Num. 11.

229

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1901.

Proclamation notifying the Demise of the Crown.

(l.s.)
RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section three of “The Demise of the Crown Act, 1888,” it is enacted that any demise of the Crown shall not affect anything done in New Zealand before the day whereon the Governor by his Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette has notified such demise, and all things done within the said colony at any time after such demise but before the day of the publication of the Gazette containing the aforesaid Proclamation, and which but for the said Act might be affected by any such demise, shall have the same effect and be of the same force as if no such demise had happened: Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the provisions of the said section and for the purposes thereof, do by this Proclamation hereby notify that Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria died at Osborne, Isle of Wight, on the twenty-second day of January, one thousand nine hundred and one.

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 His 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-fourth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one.

W. C. WALKER.

God save the King!

Death of Her Majesty.—Public Observances as to Mourning.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of January, 1901.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having been advised by the Secretary of State for the Colonies of the lamented death of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby enjoin as follows upon her late Majesty’s loving and lamenting subjects in the said colony in token of their grief and sorrow for the great loss the Empire has sustained:—

1. All ministers of religion and all congregations are invited on Sunday next, the twenty-seventh instant, and also on the day appointed for the funeral of her late Majesty, to hold solemn services of public worship and mourning on behalf of the people of the colony.

2. The New Zealand ensign, with a scarf of crape attached to the flagstaff one foot above the flag, shall be displayed at half-mast on all public buildings in the colony till sunset each day and until sunset of the day appointed for the funeral.

3. All ships in the various harbours of the colony are invited to display their ensigns at half-mast each day until and including the day of the funeral.

4. All officers of the Government are enjoined to wear mourning until further notified, and all other subjects of her late Majesty are requested to do the same, in such manner as their loyalty and feelings direct.

5. And, generally, until after the day of the funeral, it is enjoined that all festivities of a public nature be suspended, and that on that day all places of business and public entertainment be closed.

J. H. McALISTER,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

By Authority: John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington.