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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Wairau and Pelorus Valleys; thence by that summit
to the boundary of the provincial district; thence
by that boundary to Ward's Pass saddle. Excepting
all freehold, leasehold, and private lands, and lands
now held under depasturing licenses, within the
aforesaid boundaries.

Given under my hand, at Blenheim, this
twenty-third day of May, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-seven.

A. P. SEYMOUR,
Executive Officer.

Sheep Inspector's Notice.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 2nd June, 1877.

NOTICE has been received from the Inspector of
Sheep for the Wellington District that he has
granted a clean certificate to

Mr. James Futter, of Ngahauranga, for a flock of
sheep of 330;
from the 1st instant.

JOS. G. HOLDSWORTH,
Commissioner Crown Lands.

Sheep Inspector's Notice.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 30th May, 1877.

NOTICE has been received from the Inspector of
Sheep for the Wanganui District that he has
granted a clean certificate to

Mr. William Burr, Matarawa Valley, for the whole
of his flock (550);
from the 4th April, 1877.

JOS. G. HOLDSWORTH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Certificated Accountants in Bankruptcy under "The

Debtors and Creditors Act, 1876."

NOTICE. His Honor the Chief Justice has, this
4th day of June, 1877, appointed

EDWARD LYNDON and
WILLIAM JORDAN JOHNSON,

both of Napier, to be Certificated Accountants in
Bankruptcy within the Wellington Judicial District.

A. S. ALLAN,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Wellington, June 4th, 1877.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

CHARLES JAMES DAINTREY, of Petworth,
Square, St. Pancras, in the County of Middlesex, in
England, a Solicitor of Her Majesty's Supreme Court
of Judicature in England, has been appointed by His
Honor the Chief Justice to be a Commissioner of the
Supreme Court of New Zealand, under the second
section of "The Commissioners of the Supreme Court
Act, 1875," for the purpose of administering and
taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in
the said section mentioned, in England.

A. S. ALLAN,
Registrar of Supreme Court.

Wellington, 30th May, 1877.

Commissioners of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

NOTICE. The following gentlemen have been
appointed by His Honor the Chief Justice to
be Commissioners of the Supreme Court of New

Zealand, under the second section of "The Commis-
sioner of the Supreme Court Act, 1875," for the
purpose of administering and taking all such oaths,
affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section
mentioned, in the Colonies set opposite their names
respectively, viz. :-

JAMES COOPER STEWART, Victoria (Solicitor,
Melbourne).
HENRY WRIXON, Victoria (Solicitor, Sand-
hurst).
RAYNES WAITE DICKSON, Victoria (Solicitor,
Melbourne).
HENRY JOHN BUCKLAND, Tasmania (Registrar,
Supreme Court, Hobart Town).

A. S. ALLAN,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Wellington, 30th May, 1877.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

REGULÆ GENERALES.

May, 1877.

BY virtue of the powers vested in us by law, it is
ordered by us, the Judges of the said Court,
with the approval of His Excellency the Governor
in Council, that the following Rules shall come into
force on and after Monday, the 2nd day of July,
1877.

AFFIDAVITS.

1. In showing cause against a rule, no affidavit
   shall be read unless it shall have been filed before
   noon on the day preceding the day appointed for
   showing cause.

HOLIDAYS.

2. The second day of January, and the Birthday
   of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (9th
   November), shall be holidays in the Court and the
   offices thereof, in addition to the days specified in
   Rule 569 of the Regulæ Generales, 1856.

RULES FOR THE TIME AND PLACE OF DELIVERY OF

PLEADINGS.
Rules 8, 9, 10, 11, of the Regulæ Generales, 1856,
are repealed, and the following rules substituted :-
3. The writ shall require the defendant either to
satisfy the plaintiff's claim, or to plead to the decla-
ration, and deliver such pleading within a certain
time and at a certain place to be named in the writ.
4. The time so to be named shall be a certain
number of clear days after personal service of the
writ, but if the last of such days be a Sunday or holi-
day, the plea may be delivered on the day following.
The number of clear days shall be determined by the
distance of the place where the defendant resides
from the Court House at the town in which the
defendant's pleading is required by the writ to be
delivered, according to the following table:-

Where defendant resides within 20
miles of the Court House ... 8 days.
Where the defendant resides from 20
to 50 miles ... 12 days.
Where the defendant resides from 50
to 120 miles ... 21 days..
Where the defendant resides beyond
120 miles ... 28 days.

The place shall be some place in that town in
the provincial district within which the defendant
shall reside which was formerly the chief town
of the province corresponding to such provincial
district: Provided always that if the defendant
shall reside in that part of the Provincial District
of Otago formerly included in the Province of
Southland, the place shall be some place in the
reside in that part of the Provincial District of