THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3

with the Standing Orders may appear and be heard
by themselves, their agents and witnesses, upon
addressing a Memorial to the Examiner to that
effect.

Memorials to be deposited day before hearing.
23. Such Memorial must be deposited in the
Private Bill Office on the day at least before the day
fixed for the examination of the Petition; and in the
event of no such Memorial being deposited the
Petition will be treated as unopposed.

Compliance with Standing Orders to be proved.
24. Compliance with the following conditions shall
be proved before the Examiner or the Joint Com-
mittee on Standing Orders.

A.—NOTICES BY ADVERTISEMENT.

Subject of Notices.
25. In all cases where application is intended to be
made for leave to bring in a Bill, notices shall be
given, stating the objects of such intended applica-
tion, and the time at which copies of the Bill will be
deposited in the Private Bill Office, and if it be
intended to apply for powers for the compulsory
purchase of land or houses, or for extending the time
granted by any former Act for that purpose, or to
amalgamate with any other Company, or to sell or
lease the undertaking, or to purchase or take on
lease any other undertaking, or to amend or repeal
any former Act or Acts, or to levy any tolls, rates
or duties, or to confer, vary or extinguish any
exemptions from payment of tolls, rates or duties;
or to confer, vary or extinguish any other rights or
privileges, the notices shall specify such intention,
and the whole of the notices relating to the same
Bill shall be included in the same advertisement,
which shall be headed by a short Title descriptive of
the undertaking or Bill.

Notices to contain name of Township.
26. In cases of Bills included in the Second Class,
and of Bills of the First Class, in respect to which
plans are required to be deposited; such notices shall
also contain a description of all the termini, together
with the names of the Provinces, Townships, or
other territorial division, from, in, through, or into
which the work is intended to be made, maintained,
varied, extended, or enlarged; and shall state the
time and place of deposit of the plans, sections,
books of reference, and copies of the Gazette notice
respectively, with the several Officers hereinafter
specified.

Cemeteries, Gas Works, &c.
27. In cases of Bills respecting any burial ground,
cemetery, or gas works, the notices shall set forth
and specify the limits within which such burial
ground, cemetery, or gas works are intended to be
erected or made.

Notice of intention to divert Water.
28. In all cases where it is proposed to divert into
any intended cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navi-
gation; or into any intended variation, extension, or
enlargement thereof respectively, any water from
any existing cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navi-
gation, whether directly or derivatively, and whether
under any agreement with the proprietor thereof or
otherwise, the notices shall contain the name of every
such existing cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navi-
gation, the water supplying which will either directly
or derivatively flow or proceed into any such intended
cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigation; or into
any intended variation, extension, or enlargement
thereof.

Letters Patent—Name of invention to be prefixed.
29. In cases of Bills for confirming or prolonging

the terms of Letters Patent, each notice shall have
prefixed to it in capital letters the name by which the
invention is usually distinguished, and shall contain
a distinct description of the invention for which such
Letters Patent have been obtained; and also an
account of the term of their duration.

Publication of Notices.
30. Not less than thirty days before the commence-
ment of the Session, in which it is proposed to make
application for a Bill, such notices shall be published
once at least in the Government Gazette of the
Colony; and if such Bill relate especially to any
particular City or Town in which any newspaper is
published such notice shall be published in two
successive weeks in one and the same newspaper
published therein, the first publication to be not less
than thirty days before the commencement of the
Session.

B.—NOTICES AND APPLICATIONS TO OWNERS, LESSEES,
AND OCCUPIERS OF LANDS AND HOUSES.

Application to Owners, &c.
31. Not less than thirty days before the commence-
ment of the Session in which it is proposed to make
application for a Bill by which any lands or houses
are intended to be taken, or an extension of the time
granted by any former Act for that purpose is sought,
application in writing must be made to the owners or
reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees and occu-
piers of all lands and houses so intended to be taken,
or which may be taken, as being within the limits of
deviation defined upon the plan; and in cases of
Bills included in the Second Class, such applications
shall be as nearly as may be in the form set forth in
the Appendix marked A.

Service of Application.
32. Such application shall be made by delivering the
same personally to every such party, or by leaving
the same at his usual place of abode; or, in his absence
from the Colony, with his agent; or by forwarding
the same by post in a registered letter addressed with
a sufficient direction to his usual place of abode, and
posted before the first of such thirty days at the Chief
Post Office in a Province, at such hours and accord-
ing to such regulations as may from time to time be
in force for the posting and registration of Registered
Letters.

Evidence of Application.
33. In all cases the written acknowledgment of the
party applied to shall, in the absence of other proof,
be sufficient evidence of an application having been
made, or notice given; and in case of an application
or notice having been forwarded by post in a
registered letter, the production of the Post Office
receipt for such letter, duly stamped, shall be sufficient
evidence of the due delivery of such letter: provided
it shall appear that the same was properly and suf-
ficiently directed, and that the same was not returned
by the Post Office as undelivered.

Lists of Owners, &c.
34. Separate lists shall be made of the names of
such owners, lessees, and occupiers, distinguishing
those who have assented, dissented, or are neuter in
respect to such application, or who have returned no
answer thereto; and where no written acknowledg-
ment has been returned to an application forwarded
by post, or where such application has been returned
as undelivered, at any time before the making up of
such lists, the direction of the letter in which the
same was so forwarded shall be inserted therein.
(See Schedule.)

Notice to Owners, &c., Trust Properties.
35. Before the deposit of a Petition for leave to
bring in a Bill relating to or affecting Crown,