THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
707

Proclamation extending Civil Jurisdiction of Nelson
District Court.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The District
Courts Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1866," it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by
Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette,
to bring into operation with respect to any District
Court, from, and after a day to be named in such
Proclamation, either the whole of the said Act or
such sections thereof as to him may seem fit:

Now therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
said power and authority vested in me for this pur-
pose, do hereby proclaim and declare that on the
eighth day of November, one thousand eight hun-
dred and seventy-five, the said "District Courts
Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1866," shall come into
operation with respect to

THE NELSON DISTRICT COURT.

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; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, at the Government House,
at Wellington, this sixth day of Novem-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-five.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclamation giving extended Criminal Jurisdiction
to Nelson District Court.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governer.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The District
Courts Criminal Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1870,"
it is enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation,
from time to time declare that any District Court
shall have cognizance of all felonies and indictable
misdemeanours, as specified in the fourth section of
the said Act:

Now therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power
vested in me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and
declare that

THE NELSON DISTRICT COURT

shall henceforth have cognizance of all felonies and
indictable misdemeanours committed before or after
the passing of the said Act within the district over
which its jurisdiction extends, saving only the felonies
specially excepted in and by the fourth clause of the
said Act.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
the Most Honorable George Augustus
Constantine, 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 Mul-
grave of New Ross, in the County of
Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a
Member of Her Majesty's Most Honor-
able 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; and issued under the Seal
of the said Colony, at the Government
House, at Wellington, this sixth day of
November, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Extending Jurisdiction, Resident Magistrate's Court,
Auckland.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

In pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority in me vested in this behalf by "The
Resident Magistrate's Act, 1867," I, George Augustus
Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and
declare that, from and after the fifteenth day of
November next, the jurisdiction of the Resident
Magistrate's Court for the

AUCKLAND DISTRICT,

as the same is defined in a Proclamation bearing date
the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven, shall be extended to
Fifty Pounds.

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; and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
sixth day of November, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-five.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Notice of Intention to purchase Native Land.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Immigration and Public
Works Act Amendment Act, 1871," the
Governor is, among other things, empowered to
enter into arrangements for the acquisition of par-
ticular portions of land in the North Island for the