✨ Government Proclamations
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th May, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor directs the publication, for general information, of the following reply from His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to the numerous Addresses of Sympathy from different parts of the Colony. It is hoped that the reply which His Royal Highness has been graciously pleased to make will be accepted in the case of each of those Addresses.
E. W. STAFFORD,
Government House,
Sydney, April 6, 1868.
I desire to return my warm thanks for the expression of sympathy which these Addresses contain.
Through the merciful interposition of Providence, the injury I received was but slight, and I believe no further evil consequences are to be anticipated from the wound. It has, however, been considered that I shall be unequal to any great exertion for some time; and therefore decided that it would be most advisable for me to return home direct. It is a great disappointment for me not to be able to visit New Zealand, and I am afraid it will also very much disappoint the people there.
The cowardly act of one individual has not in any degree shaken my confidence in the loyalty of the people of these Colonies towards the throne and person of Her Majesty, or in their affection for myself; and I shall gladly convey to the Queen the universal expression of horror and indignation which the attempt to assassinate me has called forth from Her Majesty’s faithful subjects in Australia and New Zealand.
ALFRED.
G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
To the Legislative Councillors of the Colony of New Zealand, and the Members elected to serve in the House of Representatives of the said Colony, summoned and called to a meeting of the General Assembly of the said Colony, at the City of Wellington, on the twenty-third day of June instant, to have been commenced and held, and to every of you—GREETING :
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the Meeting of the General Assembly stands prorogued to the Twenty-third day of June instant, nevertheless for certain causes and considerations I thought fit further to prorogue the same to THURSDAY, the NINTH day of the month of July next, so that neither of you on the said Twenty-third day of June instant, at the City of Wellington, are constrained to appear: Commanding and by the tenor of these presents enjoining you, and each of you, and all others in this behalf interested, that on THURSDAY, the NINTH day of the Month of JULY next, at the City of Wellington, aforesaid, personally you be and appear for the DESPATCH OF BUSINESS, there to take into consideration the state and welfare of the said Colony of New Zealand, and therein to do as may seem necessary.
Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, Knight Grand Cross 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 Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued at Wellington, under the Seal of the said Colony, this Ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1868, No 9
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🏛️ Reply from the Duke of Edinburgh to Addresses of Sympathy
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration6 April 1868
Duke of Edinburgh, Sympathy, Addresses, Governor, New Zealand
- E. W. Stafford
- G. F. Bowen, Governor
🏛️ Prorogation of the General Assembly
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration9 June 1868
General Assembly, Prorogation, Wellington, Legislative Councillors, House of Representatives
- George Ferguson Bowen, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- E. W. Stafford