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New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 59, 12 March 1842, Page 3

REPORT of a Deserter from the 80th Regiment of Foot, dated at Auckland, this Bth day of March, 1842. Name —Richard Davis Q. 50%.) Age—24 years. Size—s feet, 6 inches. Description of person—Make or form proportionate, head small, face ditto, eyes hazel, eyebrows, nose, neck, and mouth common, hair dark brown and lank, shoulders square, arms, hands, thighs, legs, and feet common. Town or parish where born—Macclesfield, in or near the town of Macclesfield, county Chester. Former trade or occupation—Spinner. Date of desertion—7th March, 1842. Place of desertion—Auckland. Dress at time of desertion—Blue flannel shirt* or other plain clothes* ; General remarks—Supposed to have taken a boat. By command, Thomas Bunbury, Major 80th Regt. Commanding Detachment. PROCLAMATION By His Excellency WILLIAM HOBSON, Esguire, Captain in Her Majesty's Royal Navy, and Governor and Commander in Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and Us Dependencies. "1[ "Wf" HE RE AS by a certain Ordinance of the W- f Governor, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Councilof the said Colony, passed in the sth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen VICTORIA, intituled, "An Ordinance "for establishing County Courts of Civil and "Criminal Jurisdiction, and for repealing an "Ordinance for instituting Courts of Requests, " Session 1, No. 6, and for repealing part of an "Ordinance for establishing, Courts of Quarter " Sessions, Session. 1, Kg. 4,'' it. is enacted, that from and after the Ist day of March, one thousand eight hnndrad and forty-two, there should*be. holden within the Colony of New Zealand County Courts of Record, possessing Civil and Crirniual Jurisdiction, in manner thereinafter provided. And whereas it is further enacted by. the said in part recited Ordinance, that His. Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, should from time to time appoint a place or places within each County or District, as the case may be, whereat such Courts shall be holden. And whereas it is further enacted by the said in part recited Ordinance, that in every County or District a Court should be holden, monthly, on the third Tuesday of every month ; NOW, therefore, I, the Governor, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said in part recited Ordinance, do hereby, with the advice of the Executive Council, direct and appoint that, for the purposes of the said Ordinance, the said Colony be divided into two Districts, to be called the Northern and Southern Districts, and that the Northern District be that part of the Colony situate to the North of the Parallel of Latitude thirty-eight degrees thirty minutes South, and that the Southern District be that part of the said Colony situate to the South of the aforesaid Parallel of Latitude. And I do further direct and appoint that the said County Courts of Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction as aforesaid, shall be holden during the present and in each year, at the places hereinafter respectively mentioned; that is to say, in the Northern District at Auckland and Kororarika, and in the Southern District at Wellington. And I do further, with the advice of the Executive Council, as aforesaid, direct and appoint, that the first sitting of the said County Courts shall be held in the aforesaid Districts on the third Tuesday of the month of April next ensuing. Given under my Hand and Seal at Government House, Auckland, this eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. WILLIAM HOBSON, Governor. By His Excellency's Command, WILLOUGHBY ShORTLAND, Colonial Secretary. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, Bth March, 1542. lIS Excellency the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council has been pleased to appoint Frederick Whitaker, Esq., and Edmund Storr Hals well, Esq., to be Judges of the County Courts of Northern and Southern Districts respectively, under, the provisions of the Ordinance of the Governor and Council, 5 Victories, Session 2, No. 3. By His Excellency's Command, WILLOUGHBY SHOKTLAND.