✨ Governor's Speech
Numb. 66.
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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1884.
THE Third Session of the Eighth Parliament of New Zealand was this day opened by the Governor, when His Excellency was pleased to make the following
SPEECH.
HONOURABLE GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,—
I have much pleasure in again meeting you in Parliament assembled.
Since the close of the last Session, a great affliction has fallen upon Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, through the sudden death of His Royal Highness the Duke of Albany.
Sincere sympathy has been felt by the whole British people with our beloved Sovereign in her bereavement; and the high character, noble aims, and beneficent pursuits of the Prince—which had endeared him to all amongst whom he had lived and worked—have caused his loss to be regarded as a national calamity.
I did not delay in assuring Her Majesty of the deep sympathy which was felt by the people of New Zealand in Her severe affliction.
When I first met the Assembly after my assumption of the Government, I expressed the satisfaction I had experienced in making myself acquainted with the people and the resources of the Colony, so far as I had then been able to visit different districts. During the last year, I have made a more extended tour through many parts of both Islands, and the manner in which I have been welcomed in all the places I have visited has been most cordial and gratifying. The impressions I had already formed of the great capabilities and prospects of the country have been much strengthened by all that I have lately seen.
The depression which has been felt during the past year in many parts of the world, has been intensified in New Zealand by the unseasonable weather which prevailed in some districts at harvest time. But this depression has largely resulted from external causes: the chief amongst them being the reduced values of the staple products of the country—wool and wheat. I trust, however, that a renewal of prosperity may, with confidence, be anticipated.
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NZ Gazette 1884, No 66
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🏛️ Opening of the Third Session of the Eighth Parliament
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration5 June 1884
Parliament, Governor, Speech, Duke of Albany, Queen, Tour, Depression, Wool, Wheat
- His Excellency the Governor