Numb. 63.

563

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1870.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Militia Act, 1870," it is
enacted that the North Island of New Zealand
shall be divided into the several districts as set forth
in the Schedule to the said Act, which shall be desig-
nated by the names in the said Schedule respectively
given to them therein, and that the Governor in Council
may from time to time constitute districts throughout
the Middle Island and Stewart's Island, or in any part
of them, comprising not more than one thousand six
hundred square miles within each, and may vary and
abolish any districts so constituted by the Governor
in Council and constitute new districts in lieu
thereof, and may give to the Militia of any such
district such name as he may think fit, and from
time to time alter such name and give a new name
thereto, and the Militia of each district constituted
by or under this Act shall be called by the name (if
any) given to the district by this Act, or by the
Governor, as the case may be: Provided that all
districts constituted under Acts repealed by this Act
in the Middle Island or Stewart's Island shall be
deemed to have been constituted under this Act by
the Governor in Council: And whereas by the said
Act it is further enacted that this Act shall come
into operation on the first day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy, in such districts
as the Governor may from time to time specify and
appoint by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette,
or by such other notification as he may think fit:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
K.G.C.M.G., Governor of New Zealand, in exercise
and pursuance of the powers and authority enabling
me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare
that the said Act shall come into operation on the
first day of November, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy, in all the districts constituted by the
said Act and described in the Schedule thereto; and
also in all the districts in the Middle Island and
Stewart's Island respectively, which by the said Act
it is provided are to be deemed to have been consti-
tuted under the said Act by the Governor in
Council.

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 thirty-first day of October, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy.

DONALD MCLEAN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The District
Courts Criminal Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1870,"
it is enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation,
from time to time declare that any District Court
shall have cognizance of all felonies and indictable
misdemeanours, as specified in the fourth section of
the said Act:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursu-
ance and exercise of the power vested in me by the
said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that

The District Court of Hawke's Bay

shall henceforth have cognizance of all felonies and
indictable misdemeanours committed before or after
the passing of the said Act within the district over
which its jurisdiction extends, saving only the felonies
specially excepted in and by the fourth clause of 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; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington,
this third day of November, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy.

W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!