OPENING OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
THE GOVERNOR'S SPEECH
The Legislative Council and House of Representatives were opened on the 19th October.
About noon the Volunteer Rifle band and a guard of honor of 100 men of the corps under command of Captain Henphy, with Lieutenant Thompson and Ensign Andrews, assembled in front of the Legislative Council Chamber, to await the arrival of his Excellency Sir George Grey, X.C.8., to open the deliberations of the session. The men fell in Hue on the lawn "and funned an avenue for the passage of the Governor on his way into the chamber, where he entered as the last strains of the National Anthem by the band were reverbating over the lawn.
The Speaker of the Legislative Council took his seat at 2 o'clock, and
At about half-past two Ins Excellency Sir George Grey entered the Legislative Council, in ftill unifo-n, attended by Major-General Galloway, the hon Reader Wood, Major Whitmore, Alfred Domett, Esq , his Excellency's Private Secretary, and others, and was received by (he a^emblage standing.
His Excellency Sir George Grey then delivered as follows . —
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Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1982, 12 November 1863, Page 7
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182OPENING OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1982, 12 November 1863, Page 7
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