✨ Government Assumption Proclamation
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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1879.
Assumption of the Government of New Zealand by James Prendergast, Esquire.
(L.S.)
JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS Her Majesty has been graciously pleased, by Warrant under the Royal
Sign Manual and Signet, bearing date at Balmoral, the seventh day of
November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, to constitute and appoint
me, James Prendergast, Esquire, Chief Justice of the Colony of New Zealand, to
administer the Government of the Colony of New Zealand in case of the death,
incapacity, or absence from the said Colony of George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the said
Colony, with all and singular the powers and authorities granted to the said George
Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, in a Commission bearing date at
Westminster, the sixth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four: And whereas the said George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby,
is now absent from the said Colony, having sailed thence for Melbourne, in the
Colony of Victoria, on the twentieth day of February instant :
Now therefore, I, the said James Prendergast, Chief Justice of the Colony
of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that I have this day taken
the prescribed Oaths before His Honor Alexander James Johnston, one of the Judges
of the Supreme Court of the said Colony, and that I have assumed the adminis-
tration of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand under and by virtue of
Her Majesty's said Warrant.
Given under the hand of His Excellency James Prendergast, Esquire,
Administrator of the Government 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 twenty-first day of February, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.
G. S. WHITMORE.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
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NZ Gazette 1879, No 21
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🏛️ Proclamation regarding the Assumption of the Government of New Zealand
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration21 February 1879
Proclamation, Administrator of Government, Chief Justice, Governor, Oath
- James Prendergast (Esquire), Assumed administration of the Government
- George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby (Marquis), Absent Governor whose authority assumed
- James Prendergast, Esquire, Administrator of the Government
- Alexander James Johnston, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court
- G. S. Whitmore