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Sittings of the Supreme Court.

SUPREME COURT.

MIDDLE DISTRICT.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Sitting of the Circuit Court of the Supreme Court for the Middle District of New Zealand, for the dispatch of Civil and Criminal business will be holden at the Court House, in the Provincial Government Buildings, at Wellington, on Tuesday, the 1st day of September next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, pursuant to proclamation; at which time and place, all persons bound by recognizances, prosecutors, witnesses, or defendants, are required to give their attendance.

Notice is hereby further given that the Civil Cases will not be called on for trial, until Tuesday, the 8th day of September next, at ten o’clock, a.m., to which time the Sittings of the said Circuit Court will be adjourned, after the conclusion of the Criminal business.

The Supreme Court will sit in Bunco, on Tuesday, the fifteenth day of September next, at ten o’clock, a.m.,

ROBERT R. STRANG.
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office,
Wellington,
14th August, 1863.

General Government Notices.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 14th August, 1863.

THE following Notifications are republished from the New Zealand Gazette, for General information.

J. WOODWARD,
Provincial Secretary.

A Proclamation declaring certain articles contraband of War.

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., &c.

WHEREAS by the “Arms Act, 1860,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette from time to time to declare what articles shall be considered as warlike stores for the purposes of the said Act and also for the purposes of an Ordinance of the Lieutenant Governor and Legislative Council of New Zealand passed in the sixth session of the said Council entitled “An Ordinance to empower the Governor of New Zealand to regulate the Importation and sale of Arms, Gunpowder and other Warlike stores.”

Now therefore I Sir George Grey the Governor of the said Colony in pursuance and exercise of the said power and authority do hereby proclaim and declare that the undermentioned articles shall (amongst others) be considered as Warlike stores for the purposes above mentioned that is to say:

Firearms of every description,
Accoutrements for such arms,
Gunpowder of every description in cartridge or otherwise,
Percussion caps, Flints,
Lead, Zinc and copper, manufactured or otherwise,
Shot, Ball, Bullets, Marbles,
Saltpetre,
Bayonets, Pikes, Hay-forks, Scythes,
Swords, Tomahawks, Adzes, and all other edged tools of whatever description soever capable of being used as weapons,
Iron of all kinds capable of being converted into weapons.

Given under my hand at the Government House at Auckland and issued under the seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this twenty-ninth day of July, 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!

Warlike Stores, &c.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 31st July, 1863.

WITH reference to the Proclamation of the 29th instant, declaring what articles shall be considered as Warlike Stores for the purposes of the “Arms Act, 1860,” it is hereby notified that persons dealing or desirous of dealing in any of the Articles prohibited by the said Proclamation, but not previously prohibited, may, upon application to a Licensing Officer appointed under the Act, and subject to the approval of the application by such officer, obtain the necessary License free of charge, to deal in such last named articles, upon the terms and conditions in such License specified.