homes, some up-
wards of five months, none for a less period
than three months and a half, and that they
will be obliged to return thither by the next
steamer, which may be expected to leave Auc-
land probably within a few days from this
time,
It being obvious that, under these circum-
stances, it would be impossible to give ade-
quate consideration to all the Measures pro-
posed in your Excellency's address, this
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