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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 784, 5 February 1853, Page 4

[From the Government Gazette, February I.J

Civil Secretary's Office, Wellington, 26th January, 1853. pTIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNORJ - L 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, ' At.prbd Domett, Ciyil Secretary.

ANNO IJECIMO QtJINTO & DECIMO SfefcTO VICTORLE REGINiE.

-CAP. LXXXTUI.

An Act to remove doubt* as to the Constitution qf the Bishopric of Christchurch in New ■Zealand, and toenaMe ffer Majesty to constitute such Bisfopru* and to subdivide the . Diocese of New Zealand.— [lsfcJuly, 1852/J \J\f HUKEAS Her Majesty, by Letters * T Potent under the Great Seal, bearing date the Fourteenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and farty.one, and in the Fifth Year of Her Reign, did make, ordain, and 'constitute the Colony of New Zealand into a BiahopVSee t>r Diocese, by the name or style of the Bishopric of New- Zealand, and did .nominate and appoint George Augustus Sclwyn Clerk to be Bishop and ordinary Pastor of the said See for the term of his natural fife, subject to such right of resignation as in the said Letters Patent is expressed : And whereas, by reason of the extent of the said Diocese, it is expedient that provision should be made for the subdirision thereof: And whereas, in order to «uch subdivision, the said George Augustus Selwyn hath, by an instrument under his hand hand and seftl, beating date the Ninth Bar 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 Minster, at the Northern boundary of the Canterbury territory : And whereas doubts are entertamed as to the vafiditx of the said nstramest of resignation : Be $' enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and whh tile advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of tfct same, as follows : Surrendered Portion of Ditcese of Km Ztatmi erected into a distinct See,

1. The stid instrument of resignation shall be deemed and taken to be, and the sun Is hereby declared to be, valid and eftctwJ a* the law for the purpose of enabKng Her Majesty to erect and constitute the said sanest* dered portion of the said diocese of New Zealand into a cßstmct ste or Diocese.

SUPREME COURT.

NOTICE is hereby given, That a Sitting of the Supreme Court* tor tile despatch of Criminal Business, will W hokfcm at th« Court House, Wellington, on These**, th» first day of March next, at Ten o'clock in the forenoon ; and that a Sitting, for the desp«te& of Civil Business he fcotdeu «fc the Court House, on Moxs^y, the s^Tejith day of March next, at Ten o'clock in the forenoon, at which times and place all pe*soa» mnb recogni sanoas to appear, either «c PnMecwtov^ £k». fendante, or Witnesses, mm hewbj nq«ix«d to give their attendance. Atgtetmr. Supreme Court OfiW Wellington, Ist February, ISo3,

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n^HRKE iPIECEB OP TWBfifc saiaed x and w»daum«i will Iwaold by Public Awtion, at the Custom House, Wellington, Rt Id o'clock at noon, on 1 1 th dky of February, 1853. SWPMP C^RJSWW, CoUector. Custom House, Wellington, ; 80th January, 1858,