PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, intituled the "Trespass of Cattle Ordinance, Session XIV, No. 1," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to cause Public Pounds to be erected and maintained within the said Province: Now, therefore, I, SAMUEL BEALEY, Superintendent of the said Province, in pursuance of the provisions of the above-recited Ordinance, and of all other powers enabling me on that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the place or enclosure, erected upon the south side of the Accommodation Road, connecting Colombo Street with the Windmill Road, and distant 1314 links from the said street, shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Pound, within the meaning of the above-recited Ordinance, from and after Friday, the First day of July, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

Given under my hand, at Christchurch, this Sixteenth day of June, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

S. BEALEY,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
WM. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, June 8, 1864.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that a Writ, calling for the election of a Member to serve in the Provincial Council for the Mount Cook District, has been returned to him, with an endorsement to the effect that

The Honorable John Hall

has been duly elected.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, June 11, 1864.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint

William T. Doyne, Esq., C.E.,

to be a Member of the Railway and Bridge Commission.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, June 17, 1864.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to accept the resignation of

Charles Christopher Bowen, Esq.,
of the Office of Provincial Treasurer.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, June 17, 1864.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE SAMUEL SALE, Esq.,

to be Provincial Treasurer.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

A PROCLAMATION,
Extending the Jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrates’ Courts at Christchurch, Lyttelton, Kaiapoi, and Wairarapa.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey,
Knight, Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c.

WHEREAS by the "Resident Magistrates’ Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1862," it is enacted that every case of a claim for debt or damages, such as might at the passing of the said Act be lawfully tried in a Resident Magistrate’s Court, where the debt or damages claimed do not exceed Twenty Pounds, may be tried in any Resident Magistrates’ Court, with respect to which this Act shall be in operation when the debt or damages claimed do not exceed Fifty Pounds:

And it is provided that the Governor may, by proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Colony, declare that the limit of jurisdiction of any such Court shall be extended to One hundred Pounds, and such limit of jurisdiction shall be in such case extended accordingly.

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the said recited Act, and of an Order in Council dated the Seventeenth day of December, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, authorising the issue of Proclamations under the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the provisions of the said recited Act, and especially the powers conferred by sections 2 and 3 thereof, shall be exercised to the limit of jurisdiction of One hundred Pounds in the Resident Magistrates’ Courts at Christchurch, Lyttelton, Kaiapoi, and Wairarapa: And I do further proclaim and declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and from the Eighth day of July, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this Seventh day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command,
WILLIAM FOX.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
G. G. Gazette, No. 18, May 11, 1864.