LANDING OF THE GOVERNOR.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 21, 27 December 1843, Page 3

LANDING OF THE GOVERNOR.

About eleven o'clock yesterday, Tuesday, His Excellency landed "at Commercial Bay, where the judges, military, commander (Sir E. Hone) and officers of the North Star, Government officers, the citizens, an immense number of natives, &c t attended to receive his Excellency. The chief Police Magistrate and constabulary were in attendance to keep order, but there was little need of them, as every thing was conducted in the most orderly and becoming manner. When His Excellency landed, the North Star fired a salute 5 and the troops presented arms, when the whole assembly joined in giving three cheers for his Excellency. The Governor then briefly addressed the people by telling them he Was " Come among them to do all the good he could." (Immense cheering.) The procession then moved towards Government House, the populace cheerino- His Excellency as he passed along, On the right of Mis Excellency was the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, then followed Mrs. Fitzroy, on her right was Sir Everard Hone, on her left General O'Brien, (her father), then followed the judges, Government officers, and the public generally. On arriving a ,t Government House, the Clerk of Council, James Coates, Esq., read the proclamation, appointing Captain Robert Fitzroy, Governor of New Zealand, together with two other proclas mations, after which the Hon. the Chief justice tendered tbe oaths of allegiance, supremacy, abjuration, olfice and declaration against trausnbstantiation, all of which His Excellency subscribed to. The Clerk of Council then tendered the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abju ration to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, the Chief Justice, Hon. Attorney General, the Colonial Treasurer, and W. F. Porter Esq..; The oath of office was then administered to Honor the Chief Justice. The Members of the Executive Council were then sworn. The appointment by His Excellency Captain Fitzroy, of Henry Samuel Chapman. Esq., Barrister at Law, was then read, and the oath of office, and allegiance, administered to him, as a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, upon which His Honor the Chief Justice congratulated the newly appointed judge. His Excellency then retired for a short time, and again presented himself on the verandah of Govern mant House, when the Troops presented arms, the music playing " God save the Queen," and the people cheering. His Excellency looked well and was dressed in the Windsor uniform, blue with silver lace. The inhabitants had flags of various devices flying all the day from their houses, and James Jones had an immense loaf over his door, which caused considerable attraction. In the evening, the shops were illuminated.