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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Land—Draining or improving.
Market or Market Place—Erecting, improv-
ing, repairing, maintaining, or regulating.
And relating to any subject not comprised in
the second class.
Second Class.—Making, maintaining, varying,
extending or enlarging any aqueduct,
archway, bridge, canal, cut, dock, ferry,
navigation, pier, railway, reservoir, road,
sewer, street, tunnel, waterworks.
Standing Orders compliance with which must
be proved.

Before Committee on Standing Orders.
8. Compliance with the following Standing
Orders shall be proved before the Committee on
Standing Orders.

Notice by Advertisement.
9. In all cases where application is intended to
be made for leave to bring in a Bill, notice shall
be given stating the objects of such intended
application, and the time at which copies of the
Bill will be deposited in the Private Bill Office,
and the notice shall specify all the powers intended
to be given by such Bill, and the whole of the
notice relating to any one Bill shall be included
in the same advertisement, which shall be headed
by a short title descriptive of the undertaking or
Bill.

Names of Districts.
10. In the case of every Bill in respect of
which plans are required to be deposited, such
notices shall also contain a description of all the
termini, together with the names of the districts
townships, or other territorial divisions, 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 herein specified.

Cemeteries, Gas Works, &c.
11. 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 in-
tended to be erected or made.
12. In all cases where it is proposed to divert
into any intended cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct,
or navigation, or into any intended variation, ex-
tension or enlargement thereof respectively, any
water from any existing cut, canal, stream, reser-
voir, aqueduct or navigation, the water supplying
which will either directly or derivatively flow or
proceed into any such intended cut, canal, reser-
voir, aqueduct or navigation, or into any variation,
extension, or enlargement thereof, the notice shall
contain the name of every existing cut, canal,
stream, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigation, the
water whereof is intended to be diverted.

Publication.
13. In the months of February and August, or
either of them immediately preceding the ap-
plication for a Bill, the notices mentioned in
the ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth rules
shall be published once in the General Govern-
ment Gazette, once in the Government Gazette
for the Province of Southland; and if such Bill
is intended to give power to take land in any
city or town in which any newspaper is
published, such notices shall be published in three
successive weeks in the said month, or one of
them in one and the same newspaper published
therein; but if such Bill is not intended to give
power to take land in any such city or town,
then the notices shall be published once in the
Provincial Government Gazette only.

II.—NOTICES TO OWNERS, LESSEES, AND
OCCUPIERS OF LAND.

Applications to Owners.
14. On or before the 15th day of March or
September immediately preceding the application
for a Bill, or for an extension of the time for
taking land granted by any previous Act of the
Province of Southland, application in writing
must be made to the owners or reputed owners,
lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of all
lands and houses intended to be taken, or which
may be taken within the limits of deviation de-
fined upon the plan; and in cases of Bills included
in the second class such application shall be as
nearly as may be in the form set forth in the
Appendix marked A.

How served.
15. Such application shall be made by deliver-
ing the same personally to every such owner or
reputed owner, lessee or reputed lessee, and
occupier personally, or by leaving the same at his
usual place of abode or business in New Zealand,
or in his absence from the Colony, with his agent
or reputed agent, if any, on or before the 15th
day of March or September, or by forwarding the
same by post addressed with a sufficient direction,
to his usual place of abode or business in New
Zealand, or to his agent or reputed agent, if any,
and posted on or before the 15th day of March or
September, duly stamped, at some post office.

Proof of Service.
16. In all cases the written acknowledgment
of the party applied to shall, in the absence of
other proof, be sufficient evidence of an applica-
tion having been made or notice given; and, in
case of an application or notice having been for-
warded by post in a letter, a statutory declara-
tion, by the person who posted the same, that
such letter was duly directed, stamped, and
posted, and that the same has not been returned
undelivered, shall be sufficient evidence of the due
delivery of such letter, unless it shall otherwise
appear that such letter was not in fact delivered.

List of Owners.
17. Separate lists shall be made of the names
of such owners, lessees, and occupiers, distin-
guishing those who have assented, dissented, or
are neuter in respect to such application, or who
have returned no answer to such application; and
where no written acknowledgment 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.

Notices in case of Cemeteries and Gas Works.
18. On or before the 15th day of March or
September immediately preceding the application
for any Bill for making a burial ground or ceme-
tery, or the erection of gas works, notice shall be
served upon the owner and occupier of every