LIST OF MAGISTRATES,
IN SOUTHLAND.

Republished from “New Zealand Gazette” No. 41, July 6, 1866.

G. GREY, Governor.
Victoria by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith and so forth to our trusty and loving subjects:

(The following are the gentlemen connected with Southland whose names appear in the list):—

Armstrong, Harry, Winton, Southland.
Blacklock, John, Invercargill.
Calder, William Henderson, Invercargill.
Chalmers, Nathanael, Invercargill.
Cowan, Cuthbert, Hokanui, Southland.
Cuthbertson, John Robert, Waiau, Southland.
Dundas, John Francis, Invercargill.
Elles, Andrew Jamieson, Invercargill.
Hodgkinson, Samuel, Riverton, Southland.
Holmes, Mathew, Southland.
Lawlor, Daniel Shea, Riverton, Southland.
M’Arthur, Duncan, Invercargill.
M’Culloch, Henry, Invercargill.
M’Kellar, Peter, Mataura, Southland.
M’Nab, Alexander, Knapdale, Mataura.
M’Neil, Alexander, Ardlussa, Southland.
Menzies, James Alexander Robertson, Invercargill.
Nurse, William Hugh, Riverton, Southland.
Nutter, Frederick, Invercargill.
Pearson, Walter Henry, Invercargill.
Rogers, Joseph, Glenquoich, Southland.
Stuart, Robert, Mataura.
Taylor, John Parkin, Invercargill.
Watt, Isaac Newton, Campbelltown, Southland.
Wentworth, Fitzwilliam, Southland.
Young, Henry, Southland.

KNOW ye, that we have assigned you, and each and every of you, jointly and severally, to be our Justices of the Peace in our Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, to keep and cause to be kept all laws, ordinances, and statutes in force within our said Colony, for the punishing of offenders, the preservation of the peace, and for the quiet rule, welfare, and good government of our people in our said Colony; and to have, exercise, and discharge all the powers, authorities, and duties belonging or pertaining to the office of a Justice of the Peace in our said Colony.

And therefore, we command you and each and every of you that to keep the peace and all laws, ordinances, and statutes, and all and singular other the premises you diligently apply yourselves, and that, at certain days and places duly appointed or to be appointed for these purposes, into the premises to make inquiry, and all and singular the premises hear and determine and perform and fulfil them, doing therein what to justice appertains, according to the law and custom of England and of our said Colony.

And we command all our Sheriffs in our said Colony at certain days and places appointed, or to be appointed to be aiding by all lawful means in the performance and due execution of the premises.

In testimony whereof, we have caused these our Letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of our Colony to be hereunto affixed.

Witness our trusty and well beloved Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over our Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, at Government House, at Wellington, in New Zealand aforesaid this third day of July, in the thirtieth year of our reign, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

E. W. STAFFORD.

God save the Queen!

BYE-LAWS passed by the Wardens of the Winton Hundred, and sanctioned by the Waste Land Board:—

One head of Cattle to every five acres.

1.—That for the remainder of the current year, no person shall be allowed to depasture more than one head of cattle over the age of six months, to every five acres of land which he or she occupies in the hundred; and any person so depasturing more than one head of cattle over the age of six months to every five acres shall forfeit and pay for any such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds.