ADDRESS TO THE MARQUIS OF NORMANBY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4275, 2 December 1874, Page 2

ADDRESS TO THE MARQUIS OF NORMANBY.

(From the Queenslander.)

His Excellency the Governor was presented before his departure at Government House, with the following address on the part of the Brisbane Diocesan Council, by a deputation consisting of the Yen. Archdeacon Glennie, Rev. J. Sutton, Rev. T. Jones, Rev. J. Matthews, and Messrs. W. L. G. Drew, W. T. Blakeney, T. H. Barron, and J. Douglas : May it please your Excellency, — We, the clergy and laity of the Council representing the Synod of the Diocese of Brisbane, desire, on the eve of your departure from Queensland, to express to your Excellency our warm feelings of loyal attachment to the throne and person of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. We avail ourselves also of this opportunity to congratulate you on your appointment as Governor of the great colony of New Zealand. We wish you every success in the sphere of your new duties; and we are anxious to convey to both your Excellency and Lady Normanby our best wishes for your future happiness. We shall always look back with the most kindly feelings to the period of your residence among us, and we trust that we too shall, in like manner, be thought of by you both. As members of the Church of England, your Excellency and Lady Normanby have always shown a, warm interest in our affairs. While priviliged to be members of that Church, we have felt that this has in no way prevented either your Excellency or Lady Normanby from giving evidence of a friendly disposition towards the members of other religious communions ; and thus of contributing to that sentiment of enlarged Christian sympathy and forbearance which is calculated to have such a beneficial effect in society. We trust that your lives may be spared for much usefulness in the discharge of the high duties to which, by the will of Divine Providence, you have been called in the sendee of our Queen and of our country. Benjamin Glennie, B.A. Saul. Grimley John Sutton, B.A. George R. Harding T. Jones Wm. T. Blajkeney James Matthews T. H. Barron Robert Crevice W. L. G. Drew D. A. Court John Douglas His Excellency delivered- the following reply : To the Clergy and Laity of the Council representing the Synod of the Diocese of Brisbane. Gentlemen, — I thank you for the address which you have Just presented to me, and for the renewed assurance of loyalty and attachment to Her Majesty which it contains. On the eve of in}’ departure from Queensland, it is I can assure you, most gratifying to me to receive from such a quarter, representing as you do in this colony the Church to which I belong, these expressions of approval and good wishes which you offer to me. I shall leave this colony with sincere regret, and I shall long retain a lively recollection of the numerous friends I leave behind me, and of the uniform kindness and consideration with which I have been received by all parties. I pray that the Almighty may direct your deliberations in the selection which you will shortly have to make of a new Bishop ; and that, under his direction, the Church of England may long prosper and increase in this colony, and that each year may add to her congregations, and to the number and efficiency of her clergy. On behalf of Lady Normanby and myself, I again thank you for the kindly feeling and good Rushes for the future which you express towards us. Normanby. Government House, Brisbane, Nov. 11, 1874, PRESENTATION TO LADY NORMANBY. After tlie farewell reception held by Lady Normanby at Government House, a number of ladies, among whom were Lady O’Connell and Lady Cockle, assembled for the purpose of presenting the following address, which was read by Lady O’Connell: — To the Most Honorable the Marchioness of Normanby. May it please your Ladyship, — A number of the ladies of Queensland are desirous of taking the opportunity of your departure to express to you their regret at losing the many advantages the society of the colony has enjoyed by having at his head a lady of your high rank and many personal virtues. They trust that as during the time of your residence here you have deserved and acquired the respect and esteem of the community over which you have presided, so amongst those whom you are leaving they hope there are many whom it will bo pleasing to you to think of your intercourse with hereafter, and in order to keep themselves sometimes in your memory, they beg your Ladyship’s acceptance of a small testimonial of their personal regard, which in your Ladyship’s eyes doubtless will have also a high value as marking an important discovery of gold made in this colony during Lord Normanby's government of it. Brisbane, November 10. Lady Normanby, in reply, said, — Lady O’Connell, I thank you, and the ladies 5n whose behalf you speak, most sincerely for the kind and affectionate sentiments you express towards myself, Believe me that I shall long retain a lively remembrance of the many kind friends I have made in Queensland, and often in distant lands I shall recall to my memory the many acts of kindness I have received at your hands. I accept with pleasure the souvenir you so kindly offer to me, and shall ever retain it as a pleasing proof of your friendship and regard. Laura Normanby. November 10,1874. The souvenir will, we are told, consist of ahandsome suite of ornaments of colonial workmanship in Palmer gold. The judgment of the ladies is to be commended. They could hardly have chosen a more fitting present to offer the estimable lady wc are about to lose.