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Otago Witness, Issue 148, 18 March 1854, Page 4

I.'Henry1 .' Henry Seymour; Esq./of Nfelsoh/ '■ '' '' l ' , Matthew Rjch'm'ond 5 , Esq., of Nelson-/ " ' ilv John Charles Watts Russell, Esq.', of Canterbury. ' -'j' „, . , , Edmund Hpoke Wilson Bellairs, Esq., of Otago..;- . By His Excellency's command, * ' Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary/ >, PROCLAMATION. * By Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Henry "WYNYARD, Companion of the Most •Honourable' Order of the Bath, ancf ■Chief Officer in Omiiiriand of Her Majesty's Military Forces vjthin.the: Colony of New Zealand, &c, &c, &c, TI^ERBAS,. ty certain Letters Patent, " t bearing date the 13th day of September, 1852', Her Majestydid constitute and appoint Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the most Honourable Order of the Bath,-to be Her Majest)-^ Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, with all and singular the powers, authorities, privileges, and duties in the said Letters Patent mentioned or referred to. And whereas, by the said Letters Patent, her" Majesty did will and ordain that in the event of the absence of the said Sir George Grey from the said Islands of New Zealand, any person being within the said Islands, and holding a commission from Her Majesty to be Lieutenant-Governor of the said Islands, should, upon the occurrence of the absence of the said Sir George Grey, and | during the continuance of such absence, or until Her Majesty's pleasure should be known, discharge all the powers, authorities, privileges, and duties of her Majesty's said Governor and Commander-in-Chief as fully as if Her Majesty's Commission for the exercise of that office during such period had been addressed to him. But that if there should not be within the said Islands during the continuance of any such absence, any person holding her Majesty's Commission as such Lieutenant-Governor, then, during the continuance of such absence, or until her Majesty's pleasure should be known, the exercise of the ! said office, of Governor and Coramander-in-Chief should be assumed by the Chief Officer for the time being in command of her Majesty's , Military Forces within the said Colony. And j whereas the said Sir George Grey, Governor j and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, sailed for England on the 31st December, 1853, and is now absent from the said Islands of New Zealand : Now. therefore, I, the said Robert Henry | Wynyard, the Chief Officer in command of her I Majesty's Military forces within the Colony of j New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare j that 1 have this day taken the prescribed oaths, ! and assumed the exercise of the office of her j Majesty's said Governor and Commander-mi-i Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand ; and I hereby call upon all Officers and Ministers, Civil and Military, and all other the In habitants of the said Islands, to be aiding and assisting me herein. Given under my hand, and issued under > the Public Seal of the Islands of New : Zealand, at Auckland, this third day of ' January, in the year of our Lord one 1 thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. J R. H. Wynyard, j Chief Officer in Command of Her j Majesty's Military Forces withi _ in the Colony of New Zealand. ' I>y His Excellency's Command, 1 Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary. God save thr Queen J PROCLAMATION. j By Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Henry J -_. " Wvnyarp, Companion of the Most ! Honourable Order o[ the Bath, and. Chief Officer in Command of Her Majesty's Military Forces within the Colony of New Zealand, &c. &c. &c. WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the Parliament holden in the fifteenth ' and sixteenth years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled " An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it is amongst other things enacted that the General Assembly of J New Zealand shall be holden at any place and j time within New Zealand which the Governor j shall from time to time by Proclamation for ! that purpose nppoint. Now, therefore, I the Officer administering the Government of New Zealand, Do HEREBY proclaim and appoint that the said General Assembly shall be holden, and shall meet for the Dispatch, of Business at Auckland, on the 24;h'day of May now nekt ensuing, at twelve o'clock at nooru And the Members of the said ' Assembly are hereby warned to give their attendance at the said time and place accordingly. Given under my hand, and issued under the. Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand,, at Auckland, this eighteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and "fifty-four. R. H. Wynyard, . j Chief Officer in Command' of Her Majesty's Military Forces within the colony of New Zealand. By His Excellency's command, . Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary. ' God save the Queen !