✨ Proclamation of Fast Day
NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)
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,
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. L.] THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1854. [No. 16.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Honor ISAAC EARL FEATHERSTON, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Wellington.
WHEREAS, by a Proclamation issued by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand, dated the 8th day of August, A.D. 1854, Reciting that, taking into Her most serious consideration the just and necessary War in which Her Majesty is engaged, Her Majesty, by Her Royal Proclamation bearing date the 24th day of April, 1854, had commanded that a Public day of Solemn Fast, Humiliation, and Prayer should be observed throughout the United Kingdom of England and Ireland, so that Prayer and Supplication might 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 had charged and commanded that such Public Fast Day should be reverently and devoutly observed.
And also reciting that it is fitting that a Day be set apart to be observed in like manner in this portion of Her Majesty’s Dominions.
The Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand, in pursuance of the authority in him vested, did proclaim and declare that a Public Day of Solemn Fast, and Humiliation and Prayer, be observed throughout the Islands of New Zealand; that is to say, throughout the Province of Auckland on the day therein named, and in the other Provinces on such day as may be named for that purpose by the Superintendents thereof 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 His Excellency did also thereby charge and enjoin that the said days be reverently and devoutly observed.
Therefore I, Isaac Earl Featherston, Esq., the Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, do hereby name THURSDAY, the nineteenth day of this present Month of October, to be the day of Solemn Fast and Humiliation throughout the Province of Wellington, for the purposes before mentioned.
Given under my Hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this Fifth day of October, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.
By His Honor’s command,
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT.
Provincial Secretary.
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1854, No 16
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🏛️ Proclamation of a Day of Solemn Fast, Humiliation, and Prayer
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration5 October 1854
Proclamation, Fast Day, Prayer, War, Religious Observance, Wellington Province
- Isaac Earl Featherston, Superintendent
- William Fitzherbert, Provincial Secretary