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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1865.

PROCLAMATION
Defining Judicial Districts under "The Supreme
Court Act, 1860."
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 Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Supreme Court
Act, 1860," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor in Council, from time to time, to divide
the Colony into Judicial Districts for the purposes
of the said Act, and the limits of such districts from
time to time to alter as occasion may require: And
whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the twenty-
sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-one, the said Colony was for the purposes
of the said Act divided into three districts, to be
called severally the Northern District, the Middle
District, and the Southern District, which said
districts are particularly described in the said Pro-
clamation: And whereas by a Proclamation bearing
date the twenty-third day of April, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three, the said Southern
District was for the purposes of the said Act further
divided into two districts, to be called respectively
the Canterbury District, and the Otago and South-
land District, which said districts are particularly
described in the said Proclamation; and whereas it is
expedient that a new district under the said Act
should be formed out of portions of the said Middle
and Canterbury Districts: And whereas by the said
Act it is further enacted that the Governor in
Council shall assign every such district as aforesaid
to a Judge or Judges of the Court, who shall have
within the same all the powers and jurisdiction
thereby given to the Courts: And whereas by the
said Proclamations of the twenty-sixth day of Feb-
ruary, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one,
and the twenty-third day of April, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three, the said Middle and
Canterbury Districts were respectively assigned to
ALEXANDER JAMES JOHNSTON and HENRY BARNES
GRESSON, Esquires, Judges of the said Courts: And
whereas by the said Act it is further enacted that
there shall be held Circuit Courts for the dispatch of
civil and criminal business of the Court before one
of the Judges thereof at such places and times as the
Governor in Council may from time to time appoint:
And whereas by the said recited Proclamations
certain times and places were appointed for holding
Circuit Courts as aforesaid within the said Middle
and Canterbury Districts respectively:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
of the said Colony, in pursuance of the power for
this purpose vested in me under or by virtue of the
said Act, do hereby, with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council, proclaim and declare that all
that portion of the Colony comprised within the
following limits, viz.:--from the mouth of the River
Awarua, at the western extremity of the boundary of
the Provinces of Otago and Canterbury, northwards
along the sea-coast to the Five Fingers Rocks
between the Rivers Grey and Buller, thence eastward
to the summit of Mount Faraday, thence along the
watershed between the tributaries of the said Rivers
Grey and Buller, thence southward along the water-
shed between the east and west coast of the Provinces
of Nelson and Canterbury to the point where it
intersects the said boundary of the Provinces of
Otago and Canterbury, thence westward along the
said boundary to the commencing point at the mouth
of the River Awarua, shall be and the same is hereby
constituted a district for the purposes of the said
Act, and shall be called the "Westland District;"
and that all that portion of the Colony comprised
within the "Middle District," as constituted by the
said Proclamation of the twenty-sixth day of Feb-
ruary, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one,
save and excepting such portion thereof as is hereby
included in the Westland District shall be and the
same is hereby constituted a district for the purposes
of the said Act and be called the "Middle District;"
and that all that portion of the Colony comprised