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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 609
and eighty-three (2,483) links; and 22° 15', seven
hundred and forty (740) links: towards the South-
west by a line bearing 124° 21', sixty-nine thousand
three hundred and twenty-four (69,324) links, to
Te Poroporo: and towards the North-west by lines
bearing 27° 22', eight thousand six hundred and sixty-
two (8,662) links; and 335° 12', two hundred and
eighty (280) links; by the Turakina River by a line
bearing 105° 5', about three thousand eight hundred
(3,800) links, and again by the Turakina River to
Otawa, the commencing point; as the same is
delineated upon the plan of the said block, deposited
in the office of the Deputy Inspector of Surveys,
Wellington.
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, at the Government
House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh
day of November, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one.
W. GISBORNE.
G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
WHEREAS by the fifteenth section of "The
Juries Act, 1868," it is enacted that in case
any District Court shall hereafter be lawfully directed
or appointed to be holden at any town other than
those at which Courts were then holden, the Clerk
of the Resident Magistrate's Court there, if there be
one, or a Jury Officer to be appointed for the Jury
District of such town in manner in the said Act
mentioned, shall act as Jury Officer for the Jury Dis-
trict of such town; and such Jury Officer, and all
Justices of the Peace, and the Registrars, Clerks, or
other officers of Courts, constables and officers of
Police, and Sheriffs, shall within such time as the
Governor shall order, for that occasion only, do and
perform all such acts, matters, and things, in and
towards preparing, collecting, allowing, sending, and
delivering the lists of men qualified and liable to
serve on juries, and making out the jury books for
every such Jury District, as are hereinbefore required
ordinarily to be done at a different time or period;
and all such last-mentioned jury books shall be
brought into use, and the persons whose names shall
be therein set down shall be liable to serve, imme-
diately after the same shall have been made out by
the Sheriff, and the said last-mentioned books shall
be used until new books shall have been prepared
under the provisions hereinbefore contained: And
whereas a circuit of the Supreme Court for the trial
of civil and criminal cases hath been lawfully directed
or appointed to be holden at the Town of Wanganui,
in the Judicial District of Wellington, being a town
other than one at which Courts were at the time of
the passing of the said Act appointed to be holden:
Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in exercise of all powers
and authorities in this behalf vested in me by the
said Act, do hereby order that the Jury Officer for
the Jury District of the said Town, and all Justices
of the Peace, and the Registrars, Clerks, or other
officers of Courts, constables and officers of Police,
and Sheriffs, shall, before the fifteenth day of February
next, do and perform all such acts, matters, and
things, in and towards preparing, collecting, allowing,
sending, and delivering the lists of men qualified and
liable to serve on juries, and making out the jury
books for the Jury District of the said Town, as are
in the said Act ordinarily required to be done at a
different time or period.
And I do order that, for the purposes aforesaid,
the words in the sections of the said "Juries Act,
1868," specified in the first column of the Schedule
hereto, shall respectively be construed and read as if
the words in the second column of the said Schedule
were inserted in lieu of such words in the said sec-
tions respectively.
| Words as in "Juries Act, 1868." | How to be Read. |
|---|---|
| Section 8. "Last day of January in | Fourth day of Decem- |
| every year." | ber, 1871. |
| Section 10. "First two Sundays in | Last two Sundays in |
| March in every year." | December, 1871. |
| Section 11. "First Friday in April of | Second Friday in |
| every year." | January, 1872. |
| Section 11. "Twenty-third day of April | First day of February, |
| then next." | 1872. |
| Section 12. "The month of February | Month of December, |
| in every year." | 1871. |
| Section 14. "Fourteenth day of May." | Fifteenth day of Feb- |
ruary, 1872.
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 at
Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of No-
vember, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
W. GISBORNE.
G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
WHEREAS by the fifteenth section of "The
Juries Act, 1868," it is enacted that in case
any District Court shall hereafter be lawfully directed
or appointed to be holden at any town other than
those at which Courts were then holden, the Clerk
of the Resident Magistrate's Court there, if there be
one, or a Jury Officer to be appointed for the Jury
District of such town in manner in the said Act
mentioned, shall act as Jury Officer for the Jury Dis-
trict of such town; and such Jury Officer, and all
Justices of the Peace, and the Registrars, Clerks, or
other officers of Courts, constables and officers of
Police, and Sheriffs, shall within such time as the
Governor shall order, for that occasion only, do and
perform all such acts, matters, and things, in and
towards preparing, collecting, allowing, sending, and
delivering the lists of men qualified and liable to
serve on juries, and making out the jury books for
every such Jury District, a sare hereinbefo rerequired
ordinarily to be done at a different time or period;
and all such last-mentioned jury books shall be
brought into use, and the persons whose names shall
be therein set down shall be liable to serve, imme-
diately after the same shall have been made out by
the Sheriff, and the said last-mentioned books shall
be used until new books shall have been prepared
under the provisions hereinbefore contained: And
whereas a circuit of the Supreme Court for the trial
of civil and criminal cases hath been lawfully directed
or appointed to be holden at the Town of Picton, in
the Judicial District of Nelson, being a town other
than one at which Courts were at the time of the
passing of the said Act appointed to be holden:
Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in exercise of all powers
and authorities in this behalf vested in me by the
said Act, do hereby order that the Jury Officer for
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Land boundaries, survey links, bearings, Te Poroporo, Turakina River, Otawa, Wellington
- 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
- W. GISBORNE
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- 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
- W. GISBORNE
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- 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
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