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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Northern Judicial District of the Colony, on the
first Monday in each of the months of April and
October in each and every year, or so soon after as
may be convenient: Provided that if and whenever
any of the days hereby appointed for holding a
Circuit Court shall happen to be a holiday of the
Supreme Court, then the Circuit Court appointed to
be holden on such day shall be holden on the first
day thereafter not being such holiday.

JULIUS VOGEL, Presiding.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Order in Council fixing Sittings of Supreme Court
at Invercargill and Lawrence.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At Wellington, this second day of February, 1874.

Present:

THE HONORABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING
IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand intituled "The Supreme
Court Act, 1860," it is provided 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 bearing date the
first day of November, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one, Circuit Courts were appointed to
be held in the Provincial Council Chamber at Inver-
cargill, in the Province of Otago, in the Otago and
Southland Judicial District of the Colony, on the
third Monday in each of the months of May and
November in each and every year:

And whereas by an Order in Council bearing date
the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-two, Circuit Courts were ap-
pointed to be held at Lawrence, in the Province and
Judicial District aforesaid, on the second Monday in
each of the months of June and December in each
and every year:

And whereas it is expedient to alter the times so
fixed as aforesaid for the holding of Circuit Courts
at Invercargill and Lawrence respectively:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of New Zealand, doth hereby fix and appoint
that in lieu of the Circuit Courts heretofore appointed
as aforesaid, Circuit Courts for the despatch of civil
and criminal business of the Supreme Court shall be
held in "the Council Hall," at Invercargill, in the
Province of Otago, and Judicial District of Otago
and Southland, on the second Monday in each of the
months of June and December in each and every
year, or so soon after as may be convenient; and in
the Court House at Lawrence, in the Province and
Judicial District aforesaid, on the third Tuesday in
each of the months of March and September in
each and every year, or so soon after as may be
convenient: Provided that if and whenever any
of the days hereby appointed for holding a Circuit
Court shall happen to be a holiday of the Supreme
Court, then the Circuit Court appointed to be holden
on such day shall be holden on the first day there-
after, not being such holiday.

JULIUS VOGEL, Presiding.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Fixing Sittings of District Court, Otago Gold Fields.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority in this behalf enabling me, I, Sir
James Fergusson, Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that sittings of
the District Court of the Otago Gold Fields, during
the months of April and May next, shall be held
as follows:-

In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Naseby
on the second Wednesday in April next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Clyde on
the Monday next after the second Wednesday
in April next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Queens-
town on the Monday second after the second
Wednesday in April next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Lawrence
on the second Tuesday in May next.
Provided that in case any of the days so fixed as
aforesaid shall happen to be a holiday, then the
Court appointed for that day shall be holden on the
first day thereafter, not being a holiday.

Issued this nineteenth day of February,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.

G. MAURICE O'RORKE.

Justice of the Peace under "The Municipal Cor-
porations Act, 1867," appointed.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and thirty-third
section of an Act of the General Assembly of
New Zealand, intituled "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be the duty of
the Town Clerk of every borough, as soon as con-
veniently may be after every election of a Mayor for
such borough, to give notice to the Colonial Secretary
for the time being of such election, and of the person
elected; and it shall be lawful for the Governor, if
he shall think fit, and if such person shall not then be
a Justice of the Peace, by Warrant under his hand,
published in the New Zealand Gazette, to appoint
such person to be a Justice of the Peace for the
Colony; and it is also thereby enacted that in every
such appointment it shall be expressed that it is
made under the one hundred and thirty-third section
of the said Act; and it is further declared that such
appointment shall continue in force only during the
Mayoralty of such person, and the person so ap-
pointed shall not, by virtue of such appointment, be
authorized to sit or act as a Justice of the Peace
elsewhere than within the borough:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the said power and authority
in me vested in that behalf, do hereby appoint

EDWARD GEORGE KERR, Esq.,
the person elected to be the Mayor of the Borough
of Kaiapoi, to be a Justice of the Peace under
the one hundred and thirty-third section of "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, 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 Wellington, this nineteenth
day of February, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.

G. MAURICE O'RORKE.