Nelson Provincial Gazette – 1857 – No. 19

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Date of each Sale. Name and Residence of each Purchaser. Quantity and Description of Articles; also stating whether Gunpowder, Sporting, or Blasting.
2nd December, 1857. E. F. 3lbs. of sporting gunpowder
5lbs. of shot
500 percussion caps
20lbs. of blasting powder.

(Signed) A. B.

PROCLAMATION.

By his Excellency Colonel THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Companion of the Most Honourable 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 an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Resident Magistrates' Courts Extension of Jurisdiction Act, 1856," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, upon the request of the Superintendent of any Province, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette, to bring the said Act into operation in respect to any Resident Magistrate's Court having jurisdiction within such Province, and after a certain day to be named in such Proclamation, and to define the districts within which cases may be heard in such Court under the provisions of this Act.

Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand, upon the request of the Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, do hereby proclaim and declare that the said recited Act shall come into operation in respect of the Resident Magistrate's Court of Nelson, in the said Province, from and after the 1st day of August, in the year 1857; and that the said Province of Nelson shall be the district within which cases may be heard in such Court under the provisions of the said recited Act.

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 fourteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.

By his Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, July 14th, 1857.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorize the undermentioned to grant Licenses for the importation and sale of arms, gunpowder, &c., in conformity with the provisions of the Proclamation of the 25th June, 1857:—

Josiah Flight, Esq., New Plymouth.
John Poynter, Esq., Nelson.
Henry Godfrey Gouland, Esq., Collingwood.
Stephen Lunn Muller, Esq., Wairau.
Henry St. Hill, Esq., Wellington.
David Stark Durie, Esq., Whanganui.
John Curling, Esq., Napier.
William John Warburton Hamilton, Esq., Lyttelton.
John Hall, Esq., Christchurch.
John Watson, Esq., Akaroa.
John Gillies, Esq., Dunedin.
Andrew Jamieson Elles, Esq., Invercargill.

These appointments respectively to take effect from the date in which the Proclamation above referred to comes into force in each province.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Provincial Secretary's Office, Nelson,
July 24, 1857.

HIS Honour the Superintendent directs the publication of the following Returns for general information.

By His Honour's command,

ALFRED DOMETT,
Provincial Secretary.



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⚖️ Schedule of forms for arms and ammunition licensing (continued from previous page)

⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
Schedule, License, Import, Sell, Gunpowder, Shot, Percussion Caps, Arms Ordinance
  • E. F, Purchaser of arms and ammunition

  • A. B.

⚖️ Proclamation extending jurisdiction of Resident Magistrate's Court in Nelson

⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
14 July 1857
Proclamation, Resident Magistrates' Courts, Nelson, Jurisdiction, Extension
  • Thomas Gore Browne, Governor
  • E. W. Stafford, Colonial Secretary

⚖️ Authorization of officials to grant licenses for arms and ammunition

⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
14 July 1857
Licenses, Arms, Gunpowder, Importation, Sale, Appointments
12 names identified
  • Josiah Flight (Esquire), Authorized to grant licenses
  • John Poynter (Esquire), Authorized to grant licenses
  • Henry Godfrey Gouland (Esquire), Authorized to grant licenses
  • Stephen Lunn Muller (Esquire), Authorized to grant licenses
  • Henry St. Hill (Esquire), Authorized to grant licenses
  • David Stark Durie (Esquire), Authorized to grant licenses
  • John Curling (Esquire), Authorized to grant licenses
  • William John Warburton Hamilton (Esquire), Authorized to grant licenses
  • John Hall (Esquire), Authorized to grant licenses
  • John Watson (Esquire), Authorized to grant licenses
  • John Gillies (Esquire), Authorized to grant licenses
  • Andrew Jamieson Elles (Esquire), Authorized to grant licenses

  • E. W. Stafford, Colonial Secretary

🏘️ Publication of returns for the Province of Nelson

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
24 July 1857
Returns, Publication, Nelson, Superintendent
  • Alfred Domett, Provincial Secretary