OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
The first session of the tenth Parliament of New Zealand was opened at 2 o'clock yeatetday afternoon by commission. The neather was fine, but the attendance of strangers was small. Sir William Fi'zherbert read the commission to the assembled members. Those from the Lower House, numbering about 70, were headed by the Clerk and Sergeant. at* Arms, no Speaker hiving bean elected. Besides the four commissioners, Sir William Fllaherbert, tbe Hon Mr Waterhouse, the Hon Mr Buckley, and tho Hon Mr Reynolds, sixteen Councillors were present. After the reading of the 0 >mmission, Sir William Fitzheibert. announced that the Governor would make his views known at 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday, and m the meantime commanded the House of Representatives to choose a Speaker. The members of the Bouse retired for that purpose, and the Counoil adjourned.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1681, 7 October 1887, Page 2
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141OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1681, 7 October 1887, Page 2
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