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2. On Judgments for default of plea or
   demurrer execution may be issued on the
   expiration of seven days after such judgment
   has been entered up, unless a Judge shall
   direct that it may be issued either at an
   earlier or at a later time.

3. When there is no Judge of the Supreme
   Court actually present at any place at which
   there is a Registrar or Deputy Registrar of
   the Supreme Court, such Registrar or Deputy
   Registrar shall have power to grant leave to
   enter up Judgment on default of plea or
   demurrer; and the same may be entered up
   accordingly: Provided that execution shall
   not issue thereon until the expiration of
   seven days after notice given to the Defendant
   that such judgment has been entered up
   pursuant to the leave granted by such Reg-
   istrar or Deputy Registrar; and if the De-
   fendant shall within such seven days find
   security for the amount for which execution
   is to be issued, to the satisfaction of the
   Registrar, execution shall be stayed until an
   application can be made by the defendant to
   a Judge to set aside the judgment, provided
   also that in such last mentioned case the
   plaintiff may, after notice to the defendant,
   apply to the Judge for leave to issue execution.

Administration and Probate.

4. The inventories and accounts to be filed
   by Executors and Administrators shall be
   filed within such periods as the Judge granting
   Administration or Probate shall direct at the
   time of the granting thereof, or within such
   further period as a Judge on application may
   direct; and the conditions of Administration
   Bonds shall be framed accordingly.

5. Those portions of the affidavits contained
   in the Schedule of forms annexed to the
   "Rules touching the Administration of
   Estates and effects of persons deceased, 1844,"
   which relate to the filing of inventories and
   accounts, shall be henceforth omitted from
   such affidavits.

Conveyancing.

6. On taxation of the costs of conveyances
   or other assurances no fee for the drawing,
   settling, or preparation of such instruments
   shall be allowed unless the name and address
   of the Barrister or Solicitor who prepared
   the same shall be endorsed or shall appear
   upon the same.

GEORGE ALFRED ARNEY, Chief Justice,
ALEXANDER J. JOHNSTON, Judge,
H. B. GRESSON, Judge,
C. W. RICHMOND, Judge.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 6th May, 1863.

THE following Notice to Mariners respect-
ing Lighthouses at Port Phillip Heads,
is published for general information.

R. RAMSAY WOOD,
In the absence of Mr Domett.

978. NOTICE TO MARINERS.

PORT PHILLIP HEADS LIGHTHOUSES.

Navigators are hereby informed that in ac-
cordance with a Notice to Mariners dated the
27th of December, 1862, the alterations in
Shortland Bluff and Swan Spit Lights, and
the exhibition for the first time of a light on
Point Lonsdale, as notified on the 3rd Febru-
ary, 1863, were carried into effect on the
respective dates mentioned in such notices.

Consequent upon these changes, the follow-
ing Sailing Directions are published for the
guidance of vessels navigating the entrance to
Port of Phillip at night:—

Vessels from the southward and eastward
will see the high light (fixed white) on a N.
½ W. bearing, and the white low light (fixed
white and red) on a N. ¼ E. bearing; as they
proceed to the N. W. to bring the two lights
in one, the low light will change its colour
from white to red on a N.N.E. ¼ E. bearing.

Vessels from the southward and westward
sighting the high light to the eastward of N.E.
by E. should, to avoid the Barwon bight,
haul out to the eastward to open the low light,
which will be first seen white on a N E. by E.
bearing, and as they proceed to bring the two
lights in one, the low light will change its colour
from white to red on a N.E. ¼ E. bearing.

A reference to the chart will show that, as
hitherto, the best and safest course between
the heads is to keep the two Shortland’s Bluff
lights in one line on a N.E. by N. and
S.W. by S. bearing; but should the wind
become scant and the vessel compelled to
make a tack when in the vicinity of the Cor-
sair rock or the Point Lonsdale reef, these
dangers will be avoided by vessels of light
draught so long as the Shortland’s Bluff low
red light is kept in sight. Vessels so cir-
cumstanced must be careful to go about, or
haul, towards mid channel before the low
light changes from red to white.

The light (fixed red and green) on Point
Lonsdale has been established to warn vessels
entering or departing at night of their vicinity
to, and when they are clear of the Lonsdale
and Ferguson rocks.

Vessels steering from sea for Port Phillip,
and near the entrance, will first see the Point
Lonsdale green light on a N.W. by N. ¼ N.
bearing, and so long as they have it full in
view they are to seaward of the Lonsdale and
Ferguson rocks; when the two colours, red
and green, begin to blend, it indicates vicinity
to the line which passes on a N.W. by W.
bearing from the light over these dangers.

When the Lonsdale red light opens out full,
vessels are inside of them, and when they
shut it in on a W. ¼ N. bearing they are inside
of the Corsair rock.

Vessels steering towards the West Channel
will avoid the reef off Shortland’s Bluff,
and the bank between it and Swan Spit, and
also clear the Royal George Sand, when in their
vicinity, by not opening out the white light on
Swan Spit, but keeping the red light in sight
until within three cables’ length of it, when
they will be above the Royal George buoy,
and should haul to the eastward, and open the
white light, giving the lighthouse a berth of
three-quarters of a cable’s length in passing.

Vessels navigating the South Channel are
reminded that the low light on Shortland’s
Bluff now shows white from sea up the South
Channel to the east end of Capel Sound.

Vessels below Capel Sound White Perch
buoy will be aided in their passage up or down
the South Channel and avoid the north sand.