THE GOVERNOR AT WELLINGTON.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2112, 30 November 1880, Page 3

THE GOVERNOR AT WELLINGTON.

[FBB PEEBS ASSOCIATION SPECIAL WIBB.] WELLINGTON, November 30. Sir Arthur Gordon, the new Governor, arrived from Auckland by the steamer Hinemoa at 10 30 this morning, but anchored at the Heads until this afternoon. At 3 o'olock the vessel got under weigh, and as she entered the harbour she was met by and accompanied up to the wharf by a fleot of yachts. The vessel came alongside at 4.30, when the Ministers, Mayor and Councillors of Wellington, members of the Legislature, and principal citizens prooeeded on board to receive his Exoellency. Sir Arthur immediately landed. There was an immense crowd on the wharf, pstimated at about 3000. The local Volunteers and Friendly Sooieties lined the wharf, the Artillery firing a salute as his Excellency landed. A few minutes after Sir Arthur stepped ashore the town olerk read the following address;—"To his Excellency the Hon. 8 A. H. Gordon, ELO.M.G., Governor of New Zealand, &o. —We, the Mayor and Councillors of the city of Wellington, New Zealand, desire on behalf of the oitizens whom we represent, to weloome your Excellency on your arrival on the shores of New Zealand, and at the seat of Government. The high estimation in whioh you are held for the eminent services hitherto rendered by you as representative of the Queen in the other colonies is well known to us. We desire to assure you that the citizens of Wellington will be over ready to show their loyalty and devotion to Her Most Gracious Majesty by assisting you in maintaining the psace, order, and good government of this portion of Her Majesty's dominions." His Bxcellenoy replied as follows—" Mr Mayor and Gentlemen, I thank you for your kind greeting, and recognise with_ pleasure your assurances of that loyal dovotion to her Majesty's person and Throne, which I rejoice to believe is felt by all classes of her Majesty's subjects in New Zealand. That the peace, order, and good government now happily prevailing in this great colony may be maintained unimpaired during the term of my administration, is my earnest hope, and I am well assured that your efforts will not be wanting to secure the accomplishment of that result." His Excellenoy then proceeded up the wharf, where a carriage and four waited, and he was then driven to Government House, when he was sworn in. The Hibernian Society presented an address of weloome. His Excellency, in replying, said, " I thank you for the heartiness of your weloome. I can with great truth assure you of my strong sympathy with the objects of your Association, and that your confidence in my desire to render to you any assistance whioh it may be in my power to afford is not misplaced." The Oddfellows also presented an address, to which his Excellenoy made the following reply :—" I thank you for your address and the cordiality of your reoeption. The assurance you give me of your participation in those sentiments of loyalty to the throne which I have found to pervade all parts of the Queen's dominions with which I am acquainted, as well as your desire to co-operate with the Government of the colony in the promotion of its prosperity and development of its vast resources cannot but be highly appreciated by me as her Majesty's representative among you." At the close of the swearing-in ceremony, the Premier called for three cheers for his Excellency, which were heartily responded to. A supplementary " Gazette" issued tonight contains the proclamation of the assumption of Sir Arthur Gordon to the Governorship of New Zealand.