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TARANAKI GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

[From the New Zealand Gazette.]

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Resident Magistrates Act, 1861," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, at any time to abolish the extended jurisdiction which he is by the said Act authorised to confer upon any Resident Magistrate’s Court: And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the twentieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, the limit of jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrate’s Court hereinafter mentioned was extended to one hundred pounds: And whereas it is expedient to abolish the extended jurisdiction given to the said Court by the said Proclamation:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, proclaim and declare that, on and after the fifteenth day of December next, the extended jurisdiction so given as aforesaid to the Resident Magistrate’s Court for

The New Plymouth District,

shall be abolished.

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 thirtieth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The District Courts Act, 1858," it is enacted that there shall be within the Colony of New Zealand Courts of Record, possessing Civil and Criminal jurisdiction, to be called District Courts, and the Governor is empowered from time to time, as he shall think fit, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the Colony, or in any part thereof, districts within which such Courts shall be respectively held, and such districts to abolish, and the boundaries thereof to define or alter, and also to declare by what local name such Courts shall be designated:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance and exercise of the aforesaid power and authority, do hereby constitute and proclaim the district of the said Colony hereinafter described or referred to, to be a district within which a District Court shall be held under the said Act and under "The District Courts Act Amendment Act, 1865."

And in further pursuance and exercise of the authority aforesaid, I do hereby declare that the said Court shall be designated by the name hereunder specified, that is to say—

Designation of Court:

"The District Court of Taranaki."

Description of District:

"The Taranaki District" shall comprise the whole of the Province of Taranaki.

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 thirtieth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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 fifteenth day of