✨ Governor's Speech Prorogation
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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1870.
THE Fifth Session of the Fourth Parliament of New Zealand was this day
prorogued by the Governor, when His Excellency was pleased to make
the following
SPEECH.
HONOURABLE LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES,---
I thank you for the assiduity with which you have devoted yourselves to the
consideration of the business of the country, and the care you have bestowed on the
various important subjects to which I invited your attention at the commencement of
the Session.
I sincerely hope that the large measures which you have passed, for the purpose
of promoting public works, encouraging immigration, and developing the resources
of the country, will be the means of reviving that spirit of colonization which led to
the foundation of this Colony, and which must be the basis of its future prosperity.
When I consider how small a portion of the country has yet been colonized, and how
small a population occupies it, I cannot fail to observe that the responsibility of a
great work rests not only on this but on future generations. By measures of such
a character as those you have lately passed, the redundant capital and population of
the parent country can be made available to supply the wants of the Colony.
An essential feature of these measures is the beneficial influence which they will
necessarily have on the peace of the country and the settlement of Native difficulties.
To both races it must be a source of profound gratification that you have determined
to continue an essentially peaceful policy, and I congratulate you on the disposition
which the Natives evince to reciprocate your conciliatory intentions.
The presence of Her Majesty's ships of war on this station has had a most bene-
ficial effect, and the services of Commodore Lambert, C.B., and the officers and men
under his command, are recognized through the Colony with gratitude
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NZ Gazette 1870, No 48
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🏛️ Governance & Central Administration13 September 1870
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