Numb. 62.
927

DIEU ET
SOIT QUI MAL P
MON DROIT

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1878.

Extending Civil Jurisdiction of the District Court of
Hawke's Bay.

(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
power and authority vested in me by the said Act,
do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after
the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight, the said "District Courts Juris-
diction Extension Act, 1866," shall come into opera-
tion with respect to

THE DISTRICT COURT OF HAWKE'S BAY.

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 Coun-
cil; 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 under the Seal of the
said Colony, at the Government House,
at Wellington, this twenty-first day of
June, in the year of our Lord one thou-
sand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

J. BALLANCE,
(for the Minister of Justice.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Extending Criminal Jurisdiction of District Court of
Hawke's Bay.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.
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, 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 DISTRICT COURT OF HAWKE'S BAY
shall, from and after the first day of July, one thou-
sand eight hundred and seventy-eight, have cogni-
zance 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 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 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
under the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-first day of June, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight.

J. BALLANCE,
(for the Minister of Justice.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!