✨ Governor's Speech to Parliament
Aumb. 26. 135
The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1861.
THE First Session of the Third Parliament of the General Assembly of New Zealand,
was this day opened by the Governor, when His Excellency was pleased to make the
following
S P E E C H.
HONORABLE GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,
GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, ---
I am happy to meet you so soon after the late General Election, and to
congratulate you on the increased Representation of the various Public Interests
of the Colony which has been afforded by the operation of the Act under which
that election was held.
You will unite with me in cordial acknowledgments of the prompt and
efficient support I have received from the Imperial Government, which will
enable me to carry into effect measures necessary for the maintenance of Her
Majesty's Authority in these Islands, and for the suppression of armed Insur-
rection. The assistance which has been afforded to the Colony will tend to
the ultimate welfare of both races of Her Majesty's subjects, and will strengthen
the bonds of Loyalty which attach the Colony to the Throne and Person of Her
Majesty, and to the mother country.
I gladly take this opportunity of expressing the thanks which are due to
the Officers and Men of Her Majesty's Army and Navy, and of her Colonial Forces,
for the zeal and intrepidity with which they have at all times performed duties
of a very arduous and harassing nature.
Overtures for Peace having been made by the insurgent natives, I felt it
incumbent upon me to insist on the preliminary condition of their ceasing to act
as a Confederation; on their retiring to their Districts, I proceeded to Tara-
naki, and accepted the submission of part of the insurgent section of the Ngati-
awa tribe, on Conditions which will be laid before you.
In the policy which I have pursued with reference to the affairs of Tara-
naki, my object from the first has been to secure Peace by putting an end to
the constantly recurring land feuds which for years have maintained barbarism
amongst the aboriginal inhabitants of that District. Having now imposed
Terms which will, if observed, secure this end, I have thought it right to adhere
to the engagement of the 29th November, 1859, in reference to the land pur-
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🏛️ Governor's Speech opening the First Session of the Third Parliament
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration4 June 1861
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