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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Colony, upon a day to be fixed by the Governor
for each such Court by Proclamation in the
Government Gazette of the Colony.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of Executive Council.

A PROCLAMATION
Extending Jurisdiction of the Resident
Magistrates' Courts at Wellington and at
Russell.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY,
Knight Commander of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-in-
Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral
of the same, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by the "Resident Magistrate's
Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1862," it
is enacted that every case of a claim for debt
or damages such as might at the passing of
the said Act be lawfully tried in a Resident
Magistrate's Court, where the debt or damages
claimed do not exceed Twenty Pounds, may
be tried in any Resident Magistrate's Court,
with respect to which this Act shall be in
operation, when the debt or damages claimed
do not exceed Fifty Pounds :

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the
Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the
said recited Act and of an Order in Council
dated the 17th day of December, 1862, autho-
rising the issue of Proclamations under the said
Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the
provisions of the said recited Act and especially
the powers conferred by sections two and three
thereof, shall be exercised to the limit of
Jurisdiction of Fifty Pounds in the Resident
Magistrates Courts at Wellington and Russell;
and I do further proclaim and declare that this
Proclamation shall take effect on and from the
first day of January, one thousand eight hun-
dred and sixty-three.

Given under my hand at the Govern-
ment House, at Auckland, this seventeenth
day of December, in the year of
our Lord, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency's command,
ALFRED DOMETT.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

CUSTOMS

GOVERNOR'S ORDER No. 34.
Appointing Bluff Harbour a Warehousing
Port.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE
GREY, Knight Commander of
the Most Honourable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Ma-
jesty's Colony of New Zealand
and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, &c., &c.

IN exercise of the power in me for this pur-
pose vested by the "Customs Regulation

Act, 1858," I, Sir George Grey, the Go-
vernor of the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby appoint that the Port of Bluff Harbour
shall be a Warehousing Port for the purposes
of the "Customs Regulation Act, 1858,"
and do hereby approve of the same as a Port
for the importation of Tobacco.

Given under my hand at Govern-
ment House, at Auckland, this
eighth 'day of December, One
thousand eight hundred and
sixty-two.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency's Command,
READER WOOD.

Robert Graham elected Superintendent of
the Province of Auckland.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 18th December, 1862.

IT is hereby notified that a writ issued for the
election of a Superintendent for the Pro-
vince of Auckland, has been returned with an
endorsement to the effect that

ROBERT GRAHAM,

has been duly elected.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Appointment of Revising Officers under
Building and Friendly Societies Acts.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 6th December, 1862.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint the following gentle-
men to be Revising Officers under the
"Building Societies Act 1856," and under the
"Friendly Societies Act 1856":—

HENRY ADAMS, Esq.,
of Nelson, for the Provinces of Nelson and
Marlborough.

WILLIAM THOMAS LOCKE TRAVERS, Esq.,
of Christchurch, for the Province of Canterbury,
and

THOMAS MORELL MACDONALD, Esq.,
of Invercargill, for the Province of Southland.

ALFRED DOMETT.

MILITIA AND VOLUNTEERS.

Resignation of Officers.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 10th December, 1862.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to accept the resignation of
LIEUT.-COL. H. C. BALNEAVIS
as Lieut.-Col. Commanding the "Auckland"
Rifle Volunteers.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 10th December, 1862

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to accept the resignation of
CAPTAIN J. MITCHELL
of the Rutland Company, "Auckland" Rifle
Volunteers.

ALFRED DOMETT.