PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, by an Ordinance enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, Session VII., No. 7, intituled "An Ordinance for the Regulation of Prisons," it is enacted that "it shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor, from time to time, as to him shall seem meet, by proclamation, to declare any House, Building, Enclosure, or place, to be a public Gaol: and from and after the publication of any such proclamation, such House, Building, Enclosure, or place, shall be deemed and taken to be a public Gaol:" And whereas it is desirable that the building now used as a Lock-up in the Township of Timaru in the District of Timaru in the Province of Canterbury should be proclaimed to be a public Gaol of the Colony: And whereas, by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, intituled the "Empowering Ordinance, Session II, No. 2," it is enacted that the powers conferred on the Governor of New Zealand by the above recited Ordinance, are within the limits of the Province of Canterbury conferred on the Superintendent thereof:

Now, therefore, I, WILLIAM SEFTON MOORHOUSE, Superintendent of the said Province, in virtue of the powers vested in me as aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and declare that the Building aforesaid shall be deemed and taken to be one of the public Gaols of the Colony of New Zealand.

Given under my hand at Christchurch, and issued under the public seal of the Province, this Sixteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

W. S. MOORHOUSE,
Superintendent.

By his Honor’s command,
JOHN OLLIVIER,
Provincial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, by an Ordinance enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, Session VII., No. 7, intituled "An Ordinance for the Regulation of Prisons," it is enacted that "it shall be lawful for his Excellency the Governor, from time to time, as to him shall seem meet by proclamation, to declare any house, building, enclosure, or place, to be a public Gaol: and from and after the publication of any such Proclamation, such house, building, enclosure, or place, shall be deemed and taken to be a public Gaol:" And whereas it is desirable that the building now used as a Lock-up in the Town of Christchurch, in the Province of Canterbury, should be proclaimed to be a Public Gaol of the Colony: And whereas by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the said Province of Canterbury, intituled the "Empowering Ordinance, Session II, No. 2," it is enacted that the powers conferred on the Governor of New Zealand by the above recited ordinance are within the limits of the Province of Canterbury conferred on the Superintendent thereof:

Now, therefore, I, WILLIAM SEFTON MOORHOUSE, Superintendent of the said Province, in virtue of the powers vested in me as aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and declare that the building aforesaid shall be deemed and taken to be one of the Public Gaols of the Colony of New Zealand.

Given under my hand at Christchurch, and issued under the public seal of the Province, this ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

W. S. MOORHOUSE,
Superintendent.

By his Honor’s command,
JOHN OLLIVIER,
Provincial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

LYTTELTON: PRINTED AT THE ‘TIMES’ OFFICE.