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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

G. GREY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
twelfth day of November, 1867.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The New Zealand Settlements
Acts Amendment Act, 1866," it is provided
that all lands taken under the authority of "The New
Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," and "The New
Zealand Settlements Amendment and Continuance
Act, 1865," or either of them, and sold and disposed
of under the authority of the said first recited Act,
intituled "The New Zealand Settlements Acts
Amendment Act, 1866," shall be sold or disposed of
under regulations to be made by the Governor in
Council, which regulations shall be published in the
New Zealand Gazette:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
pursuance of the authority vested in him in that
behalf by the said first recited Act, doth hereby, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the Colony of New Zealand, make the following
regulations for the issue of Land Scrip.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

1. If any person shall be desirous of making, build-
   ing, or constructing any road, bridge, or other work
   of public utility, and of being allowed payment in
   land in respect of the cost of the same, he shall make
   application in writing for authority for that purpose
   to the Commissioner appointed by the Governor,
   under the regulations for the sale of land taken for
   settlement under "The New Zealand Settlements
   Acts, 1863."

2. If the Commissioner shall be satisfied, after due
   investigation and inquiry, that it is desirable that
   the proposed road, bridge, or other work of public
   utility shall be made, built, or constructed, and the
   plans and specification thereof shall be approved by a
   competent person to be appointed by the Com-
   missioner, the Commissioner may grant authority for
   the said work to be completed.

3. When the said work is completed, it shall be
   examined by a competent person to be appointed by
   the Commissioner; and if such person shall report
   that the same is constructed in accordance with the
   plans and specifications, and with proper materials
   and workmanship, the Honorable the Colonial Secre-
   tary, or any person duly deputed by him, shall grant
   to the person at whose cost the said work has been
   made, built, or constructed, Land Scrip to the extent
   of one-half of the value of the work performed, such
   value to be fixed by some competent person appointed
   by the Commissioner in that behalf.

4. The Land Scrip so granted shall be deemed and
   taken to be money for the amount for which the same
   shall have been issued, and shall be receivable at any
   time within three months from the date of its issue
   as payment or part payment for any allotment of
   General Rural Land open for sale or selection in the
   district in which the work or works in respect of
   which such scrip has been granted may be situate.

5. No greater sum shall be paid in land to any one
   person under these regulations than three hundred
   pounds in any one year, nor shall the total sum so
   to be paid within one year exceed five thousand
   pounds, except under the direct authority of the
   Governor in Council.

6. The particulars of every such work, the amount
   and the position of the land to be given in payment,
   and the name and residence of every person to whom
   such land is to be given shall be published in the
   General Government Gazette at least three months
   before the issue of any grant of the same.

REGULÆ GENERALES.-November, 1867.-
By virtue of the powers vested in us by "The
Supreme Court Act, 1860,"

It is ordered by us, the Judges of the Supreme
Court, that the following General Rules shall be in
force on and after the first day of December, 1867.

• • Delivery of Pleadings.

1. When the defendant shall reside within any
   judicial district of the Supreme Court which does
   not include the chief town of a Province, the place to
   be named in the Writ of Summons for the delivery
   of the defendant's pleadings, shall be some place in
   the town in which the Supreme Court Office for the
   district is situate. If the writ be taken out by a
   solicitor, then it shall be at the office of such solicitor,
   or of his agent in such town: if taken out by the
   plaintiff in person, then at the residence of the
   plaintiff, if his residence be not more than three miles
   from the said Supreme Court Office; but if beyond
   that distance, then at some other proper place, to be
   called his "Address for Service," which shall not be
   more than three miles from such office.

2. Where the defendant shall reside within any
   such judicial district as aforesaid, and shall appear or
   plead in person, his address for service shall be some
   convenient place not more than three miles from the
   Supreme Court Office for the district.

• • Setting aside Awards.

3. Motions to set aside Awards of Arbitrators or
   Umpires must be made at some sitting in Banco held
   within the judicial district in which the Award is
   published to the parties (or within some adjoining
   judicial district assigned to the same Judge), within
   the period of one calendar month from the day of
   the publication of the Award; or if no such sitting
   be held within the said period, then at the next such
   sitting after its expiry.

(Signed)
ALEXANDER J. JOHNSTON, J.
H. B. GRESSON, J.
C. W. RICHMOND, J.
H. S. CHAPMAN, J.
J. S. MOORE, J.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 13th November, 1867.

THE following Despatch, with enclosure, from Her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the
Colonies, is published for general information.
E. W. STAFFORD.

[Circular.]

Downing Street,
23rd May, 1867.

SIR, — I transmit to you, for the information of
yourself and your Government, a copy of a letter
from the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, with
a copy of a Treasury Minute, explaining the
principles by which their Lordships will be governed
in encouraging the extension of Telegraphic Com-
munication between the United Kingdom and its
Dependencies.

I have, &c.,
BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS.

Governor Sir G. Grey, K.C.B., &c.

Mr. Hunt to Sir F. Rogers.

Treasury Chambers,
8th May, 1867.

SIR, — I am commanded by the Lords Com-
missioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to transmit
to you, for the information of the Duke of Bucking-
ham, copy of a Treasury Minute, dated 10th January,