THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 161

Militia District Limited.
XVI. No Militia District hereafter to be declared
shall exceed 30 miles in its greatest diameter.

MILITIA ACT AMENDMENT ACT, 1862.

Pension for wounds.
VI. Every Officer of Militia and Militiaman who
shall be so seriously wounded or otherwise injured
when on actual service as to afterwards impede his
obtaining a livelihood shall be entitled to a pension so
long as he shall be so disabled according to such
Regulations as the Governor in Council shall from time
to time make in that behalf as nearly as the circum-
stances will admit in accordance with the Regulations
in force in respect of the Queen's Regular Forces and
of a similar amount.

Pension to widows, &c.
VII. In the event of any Militia Officer being killed
on service his family shall be entitled to such pension
as they would have been entitled to had he been an
Officer of the same rank in Her Majesty's Regular
Service, and in the event of a non-commissioned Officer
or Private being killed in service his Family shall be
entitled to such pension as they would have been
entitled to had he been an Ensign in Her Majesty's
service.

Rank of Officers of Volunteers and Militia.
VIII. Officers of Volunteers enrolled under the pro-
visions of the Militia Act 1858 shall rank with Officers
of Militia according to the dates of their respective
Commissions.

Act Assented to, Southland.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 5th May, 1863.

THE following Bill passed by the
Provincial Council of the Province of
Southland, intituled,-

"The Interpretation Ordinance 1862,
Amendment Ordinance 1863."

which Bill was reserved for the signification
of the Governor's pleasure thereon, having
been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has been pleased to assent to the same.

READER WOOD
In the absence of Mr. Domett.

Returning Officers Appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 5th May, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint the following persons
to be Returning Officers for the Election of
Members of the Provincial Council of the Pro-
vince of Southland for the Electoral Districts
set opposite their names :-

Robert Mitchell, Esq., Mataura, Oreti.
Isaac Newton Watt, Esq., Campbelltown.
A. J. Elles, Esq., Waihopai.
Matthew Price, Esq., Invercargill.
James Surman, Esq., Aparima, Wallacetown.

READER WOOD,
In the absence of Mr. Domett.

A. A. Harper appointed a Pilot.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 5th May, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

ALLEN AUGUSTUS HARPER,
to be a Pilot for the Port of Otago.

READER WOOD,
In the absence of Mr. Domett.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 5th May, 1863.

IT is hereby notified that the Consul General
in Melbourne for Sweden and Norway,
Denmark, Portugal, and Chili having nomi-
nated Edmund Quick, Esq., to be Consular
Agent at Otago for those countries, respec-
tively, His Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to accept such nomination provisionally.

READER WOOD,
In the absence of Mr. Domett.

A. J. Willis, Esq., appointed a Justice of
the Peace.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Judicial Department,
Auckland, 23rd April, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

ALEXANDER JAMES WILLIS, Esq.,
at the Dunstan Gold Fields, Otago, to be a
Justice of the Peace for the Colony..

READER WOOD,
In the absence of Mr. Domett.

A. J. Willis, Esq., J.P., appointed a Resi-
dent Magistrate.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Judicial Department,
Auckland, 23rd April, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

ALEXANDER JAMES WILLIS, Esq., J.P.,
at the Dunstan Gold Fields, in the Province
of Otago, to be a Resident Magistrate under
the Resident Magistrates' Court Ordinance.

READER WOOD,
In the absence of Mr. Domett.

SUPREME COURT.

"The Debtors and Creditors Act 1862."

BY virtue of the powers vested in us by the
Debtors and Creditors Act 1862, it is
ordered by us, the Judges of the Supreme Court,
That the following Rules shall be in force on
and after the 1st day of June, 1863:-

I. PROCEEDINGS IN THE SUPREME COURT.

Proof of Debts.

Debts and claims of creditors under the said
Act shall be proved by affidavit.

Any such proof may be contested upon
motion or summons made or taken out for the
purpose, by or on behalf of any trustee or trus-
tees of the debtor's estate, or by or on behalf
of any two or more creditors, who shall have
each proved debts or claims against the debtor's
estate to the amount of £20 or upwards; and
the Court or Judge, if of opinion that the
claim is not a just one, either wholly
or in part, shall disallow the same either wholly
or in part, as the case may require.

Provided, that in cases in which there shall
be questions of fact in dispute between the
parties or any of them, it shall be lawful for