THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 519

REGULA GENERALIS.—November, 1868.—Act.
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 Rule shall be in
force on and after the tenth day of November, 1868.

Settling Issues and giving Notice of Trial when Judge
has been absent from place of residence before
Circuit Court.

Whenever a Judge of the Supreme Court shall
have been absent from his usual place of residence
and shall not have returned thither twenty-eight
clear days before the day appointed for the holding
of a Circuit Court at such place, the parties and the
Judge may proceed to the settling of issues and
fixing the time of the trial in like manner as may be
done on the arrival of a Judge at a place where a
Circuit Court is about to be held, not being the
usual place of residence of such Judge, under "The
General Rules, May, 1861," General Rules of Pro-
cedure, Reg. 3.

(Signed) GEORGE ALFRED ARNEY, C.J.
ALEXANDER J. JOHNSTON, J.
H. B. GRESSON, J.
C. W. RICHMOND, J.

Wellington, 6th November, 1868.

THE PATENTS ACT, 1860.—Notice is hereby
given that an application has been made to His
Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand by CHARLES JAMES POWNALL, of Welling-
ton, praying for Letters Patent to be granted unto
him for improvements in the treatment and prepara-
tion of Phormium Tenax and other similar fibrous
vegetable substances.

Any person who may have to prefer any objections
to granting such Letters Patent is required, within
four calendar months from the publication of this
Notice, to send to the office of John Boyle Bennett,
Esquire, Registrar-General, at Wellington, a state-
ment in writing showing the grounds of such objec-
tions, and subscribed with his proper name and
address.

November 2, 1868.

THE PATENTS ACT, 1860.—Notice is hereby
given that an application has been made to His
Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zea-
land, by Abiel Gifford Howland, of Christchurch, in
the Province of Canterbury, in the Colony of New
Zealand, Coachbuilder, praying for the grant to him,
the said Abiel Gifford Howland, of Letters Patent,
under the Seal of the said Colony, for the exclusive
use, advantage, and enjoyment of a new invention
for improvements in mechanism for the beating,
stamping, or crushing of iron, quartz, flax, or any
other material; and notice is hereby given that any
person who may wish to prefer any objection to the
granting of such Letters Patent is hereby required,
within four calendar months from the publication
of this notice, to send to the office of John Boyle
Bennett, Esquire, Registrar-General, at Wellington,
in the said Colony of New Zealand (being the
person appointed for that purpose under the pro-
visions of the "The Patents Act, 1860"), a statement
in writing, showing the grounds of such objections,
and subscribed with the proper name and address of
the person so objecting.

A. C. COTTRELL,
Solicitor for Abiel Gifford Howland.

ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.—The following Acts,
passed during the Session of the Assembly,
1868, are now published, and can be procured from
the Government Printer. Copies forwarded to
any part of the Colony, post free, at the following
prices:—

