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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
first day of November, 1871.
Present :
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

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
that there shall be held Circuit Courts for the
despatch of civil and criminal business of the Court
before one of the Judges thereof, at such places and
times as the Governor in Council may from time to
time appoint: And whereas by an Order in Council
made the twenty-eighth day of March, in the year
one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and pub-
lished in the New Zealand Gazette of the twelfth day
of April in the same year, after reciting as is therein
recited, the Governor appointed Circuit Courts to be
held within the several districts hereinafter mentioned
on certain days and at certain places within the said
districts, as therein particularly mentioned: And
whereas by an Order in Council made the nineteenth
day of October, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and seventy, and published in the New
Zealand Gazette of the eighth day of November in
the same year, Circuit Courts were appointed to be
held at Invercargill, in the Province of Otago, in the
Otago and Southland District, on certain days
therein particularly mentioned: And whereas it
hath been determined that a Circuit Court should
be held at the Town of Wanganui, within the
Wellington Judicial District, as the same is now
defined by a Proclamation dated the twenty-fifth
day of November, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine: And whereas it hath also been determined
that a Circuit Court should be held at the Town of
Picton, within the Nelson Judicial District, as the
same is defined by a Proclamation dated the second
day of November, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine. And whereas it is expedient to revoke the
several appointments of the times and places for the
holding of the Circuit Courts so made as aforesaid,
and to appoint the times and places hereinafter
mentioned:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of the said Colony, in exercise
and pursuance of the power and authority vested in
him by "The Supreme Court Act, 1860," doth hereby
declare that on and after the twenty-eighth day of
November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one, the several appointments mentioned in the herein-
before in part recited Orders in Council, so far as
the same relate to the times and places for holding
Circuit Courts, shall be revoked, and with the like
advice and consent doth hereby appoint that Circuit
Courts of the Supreme Court, for the despatch of
civil and criminal business of the Court, shall, after
the said twenty-eighth day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, be holden
at the several times and places hereinafter mentioned,
that is to say:-

In the Northern District, at the Supreme Court
House at Auckland, on the first Monday in
each of the months of January, April, July,
and October, in each and every year.

In the Wellington District, at the Supreme
Court House at Wellington, on the first Mon-
day in each of the months of January, April,
July, and October in each and every year; at
Napier, at the Provincial Council Chamber,
on the second Monday in each of the months
of June and December in each and every year,
the first sitting to be held there on the
second Monday in the month of June one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-two; and
at Wanganui, at the Resident Magistrate's
Court House there, on the fourth Monday in
each of the months of April and October in
each and every year.

In the Nelson District, at the Provincial Coun-
cil Hall at Nelson, on the first Monday in the
month of January, and on the third Monday
in each of the months of April and August, in
each and every year; and at Picton, at the
Provincial Council Chamber on the second
Monday in each of the months of June and
December, in each and every year, the first
sitting to be held there on the second Monday
in the month of June, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-two.

In the Westland District, at the Supreme Court
House at Hokitika, on the third Monday in
the month of March, and the first Monday in
the month of September, in each and every
year.

In the Canterbury District, at the Supreme
Court House at Christchurch, on the first
Monday in each of the months of January,
April, July, and October in each and every
year.

In the Otago and Southland District, at the
Supreme Court House at Dunedin, on the first
Monday in each of the months of January,
April, July, and October, in each and every
year; and at the Provincial Council Chamber
at Invercargill, on the third Monday in each
of the months of May and November in each
and every year.

Provided that if and whenever any of the days
hereby appointed for holding a Circuit Court shall
happen to be a holiday at the Supreme Court, then
the Circuit Court appointed to be holden on such day
shall be holden on the first day thereafter which shall
not be such holiday.

Provided further, that the said revocation of the said
recited Orders in Council shall not affect any sitting
by adjournment of a Circuit Court of the said Court,
the sitting whereof began on a day prior to the said
twenty-eighth day of November, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one.

And with the like advice and consent doth hereby
proclaim and declare that this Order in Council
shall not take effect till the twenty-eighth day of
November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th November, 1871.

THE following Despatch from Her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies is
published for general information; and it is notified
that the Enclosures, which are very voluminous, have
been deposited in the Library of the General
Assembly.

W. GISBORNE.

CIRCULAR.
Downing Street, 9th August, 1871.

SIR,-I transmit to you, for general information in
the Colony under your Government, a copy of a
letter which has been received from Her Majesty's
Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, enclosing
copies of the Official Programme of the opening of
the International Exhibition of 1871, of the Report