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Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 633, 1 December 1858, Page 6

PROCLAMATION.. , By His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honorable Order -of the -Bath, Go. vernor and Commander-in-Chief .in and over Her1 Majesty's Colony of New Zealand, and- Vice-Admival of the same, &0., &c. WHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted by the Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council, Sess. 3, No. 1, intituled "An Ordinance for establishing a Supreme Court,'.'the Governor of New Zealand is empowered, with the advice of the Executive Council, by Proclamation from time to time, to divide the Colony into Districts, for the purposes of the said recited Ordinance, and the limits of such Districts from time to time to alter as occasion may require. Now, I, the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, in pursuance of the authority aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and declare that. for the purposes of the said Ordinance the said Colony shall from and after the fifteenth day of November instant, be divided into Three Districts, to be called respectively the Northern District, the Middle District, and the Southei xn District. And that the Northern Distinct shall include all that portion of the Colony which- lies on the Northern side of the line which separates the Provinces of Auckland and New/Plymouth from the Provinces of Wellington and Hawke's Bay. And that the Middle Distinct shall include all that portion of the Colony which lies on the Southern side of the' above-named line, and.on the Northern side of the line. of boundary between the Provinces of Nelson and Canterbury, and also the Chatham Islands and coast adjacent thereto. And that the Southeivi District shall include all that part of the Colony which lies on the Southern side of the last mentioned boundary line. And whereas by the said recited Ordinance the Governor is also empowered to assign to each of such Districts a Judge or Judges who shall have within the same all the powers and jurisdictions thereby given to the Supreme Court: Now, therefore, I, the Governor, in pursuance of such authority, do hereby proclaim and declare that I have assigned to the Northern District George Alfred Abney, Esquire, the Chief Justice of the said Court. And to the Middle District Alexander James Johnston, Esquire, a Judge of the said Court. And to the Southern District Henky Barnes Gresson, Esquire, a Judge of the said Court. And whereas it is provided by" the "said-re--cited Ordinance that there shall be holden. Cirxulfc Couits for the despatch of Civil and Crhn--inal business of the Court, before one of the, Judges thereof, at such.places and at such times as the Governor shall, with the ad vice.of the Executive Council, by proclamation .from time to time appoint: Now, therefore, I, the Governor, with the advise of the Executive Council, do hereby further proclaim and appoint that Circuit -Courts shall be holden for the Northern District at the Town of Auckland, on the Twelfth day of January next, and in every year on the First day of March, the First day of June, the First day. of September, and the First day of December; and for the Middle District at the Town of Wellington on the First day of March, the i First day of June, the First day of September, and the First day of December in every year; and at the Town of Nelson on the; Fifteenth day of January, and the Fifteenth day- of July, in every year; and for the Southern District, at the Town of Lyttelton, on the, First day of March, the First day of June, the First day of September, and the First day of December in every year; or as soon after the said days respectively as conveniently may be. And in case any one of the said days so-fixed as aforesaid shall happen to be.a Sunday or Holiday, then tho Court appointed for such day' shall be holden on-the day following. I Given under my hand, and issued under tho Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand; at Government House, at 'Auckland; this third day of November, in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and fiftyeight. THOMAS GORE BROWNE. By His Excellency's command, E. W. STAFFORD. God save the Queen! SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND, SOUTHERN DISTRICT. CIRCUIT COURT AT LYTTELTON. IVrdtiCEis Merely; Given,~^L'liat a -Ll Sitting-..0f.', the.'' Court for tho despatch of Criminal and Civil Business will ho holden at the Court House, Lyttelton, in the Province of Canterbury;'on WEDNESDAY, tho Ist day of Dccembor; atf ten 6'clock'' in tho forenoon; at which time and place; all'1 persons under Recognizances to appear, oither as ProsocutorH, Defendants, or jWitudßßOs, aro hereby required to give thoir attendance. CHRISTOPHER ALDERSON OALVERT, Registrar, fcunrcmo Court Office, ChvinkhiHoli, Nov. 21, 1858.