✨ Proroguing the General Assembly
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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1891.
Further Proroguing the General Assembly.
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 twenty-sixth day of the month of February, one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-one, to have been commenced and held,
and to every of you—Greeting:
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS on the thirty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-one, the General Assembly of New Zealand was prorogued to the
twenty-sixth day of the month of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
one, at which time you were held constrained to appear: Now know ye that for
divers causes and considerations I have thought fit to relieve you and each of you
of your attendance at the time aforesaid, hereby convoking and by these presents
enjoining you and each of you that on Thursday, the ninth day of April next,
you meet in Parliament, at 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 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
ninth day of February, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.
P. A. BUCKLEY.
God save the Queen!
By Authority: George Didsbury, Government Printer, Wellington.
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NZ Gazette 1891, No 14
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🏛️ Prorogation of the General Assembly
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration13 February 1891
Prorogation, General Assembly, Wellington, Legislative Council, House of Representatives
- William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, Viscount Cranley, Baron Onslow, Baron Cranley, 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
- P. A. Buckley