26. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
    declare by what local name each such Court
    shall be designated.
    Now, therefore, I, the Governor, in pur-
    suance and execution of the aforesaid authority
    do hereby proclaim and constitute the Province
    of

OTAGO

to be a District within which a District Court
shall be held under the said Act.
And in further pursuance and exercise of
the authority aforesaid, I do hereby declare
that the aforesaid Court shall be designated by
the name of "The District Court of Otago."
Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony, at Government House,
at Auckland, in the Colony
aforesaid, this 13th day of
January, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-nine.

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 and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General As-
sembly of New Zealand, intituled
"The Naturalization Act, 1858," it is enacted
that "all and singular the Persons who shall be
declared to come within the operation of this
Act by any Proclamation to be issued in that
behalf by His Excellency the Governor or Offi-
cer administering the Government, shall, as
from the time to be in the respective cases
in that behalf specified by such Proclamation,
be deemed and taken, until the termination of
the next Session of the General Assembly, to
be and to have been, as from such specified time,
natural-born Subjects of Her Majesty within
the Islands of New Zealand, as fully to all in-
tents and purposes as if their names had respec-
tively been inserted in the Schedule hereunto
annexed. Provided always, that every such
Proclamation shall contain the description, oc-
cupation, or calling of the Person or Persons
therein named, and of his or their residence at
the date of such Proclamation."

Now, therefore, I, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and
authority in me vested by the said Act, do here-
by proclaim and declare that the Persons here-
inafter mentioned, shall come within the opera-
tion of the said Act, from the several dates
hereinafter respectively specified, viz.,

JACQUES RIBBETT,

From the Fifth day of January, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-nine, Native of France,
Settler, Residence Wakefield, in the Province
of Nelson.

GASTON CHARON,

From the Eleventh day of January, One thou-
sand eight hundred and fifty-nine, Native of
France, Settler, Residence Auckland, Province
of Auckland.

Given under my hand at the Go-
vernment House, at Auck-
land, in the said Colony, this
19th day of January, in the
year of Our Lord, One-
thousand eight hundred and
fifty-eight.

T. GORE BROWNE,
Governor.

By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

WHEREAS by the "Coroners' Act, 1858,"
the Governor is empowered in the
manner therein mentioned to appoint fit persons
to be Coroners of the several districts of the
Colony, of New Zealand, and from time to time to
define the districts within which such Coroners
shall respectively have jurisdiction, and any such
definition to revoke or amend, and the limits of
such districts to alter as occasion may require.

Now, therefore, I, Thomas Gore Browne, the
Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of
the said power and authority, do hereby
define the district of Nelson, in the Province of
Nelson to be all the territory situate and being
within a circle whereof the radius extends
40 miles from the Police-Office in the town of
Nelson aforesaid.

Given under my hand at Govern-
ment House, at Auckland,
this 13th day of January, in
the year of Our Lord, One
thousand eight hundred and
fifty-nine.

T. GORE BROWNE,
Governor.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain,
and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the
Faith, and so forth. To our trusty
and loving subjects:

Aubrey Harcourt R., R.M., Wangarei
Barstow Robert Clapham, R.M., Russell
Bartley Honorable Thomas Houghton, Auck-
land
Beckham Thomas, R.M., Auckland
Bell Francis Dillon, Auckland
Carkeek Stephen, Wellington
Clendon James Reddy, R.M., Hokianga
Clifford Honorable Charles, Wellington
Cooper George Sisson, Waipukurau
Crawford James Coutts, Wellington
Curling Honorable John, R.M., Napier
Cutfield Honorable George, New Plymouth
Domett Alfred, Nelson