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to the prisoners confined in the public gaols of the province:—

RULES FOR GAOL.

I.

A separate register shall be kept in a book specially appropriated to the purpose, in which the names of all prisoners shall be entered, with the religious persuasion to which they shall declare themselves to belong; and this register shall be open for inspection to all persons visiting the gaol.

II.

A book shall be kept in which the date of all visits made by Ministers of Religion shall be entered by them, with any remarks which may seem good to them.

III.

Stated days and hours shall be appointed, subject to the approval of the Superintendent, by the Master of the Gaol, at which Ministers of Religion may visit prisoners of their own persuasion. The time of such visits to be so arranged as not to interfere with any period of relaxation during the ordinary hours of labour.

IV.

In cases of dangerous illness, permission shall be accorded to Ministers of Religion to visit prisoners at other times than those regularly stated.

V.

No prisoner shall be required or invited to attend any religious service, or join in any religious exercise whatsoever, conducted by a Minister or other person of a different denomination; provided always, that any prisoner who may wish it shall be permitted to do so by making a request, in writing or before witnesses, to the Master of the Gaol or Visiting Justices.

VI.

Ministers of Religion and Visitors are prohibited from any conversation on religious or controversial subjects with prisoners not registered as of their own denomination, unless at the special request of the prisoners themselves, conveyed through the Master of the Gaol or the Visiting Justices, in the manner provided for in the preceding Rule.

VII.

As far as is convenient, consistently with the discipline and arrangements of the gaol, prisoners may be taken to public worship in accordance with the tenets of their denomination; but when this cannot conveniently be done, Ministers of all denominations shall have an opportunity afforded to them for conducting a religious service within the gaol.

By His Honor’s command,

Wm. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, August 4, 1864.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has made the following Reserve, under the 19th clause of the Waste Land Regulations, for a township; viz.—

No. 353, in red.—Four hundred and sixty acres, more or less, situate on the West Coast, bounded on the north-west and north-east by the River Teramakau, on the westward by the Ohine Kutu Lake, separating this reserve from the Native reserve, and on the south-eastward by a line half a mile distant from and parallel to the general direction of the north-western boundary above described; save and except the Native reserve No. 27 a, and subject to Mr. Todhunter’s application for forty acres.

Wm. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, August 8, 1864.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has made the following Reserves, under the 19th clause of the Waste Land Regulations; viz.—

No. 354, in red.—Twenty acres, more or less, situate in the Mandeville District, bounded on the south-east by the road north-west of section 6182, for a distance of about twenty chains, and extending back westerly a distance on the average of ten chains; being bounded on the southward by the road north-east of section 6330—for a gravel-pit.

No. 355, in red.—Twenty acres, more or less, situate in the Mandeville District, having frontage of about twenty chains to the road dividing sections 4995 and 4996, and extending back westerly a distance on the average of ten chains; being bounded on the northward by a road—for a gravel-pit.

No. 356, in red.—Twenty acres, more or less, situate in the Oxford District, having frontage of ten chains to the road forming the south-west boundary of section 4987, and running back north-easterly a distance on the average of twenty chains; being bounded on the south-east by the road on the north-west side of section 4671—for a gravel-pit.

No. 357, in red.—Two roods thirteen perches, more or less, situate in the Oxford District, bounded on the northward by the new line of the Harewood-road by Rangiora, on the southward by the old line of road, and on the eastward by the road on the west side of section 5141—for a gravel-pit.

No. 358, in red.—Twenty acres, more or less, situate in the Mandeville District, having frontage of ten chains to the Harewood-road by Rangiora, and extending back southerly a distance of twenty chains, in a rectangular block; being bounded on the westward by C A pre-emptive right No. 6—for a gravel-pit.

Wm. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.