NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
OF WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1842.
Published by Authority.

VOL. II.] AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1842. [No. 11.

PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency WILLIAM HOBSON, Es-
quire, Captain in her Majesty's Royal Navy,
and Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and
over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand
and its Dependencies.
WHEREAS by a certain Ordinance of the
Governor, with the advice and consent of
the Legislative Council of the said Colony, passed
in the 5th Year of the Reign of Her Majesty
Queen VICTORIA, intituled, "An Ordinance
"for establishing County Courts of Civil and
"Criminal Jurisdiction, and for repealing an
"Ordinance for instituting Courts of Request,
"Session I, No. 6, and for repealing part of an
"Ordinance for establishing Courts of Quarter
"Sessions, Session I, No. 4," it is enacted, that
from and after the first day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and forty-two, there should be
holden within the Colony of New Zealand County
Courts of Record, possessing Civil and Criminal
Jurisdiction, in manner thereinafter provided.
And whereas it is further enacted by the said
in part recited Ordinance, that His Excellency
the Governor, with the advice of the Executive
Council, should from time to time appoint a place
or places within each County or District, as the
case may be, whereat such Courts should be
holden.
And whereas it is further enacted by the said
in part recited Ordinance, that in every County
or District a Court should be holden, monthly, on
the third Tuesday of every month;
NOW, therefore, I, the Governor, in pursuance
of the power and authority in me vested by the
said in part recited Ordinance, do hereby
with the advice of the Executive Council, direct
and appoint that, for the purposes of the said Or-
dinance, the said Colony be divided into two
Districts, to be called the Northern and Southern
Districts; and that the Northern District be that
part of the Colony situate to the North of the
Parallel of Latitude thirty-eight degrees thirty
minutes South, and that the Southern District
be that part of the said Colony situate to the
South of the aforesaid Parallel of Latitude.
And I do further direct and appoint that the
said County Courts of Civil and Criminal Juris-
diction as aforesaid, shall be holden during the
present and in each year, at the places hereinafter
respectively mentioned; that is to say-in the
Northern District, at Auckland and Kororarika ;
and in the Southern District at Wellington.
And I do further, with the advice of the Exe-
cutive Council, as aforesaid, direct and appoint,
that the first sitting of the said County Courts
shall be held in the aforesaid Districts on the third
Tuesday of the month of April next ensuing.
Given under my Hand and Seal at Government
House, Auckland, this eighth day of March,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and forty-two.

WILLIAM HOBSON,
Governor.

By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND,
Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 15th March, 1842.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be
notified, that the name of GEORGE BUTLER
EARP, Esq., has been, with the advice of the
Legislative Council, removed from its position as
third on the list in the Commission of the Peace
last issued by His Excellency, and will in future
stand next after the name of John Nixon, Esq.,
of Wanganui, on that Commission.

By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND,