General Assembly Prorogation




Numb. 38.

591

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1883.

Meeting of the General Assembly for the Despatch of Business.

(L.S.)

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor.

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 fifteenth day of the month of May next to have been
commenced and held, and to every of you—GREETING:

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the Meeting of the General Assembly stands prorogued to the
fifteenth day of May next: Nevertheless, for certain causes and considera-
tions, I have thought fit further to prorogue the same to Thursday, the Fourteenth
day of the month of June next, so that neither you nor any of you, on the said
fifteenth day of May 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 FOURTEENTH
day of the month of JUNE 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 Sir William Francis Drummond
Jervois, Lieutenant-General in Her Majesty's Army, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint
George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of
the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Auckland, this twenty-eighth day of April, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.

FRED. WHITAKER.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Printed under the authority of the New Zealand Government, by GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.



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🏛️ Proclamation further proroguing the General Assembly to June 14, 1883

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
28 April 1883
Proclamation, General Assembly, Prorogation, Parliament, Wellington, Governor
  • WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor
  • FRED. WHITAKER