New Zealand Gazette – 1885 – No. 25

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✨ Proclamation of Prorogation

Num. 25. 485

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1885.

Further Proroguing the General Assembly.

(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 twenty-eighth day of the month of April instant to have been commenced and held, and to every of you—GREETING :

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS on the eighteenth day of March last the General Assembly of New Zealand was prorogued to the twenty-eighth day of the present month of April, 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 convoking and by these presents enjoining you and each of you that on Friday, the eighth day of May next, 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 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 Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

By Authority: GEORGE DIDSURY, Government Printer, Wellington.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1885, No 25

The Old Government Buildings (depicted) were completed in 1876 and initially housed the entire Wellington-based civil service as well as the entire New Zealand Cabinet. The Executive Council met there until 1948.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏛️ Prorogation of the General Assembly

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated27 April 1885
KeywordsProrogation, General Assembly, Wellington, May 8
👩‍💼 Officials

Wm. F. Drummond Jervois, Governor
P. A. Buckley
George Didsbury, Government Printer

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