LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 51, 25 July 1844, Page 3

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

THURSDAY, July 18th, 184*. The Council met pursuant to adjournment. ■Present all the members. The minutes of the last meeting were read and I confirmed, when His Excellence rose and said— Gentlemen,—Having completed the duties so Cheerfully undertaken and earnestly fulfilled by yon during the third Session of the Legislative Council of New Zealand, it has become my pleasing office to release you, until next Session of Council, from the difficult and responsible task of legislation. Allow me to offer you roy cordial and sincere thanks for your regular and persevering attention to •he measures submitted to your consideration. I am sure that the home government, as well as the residents in this Colony, will appreciate the pains tuid trouble you have taken. They are well aware that Members of Oounci* in a young Colony, have many urgent demands up* on their time, which render it difficult to give the necessary degree of deliberate attention to proposed legislative enactments. It is a source of great satisfaction to reflect that our united efforts are likely to be'rewarded by a more prosperous state of affairs—by a more cheerfill Condition of our community. 1 cousider that a crisis ba* been passed, and that provided we persrvere in a strictly just, humane, temperate, and industrious course, we shall not fail td see our honest exertions rewarded by temporal, H we!) as spiritual blessings.