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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1869.

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
said Act, and the limits of such districts from time
to time to alter as occasion may require:

And whereas by a Proclamation dated the twenty-
sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-one, the Colony of New Zealand was
divided into three districts, called respectively the
Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts:

And whereas by a Proclamation dated the twenty-
sixth day of October, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven, the Provinces of Wellington and
Hawke's Bay were declared a separate Judicial
District for the purposes of the said Act, to be called
the Wellington District:

And whereas it is expedient to alter the limits of
the said Northern District and of the said Wellington
District respectively:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power
and authority for this purpose vested in me by the
said Act, do hereby, by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the Colony,
proclaim and declare the Provinces of Wellington
and Hawke's Bay, the Chatham Islands and Islands
adjacent thereto, and so much of the Province of
Auckland as lies southward and eastward of a
straight line drawn from the north-western point
of the boundary of the Hawke's Bay Province to
the extreme end of Matakawa Point, to be a
separate Judicial District for the purposes of the
said Act, to be called the Wellington District;
and I do hereby, by and with the advice and consent
aforesaid, proclaim and declare all that portion of the
Colony which lies on the northern side of the line
separating the Provinces of Auckland and Taranaki
except so much of the Province of Auckland as is
hereby included in the Wellington District, to be a

separate Judicial District for the purposes of the
said Act, to be called the Northern District.

And in further pursuance of the power and
authority vested in me by the said Act, I do hereby,
by and with the advice and consent aforesaid, assign
the said Northern District, as hereby defined, to Sir
George Alfred Arney, Knight, Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court; and the said Wellington District, as
hereby defined, to Alexander James Johnston, Esquire,
a Judge of the said Court: and I do hereby, by and
with the advice and consent aforesaid, appoint that
Circuit Courts shall be holden for the Northern
District, as hereby defined, at the places therein
heretofore appointed for the holding of Circuit
Courts, and at the times so heretofore appointed;
and that Circuit Courts shall be holden for the
Wellington District, as hereby defined, at the places
therein heretofore appointed for the holding of
Circuit Courts, and at the times so heretofore
appointed.

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; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony this twenty-
fifth day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine.

WILLIAM FOX,
Presiding.

• Approved in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Stamp Duties Acts Amend-
ment Act, 1869," it is enacted that it shall
be lawful for the Governor, by Proclamation, to
proclaim and bring into operation the said Act, or

ERRATUM.—At page 564, New Zealand Gazette, No. 61, in the Schedule appended to Order in Council dated 6th October,
1869, fixing Port Charges, &c.—under the heading "Port Charges" for Dunedin, instead of "All vessels trading beyond
the limits of the Port and exempt from pilotage," read "All vessels trading beyond the limits of the Port and not exempt from
pilotage."