PUBLIC MEETING.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 35, 27 February 1862, Page 3

PUBLIC MEETING.

A large and respectable meeting was held pursuant to advertisement, yesterday evening, at the Council Chambers. The object of the meeting was to determine the arrangements for the reception of his Excellency Sir G. Grey, on his visit to Napier. Capt. Carter was called to the Chair. Owing to our limited space and time, we can only give in our present issue the address which it was proposed and carried should be read to him, and the names of the gentlemen deputed to carry out the details of providing for his reception. We believe a messenger will be posted at Petane at the time of Sir G. Grey’s expected'arrival there, who will immediately be despatched to town, as soon as it is known that his Excellency is on his way. This will afferd time for such of the inhabitants of Napier as may feel disposed to testify their loyalty by joining the deputation appointed to receive him.

The following Address was proposed by Mr. Wilson, seconded by Mr. T. H. Fitzgerald, and carried by the meeting— May it please Your Excellency,— We, the undersigned inhabitants of the Province of Hawke’s Bay, desire to express to Your Excellency the great gratification that we feel at this visit from Your Excellency, and to tender you our most cordial welcome. To this expression of our sentiments towards Your Excellency more interest may be attached by reason of the present grave circumstances in which this colony is placed, and the mode in which Your Excellency' has been appointed our Governor. We therefore heartily welcome Your Excellency, and trust that you will meet the reward of seeing your exertions crowned with success in a satisfactory adjustment of the present unsettled state of the colony by placing the relations between the colonists and the natives upon a permanent foundation.

We again tender onr most cordial welcome, and assure Your Excellency that you may rely upon our sympathy and support in the arduous task that you have undertaken.

Proposed by Mr. J. N. Wilson, seconded by Mr. T. H. Fitzgerald, and carried —

That a committee of the following gentlemen— His Honor the Superintendent, Messrs. Scaly, Tiffcn, Wood, Catchpool, J. Begg, Buchanan, Brathwaite, B. Taylor, and the mover and seconder, —be appointed to act as a committee to present the address and take such other steps as may bo necessary for the due reception of Ilis Excellency the Governor.

We much regret our inability to publish the address proposed by Mr. Buchanan, but as this will most probably be again brought before a meeting to be held on Friday evening next, we shall find l space for it-in cur next issxm.