New Zealand Gazette – 1897 – No. 104

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✨ Parliamentary Prorogation

Num. 104.

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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1897.

Proroguing the General Assembly.

RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Parliament held 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, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, 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 seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight; and the said General Assembly is hereby prorogued accordingly.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander 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 issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

(L.S.)

R. J. SEDDON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington,

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1897, No 104

In 1865 Parliament moved to Wellington and sat in the Wellington Provincial Council Chambers (depicted). Gradually expanded into a larger complex of buildings, it was replaced by the General Assembly Library in 1899

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏛️ Proroguing the General Assembly of New Zealand until February 17, 1898

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated22 December 1897
KeywordsProrogation, General Assembly, Parliament, Governor, Proclamation, 1897
👱🏽 Names

Uchter John Mark Ranfurly (Earl of Ranfurly), issuing proclamation to prorogue General Assembly
R. J. Seddon, witnessing proclamation

👩‍💼 Officials

Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor
R. J. Seddon

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