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assistance in his power in directing strangers to a safe fording across the river.

14. The license to be cancelled by order of any three Justices of the Peace, if it be proved to their satisfaction that any of the conditions of the license are not regularly fulfilled, or if any drunkenness be proved to have been allowed on the premises, or if any spirits shall be supplied from the house or premises to any Aboriginal Native of New Zealand.

15. A printed or fairly written copy of these conditions, and a tariff of all charges to be kept at all times posted up in some conspicuous place in the tap-room, and in all the sitting-rooms, for the information of travellers.

16. To provide a Visitors’ Book, which shall be kept in the custody of the licensee, but whenever asked for shall be produced to visitors and lodgers, for the insertion of any remark on the accommodation or attendance; a notice to this effect to be kept posted in the same manner as the Tariff of Charges. The book to be open at all times to inspection by Magistrates or the Police, and to be sent to the Clerk of the Bench, at Christchurch, a week before the Annual Licensing Meeting, for the purpose of being produced at that meeting.

17. To keep a copy of the Public House Ordinance in his house.

Given under my hand this twenty-third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

S. BEALEY,
Superintendent.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND.

REGULÆ GENERALES.—March, 1863.

By virtue of the powers vested by law in the Judges of the Supreme Court, it is ordered by us, the Judges of the said Court, that the following General Rules shall come into and be in force on and after the First day of June, 1863:—

Judgments for Default of Plea, &c.

1. Applications and orders under Rule 307 of the General Rules of Procedure on default of plea or demurrer may be made at the expiration of seven days after the time limited for pleading or demurring has elapsed, instead of at the expiration of fourteen days as in the said rule mentioned; and for the words “fourteen days” in rules 317 and 319, the words “seven days” shall be substituted.

2. On Judgments for default of plea or demurrer, execution may be issued on the expiration of seven days after such judgment has been entered up, unless a Judge shall direct that it may be issued either at an earlier or at a later time.

3. When there is no Judge of the Supreme Court actually present at any place at which there is a Registrar or Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court, such Registrar or Deputy Registrar shall have power to grant leave to enter up judgment on default of plea or demurrer; and the same may be entered up accordingly: Provided that execution shall not issue thereupon until the expiration of seven days after notice given to the Defendant that such judgment has been entered up pursuant to the leave granted by such Registrar or Deputy Registrar; and if the Defendant shall within such seven days find security for the amount for which execution is to be issued, to the satisfaction of the Registrar, execution shall be stayed until an application can be made by the Defendant to a Judge to set aside the judgment, provided also that in such last mentioned case the Plaintiff may, after notice to the Defendant, apply to the Judge for leave to issue execution.

ADMINISTRATION AND PROBATE.

4. The inventories and accounts to be filed by Executors and Administrators shall be filed within such periods as the Judge granting administration or probate shall direct at the time of the granting thereof, or within such further period as a Judge, on application, may direct; and the conditions of administration bonds shall be framed accordingly.

5. Those portions of the affidavits contained in the Schedule of forms annexed to the “Rules touching the Administration of Estates and Effects of Persons Deceased, 1844,” which relate to the filing of inventories and accounts, shall be henceforth omitted from such affidavits.

CONVEYANCING.

6. On taxation of the costs of conveyances or other assurances, no fee for the drawing, settling, or preparation of such instruments shall be allowed unless the name and address of the Barrister or Solicitor who prepared the same shall be endorsed or shall appear upon the same.

GEORGE ALFRED ARNEY,
Chief Justice.

ALEXANDER J. JOHNSTON,
Judge.

H. B. GRESSON,
Judge.

C. W. RICHMOND,
Judge.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 29th June, 1863.

His Honor the Superintendent directs the publication of the following Narrative of the Expedition of the West Coast, conducted by the late Mr. Whitcombe:

THOS. WM. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

Translated literally from the German manuscript of the survivor, Jacob Louper, by Mr. E. L. Hulme.

We left Christchurch on the 18th April, well provided with provisions, and all things necessary for the expedition. The party consisted of three men, with a horse and