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JURISDICTION OF RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Given under the hand of 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, at the Government House, at Wellington, and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this twenty-third day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. GREY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the twenty-third day of November, 1866.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Supreme Court Amendment Act, 1862,” it is provided that the Judges of the Supreme Court from time to time with the approval of the Governor in Council, may revoke or alter any rules for the time being in force, touching the administration of the effects and estates of persons deceased, and with such approval as aforesaid, may make new and other rules in that behalf, and also touching the practice and procedure of the Supreme Court, in respect of any matter or thing for the time being or which shall at any time be within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court; and such new or other rules with such approval as aforesaid may from time to time alter and revoke. And whereas their Honors the Judges of the Supreme Court of the Colony, have in pursuance of the power so vested in them as aforesaid, made the following general rules touching the practice and procedure of the said Court: Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, doth hereby signify his approval of the said rules.

FOSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

RULES GENERALES.

[October, 1866.]

By virtue of the powers vested in us by law, it is ordered by us, the undersigned, Judges of the said Court, that the following general rules shall come into and be in force on and after the first day of January, A.D., 1867:—

1st.—Pleading Provincial Ordinances.

When any party pleading relies upon any provision contained in any Act or Ordinance of any Provincial Council, he shall insert in the margin of the pleading the title and date of such Act or Ordinance, and the number of any section thereof on which he relies; and it shall not be necessary to set out the words or state the provisions of any such section, except in such cases and in such manner as would be necessary if the same were contained in an Imperial Act, or an Act of the General Assembly.

2nd.—Fee for Copying Documents and Office Copy.

The fee of 6d. per folio for copying documents, and for office copies chargeable according to Schedule D. of the Regulæ Generales of May, 1861, is hereby abolished, and instead thereof there shall be payable within each judicial district of the Colony for every folio of seventy-two words copied, such fee not exceeding 6d., and not less than 4d. per folio, as the Judge of such district shall direct by a notice to be posted in the office of the Registrars and Deputy-Registrars within such districts.

ALEXANDER J. JOHNSTON,
Acting Chief Justice.
H. B. GRESSON, J.
C. W. RICHMOND, J.
H. S. CHAPMAN, J.
J. S. MOONE, J.

G. GREY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the twenty-third day of November, 1866.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Resident Magistrates’ Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1862,” it is enacted that the limits of jurisdiction of any Resident Magistrate’s Court within the Colony may be extended in manner therein set forth; and it is further enacted that the second and third sections of the said Act shall come into force in respect of any Resident Magistrate’s Court, on a day to be determined by a Proclamation in the Government Gazette, pursuant to an order of the Governor in Council: Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, doth hereby order and direct that the first day of December next shall be the day on and from which the second and third sections of the said “Resident Magistrates’ Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1862,” shall come into force, to the limit of jurisdiction of one hundred pounds, in respect of the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Naseby, in the Province of Otago.

FOSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th November, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Henry Wrigram Robinson, Esq., to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of Dunstan, in the Province of Otago.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 26th November, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by Arthur Davies Harvey, Esq., of St. Bathan’s, Borthwick Robert Baird, Esq., of Mount Ida, Edgar Hall Carew, Esq., of M’Crae’s, and John Mackay, Esq., of Waitahuna, James Charles Thomson, Esq., of Alexandra, in the Province of Otago, and by Edward Hardcastle, Esq., of Hokitika, in the Province of Canterbury, of their appointments as Justices of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

E. W. STAFFORD.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 6th November, 1866.

It is hereby notified for public information, that in future the Post Office of Tuapeka, in the Province of Otago, will be denominated the Post Office of “Lawrence.”

JOHN HALL.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Daniel Campbell, of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Printer to the said Provincial Government for the time being.