✨ Governor's Prorogation Proclamation
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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1889.
Meeting of the General Assembly for the Despatch of Business.
ONSLOW, 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 ninth day of the present month of May, 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
ninth day of May instant: Nevertheless, for certain causes and considera-
tions, I have thought fit further to prorogue the same to Thursday, the twentieth
day of the month of June next, so that neither you nor any of you, on the said ninth
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 twentieth
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.
(L.S.)
Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William
Hillier, Earl of Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop; Viscount
Cranley, of Cranley in the County of Surrey; Baron Onslow, of
Onslow in the County of Salop, and of West Clandon in the County
of Surrey; Baron Cranley, of Imbercourt; Baronet; a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council; Knight Grand Cross
of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George;
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 Govern-
ment House, at Wellington, this seventh day of May, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine.
H. A. ATKINSON.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
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NZ Gazette 1889, No 28
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🏛️ Proclamation further proroguing the General Assembly to June 20, 1889
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration7 May 1889
Proclamation, General Assembly, Prorogation, Parliament, Wellington
- William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- H. A. Atkinson