NOTICE.

CHANGE OF NAME.—DAMPIER—CROSSLEY.

HER Majesty having been pleased to grant to me Croslegh Dampier, of Eskhead, in the Province of Canterbury, in the Colony of New Zealand, eldest son of Christopher Edward Dampier, of Northport, Saltwater Creek, in the said Colony, Esquire, by Matilda his Wife, Her Majesty’s Royal Licence and Authority to take and use the Surname of Crossley in addition to and after my present Surname of Dampier, and to bear the arms of Crossley, quarterly with my own family arms, to enable me to comply with the directions contained in the will of my late maternal Uncle, John Crossley, of Scaitcliffe, in the County Palatine of Lancaster in England, Esquire. I shall henceforth use such additional surname accordingly, and be henceforth known as Croslegh Dampier Crossley.

Dated this First day of February, 1866.

C. DAMPIER CROSSLEY,
formerly Croslegh Dampier,
Eskhead.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given, that in pursuance of the "Public House Ordinance, 1863," a Quarterly Meeting of Justices of the Peace was held at the Resident Magistrates’ Court, Christchurch, on the 2nd day of January instant, at the hour of 11 o’clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of taking into consideration applications for Public House Licences.

The following applications were granted:—

REFRESHMENT LICENSES.

• Plank, John, Market-place, Christchurch.
• Wade, Joseph, Ferry-road.

CONDITIONAL LICENCE.

• Ashton, John, Craigieburn.

CONDITIONAL LICENCE.

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 seven beds for travellers, in not less than seven separate bed-rooms.

3. To provide a shed sufficiently weather-tight and fit for the accommodation of at least four horses.

4. At all times to keep a proper supply of water for the house, and for horses and cattle, and to provide, in a convenient position, a proper trough for watering cattle.

5. To keep at all times a proper supply of oats and oaten or grass hay.

6. To provide and keep in repair a good and sufficient stockyard for cattle, containing a superficial area of not less than 225 square yards. For the occupation of this yard during the night, the licensee may make a charge at rates not exceeding the following, viz:—Twopence per head for all cattle under 50 in number, and one penny per head for all over that number.

7. To provide and keep in repair a good and sufficient moveable sheep-proof yard, containing a superficial area of not less than 500 square yards; or at the option of the licensee, to keep one acre of land enclosed by a permanent sheep-proof fence. For the occupation of this yard or paddock during the night, the licensee may make a charge at rates not exceeding the following, viz:—Sixpence per score for all sheep under 300 in number, 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 around 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. The licence 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 licence 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

Baker, Alfred Don, Cass river. Conditions same as Ashton’s.