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hearing the Petition of the above-named George Leopold Morton.

ROBERT CHAPMAN,
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office,
Dunedin, 19th October, 1863.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND, OTAGO AND SOUTH-LAND DISTRICT.

In the matter of the Petition of ROBERT BLAKE of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, lately a licensed victualler, now a prisoner for debt in Her Majesty’s Gaol at Dunedin; and in the matter of “The Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862.”

NOTICE is hereby given that His Honor Mr. Justice Richmond has appointed Monday, the 23rd day of November next, at the hour of 10 o’clock in the forenoon, at the Court-house, Dunedin, for hearing the Petition of the above-named Robert Blake.

ROBERT CHAPMAN,
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office,
Dunedin, 17th October, 1863.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND, OTAGO AND SOUTH-LAND DISTRICT.

In the matter of the Petition of JAMES SMITH, of Dunedin, late a Livery-Stable Keeper; and in the matter of “The Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862.”

NOTICE is hereby given that His Honor Mr. Justice Richmond has appointed Monday, the 23rd day of November 1863, at the hour of 10 o’clock in the forenoon, at the Court-house, Dunedin, for hearing the Petition of the above-named James Smith; and also granted interim protection to the person of the said James Smith until the said 23rd day of November next.

ROBERT CHAPMAN,
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office,
Dunedin, 16th October, 1863.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, Sept. 15, 1863.]

A PROCLAMATION

Intimating Her Majesty’s assent to a certain Bill passed by the General Assembly.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY, Knight Commander 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 an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of Her Majesty’s reign, entitled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” it is amongst other things enacted that no Bill which shall be reserved for the signification of Her Majesty’s pleasure thereon shall have any force or authority within the Colony of New Zealand until the Governor of the said Colony shall signify by speech or message to the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the said Colony, or by Proclamation, that such Bill has been laid before Her Majesty in Council, and that Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to the same:

And whereas a certain Bill passed by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the said Colony, intituled “An Act to amend and consolidate the Law relating to Gold Fields,” was presented to the Governor of the said Colony for Her Majesty’s assent, and the said Bill was reserved for the signification of Her Majesty’s pleasure thereon:

Now therefore, I, Sir GEORGE GREY, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the provisions of the said in part recited Act, do by this Proclamation signify and proclaim to all whom it may concern, that the said Bill has been laid before Her Majesty in Council, and that Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to the same.

Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this fifteenth day of September, 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.

Delegation of the Governor’s powers under the “Gold Fields Act, 1862,” to the Superintendent of Otago.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY, Knight Commander 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 an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Gold Fields Act, 1862,” it is provided