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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency | by special leave of the Court or a Judge), and every
has been pleased to leave the same to its operation.
E. W. STAFFORD.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 30th October, 1866.

IT is hereby notified for public information, that
the Post Office at Ballarat Rush, in the Province
of Canterbury, will in future be denominated the
"Staffordtown" Post Office.
JOHN HALL.

Commissioner's Order, No. 14.

CUSTOMS. In exercise of the power in me for
this purpose vested by "The Customs Regulation
Act, 1858," I, the Commissioner of Customs, do
hereby appoint and declare that the under mentioned
Port shall be a Port at which persons acting as
Agents in the entrance or clearance of ships, goods,
or baggage, or any business relating thereto, shall
be required to be duly licensed for that purpose,
namely-

BLUFF HARBOUR.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
thirty-first day of October, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-six.
J. C. RICHMOND.

Office of the Commissioner of Customs,
Wellington, 22nd October, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM SEED, Esq.,
to be Secretary of Customs. This appointment to
date from the 1st July, 1866.
J. C. RICHMOND.

SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND. ---
Rules under "The Leases and Sales of Settled
Estates Act, 1865."

October, 1866.

By virtue of the powers vested in us by the twenty-
ninth section of "The Leases and Sales of Settled
Estates Act, 1865," we, the undersigned, Acting
Chief Justice and Judges of the Supreme Court of
New Zealand, do hereby order that the following
rules shall be in force on and after the first day of
January, A.D., 1867.

1. Every petition under the Act, and every public
   and private notice required by the Act, shall set
   forth the name, address, and description of the
   petitioner, and also a place within three miles from
   the office of the Registrar or Deputy Registrar of the
   Supreme Court at the chief town of the Province
   within which the estate the subject of the petition is
   situate, where he may be served with any order of
   the Court, or of the Judge in Chambers, or notice
   relating to the subject of the petition.

2. All petitions and notices, and also all affidavits
   and other proceedings under the Act, shall be entitled
   in the matter of the Act, and in the matter of the
   property in question, mentioning the Province and
   place in which it is situate, and describing it by
   general terms; and every such petition shall be
   marked with the words "in the Supreme Court of
   New Zealand," specifying the judicial district.

3. After any such petition has been presented
   application may be made ex parte and in Chambers to
   the Judge for directions in what newspapers the
   notices required by the Act are to be inserted.

4. Motions, under the twentieth section of the Act,
   may be made ex parte within seven clear days after
   the publication of the advertisement which may be
   last inserted in the newspaper, but not later (except
   order made on any such motion must be served on
   the petitioner within four days after the making
   thereof.

5. If the person obtaining such order shall require
   a copy of the petition, such person shall at the time
   of serving such order make a written application to
   the petitioner for such copy, with an undertaking to
   pay all proper charges for the same.

6. Within two clear days after such application a
   copy of the petition shall be ready to be delivered,
   and shall be delivered on demand, and on payment of
   the same, after the rate per folio, provided by the
   Supreme Court rules.

7. No petition under the Act shall be set down for
   hearing until after the expiration of twenty-one days
   from the publication of the last of the advertise-
   ments.

8. On every application under the Act for authority
   to sell, the Court or Judge must be satisfied by
   sufficient evidence who are the parties interested in
   the estate, whose consent is required by the Act, and
   what are the circumstances which render the proposed
   sale proper and expedient.

9. Where, under the provisions of the thirty-third
   section of the Act, it shall be necessary to obtain the
   special directions of the Court for any application to
   the Court, or any consent to such application, such
   special directions may be obtained ex parte by
   summons at Chambers.

10. Every order of the Court made in pursuance
    of the powers conferred on it by the Act, shall
    specify on what document or documents (if any) the
    notice referred to by the twenty-first section of the
    Act shall be placed or indorsed, and the Judge may,
    if he thinks fit, require that such document or docu-
    ments so indorsed shall be produced for his inspec-
    tion.

11. The fees and allowances to all officers and
    solicitors of the Court, in respect of the matters under
    the Act, shall be such fees and allowances as by the
    practice of the Court they are entitled to take and
    charge for business of a similar nature.

12. All proceedings in the Court whatsoever, taken
    under or by virtue of the said Act, or of these rules,
    in respect of which no specific provision is made to
    the contrary by the said Act, shall be subject to the
    general rules of the Court for the time being in force,
    in relation to other proceedings in the Court of a
    like nature. .

ALEXANDER J. JOHNSTON,
Acting Chief Justice.
H. B. GRESSON, J.
C. W. RICHMOND, J.
J. S. MOORE, J.

SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND. ---
Allowances to Sequestrators and Trustees under
"The Debtors and Creditors Acts Amendment Act,
1866."

October, 1866.

By virtue of the power in us for this purpose
vested by the ninth section of "The Debtors and
Creditors Acts Amendment Act, 1866," we, the
undersigned Judges of the said Supreme Court, do
hereby order, that the allowances to be paid out of
the proceeds of the estate and effects of the debtor,
by way of remuneration to trustees and seques-
trators appointed under "The Debtors and Creditors
Act 1862," and to Inspectors when appointed to act
as trustees or sequestrators for the performance of
their duties as such trustee or sequestrator, shall be
at the following rates, that is to say-

To sequestrators in respect of each
estate
To sequestrators receiving the pro-
£2 2s.