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Otago Daily Times, Issue 259, 18 October 1862, Page 6

PROCLAMATION, By His Honor John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otar>'o. Of the Appointment of Judges of the Wardens' Courts, in the said Province, under and by virtue op "Gold Fields Act, 1858." ITTHEREAS by Proclamation, given > V under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, the 13th day of October, one thousand eight hundred' and sixty-two, I, John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, on the recital and in pursuance and exercise of the powers delegated to me by the Governor of New Zealand therein set forth, constituted provisionally for certain parts or Districts therein mentioned of thd Gold Field of the Province of Otago Wardens' Courts for the administration of Justice within the said Districts respectively j And whereas it is necessary that in further pursuance and exercise of the powers delegated to me as aforesaid, I should appoint Wardens or Judges of the Wardens' Courts of such Districts; Now, therefore, I, John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Superintendent aforesaid, do by this instrument in pursuance and exercise of the power so delegated to me, appoint— Edward Choker, Esquire, William Baldwin, Esquire,

Charles Worthington, Esquire and Jackson Keddle, Esquire, to be Wardens and Judges of the said Wardens Court, with power to them, and each of them, to act alone or with Assessors or Juries and in such manner, and to exercise all or any of the powers in the Gold Fields Act, 1858, mentioned as the. Governor shall think fit to direct, but declaring \ that such appointments shall be deemed to be provisional only until the same shall have been confirmed and allowed by the Governor, and that the Governor shall have power to disallow the same. : ;•'. Given under my hand at Dunedin and issued under the Public Seal of the said Province, the (L.S.) thirteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. J- L. C. Richardson,

A^itisoNKß's QUKRY.-One of the prisoners tried Rt the present assize 3 for robbing the stores of Mm Oakes, m cross-examining the detective officer wixo bad h,d and conducted the plan for the detection of the thieves was desirous to k U(W why the witness suffered the burglars to .enter and leave the store^T fore any attempt -was made to apprehend ttitJ, 7 He argued with both his honour and thedeteS • that the oath of a constable bound him to prevent =r.me-the nolioewere sworn in as preventKS stables; and he persist^l in maintaining that the SSSfS! vf d «?. ia r hi 3 ,dut y b * aot ailovring thl SSSIf v S^^kffl Sin he! e7 eve occasion O n whioh it becanS wpe'. KiT?l so-thattherobbeia shoUld be allowed to complete a. depreciation, for theX pose of bringing about a conviction. '.The Kn£