Address to the Queen.
In the Legislative Council yesterday, the Hon. Captain Fraser moved that the following address to Her Most Gracious Majesty, contained in the Committee's report laid upon the table on Wednesday, the 21st August, be agreed to :—
•• To Her Most Excellent Majesty, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India.
" Most Gracious Sovereign,—:We, your Majesty's loyal and dutiful subjects, the Legislative Council of New Zealand, in Parliament assembled, approach Your Majesty with the assurance of our loyal attachment to your Majesty's Throne and person.. We, in common with your Majesty's subjects in every part of the Empire, have watched with the deepest interest, the progress of eventsin the course of the war in the east of Europe, now, we hope, happily terminated ; and we desire gratefully to recognise the wisdom and firmness with which the honour and interests of l&e Empire have been upheld, even amidst adverse circumstances. We have rejoiced to observe with what alacrity the inhabitants of the most remote parts of your Majesty's dominions hastened to assure your Majesty that had it been necessary to . resort to arms in vindication of the rights and honour of the Throne and Empire, they would have been glad of the opportunity to evince their attachment and loyalty to the Throne which is one of the chief characterists of the people inhabiting your Majesty's colonies and dependencies. In the success which has crowned your Majesty's exertions for the cause of humanity, justice, and honour, at the Congress, we recognice elements which, by the consolidation of the Empire, by erecting barriers against future, aggression, give promise of an honourable and durable peace." / " .' '' ' • i
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2971, 23 August 1878, Page 2
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280Address to the Queen. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2971, 23 August 1878, Page 2
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