ADDRESSES TO HIS TXCELLENCY THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 214, 18 August 1847, Page 2

ADDRESSES TO HIS TXCELLENCY THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.

On Saturday afternoon the deputation appointed by the Public Meeting, waited upon his Excellency with the address of congratulation, to which his Excellency returned the following answer :—: — TO THE CHAIRMAN AND THE GENTLEMEN WHO SIGNED THE ADDRESS VOTED AT A PUBLIC MEETING, HELD ON WEDNESDAY, THE IITH AUGUST, 1847. Government House, Wellington, 14th August, 1847. Gentlemen, — I return you my sincere thanks for your kind congratulations on my appointment to the important and responsible office of Lieutenant-Governor of this Province, and I receive with much pleasure your assurances of loyalty and devotion to our Mosi Gradous Sovereign the Queen. I can assure you that her Majesty is deeply interested in the advancement and prosperity of New Zealand, and in the welfare and happiness of both races ot her subjects here. It will be my earnest endeavour to give effect to these benevolent wishes of her Majesty. Most truly do I join with you, gentlemen, in expressing an earnest hope that my efforts in conjunction with those of the Governoi-in-Chief, under the New Constitution which has been granted to the colony, may be successful in restoring and maintaining peace and tranquillity, in promoting the best interests of both races, and in developing the resources of your adopted country. I rely with confidence on the co-operation and support of the inhabitants of Welliiioton in my endeavours to promote these important and desirable objects. It is to the colonists themselves that I look for the means of being enabled to discharge usefully the duties of the anxious and responsible position to which 1 have been called. Under the New Co' stitution for New Zealand (now about to be proclaimed in a very few weeks) much will be left, gentlemen, to yourselves, and I am sure that I need not point out to you the value and importance of the trust confided to you by her Must Gracious Majesty, or urge upou you the neces>ity of exercising patience, moderation, vigilance, zeal, and prudence, in discharging the duties which that trust imposes. j On my part, gentlemen, I can assure you that no efforts or exertions shall be warning to advance by eveiy means in my power the prosperity and importance of your Province, and to forward the interests and happiness of all connected with it. Accept, gentlemen, my grateful thanks for your kind wishes for my health and happiness, and, believe me, most earnestly do 1 hope that the same blessings may be enjoyed by yourselves. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble servant, Edward John Eyre, Lieutenant-Governor.

The deputation remained a short time with his Excellency who expressed his intention of visiting the Wairarapa in the course of a few days ;— and his determinution to visit the different districts included in his government, and make himself minutely acquainted with their capabilities.

The following address was presented by the Ministers and Members of the Wesleyan Congregation :—: — TO HIS EXCELLENCY EDWARD JOHN BYES, ESQ., LIEUTKNANT-GOVERNOR Or THE SOUTHERN PROVINCE OF NEW ZEALAND. Wellington, August 12th, 1847. Sir, — We, the Ministers, Office bearers, and Members of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and Congregation, Wellington, beg to approach your Excellency with our congratulations on your appointment to the office of Lieutenant-Governor of this section of New Zealand ; and on your arrival in this, the seat of your government, the Representative of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, whom God preserve ! We pray that your Excellency "may have health, and the " wisdom which is profitable to direct" so that you may he permitted to carry out the benevolent purposes of her Majesty's Government, and thereby promote the interests of both races of her Majesty's subjects. In this object we shall be found most .sincere well-wishers; and, if but humble, yet hearty supporters of your Excellency. We profess to be loyal subjects of her Majecty : profound admirers of the British Constitution : and, hope to be found yielding all due allegiance to tne " powers that he," now represented by your Excellency in this place We bid your "Excellency welcome — we wish you God-speed ; and, obeying the precepts ot that Book, which better than all others teaches

Rulers bow to govern, und subjects how to obey, we pray that your Excellency may have all- temporal and spiritual blessings as your portion, aud that, in His hand who governs all things, you may be the instrument ofjjreat good to all under your authority. On behalf of the Church and Congregation We remain, Sir, Your most obedient servants, . • James Watkin, Minister. Samuel Ironside, Minister. Thomas Cayley. William Fisher. Charlis Hunt. David Lewis. to which his Excellency returned the following reply : — TO THE MINISTERS, OFFICE-BEARERS, AND MEMBEKS OF THX WESLEYAN METHODIST CHOKCH AND CONGREGATION 'AT WELLINGTON. Government House, Wellington, 14th August, 1847. Gentlemen, — I beg to acknowledge jhe receipt of the congratulatory address of the Wesleyan Methodist Church mid Congregation at Wellington, upon my arrival in tht Sou.hern Province of New Zealand, as the Representative of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. Permit me, on her Majesty's behalf, to thank you, gentlemen, for your professions of loyalty and attachment to the person of our Most Giacious Sovereign. 1 can assu.eyou that h r Majesty is deeply interested in the welfare and well being of New Zealand, and in the happiness and prosperity of both races of her subjects here, and it is my duty, as it will be my anxious study to endeavour to give effect to these benevolent feelings. Foi the cordial welcome which you have so kindly given to me, and for the encouraging assurance or your co-operation and support in the arduous duties 1 have undertaken, 1 beg to offer you my sincere and giaieful thanks. The exertions and services of the Wesleyan body in this colony have already been so valuable and important that I cannot but hope that in co-o eration with, and in support of her Majesty's Colonial Government, their efforts must tend still more to advance the general good for the time to come. Most truly do I unite with ynu, gentlemen, in your prayer that ;n His hand who governs all things, 1 may be the instrument of great good to all under my authority. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, ' Your most obedient humble servant, Edward John Eyre. Lipuienant-Governor.

An address was also presented by the Members of the Port Nicholson Total Abstinence Society to his Excellency, to which a very gracious answer was returned, and his Excellency subscribed Five "Pound? to the funds for erecting a Temperance Hall.