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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette with any Official Signature thereunto
annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications to Persons to whom they may relate, and are to
be obeyed accordingly.
By His Excellency's Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary
VOL. III.] AUCKLAND, TUESDAY, OCT. 30, 1855. | No. 28.
PROCLAMATION.
By his Excellency Colonel THOMAS GORE
BROWN, Companion of the
most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand &c., &c.,
&c.
WHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted by
the Governor of New Zealand with
the advice and consent of the Legislative
Council, Session 3 No. 1, intituled " An Ordi-
nance for establishing "a Supreme Court"
the Governor of New Zealand is empowered
with the advice of the Executive Council by
Proclamation from time to time to divide the
Colony into Districts for the purposes of the
said recited Ordinance, and the limits of such
Districts from time to time to alter, as occasion
may require.
And whereas the said Colony is now divid-
ed into two Districts called respectively the
Northern District and the Southern District.
And whereas by the recited Ordinance the
Governor is also empowered to assign to each
of such Districts a Judge or Judges, who shall
have within the same all the powers and juris-
diction thereby given to the Supreme Court.
Now therefore I the Governor in pursuance
of such authority do hereby proclaim and
declare that on and after the first day of
November next, I have assigned to the North-
ern district
SIDNEY STEPHEN, Esquire
Chief Justice of the said Court during the
absence of William Martin, Esquire and to
the Southern District
DANIEL WAKEFIELD, Esquire
a Judge of the said Court during the absence
of the said William Martin, Esquire.
Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand at
Auckland, in the Colony
aforesaid this twentieth day of
October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hun-
dred and fifty-five.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the most Honorable Order of
the Bath, Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, &c.*
WHEREAS, by an Act of the General As-
sembly of New Zealand, intituled "The
Waste Lands Act, 1854," it is provided that if
the Superintendent and Provincial Council of
any Province shall recommend to the Governor
any Regulations for the sale, letting, disposal,
and occupation of the Waste Lands of the
Crown within such Province, it shall be law-
ful for such Governor, if he shall think fit,
with the advice of his Executive Council, by
Proclamation in the New Zealand Govern-
ment Gazette, to issue and put in force such
Regulations within such Province, on a day to
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⚖️ Proclamation assigning Judges to Supreme Court Districts
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement20 October 1855
Proclamation, Supreme Court, Northern District, Southern District, Judges, William Martin
- William Martin (Esquire), Absence from Supreme Court Judgeship
- Sidney Stephen (Esquire), Assigned Judge of Northern District
- Daniel Wakefield (Esquire), Assigned Judge of Southern District
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary
🗺️ Proclamation regarding enforcement of Waste Lands Act Regulations
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & SurveyProclamation, Waste Lands Act 1854, Regulations, Crown Lands
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor