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fourpence per score for all over that number and under 500, and twopence per score for all over 500.

8. To keep a lamp burning, with two burners, from sunset to sunrise, giving a sufficiently bright light, and being so lighted as to be conspicuous from a distance all round the house.

9. To be sworn in and act as a constable, especially when required by the Magistrates or the police.

10. On all occasions to render every assistance, and to supply information to Magistrates, and to the police, in the execution of their duty.

11. To keep a clean and orderly house, and to render it as comfortable for the accommodation of travellers as the circumstances of position and distance from towns will fairly allow.

12. Nil.

13. 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.

14. 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 all the sitting-rooms, for the information of travellers.

15. To provide a Visitor’s 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.

BUNDLE, WILLIAM,
TEMPLETON.

1. All the premises to be kept in good repair. To provide in his house, besides the taproom, or room answering as such, one public and one private sitting-room.

2. To provide not less than twelve separate beds for travellers, in not less than eight separate bedrooms.

3. To provide a shed, sufficiently weathertight, and fit for the accommodation of at least twelve horses.

Conditions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, same as Birdling’s.

12. Nil.

CAMERON, D. AND D.,
SALTWATER CREEK.

1. All the premises to be kept in good repair. To provide in their house, besides the taproom, or room answering as such, one public and one private sitting-room.

2. To provide not less than fifteen beds for travellers, in not less than seven separate bedrooms.

3. To provide a shed sufficiently weathertight, and fit for the accommodation of at least twelve horses.

Conditions 13, 14, and 15, same as Birdling’s.

DALE, WILLIAM,
RAKAIA RIVER.—SOUTHERN CROSS HOTEL.

1. All the premises to be kept in good repair. To provide in his house, beside the taproom, or room answering as such, one public and two private sitting-rooms.

2. To provide not less than twelve beds for travellers, in not less than twelve separate bedrooms.

3. To provide a shed sufficiently weathertight, and fit for the accommodation of at least twenty horses.

Conditions 4, 5, 6, and 7, same as Birdling’s.

8. NOT to keep a lamp burning at night outside the house.

Conditions 9, 10, and 11, same as Birdling’s.

12. Conditions regarding the ferry over the Rakaia to stand as per special agreement with the Provincial Government, dated 19th July, 1860; and especially the licensee shall keep a ferry-boat or boats, to be used upon the river Rakaia; the gear and all necessary fittings to render the same serviceable to be always maintained in good order and repair. The licensee shall, at all reasonable times and hours, without unnecessary delay, cross passengers, stock, and other goods at the prices named below:—

The boat must be in readiness to meet the mails.

Officers of the Supreme Court, Magistrates, and police constables on duty, and prisoners, to be ferried free of charge.

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