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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1870.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The District Courts Act, 1858,"
it is enacted that there shall be within the
Colony of New Zealand 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 or alter, and also to declare by what local
name such Courts shall be designated:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance and
exercise of the aforesaid power and authority, do
hereby constitute and proclaim the district of the
said Colony hereinafter described or referred to, to be
a district within which a District Court shall be held
under the said Act and under "The District Courts
Amendment Act, 1865:"

And in further pursuance and exercise of the
authority aforesaid, I do hereby declare that the said
Court shall be designated by the name hereunder
specified, that is to say-

Designation of Court:
"The District Court of Hawke's Bay."

Description of District:
"The Hawke's Bay District" shall comprise the
whole of the Province of Hawke's Bay, and that
portion of territory within the Province of Auckland
bounded on the South by the boundary line sepa-
rating the Provinces of Auckland and Hawke's Bay;
on the West-north-west by a straight line from the
point of intersection of the said boundary line and
the overland mail track from Napier to Auckland,
across Lake Waikari to Lottin Point, between Cape
Runaway and East Cape; on the North and East by
the sea from Lottin Point to the said boundary line
at Boat Harbour.

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, at Welling-
ton, this second day of June, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy.

W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Resident Magistrates Act,
1861," it is enacted that it shall be lawful
for the Governor, by Proclamation in the New
Zealand Gazette, at any time to abolish the extended
jurisdiction which he is by the said Act authorized to
confer upon any Resident Magistrate's Court: And
whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the twentieth
day of January, 1868, the limit of jurisdiction of the
Resident Magistrate's Court hereinafter mentioned
was extended to fifty pounds: And whereas it is
expedient to abolish the extended jurisdiction given
to the said Court by the said Proclamation:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of New Zealand, do hereby, in pur-
suance of the power and authority vested in me by
the said Act, proclaim and declare that, on and after
the first day of July, 1870, the extended jurisdiction
so given as aforesaid to the Resident Magistrate's
Court for

The Napier and Waipukurau District
shall be abolished.

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, at Wellington,
this third day of June, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy.

W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!