✨ Governor's Speech
Dumb. 28. 587
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1886.
THE Third Session of the Ninth Parliament of New Zealand was this day opened
by the Governor, when His Excellency was pleased to make the following
S P E E C H.
HONOURABLE GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES,—
It affords me much pleasure to meet you thus early in Parliament assembled.
The year which is now passing will be memorable throughout the British
dominions as that on which our Gracious Sovereign enters on the fiftieth year of her
reign. You will, I feel assured, desire to prove that the subjects of this the most
distant portion of Her Majesty’s possessions share equally with Her Majesty’s subjects
in other parts of the world the highest appreciation of the great results of her
long and beneficent reign. You will be asked to consider the most suitable way
of showing, on behalf of the people of New Zealand, their affection and duty to
the person of the Sovereign, their love and loyalty to the Crown, their sense of
gratification at belonging to a realm enjoying a sway so benignant, and their desire
to see the bonds which unite every portion of Her Majesty’s vast Empire confirmed
and strengthened.
It is particularly appropriate to such a year that I am able to announce to
you that, in the opinion of my Ministers, there has never been a time when the
relations between Her Majesty’s European and Maori subjects have been of so
friendly a character. The Maoris are evincing an intelligent interest in colonizing
operations, and a cordial recognition of the laws of the colony. They show this
excellent disposition by the readiness with which they are seeking Crown titles for large
areas of country through which the Northern Trunk Railway will pass, and by their
willingness to part with land to the Government for the purposes of settlement alongNext Page →
NZ Gazette 1886, No 28
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🏛️ Opening of Third Session of Ninth Parliament
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration13 May 1886
Speech, Governor, Parliament, Queen's Jubilee, Maori relations, Northern Trunk Railway
- His Excellency the Governor