✨ Prorogation of Parliament
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DIEU ET
SOIT QUL MAL Y PENSE
MON DR
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1877.
Proroguing the General Assembly.
NORMANBY, Governor.
(L.s.)
To the LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS of the Colony of NEW ZEALAND, and
the MEMBERS elected to serve in the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
of the said Colony, summoned and called to a Meeting of the
General Assembly of the said Colony, at the City of Wellington,
on the sixteenth day of the month of January next to have been
commenced and held, and to every of you—GREETING:
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS on the thirty-first day of October last I thought fit to prorogue the
General Assembly of New Zealand to the sixteenth day of January instant, at
which time you were held constrained to appear: Now KNOW YE, that for divers
causes and considerations I have thought fit to relieve you and each of you of your
attendance at the time aforesaid, hereby further proroguing the said General Assembly
to Friday, the thirteenth day of April next, and convoking and by these presents
enjoining you, and each of you, that on the said thirteenth day of April you meet in
Parliament, at the City of Wellington, there to take into consideration the state and
welfare of the said Colony of New Zealand, and therein to do as may seem necessary.
Given under the hand of His Excellency the Most Honorable
GEORGE AUGUSTUS CONSTANTINE, Marquis of Normanby, Earl
of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron Mulgrave of
Mulgrave, all in the County of York, in the Peerage of the
United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New Ross, in the
County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council; Knight Com-
mander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over
Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same; at the Government House, at
Wellington, and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this
fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-seven.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
CHARLES C. BOWEN.
Printed under the authority of the New Zealand Government, by GEORGE DIDSEURY, Government Printer, W-
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🏛️ Proclamation Proroguing the General Assembly to April 1877
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration5 January 1877
Proclamation, General Assembly, Prorogation, Parliament, Wellington, Governor
- George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- Charles C. Bowen