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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 206, 1 November 1866, Page 2

The following regulations for the formation of juries for trial of matters under the Native Lauds Act, 1865, have been issued by Ills Excellency: — -The Judge shall, from the bystanders or from persons residing within ten miles of the place at which the Court shall sit or shall be sitting, form a list of 18 meu, from which 12 persons shall be selected by lot, and the persons so selected, or so many of them as may attend and be willing to serve shall be impanelled as a jury to try the matter. Provided, that if less than 12 out of the persons so selected shall attend and be willing to serve, or if any juror shall absent himself and the number of the jury be therebj 1 -, or by challenge, or otherwise, reduced to less than 12, the Judge shall complete the number of 12 jurymen from the bystanders. Provided also that by consent of Lhe parties a jury of any greater or less i) umber than 12 not being less than four (to be selected as aforesaid) may be impanelled for the trial of any matter under the said Act.