✨ Prorogation of General Assembly
Numb. 94. 1419
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 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-fourth day of the month of December, one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-one, to have been commenced and held,
and to every of you—Greeting:
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS on the twenty-fifth day of September, one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-one, the General Assembly of New Zealand was prorogued to the
twenty-fourth day of the month of December, 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 twenty-eighth day of January
next, you meet in Parliament, at the City of Wellington, there to take into con-
sideration 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; 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 Christchurch, this seventeenth day of December, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.
P. A. BUCKLEY.
God save the Queen!
By Authority: GEORGE DIDSURY, Government Printer, Wellington.
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NZ Gazette 1891, No 94
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🏛️ Prorogation of General Assembly
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration21 December 1891
Prorogation, General Assembly, Wellington, December 1891, January 1892
- Earl of Onslow, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- P. A. Buckley
- George Didsbury, Government Printer