Hurt District.

Bounded on the North-west by the Korokoro Stream in Port Nicholson to its source, thence along the hills forming the Watershed between Port Nicholson and Porirua, to the Tararua Range; on the East by the Tararua and Rimutaka Ranges to Cape Turakirae; and on the South by the sea, including Somes and Ward Islands.

Wairarapa District.

Bounded on the North by a line from the Manawatu Gorge to the mouth of the Waimata Stream; on the East and South by the coast line from the mouth of the Waimata Stream to Cape Turakirae; and on the West by the Hutt and Porirua Districts hereinbefore defined.

Given under my hand at the Government House at Auckland and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this tenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty two.

G. Grey.

By His Excellency’s command,
Alfred Domett.

God Save the Queen!

(From the New Zealand Gazette, 20th December, 1862.)

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

Authorising Extension of Jurisdiction of Resident Magistrates’ Courts.

G. Grey,
Governor.

At the Government House, at Auckland, the seventeenth day of December, 1862.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

Whereas by the “Resident Magistrate’s Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1862,” it is enacted that the limits of Jurisdiction of any Resident Magistrate’s Court within the Colony may be extended in manner therein set forth, and it is further enacted that the second and third sections of the said Act shall come into force in respect of any Resident Magistrate’s Court, on a day to be determined by a Proclamation in the Government Gazette pursuant to an Order of the Governor in Council:

And whereas it is expedient to authorise the issue of such Proclamations in terms of the Act before recited:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby order and direct that the said first and second sections of the “Resident Magistrate’s Jurisdiction Extension Act” shall come into force in respect of any Resident Magistrate’s Court within the Colony, upon a day to be fixed by the Governor for each such Court by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Colony.

Forster Goring,
Clerk of Executive Council.

A PROCLAMATION.

Extending Jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrates’ Courts at Wellington and at Russell.

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.

Whereas by the “Resident Magistrate’s Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1862,” it is enacted that in 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:

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 17th day of December, 1862, 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 Fifty Pounds in the Resident Magistrates’ Courts at Wellington and Russell; and I do further proclaim and declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and from the first day of January, 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 of New Zealand, this seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

G. Grey,

By His Excellency’s command,
Alfred Domett.

God Save the Queen!