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Woollocombe, Belfield, (R.M.), Timaru
Woodward, Jonas, Wellington
Worsley, Septimus Launcelot, Wellington
Worthington, Charles, (R.M.), Waipori, Taieri
Wright, John Fortescue Evelyn, Ohiro
Wright, William Brisbane, Motueka
Wyatt, Lieut.-Col. Alfred Francis William, Auckland
Wynyard, Gladyn John Richard, Auckland
Young, Henry, Southland
Young, William, Auckland
Young, William Carr, Dunedin

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 the 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 the 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 the 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 enquiry, 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 the said Colony.

And we command all Our Sheriffs in the 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 annexed.

Witness Our Trusty and Well Beloved Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, at Government House, at Auckland, in New Zealand aforesaid, this sixteenth day of September, in the twenty-seventh year of Our Reign, and in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

G. GREY,
Governor.

By His Excellency’s command,
ALFRED DOMETT.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN

W. R. E. Brown, Esq., appointed Deputy Sheriff for the District of Wairarapa.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Judicial Department,
Auckland, 25th September, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM ROBERT EDWARD BROWN, Esq.

of Wairarapa, in the Province of Wellington, to be Deputy Sheriff for the District of Wairarapa.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Militia and Volunteers.

Colonial Defence Office,
Auckland, 29th September, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointments, viz:-

In the Wanganui “Union” Volunteers.

John Hunt Hurst, to be Lieutenant. Date of Commission 28th September, 1863.

Hamilton Moore, to be Ensign. Date of Commission, 28th September, 1863.

Henry Wilcox, to be Ensign. Date of Commission, 28th September, 1863.

In the Featherston Rifle Volunteers.

Henry Bunny, to be Captain. Date of Commission, 21st September, 1863.

Henry Jackson, to be Lieutenant. Date of Commission, 21st September, 1863.

Charles Welby Jackson, to be Ensign. Date of Commission, 21st September, 1863.

In the Greytown Rifle Volunteers.

James Edward Ind Boys, to be Captain. Date of Commission, 22nd September, 1863.

Samuel Moles, to be Lieutenant. Date of Commission, 22nd September, 1863.

William Udy, to be Ensign. Date of Commission, 22nd September, 1863.

T. RUSSELL.