NEW MUNSTER EXTRACTS.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 720, 9 March 1853, Page 3

NEW MUNSTER EXTRACTS.

[From the "Government Gazette," Feb. 4.] Civil Secretary's Office, Wellington, 26th January, 1853. His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief has been pleased to direct that the following Act of the Imperial Parliament should be published for general information. By His Excellency's command, Alfred Domett, Civil Secretary. Anno Decimo Quinto & Decimo Sexto Victors Regin;e. Cap. lxxxA'iii. "An Act to remove doubts as to the Constitution of the Bishopric of Christchurch in New Zealand, and to enable Her Majesty to constitute such Bishopric and to subdivide the Diocese of New Zealand.— -[lst July, 1852.J

"Whereas Her Majesty, by tetters Patent under the Great Seal, bearing date the fourteenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and in the fifth year of Her reign, did make, ordain, and constitute the Colony of New Zealand into a Bishop's Sec or Diocese, by the name or style of the Bishopric of New Zealand, and did nominate and appoint George Augustus Selwyn, Clerk, to be Bishop and ordinary Pastor of the said See for the term of his natural life, subject to such right of resignation as in the said Letters Patent is expressed : And ivhereas, by reason of the extent of the said Diocese, it is expedient that provision should be made for the subdivision thereof: And whereas, in order to order to such subdivision, the said George Augustus Selwyn hath, by an instrument under his hand and seal, bearing date the ninth day of May one thousand eight hundred .and fifty-one, resigned and surrendered so much of the said See or Diocese of New Zealand as lies to the southward of a geographical line drawn across the Middle Island, otherwise called New Munster, at the Northern boundary of the Canterbury territory : And whereas doubts are entertained as to the validity of the said instrument of resignation : Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : Surrendered Portion of Diocese of New Zealand erected into a distinct See. 1. The said instrument of resignation shall be deemed and taken to be, and the same is hereby declared to be, valid and effectual in the law for the purpose of enabling Her Majesty to erect arid constitute the said surrendered portion of the said Diocese of New Zealand into a distinct See or Diocese.

[From the " Spectator," January 20.J