Al.

Numb. 68. 611

DIEU ET HON
SOIT QUI MAT
THE
AS PEN
MON DROIT
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1870.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Execution of Criminals Act,
1858," it is enacted that the said Act shall
come into operation in such part of the Colony of
New Zealand as the Governor shall by Proclamation
from time to time appoint to be Districts for that
purpose:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance and in
exercise of the said power, do hereby appoint and
proclaim the County of Westland to be a District
within which the said Act shall, from the date hereof,
come into operation.

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 twenty-third day of November, 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, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight, the limit of jurisdiction of the Resident
Magistrate's Court hereinafter mentioned was ex-
tended to one hundred 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 fifteenth day of December next, the extended
jurisdiction so given as aforesaid to the Resident
Magistrate's Court for

The New Plymouth 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 thirtieth day of November, 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 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
Act Amendment Act, 1865."