188. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

the limits of jurisdiction of any Resident Magis-
trate's Court within the Colony, may be extended in
manner therein set forth, and it is further enacted
that the second and third sections of the said Act
shall come into force, in respect of any Resident
Magistrate's Court, on a day to be determined by a
Proclamation in the Government Gazette, pursuant
to an Order of the Governor in Council:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony, doth hereby order and direct
that the first day of June next shall be the day on
and from which the second and third sections of the
said "Resident Magistrates' Jurisdiction Extension
Act, 1862," shall come into force in respect of the
Resident Magistrate's Court at Okarito, in the
District of Westland, in the Province of Canterbury.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

appoint and fix the first day of June next to be the
day on and from which the said "Petty Sessions
Act, 1865," shall come into operation within the
Province of Auckland. Canterbury.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Resident Magistrate's Juris-
diction Extension Act, 1862," it is enacted
that the limits of jurisdiction of any Resident Magis-
trate's Court within the Colony may be extended in
manner therein set forth; and it is further enacted
that the second and third sections of the said Act
shall come into force in respect of any Resident
Magistrate's Court, on a day to be determined by a
Proclamation in the Government Gazette, pursuant
to an Order of the Governor in Council:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
of New Zealand, in pursuance of an Order in Council
of even date herewith, do hereby proclaim and declare
that the first day of June next shall be the day on
and from which the second and third sections of the
said "Resident Magistrate's Jurisdiction Extension
Act, 1862," shall come into force in respect of the
Resident Magistrate's Court at Okarito, in the Dis-
trict of Westland, in the Province of Canterbury.

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 ninth day of May, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-six.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. GREY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
ninth day of May, 1866.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Petty Sessions Act, 1865,"
it is enacted that the Governor from time to
time by Order in Council, whereof notice shall be
published in the New Zealand Gazette, may constitute
and define districts within and for which the said
Courts respectively shall be held, and such districts
or any of them may from time to time in manner
aforesaid abolish and the boundaries thereof may
define or alter:

Now therefore His Excellency the Governor, in
pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
in him vested for this purpose, doth hereby, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
Colony, constitute and define the districts following
to be the districts within and for which Courts of
Petty Sessions shall be held for the purposes of the
said Act, that is to say-

PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND.

Bay of Islands District.
This district comprises so much of the North
Island as lies North of the northern boundary of the
County of Marsden.

Wangarei District.
This district is bounded on the North by the
northern boundary of the County of Marsden; on
the East by the sea from the North Head of
Tutukaha Harbour to Cape Bream Tail; on the
South by the northern boundaries of the parishes of
Mangawai, Kaiwaka, Wairau, and Paparos, the
southern boundary of the parish of Matakohe and
the waters of the Wairoa River; and on the West
by the sea from the North Head of the Kaipara
Harbour to Point Kokatu.

Port Albert District.
This district is bounded on the North by the
southern boundary of the Wangarei District herein-
before described; on the East by the sea from Cape
Bream Tail to the head of the Weiti River; on the
South by the northern boundary of the County of
Eden; and on the West by the waters of the
Kaipara Harbour from the mouth of the Kaukapa-
kapa River to the southern boundary of the parish
of Matakohe, including the Island of Kawau and
adjacent isles.

District of River Head.
This district is bounded on the North by the
waters of the Kaipara Harbour from Papanui to the
mouth of the Kaukapakapa River and the northern
boundary of the County of Eden; on the East by
the sea from the head of the Weiti River to the
North head of the Waitemata Harbour; thence by
the Waitemata Harbour, the Whau Creek, and the
eastern boundary of the parish of Waikomiti; on the
South by the waters of the Manukau Harbour from
the eastern boundary of the township of Whau South
to Paratutai; and on the West by the sea from
Paratutai aforesaid to Papanui on the South Head of
the Kaipara Harbour.