✨ Supreme Court and Sessions Proclamations
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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1857. [No. 9.
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., &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 Or-
dinance for establishing a Supreme Court" the
Governor of New Zealand is empowered with
the advice of the Executive Council by Pro-
clamation from time to time to divide the Co-
lony into Districts for the purposes of the said
recited Ordinance, and the limits of such Dis-
tricts from time to time to alter, as occasion
may require.
And whereas the said Colony is now divided
into two districts called respectively the
Northern District and the Southern District.
And Whereas by the said 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 pursuance
of such authority, do hereby proclaim and
declare that I have assigned to the Southern
District
SIDNEY STEPHEN, Esquire,
Chief Justice of the said Court to have and
exercise therein the said powers and jurisdic-
tion on and after the first of April now en-
suing, until the tenth day of May next, in the
place and stead of
DANIEL WAKEFIELD, Esquire,
A Judge of the said Court who is incapaci-
tated by illness from performing the duties of
his office.
Given under my hand and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand,
at Auckland, in the Colony
aforesaid, this thirty-first day
of March, 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!
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., &c.
WHEREAS by an Ordinance passed by
the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zea-
land, with the advice and consent of the Le-
gislative Council thereof, intituled "An Or-
dinance for establishing Courts of Sessions of
the Peace," it is enacted that it shall be lawful
for the Governor by Proclamation from time to
time, to constitute and define certain Districts
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NZ Gazette 1857, No 9
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⚖️ Proclamation assigning Chief Justice to Southern District of Supreme Court
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement31 March 1857
Supreme Court, Judge assignment, Southern District, Illness, Proclamation
- Sidney Stephen (Esquire), Assigned to Southern District
- Daniel Wakefield (Esquire), Replaced due to illness
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand
- E. W. Stafford
⚖️ Proclamation regarding establishing Courts of Sessions of the Peace Districts
⚖️ Justice & Law EnforcementCourts of Sessions, Peace, District definition, Ordinance
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand