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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1868.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority in me vested in this behalf by "The
Resident Magistrates Act, 1867," I, Sir George
Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that,
from and after the first day of November next, the
jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrates' Courts for
the
CLUTHA DISTRICT, and
SOUTHLAND DISTRICT,
respectively, as the same are defined by Proclamation
bearing date the thirtieth day of September, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, shall 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 Public Seal of the said Colony, this
second day of October, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and thirty-third
section of an Act of the General Assembly of
New Zealand, intituled "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be the duty of
the Town Clerk of every borough, as soon as con-
veniently may be after every election of a Mayor for
such borough, to give notice to the Colonial Secretary
for the time being of such election, and of the person
elected; and it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he
shall think fit, and if such person shall not then be a
Justice of the Peace, by warrant under his hand
published in the New Zealand Gazette, to appoint
such person to be a Justice of the Peace for the
Colony; and it is also thereby enacted that in every
such appointment it shall be expressed that it is made
under the one hundred and thirty-third section of
the said Act; and it is further declared that such
appointment shall continue in force only during
the Mayoralty of such person, and the person so
appointed shall not by virtue of such appointment
be authorized to sit or act as a Justice of the Peace
elsewhere than within the borough:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the said power and authority
in me vested in this behalf, do hereby appoint

EVAN PROSSER, Esq., and
EDWARD MASTERS, Esq.,

the persons elected to be Mayors of the respective
Boroughs of Hokitika and Greymouth, to be Justices
of the Peace under the one hundred and thirty-third
section of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

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 Public Seal of the said Colony, this
fifth day of October, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

ERRATUM.-In Gazette No. 54, 17th September, 1868, folio 455, for "George Ogilvie Pershaw" read "George Ogilvie
Preshaw."