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conformity with the provisions of the Constitution Act, His Excellency has been pleased to leave the same to their operation.

E. W. STAFFORD.

WHEREAS by the "District Courts Act, 1858," it is provided that there shall be within the Colony, Courts of Record possessing Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction, to be called 'District Courts,' and the Governor is empowered from time to time, by notification in the "New Zealand Gazette," to fix the time and places within the District at which every such Court shall be held;

Now therefore I, Thomas Gore Browne, Governor of the Colony, do hereby, in pursuance and execution of the said power and authority, fix that a Session of the District Court of Otago shall be held at Dunedin, in the Province of Otago; and a Session of the District Court of Taranaki, at New Plymouth, in the Province of Taranaki, on the Fifteenth day of March next, respectively.

As witness my hand, this thirteenth day of January, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-nine.

T. GORE BROWNE.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 13th January 1859.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR has been pleased to appoint the following persons to be Registration Officers for the Election of Members of the House of Representatives for the Electoral Districts set opposite their names:—

Robert Chapman, Esq., Dunedin Country,
Robert Chapman, Esq., Town of Dunedin,
Andrew Jamieson Elles, Esq., County of Wallace.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 13th January 1859.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR has been pleased to appoint the following persons to be Returning Officers for the Election of Members of the House of Representatives for the Electoral Districts set opposite their names:—

Robert Chapman, Esq., Dunedin Country,
John Gillies, Esq., Town of Dunedin,
Andrew J. Elles, Esq., County of Wallace.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 13th January 1859.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR has been pleased to appoint the following persons to be Returning Officers for the Election of Members of the Provincial Council for the Electoral Districts set opposite their names:—

Robert Chapman, Esq., Town of Dunedin,
Robert Chapman, Esq., Town of Port Chalmers,
Robert Chapman, Esq., Eastern District,
Robert Chapman, Esq., Western District,
Robert Chapman, Esq., Central District,
Robert Chapman, Esq., Tokomairiro,
Robert Chapman, Esq., Northern District,
Andrew Jamieson Elles, Esq., Southern District.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Attorney-General’s Office,
Auckland, 13th January 1859.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR has been pleased to appoint

JOHN HYDE HARRIS, Esq.

to be a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

FREDK. WHITAKER.

Attorney-General’s Office,
Auckland, 13th January 1859.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR has been pleased to appoint

JOHN HYDE HARRIS, Esq.,

to be the Judge of the District Court of Otago.

FREDK. WHITAKER.

Attorney-General’s Office,
Auckland, 13th January 1859.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR has been pleased to appoint

JOHN HYDE HARRIS, Esq.,

to be a Resident Magistrate.

FREDK. WHITAKER.

Attorney-General’s Office,
Auckland, 13th January 1859.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT CHAPMAN, Esq.,

to be Clerk of the District Court of Otago.

FREDK. WHITAKER.

Office of Commissioner of Customs,
Auckland, 13th January 1859.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR has been pleased to appoint

Mr. JOHN R. MONSON, Landing Waiter at Dunedin,

to be Immigration Officer for that Port.

C. W. RICHMOND.

Printed for the Provincial Government by DANIEL CAMPBELL, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.