SYDNEY.
The Session of the Legislative Council was opened on Friday the 28th ult. by Sir Charles Fitzroy with the following address ; Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Legislative Council:—
The object for which I have called you together is the consideration and enactment of the measures necessary for giving effect to the provisions of the Imperial Act, 13 and 14 Victoria, chapter 59, for the better Government of the Australian Colonies, in the division of the Colony into electoral districts on the separation of Port Phillip from the Middle District of New South Wales, on its erection upon such separation into the Colony of Victoria.
2. A copy of this Act, and also of a Despatch from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, explanatory of the views of Her Majesty’s Government in recommending to Parliament the enactment of its several provisions, will be immediately laid before you. 3. It will also be my duty to transmit to you, without delay, the necessary Bills for carrying out the objects in question. It has been my anxious desire, in the preparation of these measures, to place upon a satisfactory and impartial basis the representation of the several interests of which the Colonial eommunity is constituted, and to arrange the
Electoral Divisions of the two Colonies in the best manner possible in the present scattered state of the population, especially in the pastoral Districts of the interior. 4. I have availed myself of the presence of His Honor the Superintendent of Port Phillip to obtain from him such suggestions as his long experience in the management of the district has enabled him to offer for the proper division of the new colony of Victoria, over which, as a reward for his long career of usefulness, Her Majesty has been pleased to signify her intention of appointing him the first Lieutenant-Governor, 5. It only remains for me to recommend these measures to your immediate and attentive consideration. Chas. A. Fitzroy. The present is the final session of the Council under the present Constitution.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 597, 23 April 1851, Page 3
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344SYDNEY. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 597, 23 April 1851, Page 3
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