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provisions of the Ordinance aforesaid, in the room of

SAMUEL BEATEN, ESQ.,
resigned: And I hereby appoint

ROBERT MITCHELL, ESQ.,
of Invercargill, Returning Officer, to preside at the said meeting and in the event of a poll being demanded I hereby appoint the polling to take place in the office of the said Board, on Tuesday the third day of May, 1864.

J. A. R. MENZIES,
Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office,
Southland, 16th April, 1864.

WALLACETOWN PUBLIC POUND.

IMPOUNDED on Saturday, one Chestnut Horse, branded J.C. off 44 shoulder; brand somewhat resembling ( ) on the near shoulder.

If not claimed to be sold hereat on the 14th day of May next, at twelve o’clock noon.

F. PELLING,
Poundkeeper.

16th April, 1864.

[Republished from New Zealand Gazette, Thursday, March 3rd, 1864.]

A PROCLAMATION

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.

WHEREAS by the “Definition of Districts Act, 1858,” the Governor is empowered from time to time by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to divide the Colony into Counties, Hundreds, Parishes, or such other divisions as he may deem expedient, which shall have such limits, and shall bear and be known by such names or designations as in and by the said Proclamation constituting the same shall be prescribed.

Now, I, the Governor of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the territory hereinafter described or referred to shall be, and the same is hereby constituted a Village, that is to say, All that territory in the Province of Southland, containing by admeasurement 499 (Four hundred and ninety-nine) acres, 2 (Two) roods, and 25 (Twenty-five) perches, more or less, bounded on the North and East by the Ocean and Jacob’s River Estuary, on the South and East by the South Eastern Boundary of Section 3, Block 11, Jacob’s River Hundred, on the South and West by the South Western Boundary of Sections 3 and 13, Block 11, and 3, 4 5, 6, and 7, Block 1, Jacob’s River Hundred, and on the North-West by the North-Western Boundary of Section 7, Block 1, Jacob’s River Hundred, containing 499 (Four hundred and ninety-nine) acres, 2 (Two) roods, and 25 (Twenty-five) perches, more or less:

And I further proclaim and declare that the said Village shall bear and be known by the name or designation of the Village of South Riverton.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, at Government House, at Auckland, this twenty-fifth day of February, in the year of Our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command,

WILLIAM FOX.

CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS.

THE Law in reference to Criminal Prosecutions is the same in New Zealand as in England. Some person in all cases is or ought to be bound over to prosecute, and that person has a right to conduct the prosecution in the Supreme Court, or to employ a Solicitor and Counsel to do so.

It has been thought advisable not to alter the Law here, but having regard to the difference of circumstances between England and New Zealand, there are certain details for which some special provision should be made, and especially specific instructions given to those whose duty it is to conduct prosecutions both before Justices of the Peace and in the Supreme Court. The following Regulations will for the future be acted on;—

1. In all prosecutions, except in special cases, where Solicitors are employed by direction of the Government, or by prosecutors, the management of the case in the usual manner before Justices of the Peace will be left to the Police.