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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

And Whereas the said Colony is now
divided into two Districts, called respectively
the Northern District and the Southern Dis-
trict.

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
jurisdiction thereby given to the Supreme
Court.

Now therefore, I, the Governor, in pur-
suance of such authority, do hereby proclaim
and declare that on and after the 1st day of
January 1858, I have assigned to the Southern
District

HENRY BARNES GRESSON, Esquire,
a Judge of the said Court.

And whereas it is provided by the said
recited Ordinance that there shall be holden
Circuit Courts for the despatch of Civil and
Criminal business of the Court, before one of
the Judges thereof, at such places and at such
times as the Governor shall, with the advice
of the Executive Council, by Proclamation from
time to time appoint,

Now therefore, I, the Governor, with the
advice of the Executive Council, do hereby
proclaim and appoint that Circuit Courts shall
be holden before the said Henry Barnes
Gresson, Esquire, at the several places next
hereinafter mentioned on the several days also
next hereinafter mentioned in that behalf, that
is to say,-

At the Town of Wellington, on the 11th
day of January next.
At the Town of Nelson, on the 20th day
of January next.
At the Town of Lyttelton, on the 8th
day of February next, and
At the Town of Dunedin, on the 8th day
of March next,

Or at each of the said places so soon after
each of the said respective days as conveniently
may be.

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, at
Government House, at Auck-
land, this eighth day of
December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight
bundred and fifty-seven.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand, and
Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by Letters Patent under the
Great Seal of the High Court of Ad-
miralty, Her Majesty has been graciously
pleased to ordain, constitute, and appoint me,
Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of
the Bath, to be Her Majesty's Vice-Admiral
Commissary, and Deputy in the office of Vice-
Admiralty in the said Colony of New Zealand
and territories thereon depending, to take
cognizance of and proceed in all cases, civil
and maritime, and in complaints, contracts,
offences, or suspected offences, crimes, pleas,
debts, &c., within the maritime jurisdiction of
the Vice-Admiralty of the said Colony of New
Zealand and territories depending on the same,
--to hear and determine the same according to
the rights, statutes, laws, and ordinances and
customs anciently observed, with power of
deputing and surrogating in any place for the
premises one or more Deputy or Deputies.

Now I, the Governor in and over the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance of the authority
in me vested in that behalf, do hereby appoint
HENRY BARNES GRESSON, Esquire,
a Judge of the Supreme Court, my Deputy in
and for the Southern District of New Zealand,
as now constituted under and for the purposes
of an Ordinance intituled "An Ordinance for
establishing a Supreme Court," with full power
to take cognizance of and proceed in all matters,
and to hear and determine the same in manner
prescribed by the said recited Letters Patent.

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, at
Government House, at Auck-
land, in the Colony aforesaid,
this eighth day of December,
in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and
fifty-seven.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
By his Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, December 8th, 1857.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint by Letters Patent
under the Public Seal of the Colony of New
Zealand.

HENRY BARNES GRESSON, Esq.,
to be a Judge of the Supreme Court, for the
purpose of holding the Circuit Courts appointed
by His Excellency's Proclamation of this date.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Treasury,
Auckland, December 11th, 1857.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Esq.,
To be Receiver of the Revenue arising from
the sale, letting, disposal and occupation of the
Waste Lands of the Crown within the Province
of Wellington. The appointment to date
from the 11th September last.
C. W. RICHMOND.