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[Extract from New Zealand Gazette, No. 60, of the 20th of November, 1871.]

PROCLAMATION.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this first day of November, 1871.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, by “The Supreme Court Act, 1860,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time, to divide the Colony into Judicial Districts for the purposes of the said Act, and the limits of such districts from time to time to alter as occasion may require; and that there shall be held Circuit Courts for the despatch of Civil and Criminal business of the Court before one of the Judges thereof, at such places and times as the Governor in Council may from time to time appoint: And whereas by an Order in Council made the twenty-eighth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twelfth day of April in the same year, after reciting as is therein recited, the Governor appointed Circuit Courts to be held within the several districts hereinafter mentioned on certain days and at certain places within the said districts, as therein particularly mentioned: And whereas, by an Order in Council made the nineteenth day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the eighth day of November in the same year, Circuit Courts were appointed to be held at Invercargill, in the Province of Otago in the Otago and Southland District, on certain days therein particularly mentioned, And whereas it hath been determined that a Circuit Court should be held at the Town of Wanganui, within the Wellington Judicial District, as the same is now defined by a Proclamation dated the twenty-fifth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine: And whereas it hath also been determined that a Circuit Court should be held at the Town of Picton, within the Nelson Judicial District, as the same is defined by a Proclamation dated the second day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. And whereas it is expedient to revoke the several appointments of the times and places for the holding of the Circuit Courts so made as aforesaid, and to appoint the times and places hereinafter mentioned:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, in exercise and pursuance of the power and authority vested in him by “The Supreme Court Act, 1860,” doth hereby declare that on and after the twenty-eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, the several appointments mentioned in the hereinbefore in part recited Orders in Council, so far as the same relate to the times and places for holding Circuit Courts, shall be revoked, and with the like advice and consent doth hereby appoint that Circuit Courts of the Supreme Court, for the despatch of Civil and Criminal business of the Court, shall, after the said twenty-eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, be holden at the time and place hereinafter mentioned, that is to say:

In the Westland District, at the Supreme Court House at Hokitika, on the third Monday in the month of March, and the first Monday in the month of September, in each and every year.

Provided that if and whenever any of the days hereby appointed for holding a Circuit Court shall happen to be a holiday at the Supreme Court, then the Circuit Court appointed to be holden on such day shall be holden on the first day thereafter which shall not be such holiday:

Provided further, that the said revocation of the said recited Orders in Council shall not affect any sitting by adjournment of a Circuit Court of the said Court, the sitting whereof began on a day prior to the said twenty-eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one:

And with the like advice and consent doth hereby proclaim and declare that this Order in Council shall not take effect till the twenty-eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.