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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

tricts within which such Courts shall be res-
pectively held, and such Districts to abolish,
and the boundaries thereof to define or alter,
and also to declare by what local name each
such Court shall be designated.
Now, I, the Governor, in pursuance and
execution of the aforesaid authority, do hereby
proclaim and constitute the Province of

NELSON

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 Nelson."
Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of
the Colony, at Government
House, at Auckland, this
twenty-third day of Feb-
ruary, in the yearof our Lord
One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-nine.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency's command.
H. J. TANCRED,
For the Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE, AT AUCK-
LAND, THE TWENTY-THIRD DAY OF
FEBRUARY, 1859.

Present:-
His Excellency the Governor.
Col. Gold, Mr. Whitaker.
Mr. Richmond, Mr. Tancred.

W HEREAS by the "Native Districts
Regulation Act, 1858," it is enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor in
Council from time to time to appoint Districts
for the purposes of the said Act, being Districts
over which the Native Title shall not for the
time being have been extinguished; and any such
appointment to vary or revoke:
Now therefore, His Excellency the Go-
vernor, by and with the advice and con-
sent of His Executive Council, doth hereby
appoint and declare that the Territory
hereafter described shall be a District for
the purposes of the said Act, that is to
say,-all Territory lying within a bound-
ary line commencing at the North Head of
False Hokianga or Horekino, running thence
in a straight line to the summit of Maungata-
whiri, thence in a straight line to the South
Head of Wangaroa Harbour, thence along the
coast line to the South Head of Tutukaka,
thence in a straight line to a point on the West
Coast two miles to the south of the South Head
of the Waimamaku river, and thence returning
along the coast line to the North Head of False
Hokianga, including the islands adjacent to
the coast, but exclusive of lands lying within
the said boundary line over which the Native
Title has been extinguished within the mean-
ing of the said "Native Districts Regulation

Act, 1858," and doth declare that this order
shall take effect on the twenty-eighth day of
March next.

F. G. STEWARD.

AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE, AT AUCK-
LAND, THE TWENTY-THIRD DAY OF
FEBRUARY, 1859.

Present:-
His Excellency the Governor.
Col. Gold, Mr. Whitaker.
Mr. Richmond, Mr. Tancred.

W HEREAS by the " Native Circuit
Courts Act, 1858," it is enacted that
it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council
from time to time to appoint Districts for the
purposes of the said Act, being Districts over
which the Native Title shall not for the time
being have been extinguished; and any such
appointment to vary or revoke:
Now therefore, His Excellency the Go-
vernor, by and with the advice and con-
sent of His Executive Council, doth hereby
appoint and declare that the Territory
hereafter described shall be a District for
the purposes of the said Act, that is to
say,-all Territory lying within a bound-
ary line commencing at the North Head of
False Hokianga or Horekino, running thence
in a straight line to the summit of Maungata-
whiri, thence in a straight line to the South
Head of Wangaroa Harbour, thence along the
coast line to the South Head of Tutukaka,
thence in a straight line to a point on the West
Coast two miles to the south of the South Head
of the Waimamaku river, and thence returning
along the coast line to the North Head of False
Hokianga, including the islands adjacent to
the coast, but exclusive of lands lying within
the said boundary line over which the Native
Title has been extinguished within the meaning
of the said "Native Circuit Courts Act, 1858."
F. G. STEWARD.

AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AT AUCK-
LAND, THE TWENTY-THIRD DAY OF
FEBRUARY, 1859.

Present:-
His Excellency the Governor.
Col. Gold, Mr. Whitaker.
Mr. Richmond, Mr. Tancred.

W HEREAS by the " Regulation of Elec-
tions Act, 1858," it is enacted that within
the period of forty days before or after the day
appointed for the holding of any election it
shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to
extend the time allowed for the holding of
such election, or for the return of the writ
issued for the same, notwithstanding the day
may have passed on which such writ shall be
returnable: Provided that any such measure
so adopted by the Governor in Council shall
be duly notified in the "New Zealand Ga
zette:" And whereas by six several writs
bearing date respectively the fifth day of