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DIEU ET
HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE
DROIT
The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
MONDAY, JULY 30, 1860.
THE third Session of the Second Parliament of the General Assembly of New Zealand
was this day opened by the Governor, when His Excellency was pleased to make the
following
SPEECH.
GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES, —
In the present circumstances of the Colony, I have recourse, with
great satisfaction, to your Advice and Assistance.
The Province of Taranaki—the state of which has long been a
source of anxiety—has recently become the scene of an Insurrection,
involving portions of several Tribes of Aboriginal Natives.
The immediate occasion of this disturbance of the Public Peace has
been an attempt, on the part of a Native Chief of the Ngatiawa Tribe,
to forbid the sale to the Crown, and forcibly to prevent the Survey, of a
piece of land to which he neither asserted nor possessed any Title.
I felt it to be my duty to repel this assumption of an authority
inconsistent alike with the maintenance of the Queen's Sovereignty and
the rights of the Proprietors of the land in question. In this course I
have received from all parts of the Colony assurances of Sympathy and
Support, affording gratifying evidence of the Loyalty of all classes of Her
Majesty's subjects.
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NZ Gazette 1860, No 25
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🏛️ Governor's Speech Opening Third Session of Second Parliament
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration30 July 1860
Parliament opening, Governor's Speech, Taranaki Insurrection, Ngatiawa Tribe, Land Survey
- His Excellency the Governor