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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise and pursuance of all powers enabling him
in this behalf, doth hereby, with the advice and con-
sent of the Executive Council of New Zealand,
assign the said Northern District unto

THOMAS BANNATYNE GILLIES, Esquire,

a Judge of the said Court.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Canterbury District assigned to Mr. Justice Johnston.

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
fifth day of March, 1875.
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 the
Governor in Council shall assign every such district
to a Judge or Judges of the Supreme Court, who
shall have, within the same, all the powers and juris-
diction thereby given to the said Court:

And whereas on the twelfth day of October, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in exercise
and pursuance of the powers conferred by the said
recited provisions of the said Act, a district called
"The Canterbury District" was formed and consti-
tuted by the Governor in Council:

And whereas on the second day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in further
exercise and pursuance of the said powers, the limits
of the said Canterbury District were altered:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Canter-
bury District should be assigned to Alexander James
Johnston, Esquire, one of the Judges of the said
Court:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise and pursuance of all powers enabling him in
this behalf, doth hereby, with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of New Zealand, assign
the said Canterbury District unto

ALEXANDER JAMES JOHNSTON, Esquire,

a Judge of the said Court.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Otago and Southland District assigned to Mr. Justice
Williams.

NORMANDY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
fifth day of March, 1875.
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 the
Governor in Council shall assign every such district
to a Judge or Judges of the Supreme Court, who
shall have, within the same, all the powers and
jurisdiction thereby given to the said Court:

And whereas on the twenty-third day of April,

one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in
exercise and pursuance of the powers conferred by
the said recited provisions of the said Act, a district
called "The Otago and Southland District" was
formed and constituted by the Governor in Council:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Otago
and Southland District should be assigned to Joshua
Strange Williams, Esquire, one of the Judges of the
said Court:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise and pursuance of all powers enabling him in
this behalf, doth hereby, with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of New Zealand, assign the
said Otago and Southland District unto

JOSHUA STRANGE WILLIAMS, Esquire,

a Judge of the said Court.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Postponing Sittings of Supreme Court, Dunedin.

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
fifth day of March, 1875.
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
first day of November, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one, and published in the
New Zealand Gazette of the twentieth day of Novem-
ber in the same year, after reciting as is therein
recited, the Governor appointed Circuit Courts to be
held within 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 whereas it is expedient that a Circuit Court
of the Supreme Court should be held on Monday,
the twelfth day of April next, in lieu of the Circuit
Court appointed by the said recited Order in
Council to be held at Dunedin on Monday, the fifth
day of April next:

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
revoke the said in part recited Order in Council, so
far, but so far only, as the same appoints a Circuit
Court of the Supreme Court to be held in the Otago
and Southland District on the first Monday of April
next, at the Court House at Dunedin; and doth
hereby appoint that in lieu of the Circuit Court so
appointed to be held, there shall be held in the said
district, at the Court House at Dunedin, on Monday,
the twelfth day of April next, a Circuit Court for
the despatch of civil and criminal business of the
said Court.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.