New Zealand Gazette – 1885 – No. 29

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✨ Proclamation of Prorogation

Num. 29.

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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, MAY 4, 1885.

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 eighth day of the present month of May 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 eighth day of May instant: Nevertheless, for certain causes and considerations, I have thought fit further to prorogue the same to Thursday, the eleventh day of the month of June next, so that neither you nor any of you, on the said eighth day of May instant, 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 eleventh 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 Wellington, this fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

ROBERT STOUT.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

By Authority: GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1885, No 29

In 1865 Parliament moved to Wellington and sat in the Wellington Provincial Council Chambers (depicted). Gradually expanded into a larger complex of buildings, it was replaced by the General Assembly Library in 1899

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🏛️ Proclamation of Prorogation of General Assembly

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated4 May 1885
KeywordsProrogation, General Assembly, Wellington, Parliament, June 11
👩‍💼 Officials

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
Robert Stout
George Didsbury, Government Printer

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