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Proclamation from time to time appoint,

Now therefore, I, the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, do hereby proclaim and appoint that Circuit Courts shall be holden before the said Henry Barnes Gresson, Esquire, at the several places next hereinafter mentioned on the several days also next hereinafter mentioned in that behalf, that is to say,—

At the Town of Wellington, on the 11th day of January next.

At the Town of Nelson, on the 20th day of January next.

At the Town of Lyttelton, on the 8th day of February next, and

At the Town of Dunedin, on the 8th day of March next,

Or at each of the said places so soon after each of the said respective days as conveniently may be.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, at Government House, at Auckland, this eighth day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency's command,

E. W. STAFFORD.

God Save the Queen!

Proclamation.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the High Court of Admiralty, Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to ordain, constitute, and appoint me, Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Bath, to be Her Majesty's Vice-Admiral Commissary, and Deputy in the office of Vice-Admiralty in the said Colony of New Zealand and territories thereon depending, to take cognizance of and proceed in all cases civil and maritime, and in complaints, contracts, offences, or suspected offences, crimes, pleas, debts, &c., within the maritime jurisdiction of the Vice-Admiralty of the said Colony of New Zealand and territories depending on the same,—to hear and determine the same according to the rights, statutes, laws, and ordinances and customs anciently observed, with power of deputing and surrogating in any place for the premises one or more Deputy or Deputies,

Now I, the Governor in and over the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the authority in me vested in that behalf, do hereby appoint

HENRY BARNES GRESSON, Esq., a Judge of the Supreme Court, my Deputy in and for the Southern District of New Zealand, as now constituted and for the purposes of an Ordinance intituled "An Ordinance for establishing a Supreme Court," with full power to take cognizance of and proceed in all matters, and to hear and determine the same in manner prescribed by the said recited Letters Patent.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, at Government House at Auckland, in the Colony aforesaid, this 8th day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency's command,

E. W. STAFFORD.

God Save the Queen!

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Auckland, Dec. 8th 1857.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint by Letters Patent under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand,

HENRY BARNES GRESSON, ESQUIRE, to be a Judge of the Supreme Court, for the purpose of holding the Circuit Courts appointed by His Excellency's Proclamation of this date.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Proclamation.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the twentieth and twenty-