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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Legislative Council Standing Orders relative to Local
Bills.

Legislative Council,
1st February, 1879.

IN accordance with a resolution of the Legislative Council,
the following Standing Orders relative
to Local Bills are published for general information.

L. STOWE,
Clerk of the Legislative Council.

STANDING ORDERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
RELATIVE TO LOCAL BILLS.

1. Local Bills are those which not being such as
   require to be introduced as Private Bills, are yet
   Bills specially affecting local interests and dealing
   with private rights, or with public reserves for local
   and municipal purposes; also Bills altering the con-
   stitution, election, or powers of local public bodies.

2. There shall be a Standing Committee, to consist
   of five members, to be called the "Local Bills Com-
   mittee," to which shall stand referred, after their
   first reading, all Bills which may appear to the
   Speaker to come within the description given in the
   preceding Order. Such Committee shall, in the case
   of every Bill referred to it, decide whether the same
   comes within the definition of a Local Bill; and, if
   so, whether the conditions laid down in Orders 3, 4,
   and 5 have been complied with.

3. No Local Bill shall be introduced into the
   Legislative Council by any member later than two
   months after the commencement of the session.

4. The member in charge of a Local Bill shall pro-
   duce to the Local Bills Committee satisfactory evi-
   dence that the intention to introduce the Bill and
   the purport of the same has been made public in the
   locality whose interests are affected, by advertisement
   in a local newspaper, at least four times in four suc-
   cessive weeks. When the Bill specially affects the
   interests of any private individual, evidence shall
   also be produced that personal notice to the effect
   above stated has been given to such individual.

5. When a Local Bill refers to an exchange of or
   other dealing with any Crown lands, or with a public
   reserve, the member in charge thereof shall also pro-
   duce a certified map, on a scale of not less than 20
   chains to an inch, showing the land or reserve in
   question, and the mode in which it is proposed to
   deal with the same. When any Schedule containing
   a description of any land is attached to such Bill, it
   shall be accompanied by a certificate of its correct-
   ness from an officer of the Survey Department or
   other duly-authorized Surveyor.

PATENT FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN BUILDING
WOODEN SHIPS.

THIS is to notify that JAMES HOLMES, of the North
Shore, in the Suburbs of Auckland, in the Colony
of New Zealand, Shipbuilder, did, on this twenty-
fifth day of April instant, deposit at the office of the
Patent Officer, in the Colonial Secretary's Office, in
Wellington, a specification or instrument in writing,
under his hand and seal, particularly describing and
ascertaining the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed; and that
by reason of such deposit the said Invention is pro-
tected and secured to him exclusively for the term
of six calendar months thence next ensuing.

And I do further notify that the said James
Holmes has given notice in writing at my office of
his intention to proceed with his application for
Letters Patent for the said Invention, and that I
have appointed Friday, the twenty-second day of
August next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at my
office, to hear and consider the said application and
all objections thereto; and I do hereby require all
persons having an interest in opposing the grant of
such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the
eighteenth day of August next, at my office in
Wellington, particulars in writing of their objections
to the said application, otherwise they will be pre-
Given under my hand this twenty-fifth day of
April, 1879.

281

W. S. REID,
Patent Officer.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land
hereinafter described will be brought under
the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act, 1870,"
unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within
one month from the date of the gazetting this
notice.

ALEXANDER RENNIE HAY.-111 acres 1
rood and 37 poles, being part of Section 3, Block
XV., Invercargill Hundred, known as Grassmere.
Unoccupied. No. 1218.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 2nd day of May, 1879, at the Lands
Registry Office, Invercargill.

278

W. STUART,
Deputy District Land Registrar.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land
hereinafter described will be brought under the
provisions of "The Land Transfer Act, 1870," unless
caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one
month from the date of the gazetting of this notice.

ELLEN FRASER (Wife of WILLIAM
ROBERTSON FRASER, of Invercargill, Contrac-
tor).-Section 44, New River Hundred, containing
10 acres. Unoccupied. No. 1215.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 29th day of April, 1879, at the Lands
Registry Office, Invercargill.

275

W. STUART,
Deputy District Land Registrar.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICE.

WALTER NEILAS, of the City of Christchurch,
Plasterer, did, on the 2nd instant, lodge with
me a statutory declaration as to the loss of Certificate
of Title to part of Christchurch Town Reserve No.
128, Vol. vi., folio 151, and has applied to have a Provi-
sional Certificate for above land issued to him: Notice
is hereby given that I shall comply with above appli-
cation, unless caveat be lodged within fourteen days
from the Gazette notice hereof.

Dated this 7th day of May, 1879, at the Lands
Registry Office, Christchurch.

276

R. W. D'OYLY,
District Land Registrar.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES.

NOTICE is hereby given that the several parcels
of land hereinafter described will be brought
under the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act,
1870," unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same
within one month after the date of the Gazette con-
taining this notice.

3541. WILLIAM LUCAS.-2 acres 2 roods 15
      perches, part of Rural Section 186, Banks Peninsula
      District. Occupied by James O'Brien.

3542. JAMES PEPPERELL.-38 perches, part