THE HAWKE’S BAY TIMES. NAPIER, THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1861.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume I, Issue 12, 19 September 1861, Page 2

THE HAWKE’S BAY TIMES. NAPIER, THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1861.

The Dolphiu arrived here on Tuesday last having'been in sight all day, baffled by light and contrary winds, which delayed her fetching her anchorage till about 8 p.m. She left Auckland at 2 p.m. on Thursday last, having made the run in the short space of four days. Th Assembly was prorogued on the t th instant, and the southern members took their departure the same evening by the Airedale. Mr. Donaldson has been appointed native teacher in this distinct. PROROGATION OF THE ASSEMBLY. The first session of the new Paaliament was brought to a close on Saturday last. At a few minutes after twelve o’clock on that day the Governor, with General Cameron and a brilliant suite, entered the Legislative Council Chamber. On his leaving the Government House a salute of seventeen guns was fired from Fort Britomart, and at the entrance to the Chamber His Excellency was received by a guard of honor, with the baud and regimental colour of H.M. 05th Eegt. The small space in the House allotted to the public was filled to overflowing, and the solemnity was graced by the presence of an unusually large number of ladies. The chair having been taken by the Governor, the members of the House of Representatives were summoned to give their attendance, and proceeded by their Serjeant-at-Arms, and by their Speaker they immediately made appearance. Dr. Monro, the Speaker, then addressed His Excellency as follows : May it flease Yorn Excellency.— We, Her Majesty’s dutiful and loyal subjects the Eepresentatives of New Zealand, have not failed to give our earnest and diligent attention to the different subjects contained in the speech which your Excellency was r leased to address to us at the commencement of the session. In particular, the unquiet state of the Aboriginal people of this Colony has occupied much of our attention, necessitating the consideration of measures for the security of the more exposed parts of the country and requiring that we should make arrangements to take upon ourselves a proportionate share of the accompanying expenses. We trust that the means wo have adopted may be of benefit to the Colony generally, and in particular that they may not be without their use in restoring confidence and tranquility, and that by their means the Imperial Government may be assisted in asserting the supremacy of the Law and the authority of the Queen. For these and other purposes connected with the pub. lie service, it has been the duty as well as the special privilege of Her Majesty’s faithful subjects the Representatives of Xew Zealand to make just and ample provision, and it is in their name that I pray your Excellency’s assent to the Bill which I now have the honor to present. I lie Bill was that for the Appropriation of the Revenue for 1801-2, to which the Governor in the name ami on the behalf of Her Majesty gave assent, and the needful forms having been complied with, His Excellency thus addressed the Assembly ; Honorable Gentlemen or the Legislative Cocncil and Gentlemen of the House or Reitiesentatives, Being advised that the business of the country no longer requires your continuance iu session, X now release yo , from your Legislative duties, I thank you for the manner in which you have expressed your readiness to aid the Imperial Government iu the maintenance of law and order and the preservation of the tranquility of the Colony, as well as for the readiness with which you have seconded my efforts in that direction and recognized my desire to promote the prosperity of the Colony. Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, X thank you for the supplies which you have so liberally voted for the public service more especially for those intended for the benefit and advancement of the aboriginal Xatives, and assure you that those supplies shall be economically administered. I have much satisfaction in informing you that tho Revenue is increasing, and that the reccm discoveries of gold in largo quantities apart from other normal causes leave no doubt of sucli au increase of population as will add largely to, and permanently maintain the Revenue of tho Colony. Honorable Gentlemen and Gentlemen, The Act for giving legal force to the regulation of the Registrar-General of Deeds, will, I trust, result in great and lasting improvements in tho transfer of landed property, —a subject second in importance to few ever brought under the consideration of the Legislature. I have assented with pleasure to the useful measures which you have passed on many other subjects, which cannot fail to promote the welfare of the Colony. This heiug tho last time on which I snail have the honor to address this Assembly, I take advantage of It to offer personally to the Honorable gentlemen of the Legislative Council and gentlemen of the House of Representatives my warm thanks for the great courtesy I have invariably received from them. I declare the Assembly to stand prorogued to Monday the 7th of October next. T. GORE BROWNE. 7tb September 1861. The session has lasted ninety-seven days, from the 3rd Jane to the 7th September ; the actual number of sitting days in the House of Representatives having been fifty-six. No less than fifty-four public and five private Bills have been initiated : of the former.

thirty-three have been assented to, four have been reserved for the signification of Her Majesty’s pleasure, one was lost in Select Committee, thirteen lapsed in the House, and three were rejected by the Legislative Council. Of the five private Bills, three, the Bank of New South Wales Act, the Bank of New Zealand Act, and the Dun Mountain Railway Act,, have been assented to; one, the Picton Railway Bill has been reserved, and on has lapsed. The House of Representatives lately, upon motion of the ex-Colonial Secretary Mr. Stafford, passed a resolution affirming that “in the opinion of this House, the next session of the General assembly should commence not later than March next,” unless circumstances should appear to Sir George Grey to render an earlier meeting necessary, March may, we suppose, be regarded as the time fixed. Whether the meeting shall take place at the North or at the South depends upon events over which even the General Assembly itself can have no control.