ARRIVAL OF THE GOVERNOR.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 919, 5 June 1877, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE GOVERNOR.

His Excellency the Governor arrived at 10.30 a.m. in the Hinemoa, with Captain Maling, Hen. C. C. Bowen, and Messrs Passmore and Nancarrow.

His Honor Judge Johnston, Messrs Rollcs-

ton, Montgomery, and Major Lean, Drs Donald and Rouse, Hon. E. Richardson, Mr Lawson, and other gentlemen, welcomed his Excellency on his arrival, whilst the Piako and Margaret Galbraith fired salutes and dipped their colors as the Hinemoa steamed up to the Screw Pile Jetty. A considerable crowd assembled to see the Governor land, and directly he stepped on the wharf a detachment of the Christchurch Artillery, under the command of Major Alexander Lean, which had arrived in Lyttelton per 9 a.m. train, fired a vice-regal salute. The gun was placed on the reclaimed land. We must congratulate the Artillery on the admirable manner in which the gun was served during the firing of the salute. The Governor proceeded from the Hinemoa to the Railway Station, where a special train, drawn by the No. 2 engine, which, with its tender, gaily decorated with Hags, evergreens. &c, was in attendance.

At the station itself a guard of honor, comprised of the Engineers and City Gruards,

under Captain Hawkes, was drawn up on the platform. Here also were the Primate, Messrs E. C. J. Stevens, M.H.R., Rose (Collector of Customs), and other gentlemen. The Mayor and City Council, with Dr. Foster, arrived in an open carriage. On the train, which we may say came through in nine minutes from Lyttelton, drawing up alongside the platform, the guard saluted and the band struck up the (National Anthem. His Excellency, who was accompanied by his Honor Judge Johnston, Hons. E. Richardson and C. 0. Bowen, Major Lean, Captain Haling, and Mr W. Montgomery, was met by his Worship the Mayor, the Town Clerk, and the City Solicitor, who welcomed him to Christchurch. . Dr. Foster then read the following address :

To His Excellency the Most Honorable the Marquis of Normanhy, Governor and Cora-mandcr-in-Chief and Vice-Admiral of New Zealand — We, the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Christchurch, have great pleasure in welcoming Your Excellency on the occasion of your second visit to our city. We are confidant that your Excellency will remark, with satisfaction, the steady and continuous progress of every branch of industry within this city and district. . ’ The anxiety which you have manifested in the settlement generally of the colony, and in the advancement of its various resources, assures us that, under your government, there is every reason to hope for a continuance of its prosperity, and that the future welfare of this portion of Her Majesty’s dominion will be carefn'ly watched over and protected hy your Excellency. We sincerely trust that your Excellency s rule may be signalised by like prosperity to_ a ll classes, and that you may continue in the enjoyment of perfect health in the discharge of your onerous duties. We have the honor to he, Your Excellency’s most obediert servants, James Gapes, Mayor, And the Councillors of the City of Clnistchurch.

His Excellency Mr Mayor and gentlemen, —I thank you sincerely for the very cordial welcome you have given to mo on the occasion of my second visit to your city. I can assure you that you do but justice to the deep interest I feel in the advancement and prosperity of this great colony. If anything were wanting to show me what advances arc being made, it is the vast improvements which have taken place since I was last hove in the Port of Lyttelton. I must confess that I was not prepared to see such advances in so short a time, and I wish to congratulate the district in possessing a port second to none in the colony, or in the world. It now offers such increased facilities for trade and commerce, that I have no doubt there will be a marked increase in the prosperity and wealth of the distil ct. Allow me once more to thank you, Mr Mayor and gentlemen, for the cordiality with which you have received me to-day, and to again express the gratification it gives me once more to visit you 1 ’ city. [Loud cheers.] Three cheers were then given for his Excellency, and the party, consisting of the Governor, Hon. C. C. Bowen, the Mayor, and Captain Haling, having entered an open carriage, were driven to the Club, where his Excellency will stay during In's visit. _ln the afternoon the Governor lunched with the Mayor and several gentlemen at the White Halt Hotel.