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PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS 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, by a Proclamation bearing date the eighth day of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, hath proclaimed and declared 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 then instant, and throughout the other Settlements of the Islands aforesaid, that is to say, in the Province of New Plymouth, the Province of Wellington, the Province of Nelson, the Province of Canterbury, and the Province of Otago, on such day as may be named for that purpose by the Superintendents of each of the said Provinces respectively, so that we may humble ourselves before Almighty God, and send up our Prayers and Supplications to the Divine Majesty for imploring His Blessing and Assistance on Her Majesty's Arms for the restoration of Peace; and hath charged and enjoined that the said day be reverently and devoutly observed: Now therefore, I, the Superintendent of the Province of New Plymouth, in exercise of the authority in me in this behalf vested, do hereby proclaim and declare that the Public day of Solemn Fast, Humiliation, and Prayer, so as aforesaid proclaimed by His Excellency the Officer administering the Government, shall be observed throughout the Province of New Plymouth on Thursday the fourteenth day of this present month of September.
Given under my hand at New Plymouth, in the Province of New Plymouth, this ninth day of September, One thousand eight hundred and fifty four.
CHARLES BROWN,
Superintendent.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Printed by G. W. Woon for the Provincial Government.
Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1854, No 18
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🏘️ Proclamation of a Day of Solemn Fast, Humiliation, and Prayer in New Plymouth
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government9 September 1854
Proclamation, Solemn Fast, Humiliation, Prayer, New Plymouth, Provincial Government
- Robert Henry Wynyard (Lieutenant-Colonel), Proclaimed original day of fasting
- Charles Brown, Superintendent