Dumb. 12. 89

                                     THE
                       NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
                           Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1867.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Resident
Magistrates' Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor from time to time, or at any
time, by proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to
declare that the limit of jurisdiction of the Resident
Magistrate's Court of any district, shall be extended
to fifty pounds, or to one hundred pounds, as he may
think proper, and thereupon such Court shall have
power to hear and determine any case in which the
amount of the debt or damage claimed shall not
exceed the limit fixed by such proclamation, and
which might have been lawfully tried in such Court,
in case the amount of the debt or damage claimed
therein had not exceeded twenty pounds.

And whereas by proclamation bearing date the
twentieth day of January last, the jurisdiction of the
Resident Magistrate's Court at Timaru, in the
Province of Canterbury, and of the Resident
Magistrate's Court in the District of Okarita, in the
County of Westland, were respectively extended to
fifty pounds, and it is expedient to extend the
jurisdiction of the said Courts respectively to one
hundred pounds :

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
in me vested in this behalf by the said recited Act,
do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after
the first day of March next, the jurisdiction of the
Resident Magistrate's Court of the District of
Timaru, and of the Resident Magistrate's Court of
the District of Okarita, shall be extended to one
hundred pounds.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor, and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington, and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, this twenty-
second day of February, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Lieutenant-
Governor and Legislative Council of New
Zealand, intituled "An Ordinance for the Regulation
of Prisons," it is provided that it shall be lawful for
His Excellency the Governor, from time to time, as to
him shall seem meet, by proclamation, to declare any
house, building, enclosure, or place to be a public
gaol:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise
and pursuance of the said power, do hereby proclaim
and declare

The Police Lock-up situated on Reserve 441, in
the Town of Hokitika, in the County of
Westland,
to be a public gaol.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington, and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, this twenty-
second day of February, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
seventeenth day of February, 1868.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Deeds Regis-
tration Amendment Act, 1863," it is enacted that
every Province of the Colony shall be a District for
the purposes of the several Ordinances and Acts
therein referred to relating to the Registration of
Deeds : Provided that the Governor in Council may,
from time to time, define and alter the limits of any