52 PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

the limits of such districts from time to time
to alter as occasion may require, and that
the Governor-in-Council shall assign every
such district to a Judge or Judges of the
Court, who shall have, within the same, all
the powers and jurisdiction thereby given to
the Court :

And whereas on the twelfth day of October,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five,
in exercise and pursuance of the powers conferred by the said recited provisions of the
said Act, a district called "The Westland
District" was formed and constituted by the
Governor-in-Council :

And whereas on the second day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine, in further exercise and pursuance of the
said powers, the limits of the said Westland
District were altered :

And whereas on the second day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine, in exercise and pursuance of the said
powers, the said Westland District was
assigned to Christopher William Richmond,
Esquire, a Judge of the Supreme Court ;

And whereas the said Christopher William
Richmond, having obtained leave of absence,
has left the said colony for a time :

And whereas it is expedient that the said
Westland District should be assigned to
Alexander James Johnston, Esquire, one of
the Judges of the said Court :

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor,
in exercise and pursuance of all powers
enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby, with
the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of New Zealand, assign the said
Westland District unto

ALEXANDER JAMES JOHNSTON, Esquire,
a Judge of the said Court.

Forster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette
No. 9, February 18, 1875.]

Appointing Licensing Courts to be held.

Normanby, Governor.

In pursuance and exercise of all powers and
authorities enabling me in this behalf, I,
George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of
Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby appoint that sittings
of the Licensing Courts for the Licensing
Districts of Coaldale and Paroa respectively
shall, until otherwise ordered, be held in the
Resident Magistrate’s Court at Greymouth.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
the Most Honorable George Augustus
Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount
Normanby, and Baron Mulgrave, of
Mulgrave, all in the County of
York, in the Peerage of the United
Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of
New Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a
Member of Her Majesty’s Most
Honorable Privy Council; Knight
Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael
and Saint George; Governor and
Commander-in-Chief in and over
Her Majesty’s Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and
Vice-Admiral of the same; at the
Government House at Wellington,
this seventeenth day of February,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-five.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette
No. 14, March 4, 1875.]

Chairman of Local Cattle Board appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th February, 1875.

His Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

GERARD GEORGE FITZGERALD, Esq.,
to be Chairman of the Local Cattle Board of
the District of Westland, vice H. L. Robinson,
Esq., resigned.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary).

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Hokitika, 23rd February, 1875.

His Honor the Superintendent directs it to
be notified for general information that
he has appointed

Messrs William Monteith,
Denis Falvey, and
Alfred R. G. Davey