THE GOVERNOR'S VISIT.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1555, 12 February 1879, Page 2

THE GOVERNOR'S VISIT.

THE RECEPTION. On the arrival of the s.s. Arawata this morning at Port Lyttelton, with His Excellency the Governor and suite on board, they were at once conveyed by special train to Christchurch station, arriving at 8 30. There was a carriage and pair waiting, in which His Excellency was escorted to the Canterbury Club, he being the guest of the members during hie short stay in this city. THE LEVEE. As announced his Excellency the Governor held a levee in t ho Provincial Council Chamber at 1 p.m. The following gentlemen were presented by Lord Hervey Phipps and Capfc. Le Patourel: —His Lordship the Primate, his Honor Judge Johnston, Hon John Hall, lion E. Richardson, Hon H. B. Gresson, Hon W. Robinson, Revs C. C. Bowen, E. G. Penny, T. Fiavell, C. Eraser, J. W. Stack, his Worship the Mayor of Christchurch and Councillors Gapes, Cass, Clifford, Tremayne, Ayere, Lizard, and the Town Clerk, Major Lean, Major J. H. Bamfield, Inspector Brohain, Captain Clogstoun, Lieut. Slater, Dr Julius von Haast, Dr. Turnbull, and Messrs R. J. S. Harman, Campbell, H. J. Tancredj F. D'Oyley, P. B. Boulton, W. D. Carruthers, George Harper, Launcelot Walker, W. 0. Walker, S. Jones, E. Denham, J. Studholme, W. Reeves, A. Cracroft Wilson, Geo. Leslie Lee, R. J. S. Harman, H. H. Ilennah, W. Montgomery, D. Chapman, G. Hart, Sydney J. Dick, John Grigg, J. L. Coster, 0. F. Barker, H. P. Lance, W. Maling, E. Currie, R. W. Fereday, P. B. Boulton, and J. Cathcart Wason. ADDRESS BY CITY COUNCIL. The following address was presented by fcho above b:>dy. This address, which is a beautiful work of art on vellum, is from the hands of Mr Goodman, clerk in Mr Thomas's office : His Excellency the most Honourable George Augustus Constantino, Marquis of Normanby, Governor, Comrnauder-in-Ohief, and Admiral of New Zealand. May it please your Excellency— We, the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Christchurch, take this opportunity, on your departure from this city to fill the high office of Governor of the neighbouring colony of Victoria, to express our high appreciation of your successful aiministrivtion during the time you have held the position of her Majesty's representative of this colony of New Zealand. It has already been a pleasure to the citizens of Christchurch to receive your Excellency on the many occasions you have visited the city. ' The well-known interest which you have shown in the material progress and social condition of this colony has won the esteem and admiration of all classes of the community. We also desire to tendci.- to Lady Normanby our respectful acknowledgments of the many kindnesses we have experienced at her hands. Wishing yourself and her ladyship may have many happy recollections of your sojourn in New Zsalaud, and wishing you both long life and happiness, We remain your Excellency's most obedient servants, Chas. Thos. ICK, Mayor, and Crs. Gapes, Wilson, Jenkins, Ayeus, Cass, Clifford, TItEMAINE, BINSTEADj Lszard. His Excellency responded in a few well chosen remarks, in the course of which he spoke of the many happy times he had spent in Christchurch, and said that the principal reason he had not taken up his residence with his family in this city, was in consequence of the difficulty of obtaining the necessary accomodation and partly in consequence of the ill-health, for the last two years, of Lady Normanby. In whatever part of the world he might be, he should always take great interest in the affairs of New Zealand. The Hon. John Hall, who was accompanied by Dr. Turnbull, then read the following address from the Selwyn County Council: — To the most Honorable the Marquis of Normanby, K.C.M.G., Governor of New Zealand. Mav it please your Excellency,— . The Sehvyn County Council desire on the occasion of your passage through this county on your way to assume the Government of a neighbouring colony to approach your Excellency with an expression of our loyalty and attachment to the sovereign whom yon represent, and of the respect an.l esteem in which your Excellency is held by all classes in the county. Wo beg to assure your Excellency that the services you have rendered to New Zealand during the important years in which you have tilled the office of Governor aro highly appreciated by us, believing as we do that _ Buch services are calculated to cement the union of this colony with the great empire of which we are proud to form a part. The interest your Excellency has always shown in the work of colonisation being carried on by us, and the desire you have manifested to assist any industry or undertaking calculated to promote the prosperity of the colony and the welfare of its inhabitants will eve: bo remembered by us, and we confidently hope that your interest in New Zealand will not cease with vour residence amongst us. We sincerely trust that your Excellency and Lady Normanby will bo blessed with health m the new sphere of duty to which you are called, and that the same success will attend you in the high and important position which you about to fill as you have met with in the Government of the colony von are about to leave. On behalf and by direction of the Selwyn Couutv Council. . John Hall, Chairman. His Excellency replied in somewhat similar terms to those addressed to the Mayor and Councillors. He said that during the last twenty-five years he had been over a great many portions of the globe, and Lad never seen more material progress made than during the time of his stay in this country, and he hoped that that progress was only a harbinger of that greater progress that was certnin in tho future. The proceedings then terminated.