Bumb. 17.
117

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1867.

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The District Courts 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 shall think fit, by proclamation in the
New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the
Colony, or in any 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
such Courts shall be designated.

And whereas by proclamation, dated the twentieth
day of January, 1866, and published in the New
Zealand Gazette on the twenty-sixth day of January,
1866, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the said
Colony, did, in pursuance and exercise of the afore-
said power and authority, constitute and proclaim
the two several districts of the said Colony therein
described, to be districts within which District Courts
should be held under the said Act, and "The District
Courts Amendment Act, 1865."

And in further pursuance and exercise of the
authority aforesaid, I did by the said proclamation
declare that the said Courts should be respectively
designated by the names which are therein specified:

And whereas it is expedient that the said districts
should be abolished, and that one district having the
boundaries hereinafter described should be con-
stituted:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
as aforesaid, in pursuance and exercise of the aforesaid
power and authority, do hereby abolish the districts
constituted by the said in part recited proclamation,
and I do hereby constitute and proclaim the district
hereinafter described to be a district within which a
District Court shall be held under the said Act, and
"The District Courts Amendment Act, 1865."

And in further pursuance and exercise of the
authority aforesaid, I do hereby declare that the said
Court shall be designated by the name hereinafter
specified, that is to say-

Designation of Court,-
The District Court of Westland.

Description of District,-
The Westland District shall comprise so much and
such parts of the Provinces of Nelson and Canterbury
as are bounded by a line from the mouth of the River
Mackay, in the said Province of Nelson, to the summit
of Mount Arthur, in the said Province of Nelson,
thence by a straight line to the junction of the River
Gowan (otherwise called Rotoroa) with the River
Buller, thence by a straight line to the summit of
Mount Princess, in the said Province of Nelson, thence
by a straight line to the saddle between the Huranui
River and the Teremakau River, thence south-west by
the watershed between the East and West Coasts of
the said Province of Canterbury to the southern
boundary of the said Province of Canterbury, thence
westwards by the said boundary to the mouth of the
River Awarua, in the said Province of Canterbury,
and thence north-east by the sea to the mouth of the
said River Mackay.

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, and issued under the
Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this
nineteenth day of March, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
seven.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Resident Magistrates'
Criminal Jurisdiction Extension and Amend-
ment Act, 1865," it is amongst other things enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by procla-