✨ Supreme Court District Proclamation
Numb. 29.
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1858.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander-in-
Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, &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
Ordinance 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.
Now, I, the Governor, with the advice of
the Executive Council, in pursuance of the
authority aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and
declare that for the purposes of the said
Ordinance the said Colony shall from and
after the fifteenth day of November instant, be
divided into Three Districts, to be called res-
pectively the Northern District, the Middle
District, and the Southern District.
And that the Northern District, shall in-
clude all that portion of the Colony which lies
on the Northern side of the line which
separates the Provinces of Auckland and New
Plymouth from the Provinces of Wellington
and Hawke's Bay.
And that the Middle District shall include all
that portion of the Colony which lies on the
Southern side of the above-named line, and on
the Northern side of the line of boundary
between the Provinces of Nelson and Can-
terbury, and also the Chatham Islands and
Coast adjacent thereto.
And that the Southern District shall include
all that part of the Colony which lies on the
Southern side of the last mentioned boundary
line.
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
jurisdictions thereby given to the Supreme
Court.
Now therefore, I the Governor, in pur-
suance of such authority do hereby proclaim
and declare that I have assigned to the
Northern District
GEORGE ALFRED ARNEY, Esquire,
the Chief Justice of the said Court.
And to the Middle District
ALEXANDER JAMES JOHNSTON, Esquire,
a Judge of the said Court.
And 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 dispatch of Civil and
Criminal business of the Court, before one of
the Judges thereof, at such places and at such
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NZ Gazette 1858, No 29
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⚖️ Proclamation Establishing Supreme Court Districts and Assigning Judges
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement4 November 1858
Supreme Court, District division, Northern District, Middle District, Southern District, Judge assignment
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- George Alfred Arney, Esquire, Chief Justice
- Alexander James Johnston, Esquire, Judge
- Henry Barnes Gresson, Esquire, Judge