Act
No. 1. Mete Kingi Paetahi Election ... s. d.
, 2. Imprest Supply ... ... 0 6
, 3. Interest on Money ... ... 0 6
, 4. Pawnbrokers ... ... ... 0 9
, 5. Treason-Felony ... ... ... 0 6
, 6. Public-Houses ... ... ... 0 6
, 7. Bishop of New Zealand Trusts ... 0 6
, 8. Bridges and Ferries ... ... 0 6
, 9. Trigonometrical Stations and Survey Marks 0 6
, 10. Bills of Sale ... ... ... 0 6
, 11. Mortgages of Stock Registration... 0 6
, 12. Provincial Audit Act Amendment ... 0 6
, 13. Westland Representation Amendment ... 0 6
, 14. Nelson and Cobden Railway ... ... 0 6
, 15. Imprest Supply (No. 2.) ... ... 0 6
, 16. Lunatics ... ... ... 4 6
, 17. Printers and Newspapers Registration ... 0 9
, 18. John Jones' Land Claims Settlement Act, 1867,
Amendment ... ... ... 0 6
, 19. Petty Sessions ... ... ... 0 6
, 20. Offences against the Person Act Amendment ... 0 6
, 21. Canterbury Rivers ... ... ... 1 6
, 22. Marriage Act Amendment ... ... 0 6
, 23. Registration of Electors Act Amendment ... 0 6
, 24. Escheat ... ... ... 0 6
, 25. Distress and Replevin ... ... 0 6
, 26. Gold Fields ... ... ... 0 6
, 27. Companies ... ... ... 0 6
, 28. Conveyancing Charges ... ... 0 6
, 29. Provincial Appropriation Validation ... 0 6
, 30. Weights and Measures ... ... 1 0
, 31. Provincial Lawsuits ... ... 0 6
, 32. Ngaitahu Reference Validation ... ... 0 6
, 33. New Zealand Post Office Act Amendment ... 0 6
, 34. Customs Regulation Act Amendment ... 0 6
, 35. Tauranga District Lands ... ... 0 6
, 36. Colonial Forces Courts-Martial ... ... 0 6
, 37. Gold Mining Claims Drainage ... ... 0 9
, 38. Hawke's Bay Land Regulations Extension Act
Amendment ... ... ... 0 6
, 39. Russell Military Grant ... ... 0 6
, 40. Hawke's Bay and Marlborough Rivers ... 1 0
, 41. Marlborough Reserve Leasing ... ... 0 6
, 42. Immigration ... ... ... 0 6
, 43. Otago Education Reserves Abandonment ... 0 6
, 44. Otago Road Boards Endowment ... ... 0 6
, 45. Williamson Compensation ... ... 0 6
, 46. Resident Magistrates ... ... 0 9
, 47. Bankruptcy Act Amendment ... ... 0 6
, 48. Supreme Court Practice and Procedure Amend-
ment ... ... ... 0 6
, 49. Juries ... ... ... 0 6
, 50. Law Amendment ... ... ... 1 9
, 51. Deeds Registration ... ... ... 1 0
, 52. Municipal Corporations Act Amendment ... 0 6
, 53. Gold Fields Act Amendment ... ... 0 6
, 54. Constabulary Force Ordinance Amendment ... 0 6
, 55. Native Lands Act Amendment ... ... 0 6
, 56. East Coast ... ... ... 0 6
, 57. Provincial Acts Validation Act Continuance ... 0 6
, 58. Wellington and Hawke's Bay Public Debt
Apportionment ... ... ... 0 6
, 59. Canterbury and Westland Public Debt Appor-
tionment ... ... ... 0 6
, 60. County of Westland ... ... ... 0 6
, 61. Westland Public-House Ordinance Amendment ... 3 0
, 62. Green and Spencer Land Claims... ... 0 6
, 63. Otago Roads Ordinance Amendment Ordinance
1856, Validation ... ... ... 0 6
, 64. Electric Telegraph Reserves Lease ... ... 0 6
, 65. University Endowment ... ... ... 0 6
, 66. Government House Site ... ... ... 0 6
, 67. Public Domains Act Extension ... ... 0 6
, 68. Otago Surveys Correction ... ... 0 9
, 69. Protection of Animals Act Amendment ... 0 6
, 70. Miners Representation Act Amendment ... 0 6
, 71. Indewnity ... ... ... 0 6
, 72. Distillation ... ... ... 3 3
, 73. Public Revenues ... ... ... 0 6
, 74. Public Debts Sinking Funds ... ... 0 9
, 75. Treasury Bills Regulation ... ... 0 6
, 76. Treasury Bills ... ... ... 0 6
, 77. Courts of Law Trust Moneys ... ... 0 6
, 78. Consolidated Loan Provincial Charges ... 0 6
, 79. Confiscated Land Revenue ... ... 0 9
, 80. Appropriation. ... ... ... 0 9
, 81. Interpretation. ... ... ... 0 9

GEORGE DIDSBURY,
Government Printer.

Government Printing Office,
Wellington, 6th November, 1868.