Numb. 57. 469

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1868.

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 hereby 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 nine-
teenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and published
in the New Zealand Gazette on the twentieth day of
July, in the year last aforesaid, His Excellency the
Governor did constitute and define the district in
and by the said Proclamation described and referred
to, and named therein the Hawke's Bay District:
And whereas it is expedient to abolish the said
district:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and in
exercise of the power and authority in that behalf
vested in me, do hereby proclaim and declare that

THE HAWKE'S BAY DISTRICT,

as the same district is described or referred to in
the Proclamation of the nineteenth day of July, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six aforesaid, shall
be and remain abolished from and after the thirtieth
day of September instant.

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-sixth
day of September, 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 "The Resident Magistrates Act,
1867," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor from time to time, by Proclamation in
the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout
the Colony, or in any part thereof, districts to be
called Resident Magistrates' Districts, and such
districts from time to time to abolish and the bound-
aries to define and alter, and in any such Proclamation
to fix a time on and from which any such district
shall be constituted or abolished as the case may be:
And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the
twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven, published in the New
Zealand Gazette on the twenty-first day of December,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, His
Excellency the Governor, in pursuance and exercise
of the powers and authorities for that purpose vested
in him, did proclaim and declare the districts
described in the Schedule to the said Proclamation,
including amongst other districts the District of
Clutha and the District of Southland, to be, on and
from the first day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight, Resident Magistrates' Dis-
tricts within the meaning of the said Act:

And whereas it is expedient to define and alter the
boundaries of the respective Districts of Clutha and
of Southland in manner hereinafter appearing:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers
and authorities for that purpose vested in me, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the boundaries of
the said Districts of Clutha and of Southland, as the

ERRATUM.-In a Notice published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 55, of the 24th instant, appointing Vincent Pyke, Esq., to
be Registrar of Marriages, &c., for the District of Dunstan, for the words "vice Lowther Broad, Esquire, resigned,"
read "vice Henry Wirgman Robinson, Esquire, resigned."