within which there shall be holden Courts of
Sessions of the Peace, at such times and places
as the Governor shall, by Proclamation, from
time to time appoint.

Now, therefore, I, the Governor, in pur-
suance of the power in me vested in that behalf,
do, by this Proclamation, constitute the
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY to be a DISTRICT
within which there shall be holden Sessions of
the Peace, and I do appoint that such Sessions
of the Peace shall be holden at the Town of
Christchurch, in the said Province, on the first
days of March, June, September, and De-
cember, in every year.

Provided always that in case any one of
the said days shall happen to be on a Sunday,
then the Sessions of the Peace appointed for
such day shall be holden on the day following.

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!

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, March 31st, 1857.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
HENRY BARNES GRESSON, Esq.
Barrister at Law, to be Chairman of the Court
of Sessions of the Peace for the District of the
Province of Canterbury.

By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, March 31st, 1857.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it
to be notified for general information
that, pursuant to the provisions of an Act to
grant a Representative Constitution to the
Colony of New Zealand, 15 and 16 Victoria, a
Writ of Summons has been issued to
The Honorable JOHN JOHNSTON, Esq., of
Wellington,
calling him to the Legislative Council of New
Zealand.

By his Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, March 31st, 1857.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to
be notified for general information that
on the 6th January, 1857, with the advice of
his Executive Council, he gave his assent to
two Bills passed by the Provincial Council of
the Province of Canterbury, intituled respec-
tively "The Canterbury Association's Deben-
ture Ordinance," 1856, and "The Waste Lands
Regulations Amendment Ordinance," 1856,
reserved for His Excellency's assent under the
provisions of the Constitution Act.

By his Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, March 31st, 1857.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to
be notified for general information that
he has this day, with the advice of his Execu-
tive Council, given his assent to a Bill passed
by the Provincial Council of the Province of
Wellington, intituled "An Act to alter the
Electoral District of the Wairarapa and
Hawke's Bay, 1857," reserved for his Excel-
lency's assent, under the provisions of the Con-
stitution Act.

By his Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, March 31st, 1857.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
PETER PROUDFOOT, Esq.,
to be an Assistant Land Claims Commissioner
under the "Land Claims Settlement Act,"
1856.

By his Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

Court of Claims,
Auckland, March 28th, 1857.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Sittings
of this Court intended to be held in the
month of April at the Bay of Islands, as
stated in the Gazette notice of the 21st
February, are unavoidably postponed. Due
notice will be given of the time when the
Court will hold its Sittings at Russell, Wan-
garoa, and Mongonui.

F. D. BELL,
Land Claims Commissioner.

Printed by W. C. WILSON, "New-Zealander" Office.