Numb. 2.
[To be substituted for NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 2, dated by mistake January 8, 1865, instead of
January 8, 1866.]
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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1866.

G. GREY, Governor.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

WHEREAS THEREAS by the Act intituled "The District
Courts Act, 1858," it is enacted that there
shall be within the Colony of New Zealand Courts of
Record, to be called District Courts, and that it shall
be lawful for the Governor in the manner in the said
Act mentioned, to constitute in any part of the said
Colony districts within which such Courts shall be
held, and to declare by what name each Court should
be designated.

And whereas in the said Act it is also provided
that it shall be lawful for the Governor in the name
and on behalf of Her Majesty to appoint for every
such District Court a fit and proper person, being a
Barrister or Solicitor of the Supreme Court, to be
the Judge thereof: Provided always that for any such
district it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint
any fit and proper person to be the Judge thereof, to
exercise only the jurisdiction conferred by this Act
over cases of a Civil nature, in which the claim or
demand shall exceed Twenty pounds, and shall not
exceed One hundred pounds, and the jurisdiction
conferred by the twenty-eighth section of this Act, as
to the recovery of the possession of Tenements, and
no other jurisdiction under this Act.

And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the
Second day of January, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-six, I have constituted a certain district as
is therein defined, within which a Court shall be held,
and have declared that such Court shall be designated
by the name of "The District Court of Wellington:"

Now know ye, that I, Sir George Grey, the
Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance and in
exercise of the power and authority vested in me in
this behalf, do in the name and on behalf of Her
Majesty, by these presents appoint for the aforesaid
district
CHARLES DUDLEY ROBERT WARD,
Barrister-at-Law of the Supreme Court of New
Zealand, Esquire, to be Judge of and for the said
district, and of the said District Court, to exercise
within the said district only the jurisdiction con-
ferred by the Act intituled "The District Courts
Act, 1858," over cases of a Civil nature, in which the
claim or demand shall exceed Twenty pounds, and
shall not exceed One hundred pounds, and the juris-
diction conferred by the twenty-eighth section of the
said Act as to the recovery of the possession of Tene-
ments, and no other jurisdiction under the said 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, and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
this third day of January, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-six.

E. W. STAFFORD.

G. GREY, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

WHEREAS by "The District Courts Act, 1858,"
it is enacted that there shall be within the
Colony of New Zealand Courts of Record to be
District Courts, and that it shall be lawful for
the Governor of the said Colony in the manner in the
said Act provided, to constitute districts within which
such Courts shall be respectively held, and in the
name and on behalf of Her Majesty to appoint for
every such District Court a fit and proper person
being a Barrister or Solicitor of the Supreme Court
of the said Colony, to be the Judge thereof:

Now know ye, that I, the said Sir George Grey,
the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the
said power and authority, do in the name and on
behalf of Her Majesty by these Presents appoint

CHARLES DUDLEY ROBERT WARD,
of Wellington, in the Province of Wellington,
Esquire, a Barrister-at-Law of the said Supreme
Court, to be a District Judge under the said Act for
the District of Wanganui; to have, hold, exercise
and enjoy the said office to him the said Charles
Dudley Robert Ward during pleasure, together with
all and singular the rights, powers and authorities
whatsoever to the said office belonging, or in any
wise appertaining.

And I do also, in pursuance of the said power and
authority, appoint the said

CHARLES DUDLEY ROBERT WARD, Esq.,
to be a District Judge under the said Act for the
District of Nelson; to have, hold, exercise and enjoy
the said office to him the said Charles Dudley Robert
Ward, during pleasure; together with all and singu-
lar the rights, powers and authorities whatsoever to
the said office belonging, or in any wise appertaining.

And I do also, in pursuance of the said power and
authority, appoint the said

CHARLES DUDLEY ROBERT WARD, Esq.,