THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 647

being delineated upon the plan marked P.W.D. 6981,
deposited as aforesaid.
Dated at Wellington, this fourteenth day of May,
1879.

J. MACANDREW,
Minister for Public Works.

Jury Lists to be prepared.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the fifteenth section of "The
Juries Act, 1868," it is enacted that, in case
any Circuit Court or sittings of the Supreme Court
for trial of civil or criminal cases, or District Court,
or Court of Sessions of the Peace, shall thereafter be
lawfully directed or appointed to be holden at any
town other than those at which Courts are now
holden, the Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court
there, if there be one, or a Jury Officer to be ap-
pointed for the jury district of such town in manner
in the said Act mentioned, shall act as Jury Officer
for the jury district of such town, and such Jury
Officer, and all Justices of the Peace, and the Regis-
trars, Clerks, or other officers of Courts, constables
and officers of police, and Sheriffs, shall, within such
time as the Governor shall order, for that occasion
only, do and perform all such acts, matters, and
things, in and towards preparing, collecting, allowing,
sending, and delivering the lists of men qualified and
liable to serve on juries, and making out the jury
books for every such jury district, as are thereinbefore
required ordinarily to be done at a different time or
period; and all such last-mentioned jury books shall
be brought into use, and the persons whose names
shall be therein set down shall be liable to serve,
immediately after the same shall have been made out
by the Sheriff; and the said last-mentioned books
shall be used until new books shall have been pre-
pared under the provisions hereinbefore contained:

And whereas sittings of the District Court have
been lawfully directed or appointed to be holden at
Palmerston North, in the Provincial District of
Wellington, being a town other than those at which
Courts have heretofore been holden:

Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, in exercise of all powers and authorities in
this behalf vested in me by the said Act, do
hereby order that the Jury Officer for the Jury Dis-
trict of Palmerston North aforesaid, and all Justices
of the Peace, and the Registrars, Clerks, or other
officers of Courts, constables and officers of police,
and Sheriff's, shall, before the seventh day of June next,
do and perform all such acts, matters, and things, in
and towards preparing, collecting, allowing, sending,
and delivering the lists of men qualified and liable to
serve on juries, and making out the jury books for
the Jury District of Palmerston North aforesaid, as

are thereinbefore in the said Act ordinarily required
to be done at a different time or period:

And I do order that, for the purposes aforesaid, the
words in the sections of the said "Juries Act, 1868,"
specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto,
shall respectively be construed and read as if the
words in the second column of the said Schedule were
inserted in lieu of such words in the said sections
respectively.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this fourteenth day of May,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine.

G. S. WHITMORE,
(for the Minister of Justice.)

Fixing Sittings of District Court of Wanganui, at Palmerston North.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority in this behalf enabling me, I, Hercules
George Robert Robinson, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that
sittings of the District Court of Wanganui, for Civil
and Criminal business, shall be held as follows :-

In the Courthouse, at Palmerston North, on
the Saturday following the first Wednesday
in each of the months of March, June, and
November in every year.

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.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this fourteenth day of May,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine.

G. S. WHITMORE,
(for the Minister of Justice.)

Judges of Assessment Courts under "The Rating Act, 1876," appointed.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities vested in me by "The Rating Act, 1876,"
I, Hercules George Robert Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint
the persons named in the Schedule hereto to be Judges of the Assessment Courts for the districts placed
opposite the name of each respectively.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this ninth day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-nine.

J. BALLANCE.

SCHEDULE.