Numb. 42.
401.

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

AUCKLAND, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1864.

A PROCLAMATION
Establishing a District Court at the Otago Gold Fields.

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

WHEREAS HEREAS by the "District Court Act, 1858,"
it is enacted that there shall be within the
Colony of New Zealand Courts of Record possessing
Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction, to be called District
Courts, and the Governor is empowered from time
to time as he shallthink fit, by Proclamation in the
New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the
Colony or in part thereof, Districts within which
such Courts shall be respectively 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
therefore, I, the Governor, in pursuance and exe-
cution of the aforesaid authority, do hereby proclaim
and constitute so much and such part of the Province
of Otago as is comprised within the following
boundaries, namely: a line proceeding from Eyre
Mountains, along the western and northern watershed
of the Wakatip Lake and the northern watershed
of the Kawarau River to Cardrona Hill, thence to Car-
drona River at the junction of Boundary Creek,
thence along Boundary Creek and the Ranges to
Kirtleburn, thence by Kirtleburn to its first feeder
north of the Kawarau River, thence in a north-east-
erly direction to Parkburn at its source, thence by
Parkburn to the Clutha River, thence in a north-
easterly direction to Mount Saint Bathans, thence
by the watershed of the Clutha River to Mount Ida,
thence by the watershed of the Taieri River to the
Kakanui Mountains, thence crossing the Shag River
at the junction of Deepdell Creek along the ranges
to Silverm, and by Silver Stream to the West
Taieri Ro, along the West Taieri Road to the
boundary to the Hundreds, by the boundary of the
Hundreds to the east branch of the Tokomairiro
River, by the said river to the Main South Road, by
the Main South Road to Lovel's Creek, by Lovel's
Creek to the south-west boundary of run numbered
54, thence by the said boundary to Crookburn and
across the Clutha River to a point twenty chains west
of the said river, thence in a northerly direction by
a line parallel to the Clutha River to Spylaw Hill,
thence to Spylawburn, and by Spylawburn and across
the Pomahaka River to Parasolburn, and by Parasol-
burn to the Black Umbrella Mountains, thence by
the ranges to the southern boundary of run numbered
193, and by the said boundary to the Mataura River,
and by the Mataura River to the Eyre Mountains,
the starting point, to be a district within which a
District Court shall be held under the said Act.
And in further pursuance and exercise of the au-
thority aforesaid, I do hereby declare that the afore-
Court shall be designated by the name of
"The District Court of the Otago Gold Fields."
Given under my hand, and issued under the
Public Seal of the Colony, at Government
House, at Auckland, in the Colony afore-
said, this eighth day of November, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
G. GREY.

By His Excellency's command,
FRED. WHITAKER.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

A PROCLAMATION
For the Naturalization of certain Persons.

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

WHEREAS by the "Naturalization Act, 1863,"
it is enacted that every person who shall be