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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 3rd November, 1858.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
JAMES DAVIES and
WILLIAM LESLIE
to be Pilots for the Port of Wellington.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 3rd November, 1858.
NOTICE is hereby given that private per-
sons who may be desirous of obtaining
the Government Gazette will be supplied with
the same on application to the respective Sub-
Treasurers and payment to those officers of
the sum of two pounds two shillings per
annum.
W. GISBORNE,
Under Secretary.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 3rd November, 1858.
IN pursuance of a Warrant from Her
Majesty the Queen, his Excellency the
Governor has been pleased to appoint
ALEXANDER JAMES JOHNSTON, Esq.,
to be a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of
New Zealand.
FRED. WHITAKER.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 3rd November, 1858.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to depute and surrogate in his
place
ALEXANDER JAMES JOHNSTON, Esq.,
to be his deputy as Vice-Admiral Commissary
and Deputy in the office of Vice-Admiral in
the Colony of New Zealand.
FRED. WHITAKER.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 3rd November, 1858.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
JOHN E. SMITH, Esq.,
to be Registrar of the Supreme Court at
Wellington, during the temporary absence of
Robert R. Strang, Esq.
FRED. WHITAKER.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 3rd November, 1858.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
ALFRED BENSON GRIFFITHS, Esq.,
to be a Justice of the Peace for the Province
of Auckland.
FRED. WHITAKER.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 3rd November, 1858.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
ALFRED BENSON GRIFFITHS, Esq., J. P.,
to be a Resident Magistrate.
FRED. WHITAKER.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 3rd November, 1858.
IT is hereby notified that the name of
CHARLES JOHNSTON PHARAZYN
has been removed from the Commission of the
Peace.
FREDK. WHITAKER.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 3rd November, 1858.
THE following correspondence and inclosures
are published for general information.
FREDK. WHITAKER.

Judge's Chambers,
Wellington, 4 October, 1858.
SIR,-I have the honor to forward
herewith, for the perusal of His Excellency
the Governor, the accompanying copies of
affidavits, certain of which were made Nos. 1 & 2.
as ground for an application to remove
into the Supreme Court, by a Writ of Certi-
orari, certain proceedings held before sixteen
Justices of the Peace sitting at Wellington
on the 3rd and 6th September last, upon
the hearing of a charge made by one
George William Schroder of Nelson against
the Rev. Arthur Baker of Wellington, of an
assault upon the daughter of the said George
William Schroder, of which said charge the
said Arthur Baker was convicted by the said
Justices and fined five pounds (£5) together
with one pound fourteen shillings costs.

The affidavits of Margaret Langley and
Caroline Matthews contain charges of conduct
on the part of Charles Johnson Pharazyn, Es-
quire (and his own affidavit No. 4 admits pro-
ceedings) of such a nature that I deem it right
to bring the case under the notice of His
Excellency.

Upon reading the affidavit of Margaret
Langley and Caroline Matthews, I called the
attention of Mr. Pharazyn's Counsel (Mr.
Brandon) to the statements in it, and gave
time for an answering affidavit, upon seeing
which I pointed out its defects, and gave leave
to Mr. Pharazyn to file a supplemental affidavit
in answer to Margaret Langley's first and
second affidavits.

I stated at the same time that in a case so
seriously affecting the purity of the adminis-
tration of Justice, I should deem it to be my