(From the New Zealand Gazette No. 34, Aug. 24, 1865.)

A PROCLAMATION

Postponing the extension of the Jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Dunedin, in the Province 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 “The Resident Magistrate’s Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1862,” it is enacted that every case of a claim for debt or damages such as might at the passing of the said Act be lawfully tried in a Resident Magistrate’s Court, where the debt or damages claimed do not exceed the sum of twenty pounds, may be tried in any Resident Magistrate’s Court with respect to which the said Act shall be in operation when the debt or damages claimed do not exceed fifty pounds; and it is provided that the Governor may, by proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Colony, declare that the limit of jurisdiction of any such Court shall be extended to one hundred pounds, and such limit of jurisdiction shall be in such cases extended accordingly.

And whereas by a Proclamation dated the first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, I, Sir George Grey, in pursuance of the said recited Act, and of an Order in Council dated the seventeenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, authorising the issue of Proclamation under the said Act, did proclaim and declare that the provisions of the said recited Act, and especially the powers conferred by sections two and three thereof, should be exercised to the limit of jurisdiction of one hundred pounds in the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Dunedin, in the Province of Otago: And I did further proclaim and declare that the said Proclamation should take effect on and from the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

And whereas it is expedient to postpone the operation of the said Proclamation:

Now therefore I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the said recited Act, and of the said Order in Council, do hereby proclaim and declare that the said recited Proclamation, except the clause relating to the date of the taking effect thereof, shall take effect on and from the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, instead of on and from the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, as therein specified.

Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Wellington, and issued under the seal of the Colony, this twenty-third day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

G. GREY.

By his Excellency’s command,

H. SEWELL.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Acts of the Assembly which Her Majesty will not be advised to disallow.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd August, 1865.

THE following Acts passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand, in the session held in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled—

“An Act to alter the duties of Customs;”

“An Act for enabling the Governor to carry into effect a Postal Service with Great Britain by way of Panama;”

having been laid before the Queen in conformity with the provisions of “The Constitution Act,” His Excellency the Governor has been informed by the Secretary of State that Her Majesty will not be advised to exercise Her power of disallowance with respect to those Acts.

J. C. RICHMOND.

Thomas Dick, Esq., elected Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd August, 1865.

IT is hereby notified that a writ issued for the election of a Superintendent for the Province of Otago, has been returned with an endorsement to the effect that THOMAS DICK, Esq., has been duly elected.

J. C. RICHMOND.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, Sept. 5, 1865, No. 35.)

ORDER IN COUNCIL,

Revoking an Order in Council of March, 1863, and otherwise regulating the exercise of the Miners’ Rights Franchise.

G. GREY, Governor.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of August, 1865.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Miners’ Representation Act, 1862,” section IX., it was enacted “that it shall be lawful for the Governor in council from time to time to make such Rules and Regulations as may be necessary for removing any obstacle of a technical or formal nature to the carrying out of the provisions of the said Act.” And by “The Miners’ Representation Act Amendment Act, 1863,” section IV., it was enacted that “the above clauses” (therein) “shall be read and construed as part of ‘The Miners’ Representation Act, 1862,’ and the provisions of the said Act shall apply to such licenses as aforesaid” (referring to the licenses mentioned in section II. of the said Amendment Act) “in all respects in like manner as to Miners’ Rights.”

And whereas by an Order in Council made in pursuance of the provisions of the first-mentioned Act (and notified in the Government Gazette of the 5th March, 1863), a stamp bearing the words “Miners’ franchise exercised,” was appointed “at each election as the distinguishing” mark or stamp to be impressed upon every Miner’s Right, in respect of which any person shall vote at such election.

And whereas it is expedient that such Order in Council should be revoked, and that such Regulation should be made as hereinafter provided:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby revoke the said recited Order in Council, and doth hereby direct that the following Regulation shall be in force from and after the fifteenth day of August, 1865.

Whenever any person qualified to vote by virtue of clause II. of “The Miners’ Representation Act, 1863,” shall have voted in respect of such qualification at any election of Gold Fields Members of the House of Representatives, or of Gold Fields Members of the Provincial Council of any Province, or for Members of the General Assembly or of a Provincial Council, the Returning Officer or Poll Clerk shall forthwith thereafter write upon the Miner’s Right held by such voter the word “exercised,” adding thereto the date of such vote, and the signature of such Returning Officer or Poll Clerk.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of Executive Council.