SWEARING-IN OF SIR GEORGE ARNEY AS ACTING GO VERNOR.
Sin Gkoiu.k Auiu:n Ansnv, Knight, Chief Justioo, w.ia sworu-in as \etiuy Governor of the colony on Fwday, M.iroh '21, i-i fiontof Government House. Tho hour fixed was five o'clock, and by that time a lar^o number of poisons, including a, gi'jat many la ties, had assembled to witneos tho coiemony. Amount those present were — the Hon. James Williamson, M L C. tho lion A K Taylor, M.LC; K I We, Esq , M II I! ; J. Williamson. fcsq , M H R ; U .). Creighton, Esq , M II II. ; U. O'Neil!, Esq., MII.R. ; T. Henderson, Esq., M. II. R. ; D. M. Luckie, Esq , M.H.U ; W. K.itene, M.H.R.; Bishop Cowie, Colonel Russell, Colonel Haultain, Colonel Balncavis, Colonel Nation, Jud«o Beckhani, F. Whitaker, Esq ; D. L Murdoch, Esq; T. Maoir.iilaue, K<-q. ; Dr. Goldabro', Captain Heale, and his Worship tho Mayor. Colonel Lyon, Major G »r<lon, Major Tisdall, and a large number of Volunteer officers were present in umfoim. The whole of the availablo police force, in charge of Iuspector IV oham, weic drawn up on tho lawn. At about ten iniuutoa p.-nt five o'clock Sir Georjje, dressed in Conit suit, followed by Judge Johnston, in his robes and wijy, the Hon Julius Vogol, the Hon. D. McLean, and Captain Machell, A.I) C , issued fioin(;ovornnicntllou3u and approached the table placed on the balcony, when (*aptain Machell read the Royal Commission, which was dated at Bilmoral on the 7th Maich 1S(>9, and was in the usual terms calling upon Sir George Alfred Arncy to adinunstt-r the government of the colony uutil tho further pleasure of tho Sovereign, in case of the absence, death, or incapacity of Sir Guorgo Ferguson Bowen Jud^e Johnston then administered the Oath of Alloyirtnoo and afterwards the Oath of Oihoc 1 , which having been subsei ibed, his Excellency was congiatnlated byJu.lge Johnston and those aiound him, and thieu cheers wcie called for by his Worship t»io Mayor, and heartily responded to. a salute was fued at Fort Bntomait by a dotachmentof tho Artillery Company just as tho oaths were administered. His iixcell.-ncy re-entered Government House as soon as tlin ceremony was concluded, and the spectators diH)eised.
SWEARING-IN OF SIR GEORGE ARNEY AS ACTING GOVERNOR.
Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIX, Issue 4874, 10 April 1873, Page 3
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