FOR NO. 2 CLASS.

1 lb. bread, 1lb. potatoes, 1 lb. fresh meat,
¼ oz. soap, ¼ oz. salt, 4 oz. flour.
PRISONERS IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.
One-and-a-half pounds of bread, water, ad libitum.

Prisoners of the first class will be allowed
to smoke for fifteen minutes during the time
set apart for breakfast and dinner, but at no
other time.

Prisoners of the second class will not be
allowed to smoke at any time.

FEMALE CONVICTS.

Females sentenced to penal servitude
within the said Province shall, until further
provision be made, be confined within the
precincts of the Gaol in Lyttelton, and be
there kept to suitable hard labor.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of Executive Council.

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, CANTERBURY.—NOTICE.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 7th November, 1862.

THE Offices in Colombo Street, Christ-
church, will be opened for the Trans-
mission of Messages on and after Monday,
the 10th instant.

The Office in the Heathcote Valley is also
now open for business.

THOS. WM. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 11th Nov. 1862.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs
the publication for general information
of the following Resolution of the Provincial
Council, passed on Tuesday, the 28th ult:—

THOS. WM. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

"That this Council, desiring to record its
deep sense of the loss which the Province of
Canterbury has sustained by the death of
its founder, and deeming it right to preserve
for ever amongst the inhabitants of the Pro-
vince the memory of labours to which it is so
deeply indebted, as well as an example of
worth and excellence in private life, and of
wisdom and uprightness in the administra-
tion of public affairs—resolves that a statue
of the late John Robert Godley be erected
in the city of Christchurch, in such public
place as His Honor the Superintendent shall
direct; and that His Honor the Superinten-
dent be respectfully requested to take such
steps as may be necessary to carry this Re-
solution into effect, and this Council under-
takes to make due provision for the cost of
such a work out of the public revenues of
the Province.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 11th November, 1862.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs
the following notification to be pub-
lished for general information.

THOS. WM. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

I, William Sefton Moorhouse, Super-
intendent of the Province of Canter-
bury, in pursuance of the powers vested
in me by the 19th Clause of the Waste
Lands Regulations in force within the said
Province, do hereby, upon the recommen-
dation of the Provincial Council, make the
following Reserve for the undermentioned
purposes; viz.—

No. 262, in red.—Thirteen acres for
public garden and pleasure-ground
at Timaru; bounded on the north by
the south side of Browne Street, 720
links; on the east by the west side of
Rose Street, 1820 links; on the south
by the north side of Catherine Street,
700 links; and on the west by the
western boundary of the Town of
Timaru; subject nevertheless, to the
Boulevard along the Town Boundary,
two chains wide.

W. S. MOORHOUSE,
Superintendent.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

SIGNALS AT THE RAKAIA FERRY.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 5th November, 1862.

THE Public are informed that Signal
Poles are fixed at the Rakaia Ferry
on the line of the South Road.

The signals to be used are as follows:—

When the river is passable, the ball on the
North Bank will be kept mast high.

When it is dangerous to cross, the ball will
be kept half mast high.

Travellers arriving from the south and re-
quiring the ferry boat, will raise the ball on
the South Bank, and the signal will be an-
swered by lowering and again raising the
ball on the North Bank.

THOS. WM. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.