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[Republished from the New Zealand Gazette, 4th July, 1863.]

A PROCLAMATION

Extending the Jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrate’s Court, at Invercargill.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable 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 Magistrates’ 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 Twenty Pounds may be tried in any Resident Magistrate’s Court with respect to which this 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.

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, 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 Proclamations under the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the provisions of the said recited Act, and especially the powers conferred by sections two and three thereof, shall be exercised to the limit of Jurisdiction of One Hundred Pounds in the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Invercargill; and I do further proclaim and declare that this proclamation shall take effect on and from the first day of July, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

Given under my hand at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony, this twenty-seventh day of June, in the year of Our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command.

ALFRED DOMETT.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland 30th June, 1863.

THE following Memorial from the Girvan Hand Loom Weavers’ Emigration Society is published for general information.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Unto the Honourable the Governor General and Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand.

The petition of the Girvan Hand Loom Weavers Emigration Society,

HUMBLY SHEWETH—

That your Petitioners are hand-loom weavers in the Town of Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland, and owing to the depression of trade, and the low rate of wages (being on an average four shillings and sixpence per week), and only partially employed for the last three years past, makes our position very deplorable, and on account of the circumstances we are forced to apply to you for assistance to enable us to emigrate to your Colony.

Our district being a rural one, we are all less or more acquainted with field operations, in seed time and harvest; but, being necessitated by the depression of trade, we are accustomed at all times of the year to outdoor labour—viz., such as making of roads, and all other useful employments.

Your Petitioners consider that they would be useful to the Colony in a general way by endeavouring to advance it in prosperity and wealth, and, at the same time, raising themselves in the social scale, and becoming useful members of society.

Under the above-mentioned circumstances, we humbly beg that you will take our case into your favourable consideration, and grant us free passages, or in any other way to you seeming most fit and convenient, further the object we have in view.

We are also willing to come under any obligations and directions which you may consider not only for our interest, but also for the benefit of the Colony, and under the regulations formed by the different associations therein for the purposes of emigration.

And your humble Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray,

Samuel Lyons, Treasurer,
William John Hervey, Chairman,
William Stead, Secretary.

We, the undersigned Ministers and gentlemen of Girvan, knowing the circumstances of the Petitioners to be as set forth in the foregoing Petition, do very cordially support the prayer thereof.

William Cowan, Minister of Girvan,
David Chapman, Minister of South Church,
Adam Blyth, Minister of Free Church,
John Steller, Minister of U.P. Church,
R. Smith, J.P.,
David Andrews, Banker,
Jno. Lusk, Merchant,
Matthew Brown, Ironmonger.

All communications on this subject to be addressed to the Parish Minister of Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland.