✨ Governor's Proclamation
Num. 80.
1803
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1898.
Proroguing the General Assembly.
RANFURLY, Governor.
A P R O C L A M A T I O N.
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, 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 twelfth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine; 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 fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.
(l.s.)
R. J. SEDDON.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.
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NZ Gazette 1898, No 80
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🏛️ Proclamation Proroguing the General Assembly
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration5 November 1898
Proclamation, General Assembly, Prorogation, Governor, Legislation
- Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand
- R. J. Seddon