✨ Prorogation of Parliament
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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1882.
Meeting of the General Assembly for the Despatch of Business.
ARTHUR GORDON, 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 fourth day of the month of April next to have been com-
menced and held, and to every of you—GREETING:
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the Meeting of the General Assembly stands prorogued to the
fourth day of April next: Nevertheless, for certain causes and considerations,
I have thought fit further to prorogue the same to Thursday, the Eighteenth
day of the Month of May next, so that neither you nor any of you, on the said
fourth day of April next, at the City of Wellington, are to be held constrained to
appear, commanding and by the tenor of these presents enjoining you and each of
you, and all others in this behalf interested, that on THURSDAY, the EIGHTEENTH
day of the Month of MAY next, personally you be and appear, for the DESPATCH
OF BUSINESS, at Two o'clock in the afternoon, in the Parliament Houses, situate
in Molesworth Street, in 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 Honorable Arthur
Hamilton Gordon, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Her Majesty's High Com-
missioner for the Western Pacific, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependen-
cies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, at Christchurch, this twenty-fifth day of March, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
JOHN HALL.
Printed under the authority of the New Zealand Government, by GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.
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NZ Gazette 1882, No 29
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🏛️ Proclamation proroguing the General Assembly to May 18, 1882.
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration25 March 1882
Proclamation, Governor, General Assembly, Prorogation, Parliament, Wellington
- Arthur Gordon, Governor
- John Hall