New Zealand Gazette – 1889 – No. 54

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✨ Prorogation of General Assembly

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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1889.

Proroguing the General Assembly.

ONSLOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Parliament holden in the fifteenth and
sixteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An
Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it is,
among other things, enacted that the Governor may, at his pleasure, prorogue the
General Assembly of New Zealand:

Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power
and authority, and of every other power and authority in this behalf enabling me, do
hereby proclaim and declare that I do this day prorogue the General Assembly of
New Zealand until Thursday, the nineteenth day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-nine; and the said General Assembly is hereby prorogued
accordingly.

(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; 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 Government House, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of
September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-nine.

H. A. ATKINSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

By Authority: GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1889, No 54

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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏛️ Proclamation Proroguing the General Assembly until December 19, 1889

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated19 September 1889
KeywordsProclamation, Governor, General Assembly, Prorogation, Parliament
👩‍💼 Officials

William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, Governor
H. A. Atkinson

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