THE DISTRICT COURTS.
The following procalmation is extracted from last Wednesday's Provincial Government Gazette :—G. Grey, Governor. Whereas by "The District Courts Act, 1858," it is pro-ided that there shall be within the Colony Courts of Record to be called District Courts, and the Governor is empowered by proclama ion in the " New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the Colony, or in any part thereof, districts within which such Courts shall be respect vely held, and from time to time, by notification in the " New Zealand Gazette " to fix the t : mes and places within the district at which evei - y such Court shall be held : A nd whereas by a proclamation bearing date the eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty four, a district was constituted in the Province ol Otago wi hin which a District Court should be held under the said " District Courts Act, 1858," to be designated "The District Court of the Otago Gold Fields.'' And whereas it is expedient that there should be sittings of the said Court with, in the sail Province : Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, ']p hereby in pursuance and exercise of the
said power and authority, fix that Sessions of the said District Court shall be held as follows:
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Xawrence: On the second Tuesday in E bruary, and the second Tuesday in April'; In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Naseby: On the second Wednesday in March, and the second Wednesday in May; In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Clyde: On the Monday next after the second Wednesday in March, and the Monday next after the second Wednesday in May; In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Queenstown : On the Monday second after the second Wednesday in March and the Monday second after the second Wednesday in May; in the said Province, in every year, or as soon as conveniently may be after such clays respectively. A3 witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this tenth day of January, one thou and eight hundred and sixty-seven. E. W. Stafford. '
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Dunstan Times, Issue 249, 1 February 1867, Page 2
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355THE DISTRICT COURTS. Dunstan Times, Issue 249, 1 February 1867, Page 2
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