THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 633

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."
And in further pursuance and exercise of the
authority aforesaid, I do hereby declare that the said
Court shall be designated by the name which is
hereunder specified and set above the description of
such district, that is to say—
Designation of Court:
District Court of Timaru.
Description of District :
The Timaru District shall comprise all that area
bounded towards the North-east by the southern
bank of the Ashburton River, from its mouth to the
source of its main branch, and by a right line
North-west, true bearing, to the summit of the
main range of the Southern Alps; towards the East
by the sea; towards the South by the southern
boundary of the Province of Canterbury, from the
mouth of the Waitaki River to Mount Aspiring; and
thence towards the North-west by the summit of the
main range of the Southern Alps, to the commencing
point.
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
fourteenth day of December, 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 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, the
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 Timaru shall henceforth have
cognizance of all felonies and indictable misde-
meanours committed before or after the passing of
the said Act within the district over which its juris-
diction 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 fifteenth day of December, 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 an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The District
Courts Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1866," it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by
Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette,
to bring into operation with respect to any District
Court, from and after a day to be named in such
Proclamation, either the whole of the said Act or
such sections thereof as to him may seem fit:
Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the said power and
authority vested in me for this purpose, do hereby
proclaim and declare that, on the thirty-first day of
December instant, the said "District Courts Juris-
diction Extension Act, 1866," shall come into oper-
ation with respect to the District Court of Timaru.
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 fifteenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy.
W. GISBORNE.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power in that
behalf enabling me, I, Sir George Ferguson
Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
do hereby fix and appoint that sittings of the District
Court of the Timaru District shall be held as
follows:---
In the Resident Magistrate's Court House at
Timaru, for the despatch of Civil and Criminal
Business, on the tenth day of the months of
January, March, May, July, September, and
November, respectively.
Provided that in case any of the days so fixed as
aforesaid shall happen to be a Sunday or holiday,
then the Court appointed for that day shall be holden
on the first day thereafter, not being a holiday.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this fifteenth day of December,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy.
W. GISBORNE.