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Warrant defining District under "The Coroners’ Act, 1858."

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., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by "The Coroners’ Act, 1858," the Governor is empowered in the manner therein mentioned, to appoint fit persons to be Coroners of the several Districts of the Colony of New Zealand, and from time to time to define the Districts within which such Coroners shall respectively have jurisdiction, and every such definition to revoke or amend, and the limits of such Districts to alter as occasion may require. Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the said power and authority, do hereby define the District of

Porirua,

in the Province of Wellington, to be all the territory comprised within the limits following, that is to say: Ohariu, Tukapu, Horokuoï and the country between the Porirua District and the Manawatu River; and is bounded on the North by the Manawatu River from its mouth to the gorge in the Ruahine Range; on the East and South-East by the Hutt and Wairarapa Districts to the mouth of the Koro Koro Stream in Port Nicholson; and on the South and West by the Coast line from the Koro-Koro to the Manawatu, including the adjacent Islands.

Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, this twenty-sixth day of March, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command,

HENRY SEWELL.

Attorney-General’s Office,
Auckland, March 31st, 1862.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following gentlemen to be Coroners for the Districts set opposite their names respectively:--

Mark Kebbell, Esquire, District of Wellington, Province of Wellington.

Hugh Ross, Esq., District of Wanganui, Province of Wellington.

Samuel Matthew Curl, Esq., District of Rangitikei, Province of Wellington.

Leonard George Boor, Esq., District of Hutt, Province of Wellington.

Henry Thomas Spratt, Esq., District of Wairarapa, Province of Wellington.

Frederick John Knox, Esq., District of Porirua, District of Wellington.

HENRY SEWELL.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, April 7.)
1862.

Colonial Secretary’s Office.
Auckland, 5th April, 1862.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following persons to be Revising Officers for the Electoral Districts specified opposite their names:--

Robert Hart, Esq. — Wanganui
Rangitikei
Porirua
City of Wellington
Hutt
Wairarapa
Napier
Clive

WILLIAM FOX.

NOTICE.

Respecting Deserters from the Army and Navy.

Attorney-General’s Office.
Auckland, 5th April, 1862.

FREQUENT instances having occurred of Desertion from her Majesty’s Sea and Land Forces in this Colony, Notice is hereby given, that the most rigorous proceedings will be taken against any person enticing away, harbouring, concealing, or employing Deserters. The enactments relating to the above offence are subjoined for information.

FRANCIS D. FENTON,
Assistant Law Officer.

CLAUSES OF IMPERIAL ACTS RELATING TO DESERTERS.

NAVAL DESERTION.

10 and 11 Vic., chap. 62, sec. 11.

"And be it enacted, That every person