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District, and afterwards from time to time as may be deemed expedient, the Governor shall, by proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, appoint a meeting of the Justices of the Peace resident in such district to be yearly held within such district at some specified time and place, for the purposes of choosing a Chairman of Petty Sessions and settling a rota of attendance: And whereas by an Order in Council bearing date the twenty-second day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, certain Petty Sessions Districts, including amongst others the districts hereinafter named, were defined and established: And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, certain times and places for the meetings of the Justices of the Peace resident in the districts hereinafter named were proclaimed and appointed: And whereas it is expedient that the times of meeting proclaimed and appointed by such Proclamation should be altered:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority in that behalf vested in me, do hereby proclaim and appoint that for each of the districts named in the Schedule hereto a meeting of the Justices of the Peace resident within such district shall be yearly held at the place whereof the name is in the said Schedule set opposite to the name of such district, at twelve o’clock noon, on the day set opposite the name of such place in the said Schedule, for the purpose of choosing a Chairman of Petty Sessions and settling a rota of attendance.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

E. W. Stafford

Horace Bastings, Esq., to be a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

E. W. Stafford

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

In exercise and pursuance of the powers vested in me by “The Weights and Measures Act, 1868,” I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G., the Governor of New Zealand, do hereby direct that the authorised copies of the Standard Weights and Measures issued and to be issued under the provisions of the said Act to the several Inspectors of Weights and Measures for the Districts, Provinces, and Counties named in the first column of the Schedule hereunder written, shall be kept therein at the several places of deposit the names whereof are in the second column of the said Schedule set opposite the names of the said Districts, Provinces, and Counties respectively, in the respective buildings the descriptions whereof are in the third column of such Schedule set opposite the names of such places of deposit respectively.

SCHEDULE.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

E. W. Stafford

Whereas by “The Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act, 1865,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint the person elected to be Mayor of any city or incorporated town as therein mentioned to be a Justice of the Peace for the Colony, provided that in every such case such appointment shall continue no longer than the mayoralty of such person: And whereas Horace Bastings, Esquire, has been elected Mayor of the Municipality of Lawrence:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority in that behalf vested in me, do hereby...

(From the New Zealand Gazette, March 25, 1869, No. 16.)

Treasury,
Wellington, 25th March, 1869.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint William Dick Murison, Esq., to be Deputy Auditor for the Province of Otago, under the provisions of “The Provincial Audit Act, 1866.”

E. W. Stafford

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Mills, Dick & Co., of Dunedin, New Zealand, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.