✨ Proclamation of Prorogation
Numb. 22. 409
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1888.
Meeting of the General Assembly for the Despatch of Business.
Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor.
(L.S.) 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 fourth day of the present month of April, to have been com-
menced and held, and to every of you—GREETING :
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the Meeting of the General Assembly stands prorogued to the
fourth day of April instant: Nevertheless, for certain causes and considera-
tions, I have thought fit further to prorogue the same to Thursday, the tenth day of
the month of May next, so that neither you nor any of you, on the said fourth day of
April 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 tenth day of the
month of May 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 April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-eight.
H. A. ATKINSON.
God save the Queen!
By Authority: GEORGE DIDSURY, Government Printer, Wellington.
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NZ Gazette 1888, No 22
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🏛️ Proclamation of Prorogation of General Assembly
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration4 April 1888
Prorogation, General Assembly, Wellington, Parliament, Lieutenant-General, Governor
- 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
- H. A. Atkinson
- George Didsbury, Government Printer