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time to time to constitute for any Gold Field, or for any part thereof, Wardens' Courts for the administration of justice therein, and to appoint Wardens as Judges of such Courts, with power to act alone, or with Assessors or Juries, and in such manner, and to exercise all or any of the powers thereafter mentioned as the Governor shall think fit to direct ;

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby constitute for the respective parts or districts after-mentioned of the Gold Fields of the Province of Otago, Wardens' Courts, for the administration of justice within the said districts respectively, that is to say: For the district known as GABRIEL’S DISTRICT.

For the district known as WAITAHUNA DISTRICT, including Waipori and the Woolshed.

For the district known as the DUNSTAN DISTRICT.

For the district known as the NOKOMAI DISTRICT.

For the district known as the MOUNT BENGER DISTRICT.

Foster Goring,
Clerk of Executive Council.

ORDER IN COUNCIL,
Appointing Wardens within the Otago Gold Fields.

G. Grey,
Governor.

At the Government House, at Auckland, the 15th day of September, 1863.

Present :—

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the “Gold Fields Act, 1862,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to constitute for any Gold Field, or for any part thereof, Wardens’ Courts for the administration of justice therein, and to appoint Wardens as Judges of such Courts, with power to act alone or with Assessors or Juries, and in such manner, and to exercise all or any of the powers thereafter mentioned as the Governor shall think fit to direct.

And whereas by an order in Council of even date herewith there have been constituted for certain districts of the Gold Field of the Province of Otago Wardens’ Courts, for the administration of justice within the said districts respectively :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council of New Zealand, doth hereby appoint the persons undermentioned, being Justices of the Peace and Resident Magistrates, that is to say :—

EDWARD CROKER, Esq.
CHARLES WORTHINGTON, Esq.
JOHN NUGENT WOOD, Esq.
RICHMOND BEETHAM, Esq.
HENRY WIRGHAM ROBINSON, Esq.
ALEXANDER JAMES WILLIS, Esq.
JOHN SMITH HICKSON, Esq.
CHARLES WILLIAMSON, Esq., and
EDWARD HARDCASTLE, Esq.,

to be Wardens and Judges of all Wardens’ Courts now or hereafter to be constituted, with power to them and each of them to act alone or with Assessors or Juries, and in such manner, and to exercise all or any of the powers mentioned in the 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, and 30th Sections of the “Gold Fields Act, 1862,” as the Governor shall think fit to direct.

Foster Goring,
Clerk of Executive Council.

ORDER IN COUNCIL,
Fixing Wardens’ Court Rules for the Province of Otago.

G. Grey,
Governor.

At the Government House, at Auckland, the fifteenth day of September, 1863.

Present :—

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS, by the “Gold Fields Act, 1862,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to make, alter, and revoke Rules regulating the procedure and practice in the Courts to be established under the said Act, and in cases of appeal therefrom, and also to fix the fees to be taken in respect of proceedings therein :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, Doth hereby order that the rules and fees, respectively set forth in the Schedule hereunto annexed, shall be the Rules regulating the procedure and practice in the Wardens’ Courts, within the Province of Otago, and in cases of appeal therefrom, and shall be the fees to be taken in respect to proceedings therein.

Foster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council