NELSON GOVERNMENT GAZETTE. 151

street; Numbers 14 to 16, both inclusive, Rintoul-street; Numbers 40 to 43, both inclusive, and Numbers 47 to 52, both inclusive, Wakefield-street.
Dated this fifteenth day of November, 1875.
By command,
THOMAS MACKAY.

(Extracts from the New Zealand Gazette.)

Proclamation constituting Nelson District Court.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The District Courts Act, 1858," it is enacted that there shall be within the Colony of New Zealand Courts of Record, possessing Civil and Criminal jurisdiction, to be called District Courts, and the Governor is empowered from time to time, as he shall think fit, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the Colony, or in any part thereof, districts within which such Courts shall be respectively held, and such districts to abolish, and the boundaries thereof to define or alter, and also to declare by what local name such Courts shall be designated:

Now therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the aforesaid power and authority, do hereby constitute and proclaim the district of the said Colony hereinafter described or referred to, to be a district within which a District Court shall be held under the said Act and under "The District Courts Act Amendment Act, 1865:"

And in further pursuance and exercise of the authority aforesaid, I do hereby declare that the said Court shall be designated by the name hereunder specified, that is to say,—

Designation of Court:
"The Nelson District Court."

Description of District:
This district is bounded towards the South-east by the boundary of the Province of Nelson, from the sea to the Top House; towards the South by a right line thence to the confluence of the Roto-roa river with the Buller river; thence towards the West by the Westland District, as defined in a Proclamation dated the 10th day of July, 1875; again towards the South by the said district from Mount Arthur to the mouth of the Karamea river, and on all other sides by the sea; together with the adjacent islands.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Most Honorable George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclamation extending Civil Jurisdiction of Nelson District Court.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Districts Courts Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1866," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, to bring into operation with respect to any District Court, from and after a day to be named in such Proclamation, either the whole of the said Act or such sections thereof as to him may seem fit:

Now therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the said power and authority vested in me for this purpose, do hereby proclaim and declare that on the eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, the said "District Courts Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1866," shall come into operation with respect to

The Nelson District Court.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Most Honorable George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, Wellington, this sixth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclamation giving extended Criminal Jurisdiction to Nelson District Court.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The District Courts Criminal Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1870," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time, declare that any District Court shall have cognizance of all felonies and indictable misdemeanours, as specified in the fourth section of the said Act:

Now therefore I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power vested in me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that