John Turnbull Thomson, Esq.,
to be Commissioner under the "New Zealand Company's Land Claims Ordinance," No. 15 of Session XI., 1851, for the District of Otago, in place of W. H. Cutten, Esq., resigned.
W. Gisborne.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch),
Wellington, 29th March, 1870.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

BORTHWICK ROBERT BAIRD, Esq.,
to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court for the Resident Magistrate's District of Otago Gold Fields at Cromwell.
W. Gisborne.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, May 12, 1870, No. 24.)

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch),
Wellington, 10th May, 1870.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN FRANCIS GARVEY
to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court for the Resident Magistrate's District of Otago Gold Fields at Switzer's and Nokomai, vice James Cosgrove.
W. Gisborne.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, May 17, 1870, No. 25.)

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the thirty-second year of Her Majesty's reign, intituled, "An Act for amending the Law relating to the Coasting Trade and Merchant Shipping in British Possessions" (a copy of which is hereunto annexed), it is amongst other things enacted that the said Act shall be proclaimed in every British Possession by the Governor thereof, as soon as may be after he receives notice of the said Act, and shall come into operation in that British Possession on the day of such Proclamation:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G., the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim the said Act.

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 Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

God Save the Queen!

W. Gisborne.

CHAP. XI.

An Act for amending the Law relating to the Coasting Trade and Merchant Shipping in British Possessions.
[13th May, 1861.]
[For Act see New Zealand Gazette of 17th May, 1870.]

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The District Courts Jurisdiction Extension Act 1866," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, to bring into operation with respect to any District Court, from and after a day to be named in such Proclamation, either the whole of the said Act or such sections thereof as to him may seem fit:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the said power and authority vested in me for this purpose, do hereby proclaim and declare that on the first day of June next, the said "District Courts Jurisdiction Extension Act 1866," shall come into operation with respect to

the District Court of the Otago Gold Fields.

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; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

God Save the Queen!

W. Gisborne.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 13th May, 1870.

His Excellency the Governor has, in Her Majesty's name, summoned

ROBERT CAMPBELL, Esq.,
of Otekaike Station, in the Province of Otago;

THOMAS FRAZER, Esq.,
of Inglewood, Dunedin; to the Legislative Council of New Zealand, by Writs of Summons under the Seal of the Colony.

W. Gisborne.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 13th May, 1870.

The following Ordinance, passed by the Provincial Council, and reserved by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago for the signification of the Governor's pleasure thereon, intituled "The Dunedin Reserves Management Ordinance 1869," having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased to withhold his assent to the same.

W. Gisborne.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, May 26, 1870, No. 26.)

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th May, 1870.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

FREDERICK MALLARD
to be Inspector of Weights and Measures under "The Weights and Measures Act 1868," for the District of Tokomairiro, in the Province of Otago.

W. Gisborne.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1870.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS NEIL
to be Inspector of Weights and Measures under "The Weights and Measures Act 1868," for the District of Dunstan, in the Province of Otago.

W. Gisborne.

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