Otago Provincial Gazette – 1854 – No. 13

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✨ Proclamations and Notices



NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

[PROVINCE OF OTAGO.]

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

By His Honor’s Command,
W. H. CUTTEN, Provincial Secretary.

VOL. II.] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1854. [No. 13.

PROCLAMATION.

I, WILLIAM CARGILL, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, New Zealand, by virtue of the powers in me in that behalf vested, do hereby Fix and Proclaim that the Second Session of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago shall commence upon Tuesday, the Thirty-first day of October, 1854, and that the first meeting of the said Session shall be holden in the Council Chamber at Dunedin, upon the above day, at Twelve o’clock noon.

Given under my hand this 18th day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

W. CARGILL,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s Command,
W. H. CUTTEN,
Provincial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary’s Office, Auckland,
24th July, 1854.

HIS Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to direct that the name of the undermentioned gentleman should be added to the General Commission of the Peace for the Islands of New Zealand.

EDMUND HOOKE WILSON BELLAIRS, Esq.

By His Excellency’s command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION.

FOR A DAY OF SOLEMN FAST, HUMILIATION, AND PRAYER.

By His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel ROBERT HENRY WYNYARD, a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, the Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS, taking into Her most serious consideration the just and necessary War in which Her Majesty is engaged, Her Majesty, by a Royal Proclamation bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of April, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, hath commanded that a Public Day of Solemn Fast, Humiliation, and Prayer, be observed throughout the United Kingdom of England and Ireland, so that Prayer and Supplication may be made to the Divine Majesty for imploring His Blessing and Assistance on Her Majesty’s arms for the restoration of Peace to Her Majesty and her Dominions, and hath charged and commanded that such Public Fast Day be reverently and devoutly observed.

AND WHEREAS it is fitting that a day be set apart to be observed in like manner in this portion of Her Majesty’s Dominions: Now therefore I, the Officer administering the Government, in pursuance of the authority in me vested, do hereby proclaim and declare that a Public day of Solemn Fast, Humiliation, and Prayer be observed throughout the Islands of New Zealand, that is to say, throughout the Province of Auckland in the said Islands, on Tuesday the 22nd day of August instant, and



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🏛️ Proclamation of Provincial Council Session

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
18 October 1854
Provincial Council, Session, Dunedin, Otago
  • WILLIAM CARGILL, Superintendent
  • W. H. CUTTEN, Provincial Secretary

⚖️ Appointment to General Commission of the Peace

⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
24 July 1854
Commission of the Peace, Appointment, Auckland
  • EDMUND HOOKE WILSON BELLAIRS (Esquire), Added to General Commission of the Peace

  • ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary

🏛️ Proclamation of Day of Solemn Fast, Humiliation, and Prayer

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Public Fast, Prayer, War, New Zealand
  • Lieutenant-Colonel ROBERT HENRY WYNYARD, Officer Administering the Government