Oct. 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1525

Provincial District of Wellington, and are more particularly delineated upon the plan marked P.W.D. 11482, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations for the Election of a Native Assessor under the Licensing Acts.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by “The Licensing Act, 1881,” and “The Licensing Act Amendment Act, 1882,” His Excellency the Governor doth hereby make the following regulations for the election of a Native Assessor for the newly-constituted Native Licensing District of Omataroa:—

1. The nomination of candidates shall take place at the Courthouse, Rotorua, on Monday, the twenty-fourth day of November instant, at the hour of noon.

2. If a poll be demanded by a candidate or by any elector the same shall be taken, and the election held, at the Courthouse aforesaid, on Monday, the first day of December next.

3. The regulations for the annual elections of Native Assessors for the Native Licensing Districts in the colony, dated the 17th January, 1883, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 5, of the 18th January, 1883, shall apply to the present election of an Assessor for the Native Licensing District of Omataroa, except where they are repugnant to the regulations now made.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

J. BALLANCE.

Rules as to Maori Juries under “The Juries Act, 1880.”

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested by the one hundred and forty-fifth section of “The Juries Act, 1880,” I, the Governor of the Colony New Zealand, do hereby revoke, as from the third day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, the rules made under the provisions of the said Act, and published in the New Zealand Gazette number twelve, of the thirty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, and in lieu thereof do hereby make the following rules, and do hereby declare that such last-mentioned rules shall come into force on the said third day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four:—

1. The Jury Officer of every jury district shall, before the 10th day of November, 1884, issue and deliver his warrant, in the form hereunto annexed, marked A, to one or more constables within such jury district, together with a sufficient number of printed forms of return and notice, in the forms hereunto annexed, and marked B and C respectively.

2. Each of such constables shall forthwith after the receipt of such warrant prepare and make out in alphabetical order a true list of all Maori men between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years residing within the limits mentioned in such warrant (and whose capacity to serve as jurors shall have been duly certified), stating in such list the Christian name and surname at full length, and the true place of abode and calling of each of such Maori men, in the proper column of the form of return hereunto annexed, and marked B.

3. Such constables, having made out such lists, shall fix a notice in the form hereunto annexed, marked C, in manner prescribed by the said form.

4. Any person who shall deface or remove such notice shall forfeit a sum not exceeding £5 nor less than £2.

5. The constables shall keep the original lists or true copies thereof to be inspected and perused by any of the inhabitants of the said jury district at any reasonable time between the 6th day of December, 1884, and the 15th day of December, 1884, without fee or reward, to the end that notice may be given of Maori men qualified and liable to serve as jurors who are omitted, or of Maori men inscribed who ought to be omitted, from such list.

6. The Jury Officer of every such jury district shall, by a notice in the Form D hereunto annexed, in such a manner as he shall think fit, seven days at least before the day of meeting, call, for the purposes herein mentioned, a meeting of the Justices of the Peace residing within the jury district, to be held on Wednesday, the seventeenth day of December, at some Resident Magistrate’s Courthouse or office, or some other suitable building, to be named in such notice, at the Court town of such district.

7. Sections 21 to 25, both inclusive, and section 27 of the said Act, shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the forming, revising, keeping, and transmitting to the Sheriffs of the first jury lists for Maori cases formed under these rules.

8. The Jury Officer shall, before the 19th day of December 1884, deliver or transmit such list to the Sheriff of the Sheriff’s district within which the jury district for which such list shall have been prepared shall be situated.

9. The jury lists so formed, revised, and transmitted to the Sheriffs as aforesaid shall remain in force until the 14th day of May, 1886.

10. From and after the 1st day of January, 1886, sections 13 to 30, both inclusive, of the said Act, shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the forming, revising, keeping, and transmitting to the Sheriffs jury lists for Maori cases.

11. When any notice of a claim to be tried by a Maori jury under section 148 or section 150 of the said Act, or of a mixed jury under section 152 of the said Act, has been given, the Registrar, Clerk, or proper officer of the Court in which the trial is to be heard shall issue a precept, under his hand, to the Sheriff of the Sheriff’s district within which such trial is to be heard, commanding such Sheriff to summon a sufficient number of Maori jurors to attend and serve at such trial.

12. Such precept shall be in the form contained in the Fifth Schedule to the said Act, or to the like effect, and shall command the Sheriff to summon not less than thirty-six Maori men (if so many be resident within the jury district) when the trial is to be heard under section 148 or section 150 of the said Act, and not less than twelve Maori men (if so many be resident within the jury district) when the trial is to be heard under section 152 of the said Act.

13. The provisions of the said Act as to boxes for the names of jurors, and as to jury-books for common jurors, and as to the summoning of jurors, as contained in sections 31 to 37, both inclusive, sections 65 to 70, both inclusive, and sections 95 to 101, both inclusive, of the said Act, shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to Maori juries.

14. The Forms B and C hereto annexed, and the form of summons which shall be issued in respect of the summoning of Maori juries, shall, when issued, be printed both in the English and Maori languages respectively.

FORM A.

Warrant from Jury Officer as to Maori Jurors.

JURY DISTRICT OF __ ,
TO WIT.

To C.D., a constable within the said district.

THESE are to command you in Her Majesty’s name to make out, before the 5th day of December next, a true list in writing, in the form hereunto annexed, containing the names of all Maori men between the ages of twenty-one years and sixty years, being of good fame and character, and residing within the said jury district [or describing the portion of district for which warrant given]; and, when you shall have made out such list, you are to sign the several notices hereunto annexed, and fix one of such notices upon or near the principal outer door of every Resident Magistrate’s courthouse, and every church, chapel, or other public place of religious worship within the district aforesaid; and you are to keep the said list, or a true copy thereof, to be inspected or perused by any of the inhabitants of the said district at any reasonable time between the 6th day of December and the 15th day of December, without any fee or reward. And I do further require you to appear personally at the meeting of Justices to be helden at __ , on Wednesday, the 17th day of December, at 12 o’clock noon, then and there to produce the said list, and to answer on oath all questions touching the same which may then and there be put to you.

You must exempt from the said list the names of all persons who are by section 6 of “The Juries Act, 1880,” exempted from being inserted in such list.

Given under my hand at __ , in the said district, this day of __ , 1884.

A.B., Jury Officer.

FORM B.

List of Maori Men within the Jury District of __ , qualified and liable to serve on Juries.

FORM C.

Notice of Maori Jury List open to Inspection.

NOTICE is hereby given that a list of Maori men residing within the Jury District of __ , and qualified to serve on juries therein, has been made out, and may be inspected and perused at the place hereunder described between the 6th day of December and the 15th day of December, 1884.