✨ Governor's Speech Opening Parliament
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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1867.
THE Second Session of the Fourth Parliament of New Zealand was this
day opened by the Governor, when His Excellency was pleased to make
the following
SPEECH.
HONORABLE LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS,
GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
I am happy to meet you again in Parliament, and to recur to your
assistance and advice.
It has afforded me much satisfaction to have been able to give effect to
the wish expressed by me at the close of the last session, to visit the southern
portion of the Colony. I have thus had the pleasure of becoming acquainted
with most of its leading towns and rising settlements, in all of which I have,
as the Queen's representative, met with the most cordial reception. By the
people of Auckland also, on the occasion of my recent visit to that part of the
country, I have been most warmly and loyally received. It has been a
pleasing duty to me to report to the Secretary of State that in no part of the
Empire has Her Majesty more loyal subjects than the inhabitants of the
districts through which I have travelled. I could not but be gratified by the
rapid progress which it was evident the Colony generally had made, while
in the settlements which have sprung into existence during the last few years
in the interior, and on the West Coast of the Middle Island, I was at once
struck by their extent and importance, and gratified by the presence,
notwithstanding the circumstances under which they were formed, of that
regard for law and order which is the characteristic of our race. I can say
with confidence that security for life and property, and respect for the law,
exist in as marked a degree in those recently populated districts as in any
part of Her Majesty's dominions.
I congratulate you on the re-establishment of peace generally throughout
the North Island, in no part of which do I anticipate in future any systematic
or sustained hostility to the Queen's authority.
The attitude of some Hau Hau fanatics who, in October last, threatened
the town and settlement of Napier, was such as to cause a temporary anxiety,
but by the judicious measures adopted by Mr. McLean, and gallantly given
effect to by Lieut.-Colonel Whitmore and all classes of the inhabitants of the
district, the offenders were severely punished, tranquillity was speedily restored
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NZ Gazette 1867, No 39
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🏛️ Governor's Speech opening Second Session of Fourth Parliament
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration9 July 1867
Parliament opening, Governor's address, Legislative Council, House of Representatives, Peace restoration, Hau Hau fanatics, Napier
- Mr. McLean
- Lieutenant-Colonel Whitmore