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GENERAL BOARD OF ROAD TRUSTEES.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, in accordance with clause 6 of the "Roads Ordinance, 1856," that the Representatives from the North-east Valley District Board of Road Trustees have given notice of their intention to propose, at a future meeting of the General Board:—

That the District Road Line between sections 25 and 27, North-east Valley District, be Shut Up.

JAMES A. CHEYNE,
Clerk to the Board.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 14th February 1859.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified that

THOMAS DICK, Esquire,
Merchant, Dunedin, was this day duly elected a Member of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago.

By order,

JOHN LOGAN,
Clerk to Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 7th March 1859.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs the republication of the following Proclamation and Notices from the "General Government" and "Wellington Gazettes," dated 22nd January and 10th February 1859, respectively.

By order,

JOHN LOGAN,
Clerk to Superintendent.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by the "District Courts Act, 1858," it is enacted that there shall be, within the Colony of New Zealand, Courts of Record possessing Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction, to be called District Courts, and the Governor is empowered from time to time, as he shall think fit, by Proclamation in the "New Zealand Gazette," to constitute throughout the Colony, or in any part thereof, Districts within which such Courts shall be respectively held, and such Districts to abolish, and the boundaries thereof to define or alter, and also to declare by what local name each such Court shall be designated.

Now, therefore I, the Governor, in pursuance and execution of the aforesaid authority do hereby proclaim and constitute the Province of

OTAGO

to be a District within which a District Court shall be held under the said Act.

And in further pursuance and exercise of the authority aforesaid, I do hereby declare that the aforesaid Court shall be designated by the name of "The District Court of Otago."

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Colony, at Government House, at Auckland, in the Colony aforesaid, this 13th day of January, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency’s command.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

PROVINCE OF OTAGO.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, and so forth. To our trusty and loving subjects :

Burns, Arthur John, East Taieri
Cargill, His Honor William, Dunedin
Cargill, John, Tokomairiro
Chapman, Robert, Dunedin
Cuttten, William Henry, Dunedin
Fulton, James, West Taieri
Gillies, John, Dunedin
Hertslet, Henry Charles, Moeraki
Hogue, Arthur, Invercargill
Johnston, William, East Taieri
Kettle, Charles Henry, Clutha
Lee, Edward, West Taieri
Logie, Charles, Dunedin
Macandrew, James, Dunedin
Mackenzie, Francis Wallace, Murihiku
McGillich, Henry, Jacob’s River
McGillich, John, Dunedin
M’Master, Alexander, Waitangi
Meates, Honorable James, Mataura
Pearson, Walter Henry, Invercargill
Pillans, Francis Scott, Clutha
Purdie, William, Dunedin
Reynolds, William Hunter, Dunedin
Rich, Gordon, Murihiku
Shaw, John, Clutha
Taylor, John Parkins, Riverton, Jacob’s River
Teschemaker, William Henry, Waitangi
Williams, Robert, Dunedin

Know Ye, that We have assigned you, and each and every of you, jointly and severally to be our Justices of the Peace in the Province of Otago, in our Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, to keep and cause to be kept, all Laws, Ordinances, and Statutes, in force within the said Province for the punishing of offenders, the preservation of the peace, and for the quiet rule, welfare, and good government of Our People in the said Province; and to have, exercise, and discharge all the powers, authorities, and duties belonging or pertaining to the office of a Justice of the Peace in the said Province.

And therefore, We command you, and each of you, that to keep the Peace, and