Numb. 55.
461

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1868.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Supreme Court Act, 1860,"
it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council, from time to time, to divide the
Colony into judicial districts for the purposes of the
the said Act, and the limits of such districts from
time to time to alter as occasion may require, and
that the Governor in Council shall assign every such
district to a Judge or Judges of the Court, who shall
have within the same all the powers and jurisdiction
by the said Act given to the Court: And whereas
by a Proclamation bearing date the twenty-third day
of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three,
His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council, in pursuance of
the powers in that behalf conferred by the said Act,
did constitute the judicial district called "The Otago
and Southland District": And whereas by a Pro-
clamation bearing date the twenty-fifth day of March,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, His
Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the Colony, did assign
"The Otago and Southland District" aforesaid to
Christopher William Richmond, Esquire, and Henry
Samuel Chapman, Esquire, Judges of the said Court:
And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the
twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, His
Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council, did assign the judicial
districts called "The Westland and Nelson Districts"
to the said Christopher William Richmond, Esquire:
And whereas the said Henry Samuel Chapman,
Esquire, having obtained leave of absence, is about
to leave the said Colony for a time: And whereas
by an Order in Council made pursuant to "The
Supreme Court Judges Act, 1858," Charles Dudley
Robert Ward, Esquire, has been appointed a Judge
of the Supreme Court, from and after the first day of
October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight,
to hold office during His Excellency's pleasure:
Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, do hereby, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the

said Colony, proclaim and declare that I assign the
judicial district of the Supreme Court, called
THE OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND DISTRICT,
to Charles Dudley Robert Ward, Esquire, a Judge of
the said Court.

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-
third day of September, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.
E. W. STAFFORD.

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

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The District Courts Act, 1858,"
it is enacted that there shall be within the
Colony 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 and alter: And
whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the second
day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-six, and published in the
New Zealand Gazette on the sixth day of January, in
the year last aforesaid, His Excellency the Governor
did constitute and define the districts in and by the
said Proclamation described and referred to, and
named therein respectively the Wellington District,

FRRATUM.-In Gazette No. 50, of 25th August, 1868, folio 420, for "Edward Sutton" read "Edmund Sutton."