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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

lands in the Province of Westland, the boundaries
whereof are described in the Schedule hereunto
annexed, for the uses of the Colonial Government,
and the public purpose which in the said Schedule is
more particularly specified.
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 Wellington District unto

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of
Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and
Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the
County of York, in the Peerage of the
United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave
of New Ross, in the County of Wexford,
in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy
Council; Knight Commander 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 Welling-
ton, this thirty-first day of March, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five.

JAMES PRENDERGAST, Esquire,
the Chief Justice of the said Court.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(in absence of the Secretary for Crown Lands).

Chief Justice resigned.

SCHEDULE.
red). Bounded on the West by Hampton Street for
a distance of five chains bearing 45°01' magnetic; on
the North by Church of England Reserve No. 3,
and south end of Duff Street for a distance of five
chains bearing 135° 01'; on the East by a straight
line for a distance of five chains bearing 225° 01';
on the South by a straight line for a distance of five
chains bearing 315° 01', and containing within those
boundaries two acres and two roods or thereabouts:-
For a cemetery.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st April, 1875.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by

Sir GEORGE ALFRED ARNEY, Knight,
of his appointment of Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of New Zealand.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Approved in Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Wellington District assigned to the Chief Justice.

Chief Justice appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st April, 1875.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

NORMANDY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
first day of April, 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 Court, who shall
have, within the same, all the powers and jurisdiction
thereby given to the 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 Middle District" was formed and constituted
by the Governor in Council:

And whereas on the twenty-sixth day of October,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, the
said Middle District was divided into two districts,
called respectively the "Wellington District" and
the "Nelson District:"

And whereas it is expedient that the said Wel-
lington District should be assigned to James Pren-
dergast, Esquire, the Chief Justice of the said Court:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
JAMES PRENDERGAST, Esq.,
Barrister-at-Law, to be the Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of New Zealand.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Judges resigned.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st April, 1875.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignations by

HENRY BARNES GRESSON, Esq., and
HENRY SAMUEL CHAPMAN, Esq.,
of their appointments as Judges of the Supreme
Court of New Zealand.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Resignation of Patent Officer.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 31st March, 1875.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by

JAMES PRENDERGAST, Esq.,
of his appointment as Patent Officer.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Italian Consular Agents recognized.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 31st March, 1875.

IT is hereby notified, that Her Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for the Colonies has been instructed
His Excellency the Governor to recognize the ap-
pointments of

Dr. FRANCESCO ROSSETTI,
as Italian Consular Agent at Hokitika; and

EDWARD BOWES CARGILL, Esq.,
as Italian Consular Agent at Dunedin.

DANIEL POLLEN.