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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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 dis-
tricts, to be called respectively the Northern District,
the Middle District, and the Southern District, which
said districts are particularly described in the said
proclamation. And whereas by a proclamation
bearing date the twelfth day of October, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-five, the limits of the said
"Middle District" were altered for the purpose of
forming the "Westland District:" And whereas it
is expedient for the purposes of the said Act that the
said "Middle District" should be further divided
into two districts, to be called, respectively the
"Nelson District" and the "Wellington District."
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 Court. And
whereas by the said proclamations of the twenty-
sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-one, and the twelfth day of October, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, the said
"Middle" and "Westland Districts" were res-
pectively assigned to Alexander James Johnston and
Henry Barnes Gresson, Esquires, Judges of the said
Court. And whereas by the said Act it was further
enacted that there shall be held Circuit Courts for
the despatch 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 proclamation of the twelfth day of
October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five,
and a proclamation bearing date the thirteenth day of
April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three,
and a proclamation bearing date the seventh day of
October instant, certain times and places were
appointed for holding Circuit Courts as aforesaid
within the said "Westland" and "Middle" dis-
tricts: And whereas it is expedient to alter the
dates on which such Courts have been appointed to
be held:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and
authority for this purpose vested in me under and by
virtue of the said Act, do hereby, by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
Colony, proclaim and declare the Provinces of
Wellington and Hawke's Bay to be a separate
Judicial District, for the purposes of the said Act, to
be called the "Wellington District," and the Pro-
vinces of Nelson and Marlborough, excepting such
part of the Province of Nelson as is comprised within
the "Westland District," to be a separate Judicial
District for the purposes of the said Act, to be called
the "Nelson District;" and in further pursuance
and exercise of the power and authority vested in
me by the said Act, I do hereby, by and with the
advice and consent aforesaid, proclaim and declare that
I assign the said "Wellington District" to Alexander
James Johnston, Esquire, acting Chief Justice
of the said Court, and the said "Westland" and
"Nelson" districts to Christopher William Rich-
mond, Esquire, a Judge of the said Court; and that
Circuit Courts shall be holden for the "Wellington
District" at the places therein heretofore appointed
for the holding of Circuit Courts, and at the times so
heretofore appointed, and shall be holden for the
"Nelson District," at the Town of Nelson, on the
first day of March, the first day of July, and the
sixteenth day of November, in every year, and for
the "Westland District," at the Town of Hokitika,
on the tenth day of May, the tenth day of September,
and the tenth day of January, in every year, or as
soon after the said days respectively as conveniently
may be; and in case any one of the said days so
fixed as aforesaid shall happen to be a Sunday or
holiday, then the Court appointed for such day shall
be holden on the day following.

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 twenty-sixth day of
October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Approved in Council :
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. GREY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
twenty-sixth day of October, 1867.
Present :
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it is
amongst other things enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor, by Order in Council, from
time to time to constitute for any Gold Field, or for
any part thereof, Wardens' Courts, for the adminis-
tration of justice therein, and to appoint Wardens
of such Courts with power to act alone or with
assessors, and in such manner and to exercise all or
any of the powers thereinafter mentioned as the
Governor shall think fit to direct :

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony doth hereby, in pursuance
and exercise of the power and authority vested in
him for this purpose, appoint
JOSEPH GILES, Esq.,
to be a Warden of all Wardens' Courts now
constituted or hereafter to be constituted within
the Nelson South-west Gold Fields, with power to
him to act alone or with assessors, and to exercise
all or any of the powers vested in or imposed on
Judges of Wardens' Courts.

This appointment to date and take effect from the
tenth day of October, 1867.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th October, 1867.
THE following Despatch, from the Right Honorable
the Secretary of State for the Colonies, is pub-
lished for general information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Downing Street,
22nd August 1867.
SIR, You were informed by my Despatch, No.
37, of the 18th June, that you would shortly be
relieved from your duties as Governor of New
Zealand, and that you would be apprized of the time
at which your successor might be expected to arrive
in the Colony.

I have now to acquaint you that I have submitted
to the Queen the name of Sir G. Bowen, the present
Governor of Queensland, as your successor in the
Government of New Zealand, and that Her Majesty
has been pleased to approve the appointment.

I regret that I am unable at present to inform you
definitively of the time at which Sir G. Bowen may be