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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 171, 20 March 1847, Page 2

GOVERNMENT NOTICES.

PROCLAMATION,

By his Excellency George Gret, Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor and Com-mander-in-Chief, in and over her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand, and its Dependencies, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c, &c. WHEREAS an Ordinance was enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, Session 7, No. 16, intituled "An Ordinance to provide for the establishment of Resident Magistrates Courts, and to make special provision for the administration of Justice in certain cases ; And Whereas an Ordinance was in like manner enacted, Session 7, No. 15, intituled "An Ordinance to repeal the Police Magistrates Ordinance," and the "Native Exemption Ordi-

nance:" And whereas it was provided by the said recited Ordinances, that they should respectively come into operation throughout the Colony on the Ist day of May, 1847, or on such earlier day, and either throughout the Colony, or within any District or Districts thereof as his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor should by Proclamation direct and appoint : Now, I, the Lieutenant-Governor, pursuant to the authority in me vested, do hereby direct and appoint that the said recited Ordinances shall this day wholly come into operation within that part of the Colony of New Zealand comprised within the boundaries hereafter described, (that is to say,) commencing twenty miles to the north of Wanganui (Petre,) on the south-west coast, thence by a line to Kidnapper's Point, on the east coast, including all that part of the Island of . New Ulster south of the line here described to Cook's Strait. Given under my hand and issued under the public seal of the Colony at Wellington, this eighteenth day of March, in the year ot Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty -seven. G. Grey, Lieuten an t- G overn or and Commander-in-Chief. By his Excellency's command, M. Richmond, Superintendent.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Wellington, 17th March, 1847. HIS Excellency the Lieutenant-Gover-nor has been pleased to appoint Captain Joseph Henry Laye, 58th Regt., to the Commission of the Peace of the Colony of New Zealand. By his Excellency's Command, M. Richmond, Superintendent.

W ellington, 18th March, 1847. HIS Excellency the Lieutenant-Gover-nor has been pleased to appoint provisionally Henry St. Hill, Esq., J. P.,

Captain Joseph Henry Laye, J. P., 58th Regiment, David Stark Durie, Esq., J.P., To be Resident Magistrates By his Excellency's Command, M. Richmond, Superintendent.

Wellington, 19th March, 1847. PU R S U A N T to the Authority in him for that purpose vested by the " Resident Magistrates Courts Ordinance," His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor has been pleased to appoint, that the Acts and Duties of various Local Ordinances required to be done and exercised by the Police Magistrates of Wellington and Wanganui, shall hereafter be done and exercised by Henry St. Hill, Esquire, in the District of Wellington, David Stark Dune, Esquire, in the District of Waikanae, and Captain Joseph Henry Laye (58th Regiment), in the District of Wanganui, the duly appointed Resident Magistrates. By his Excellency's Command, M. Richmond. Superintendent.

Wellington, 19th March, 1847. HIS Excellency the Lieutenant-Gover-nor, pursuant to the authority in him for that purpose vested by the " Constabulary Force Ordinance," hath caused an Armed Police Force, consisting of: One Inspector, One Sub-Inspector, Four Sergeants, Four Corporals, Forty-seven Privates, To be embodied in the District of Wellington, who have been duly sworn to act as Constables in and throughout the Colony. By his Excellency's Command, M. Richmond, Superintendent.

Wellington, 19th March, 1847. HIS Excellency the Lieutenant-Gover-nor has been pleased to appoint David Stark Durie, Esq., J.P., to be Inspector of Police, and Alfred Chetham Strode, Esq., J. P., to be Sub-Inspector of Police for the Southern District of New Ulster. By his Excellency's Command, M. Richmond, Superintendent.