NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,

(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.

VOL. XI.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1863. [No. 6

Extended Jurisdiction, R. M. Courts.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 30th January, 1863.

THE following Proclamation is re-published from the New Zealand Gazette of January 28, for general information.

J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.

A PROCLAMATION

Extending Jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrates’ Courts at Wellington, Wanganui, and Nelson.

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 Magistrates’ Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1862,” it is enacted that 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:

And it is provided that the Governor may by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Colony declare that the limit of jurisdiction of any such Court shall be extended to One Hundred Pounds and such limit of jurisdiction shall be in such case extended accordingly:

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 One hundred Pounds in the Resident Magistrates’ Courts at Wellington, Wanganui, and Nelson; and I do further proclaim and declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and from the first day of February, 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 twenty-first day of January, 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!

SALE OF VALUABLE FREEHOLD LAND IN THE TOWN OF WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND.

UNDER authority of an Act, Session III, No. 14, of the Provincial Council of Wellington entitled “Harbour Reserves,” and of an Act, Session VIII., No. 3, of the said Provincial Council, entitled “Harbour Reserves Amendment,”—Notice is hereby given that the following Allotments of Land, situated in the Town of Wellington, will be offered for sale at Public Auction, at the Office of the Provincial Treasury, at Wellington, on Wednesday, the 25th day of February, 1863, at One o’clock, p.m., at the upset prices affixed in the subjoined Schedule.