New Zealand Gazette – 1875 – No. 58

Page 657

✨ Governor's Speech Prorogation

Numb. 58.
657

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1875.

THE Fifth Session of the Fifth Parliament of New Zealand was this day
prorogued by the Governor, when His Excellency was pleased to make the
following

SPEECH.

HONORABLE LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, -

The state of the public business enables me to relieve you from further
attendance in Parliament; and I take occasion to thank you for the zeal and
attention which have marked the discharge of your onerous duties during the
Session.

Having expressed your satisfaction at the completion of the contract for the
laying of the telegraph cable between New South Wales and New Zealand, you
will be glad to be assured that before the next Session of this Assembly the Colony
will be placed in telegraphic connection with the Australian Colonies, and with
Great Britain.

The conditions of the contract for the Mail Service via San Francisco, which you
have ratified, give promise that on this occasion the permanency and efficiency of that
service will be secured.

GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, -

I thank you for the liberality with which you have granted supplies for the
current year. They will be administered with economy, and care for the attainment
of the objects for which they have been voted.

The Immigration and Public Works Appropriation Act, to which I have assented
on behalf of Her Majesty, by giving distinctly a statement of the Immigration and
Public Works Loan Accounts, and by showing separately all appropriations charge-
able to Loans, will render easily intelligible a subject upon which there has been
some misapprehension, and, with the Public Revenues Act, and the Stamp Duties
Act, to which I have also assented, will effect a valuable administrative improve-
ment.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1875, No 58

In 1865 Parliament moved to Wellington and sat in the Wellington Provincial Council Chambers (depicted). Gradually expanded into a larger complex of buildings, it was replaced by the General Assembly Library in 1899

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🏛️ Governor's Speech Proroguing Parliament

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated21 October 1875
KeywordsGovernor, Parliament, Prorogation, Telegraph Cable, Mail Service, Supply, Legislation
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