✨ Royal Proclamation
Num. 17. 333
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1901.
THE following Proclamation was publicly made on the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and one, in the front of Parliament House, Wellington, in the presence of His Excellency the Governor and a large concourse of citizens:—
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS it has pleased Almighty God to call to His mercy our late Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria of Blessed and Glorious Memory, by whose decease the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and all other Her late Majesty’s dominions, is solely and rightfully come to the High and Mighty Prince Edward: Now, therefore, We, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, Richard John Seddon, a Member of Her late Majesty’s Privy Council, Joseph George Ward, Acting-Premier of the said colony, and the Members of the Executive Council of the said colony, assisted by Members of both Houses of the General Assembly, Judges, Magistrates, and Officers of Courts, Ministers of Religion, Mayors, Chairmen and Members of Local Bodies, and numerous other representative European and Maori citizens here present, do now hereby, with one full voice and consent of tongue and heart, publish and proclaim that the High and Mighty Prince Albert Edward is now, by the death of our late Sovereign of Happy and Glorious Memory, become our only lawful and rightful Liege Lord Edward the Seventh, by the Grace of God, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, Supreme Lord in and over the Colony of New Zealand and its dependencies, to whom we do acknowledge all faith and constant obedience with all hearty and humble affection, beseeching God, by whom kings and queens do reign, to bless the Royal Prince Edward the Seventh with long and happy years to reign over us.
Given at Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, this twenty-eighth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one.
RANFURLY.
R. J. SEDDON.
J. G. WARD.
W. C. WALKER.
WM. HALL-JONES.
C. H. MILLS.
DUDLEY ALEXANDER, CAPTAIN.
GOD SAVE THE KING !
[The foregoing is in substitution of the Proclamation on page 273.]
By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.
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🏛️ Proclamation of King Edward VII following the death of Queen Victoria
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration28 January 1901
Royal Proclamation, King Edward VII, Queen Victoria, Governor, Executive Council, Wellington
- Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor
- Richard John Seddon, Member of Privy Council
- Joseph George Ward, Acting-Premier
- W. C. Walker
- Wm. Hall-Jones
- C. H. Mills
- Dudley Alexander, Captain