OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

Published by Authority

VOL. XI. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1867. No. 513.

(With Supplement.)

(From the New Zealand Gazette, November 14th, No. 61.)

RULES GENERALES.—November, 1867.—

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 Rules shall be in force on and after the first day of December, 1867:—

Delivery of Pleadings.

1. When the defendant shall reside within any judicial district of the Supreme Court which does not include the chief town of a Province, the place to be named in the Writ of Summons for the delivery of the defendant’s pleadings, shall be some place in the town in which the Supreme Court Office for the district is situate. If the writ be taken out by a solicitor, then it shall be at the office of such solicitor, or of his agent in such town: if taken out by the plaintiff in person, then at the residence of the plaintiff, if his residence be not more than three miles from the said Supreme Court Office; but, if beyond that distance, then at some other proper place, to be called his "Address for Service," which shall not be more than three miles from such office.

2. Where the defendant shall reside within any such judicial district as aforesaid, and shall appear or plead in person, his address for service shall be some convenient place not more than three miles from the Supreme Court Office for the district.

Setting aside Awards.

3. Motions to set aside Awards of Arbitrators or Umpires must be made at some sitting in Banco held within the judicial district in which the Award is published to the parties (or within some adjoining judicial district assigned to the same Judge), within the period of one calendar month from the day of the publication of the Award; or if no such sitting be held within the said period, then at the next such sitting after its expiry.

(Signed)
ALEXANDER J. JOHNSTON, J.
H. B. GRESSON, J.
C. W. RICHMOND, J.
H. S. CHAPMAN, J.
J. S. MOORE, J.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, 21st November, No. 52.)
G. Grey, Governor.

In pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in this behalf enabling me, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that Sittings of the District Court of the Otago Gold Fields, additional to those already appointed, shall be held as follows:—

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Lawrence:—
On the second Tuesday in February, and the second Tuesday in April next.

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Naseby:—
On the second Wednesday in March, and the second Wednesday in May next.

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Clyde:—
On the Monday next after the second Wednesday in March, and the Monday next after the second Wednesday in May next.

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Queenstown:—
On the Monday second after the second Wednesday in March, and the Monday second after the second Wednesday in May next.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twentieth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 18th November, 1867.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
Colin Allan, Esq.,
to be Census Enumerator for the district of Otago, in the room of John Hislop, Esq., resigned.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch),
Wellington, 21st November, 1867.

It is hereby notified for public information, that
George Brodie, Esq.,
having been appointed Accountant in Bankruptcy, all Returns which by law are