1879.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1623

Ascertainment of Law.

27. The following Acts, namely, "The British Law Ascertainment Act, 1859," "The Foreign Law Ascertainment Act, 1861," or so much thereof as is for the time being in force, amending or substituted for the same, are hereby extended to the Western Pacific Islands, with the adaptation following, namely:—

In those Acts the High Commissioner's Court by a Judicial Commissioner shall be deemed to be substituted for a superior Court in a colony.

Plaintiff out of Jurisdiction of Court.

28. (1.) Where a person bringing an action, either alone or jointly with another, is out of the Western Pacific Islands, or is only temporarily therein, he shall file in the Court, at or before the commencement of the action, a written statement of a fit place within the district where notices and other papers in the action may be served on him.

(2.) He shall also give security for costs in the action by deposit of such sum not exceeding £50, or by such bond, with or without such surety or sureties, for securing such sum, not exceeding £50, as the Court thinks fit.

(3.) The Court may at any time during an action, either of its own motion or on the application of any defendant, order a plaintiff, being out of the Western Pacific Islands, or only temporarily therein, to give security, or further or better security, for costs, to such amount as aforesaid, and may direct the proceedings in the action to be stayed until the same is given.

Counsel, Solicitors, and Agents.

29. The following paragraph is hereby added to Article 159 of the principal order, that is to say,—

(5.) Where the counsel, solicitor, attorney, procurator, or agent is not a British subject, he shall, before doing any act or taking any proceeding, obtain and file in the proper office of the Court, the consent in writing of the competent authority on behalf of his own nation to his submitting himself, and shall submit himself, for the purposes of the intended or pending action or proceeding, to the authority of the Court; and thereupon he shall be subject to the authority of the Court in all respects as if he were a British subject.

Orders in Shipping Cases.

30. Where money ordered by the Court to be paid is due for seamen's wages, or is other money recoverable under the Merchant Shipping Acts or other law relating to ships, and the person ordered to pay is master or owner of a ship, and the money is not paid as ordered, the Court, in addition to other powers for compelling payment, shall have power to direct that the amount unpaid be levied by seizure and sale of that ship.

Form in Probate Cases.

31. The following form is hereby added to the appendix of forms to the Schedule to the principal order, that is to say—

[Certificate, to be written on probate, administration, or confirmation, of production thereof and of deposit of copy.]

(General Heading.)

This probate has [or These letters of administration have, or This confirmation has] been produced to this Court, and a copy thereof has been deposited with this Court.

Judicial Notice.

32. Judicial notice shall be taken of the principal order, and of this order, and of any regulations made by, and of any Proclamation issued by, the High Commissioner thereunder, and of any rules made and

lists of fees prescribed thereunder, and of all appointments thereunder, and of the signatures of all Commissioners and others acting thereunder, and of all seals used thereunder; and no proof thereof shall be necessary.

Commencement.

33. This order (except where it is expressed to operate from its making) shall commence and have effect on a day fixed by Proclamation, under the hand and official seal of the High Commissioner, published in the Royal Gazette of Fiji.

And the Most Honorable the Marquis of Salisbury, and the Right Honorable Sir Michael Edward Hicks-Beach, Baronet, two of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.

C. L. PEEL.

Registrar of Dogs for Town of Havelock, Marlborough, appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th November, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

The SECRETARY to the HAVELOCK BOARD OF WORKS

to be Registrar of Dogs under "The (Marlborough) Dog Nuisance Abatement Act, 1863," within the Town of Havelock, County of Marlborough; and also to appoint the office of the Secretary to the Havelock Board of Works to be the office of the said Registrar.

JOHN HALL.

Public Vaccinator appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th November, 1879.

IT is hereby notified that under the provisions of "The Public Health Act, 1876," His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES REED, Esq., M.R.C.S.,

to be a Public Vaccinator, to perform gratuitous vaccination in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and any regulations made or to be made thereunder, for the District of Tamaki.

JOHN HALL.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 18th November, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

WILLIAM JUKES STEWARD, Esq.,

of Oamaru, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the colony.

Wm. ROLLESTON.

Resident Magistrate, &c., appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 18th November, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES MACKAY, Esq., J.P.,

to be a Resident Magistrate for the Districts of Greymouth, Hokitika, and Nelson South-West Gold Fields, with jurisdiction to £100; a Warden of Wardens' Courts in the Provincial District of West