Wellington Provincial Gazette – 1856 – No. 17

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✨ Proclamation of Peace

NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature hereunto 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. III.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1856. [No. 17.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
4th August, 1856.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR has been pleased to direct the publication, for general information, of the following despatch together with its enclosure, transmitting the Queen's Proclamation of the 28th April, 1856, announcing that the ratifications of a definitive Treaty of Peace had been duly exchanged, and commanding that the said Treaty be inviolably observed in all places.

By His Excellency's command,

C. W. RICHMOND,
Colonial Secretary.

Downing Street,
30th April, 1856.

SIR,—I transmit to you enclosed, the Queen's Proclamation of 28th instant, announcing that the ratifications of a definitive Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Her Majesty and Her Allies and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, which was concluded at Paris on the 30th day of March last, have been duly exchanged, and commanding that the said Treaty of Peace and Friendship be inviolably observed in all places; and I am to signify to you Her Majesty's pleasure that you do cause the said Proclamation to be published in the Colony under your Government.

I have, &c.,

W. LABOUCHERE.

Governor Gore Browne,
&c., &c., &c.

BY THE QUEEN.

A PROCLAMATION.

VICTORIA R.

WHEREAS a definitive Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Us and Our Allies and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias was concluded at Paris on the Thirtieth day of March last, and the Ratifications thereof have now been duly exchanged; In conformity thereunto, We have thought fit hereby to command that the same be published throughout all Our Dominions. And we do declare to all Our loving Subjects

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🌏 Publication of the Queen's Proclamation regarding the Treaty of Peace with Russia

Domain🌏 External Affairs & Territories
Dated4 August 1856
KeywordsTreaty of Peace, Russia, Queen Victoria, Proclamation, Diplomacy
👱🏽 Names

Queen Victoria (Her Majesty), Issued the Proclamation of Peace
W. Labouchere, Transmitted the Proclamation of Peace
Gore Browne (Governor), Recipient of the despatch
Emperor of all the Russia (His Imperial Majesty), Party to the Treaty of Peace

👩‍💼 Officials

William Fitzherbert, Provincial Secretary
C. W. Richmond, Colonial Secretary

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