✨ Maori Trust Finalization and Sheriff Warrants




332
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

order, award, certificate, or other instrument, cannot
be distinguished shall be paid to trustees, and in and
by such order shall name and appoint such trustees
as the Governor in Council shall think fit, and such
trustees shall have the powers and be subject to the
legal incidents thereafter set forth: Provided that
none of the powers or incidents by the Act now in
recital conferred or annexed to the said office or to
the circumstances thereafter stated, shall take effect
or be exercisable if it is declared in the Order in
Council appointing the trustees that they shall not
take effect; and where there is no such declaration,
then if any variations or limitations of any of such
powers or incidents are contained in such Order in
Council, such powers or incidents shall be exercisable
and take effect only subject to such variations or
limitations: Provided further that such variations or
limitations may be made by reference to the numbers
of the sub-sections of clause IV. of the Act now in
recital.

And whereas it is proper to appoint trustees under
the said "Maori Funds Investment Act, 1865," to
receive the several sums of money so due to the said
Riria Takaanini as before recited:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the Colony, in pursuance and by virtue of the said
"Maori Funds Investment Act, 1865," doth hereby
appoint-

HENRY COLIN BALNEAVIS, of Auckland, Esquire,
The Rev. JOHN FREDERICK LLOYD, of the same
place, clerk; and
RICHARD RIDINGS, of the same place, Esquire,
to be trustees to whom shall be paid the said sums
of money so due to the said Kiria Takaanini for
herself and on behalf of her said children as afore-
said, and who shall have the powers and be subject
to the incidents by the said last-named Act conferred
on trustees appointed thereunder or annexed to the
said office subject to the following variations or
limitations:-

Under sub-section 2 of the aforesaid clause IV.
the said trustees may pay to the said Riria
Takaanini the sum of two hundred and fifty
pounds.

And under sub-section 3 of the said clause, they
may pay to or divide amongst the members
of the tribe of the said Ihaka Takaanini,
deceased, the late husband of the said Riria
Takaanini, the sum of one hundred and fifty
pounds.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Warrant defining Sheriff's District.

G. GREY, Governor.

WHEREAS HEREAS by "The Sheriffs Act," 1858," it is
enacted that after the passing of the said Act
it shall be lawful for the Governor, and for no other
person, to appoint fit persons to be Sheriffs within
the Colony, who shall hold their office during plea-
sure; and that it shall be lawful for the Governor,
and for no other person, to define the districts within
which the jurisdiction of the several Sheriff's shall be
exercised, and the limits of such districts from time
to time to alter as occasion may be. And whereas
by a warrant bearing date the fourth day of
November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
one, the district of Nelson, for the purposes of the
said recited Act, was defined to be all the territory
comprised within the Province of Nelson; and
whereas it is expedient to alter the limits of the
said Sheriff's district: Now therefore His Excellency
Sir George Grey, the Governor of the said Colony,
in pursuance of the said power and authority, doth
hereby define all the territory comprised within the
said Province of Nelson, save and excepting such
portion thereof as is included within the Judicial
District called the Westland District, as the
same is defined in and by a proclamation bear-
ing date the twelfth day of October last, and
published in the New Zealand Gazette of the
sixteenth day of the said month of October, to be a
Sheriff's District under the provisions of the said
recited Act.

Given under the hand of 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, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
eighth day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-five.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Warrant defining Sheriff's District.

G. GREY, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Sheriff's Act, 1858," it is
enacted that after the passing of the said Act,
it shall be lawful for the Governor, and for no other
person, to appoint fit persons to be Sheriffs within
the Colony, who shall hold their office during pleasure;
and that is shall also be lawful for the Governor,
and for no other person, to define the districts within
which the jurisdiction of the several Sheriff's shall be
exercised, and the limits of such districts from time
to time to alter as occasion may be :
Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Grey,
the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the
said power and authority, doth hereby appoint all
the territory contained in the Judicial District called
the Cantebury District, as the same is defined in and
by a certain proclamation issued by His Excellency
the Governor on the twelfth day of October last,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the
sixteenth day of the said month of October, to be
a Sheriff's District under the provisions of the said
recited Act; and doth hereby define the limits and
boundaries of the said Judicial District, as ex-
pressed in the said proclamation, to be the limits
and boundaries of the said Sheriff's District hereby
appointed.

Given under the hand of 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, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
eighth day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-five.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Warrant defining Sheriff's District.

G. GREY, Governor.

WHEREAS THEREAS by "The Sheriffs Act, 1858," it is
enacted that after the passing of the said Act
it shall be lawful for the Governor, and for no other
person, to appoint fit persons to be Sheriffs within
the Colony, who shall hold their office during pleasure;
and that it shall also be lawful for the Governor,
and for no other person, to define the districts within
which the jurisdiction of the several Sheriff's shall be
exercised, and the limits of such districts from time
to time to alter as occasion may be: Now therefore,
His Excellency Sir George Grey, the Governor of



Next Page →



Online Sources for this page:

VUW Te Waharoa PDF NZ Gazette 1865, No 44





✨ LLM interpretation of page content

πŸͺΆ Appointment of Trustees for Maori Compensation Payments. (continued from previous page)

πŸͺΆ Māori Affairs
6 November 1865
Maori Funds Investment Act 1865, Trustees, Payments, Riria Takaanini, Ihaka Takaanini
  • Riria Takaanini, Beneficiary receiving payment distribution
  • Ihaka Takaanini, Deceased husband of beneficiary

  • FORSTER GORING, Clerk of the Executive Council

🏘️ Alteration of Nelson Sheriff's District boundaries.

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
8 November 1865
Sheriff's Act 1858, Nelson, Jurisdiction, Westland District, Boundary alteration
  • G. GREY, Governor
  • E. W. STAFFORD

🏘️ Definition of Canterbury Sheriff's District boundaries.

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
8 November 1865
Sheriff's Act 1858, Canterbury, Jurisdiction, Boundary definition
  • G. GREY, Governor
  • E. W. STAFFORD

🏘️ Start of a new Sheriff's District definition warrant.

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
Sheriff's Act 1858, Jurisdiction, District definition, Incomplete
  • G. GREY, Governor