470
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

same are defined and described in the Schedule hereto,
shall, from and after the first day of November,
be the boundaries of the Districts of Clutha and of
Southland within the meaning and for the purposes of
"The Resident Magistrates Act, 1867," and I do
hereby, from the date aforesaid, define and alter the
boundaries of the said districts accordingly.

SCHEDULE.
Clutha District.

This district is bounded towards the North-east by
the south-western boundary of the Dunedin District;
towards the South-east and South by the sea from
the mouth of the Taieri River to Chasland's Mistake;
thence towards the West by a straight line to the
summit of Black Horn Hill, thence by the summit of
the range leading to Bleak Hill, thence by a straight
line to the summit of the Cairn Hill, thence by a
straight line to the source of the Kaiwera Creek and
by that creek to the Main South Road, thence by the
eastern watershed of the Waikaka River to the
summit of the Black Umbrella Mount; and towards
the North by the southern boundary of the Otago
Gold Fields District, as the said districts are defined
in Proclamation dated the twenty-ninth day of No-
vember, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the
twenty-first December, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven.

Southland District.

This district comprises all that area included within
the boundaries of the Province of Southland, includ-
ing Stewart Island and the adjacent islands, and that
portion of the Province of Otago lying to the west-
ward of the Clutha District, hereinbefore defined.

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 thirtieth
day of September, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

that the jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrates'
Courts within the districts mentioned in the said
Schedule should be extended to the limit of Fifty
Pounds:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
G.C.M.G., the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
in me vested in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and
declare that the limit of jurisdiction of the Resident
Magistrates' Courts of the districts, so constituted as
aforesaid, which are specified in the Schedule hereto,
shall, from and after the fifteenth day of October next,
be extended to Fifty 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 thirtieth
day of September, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

SCHEDULE.
Wellington District.
Wanganui District.

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 the districts specified in the Schedule
hereto were, by Proclamation dated the twenty-
ninth day of November last, and published in the
New Zealand Gazette on the twenty-first day of
December last, constituted Resident Magistrates'
Districts, with such boundaries as in the said Pro-
clamation are defined: And whereas it is expedient

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament
of Great Britain and Ireland, made and passed
in the Session of the said Parliament holden in the
twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh years of the reign
of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria,
intituled "An Act to determine the Time at which
Letters Patent shall take Effect in the Colonies," it
is enacted that the said Act shall take effect in each
of Her Majesty's Colonies and Possessions so soon
as the same shall be proclaimed therein by the
Officer administering the Government thereof:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and in exercise of the power and autho-
rity vested in me for that purpose, do hereby
proclaim the said Act.

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 thirtieth
day of September, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

ANNO VICESIMO SEXTO ET VICESIMO SEPTIMO
VICTORIE REGINA.

CAP. LXXVI.

An Act to determine the Time at which Letters Patent
shall take Effect in the Colonies.
[28th July, 1863.]

WHEREAS Her Majesty hath from time to time
caused to be made, under the Great Seal of the