[NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE]

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY DIVISION

A boundary line separating the Province of Canterbury from the Provinces of Nelson and Marlborough, shall be divided into two Districts, to be called respectively, the Canterbury District; and the Otago and Southland District; and that the Canterbury District shall comprise the said Province of Canterbury, and that the Otago and Southland District shall comprise all that portion of the Colony which lies to the South of the boundary line separating the said Province of Canterbury from the Province of Otago; and in further pursuance and execution of the said Act, I do hereby, with the advice and consent aforesaid, proclaim and declare that I assign the said Canterbury District unto the said Henry Barnes Gresson, Esquire, and the said Otago and Southland District unto Christopher William Richmond, Esquire, a Judge of the said Court, and that Circuit Courts shall be holden for the said Canterbury District at the Town of Christchurch, in the said Province of Canterbury, on the First day of March, the First day of June, the First day of September, and the First day of December in every year; and that for the said Otago and Southland District, at the Town of Dunedin in the Province of Otago on the First day of March, the First day of June, the First day of September, and the First day of December in every year; and at the Town of Invercargill, in the Province of Southland, on the Tenth day of January and the Tenth day of July in every year, or as soon after the said days respectively as conveniently may be, and in case any one of the said days so fixed as aforesaid shall happen to be a Sunday or a holiday, then the Court appointed for such day shall be holden on the day following: And with the advice and consent aforesaid, I do lastly proclaim and declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation and take effect on the First day of May next.

Given under my hand, at New Plymouth, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this twenty-third day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

G. Grey.

By His Excellency’s Command,
Alfred Domett.

God Save The Queen!

(From New Zealand Gazette, May 12, 1863.)

A PROCLAMATION

Bringing into Operation the Colonial Defence Force Act, 1862.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable 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 an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "An Act for raising a Force for the internal Defence of the Colony," it is enacted that the said Act shall come into force on and after a day to be fixed by the Governor by Proclamation in the Government Gazette:

Now therefore I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the provisions of the said in part recited Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the aforesaid "Act for raising a Force for the internal Defence of the Colony" shall come into force on and after the date hereof.

Given under my hand, at New Plymouth, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand this fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

G. Grey.

By His Excellency’s Command,
Alfred Domett.

God Save The Queen!

A PROCLAMATION

For the Naturalization of certain Persons

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable 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 Naturalization Act, 1859," it is enacted that every person who shall be declared to come within the operation of that Act by any Proclamation to be issued in that behalf by His Excellency the Governor, shall, from the time in such Proclamation specified, be deemed and taken until the termination of the next Session of the General Assembly to be, and to have been from such specified time, a natural-born subject of Her Majesty, within the Colony of New Zealand, as fully to all intents and purposes as if his name had been inserted in the Schedule to that Act annexed: Provided always that every such Proclamation shall contain the description, occu-