THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 365

NOTICE.

I. By the eleventh section of "The Prisons Ordi-
nance, 1846," the following are declared to be offences
thereunder:-
(1.) Disobedience of the Rules and Regulations
of the Prison.
(2.) Assaults by one person confined in such
Gaol upon another, when no dangerous
wound or bruise is given.
(3.) Profane cursing and swearing.
(4.) Any indecent behaviour.
(5.) Any irreverent behaviour during Divine
Service or prayers.

Any Visiting Justice has power to hear and determine
all complaints touching any of the above-mentioned
offences, and to sentence any parties convicted of any
of them, to be confined in a solitary cell on bread and
water, for any term not exceeding seven days.

II. By the fifteenth section of the Ordinance it is
enacted-"If any person shall bring, or attempt to
bring, any wine or spirituous or fermented liquor
into any Gaol, it shall be lawful for the Gaoler,
Turnkey, or any of their assistants to apprehend the
offender, who, upon conviction, shall forfeit and pay
any sum not exceeding twenty pounds, to be recovered
in a summary way."

III. By the sixteenth section of the Ordinance it is
enacted-"If any person shall convey, or cause to be
conveyed, into any Gaol, any mask or other disguise,
or any instrument or arms proper to facilitate the
escape of any prisoner, and the same shall deliver, or
cause to be delivered, to any prisoner in such Gaol,
or to any other person therein for the use of such
person, without the consent or privity of the Keeper
of the Gaol; every such person shall be deemed to
have delivered such mask or disguise, instrument or
arms with intent to aid and assist such prisoner to
escape, or attempt to escape: and if any person shall
by any means whatsoever aid and assist any prisoner
to escape from any Gaol, every person so offending,
whether an escape be actually made or not, shall be
guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall
be transported beyond the seas for any term not
exceeding fourteen years,"--for which term of trans-
portation there is now substituted, by "The Secondary
Punishments Act, 1854" penal servitude not exceed-
ing eight years.

IV. By the seventh section of the Prisons Ordinance
it is enacted-"That all rules and regulations made
under the authority thereof shall be binding upon the
Officers of the Gaol, and upon the Prisoners and
Debtors confined therein, as fully as if the same had
been expressly enacted and set forth in the said
Ordinance."

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 30th September, 1867.

THE following Ordinance passed by the Provincial
Council of the Province of Hawke's Bay,
intituled

"The Appropriation Act, 1867," Session XII.,
No. 3,

which Ordinance was reserved for the signification of
the Governor's pleasure thereon, having been laid
before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased
to assent to the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd October, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the following gentlemen to be Registrars
of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages,
for the districts set opposite their names respectively,

E. W. STAFFORD.

as defined in proclamation dated 30th September,
1867, and published in this Gazette-
SAMUEL JAMES HENRY, Esq., Waipara;
WILLIAM BERJEN PAULI, Esq., Mount Grey;
SAMUEL BESWICK, Esq., Hokitika;
JAMES PALGRAVE SIMPSON, Esq., Ross;
CHARLES J. HALLIDAY, Esq., Okarita.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd October, 1867.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JACKSON KEDDELL, Esq.,
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages, and of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages, for the district of Cambridge.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd October, 1867.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JAMES FERGUSON, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the district of Tokomairiro, in the
room of George Crighton Tait, Esq.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd October, 1867.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
grant Letters Patent under "The Patents Act,
1860," in favor of Franz Scherff, of Auckland, in the
Province of Auckland, for an invention of "an im-
provement in the arrangement or construction of
machinery for the purposes of cleansing and pre-
paring the leaves of the New Zealand Flax Plant,
(Phormium Tenax,) or similar plants."
Dated 30th September, 1865.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Native Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th September, 1867.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
license

JOHN ROCHFORT, Esq., Province of Canterbury;
H. MCGUIRE, Esq., Province of Auckland;
W. JAMES BUTLER, Esq., Province of Auckland;
to be Surveyors under "The Native Lands Act,
1865."

J. C. RICHMOND.

Office of Commissioner of Customs,
Wellington, 20th September, 1867.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the following appointments

JOSEPH MOLIERE TABUTEAU, Esq., Collector of
Customs at Napier, and
GEORGE BROAD MITCHELL, Esq., Sub-Collector
of Customs at Port Chalmers,
to be Licensing Officers under "The Arms Act, 1860."

J. C. RICHMOND.

NOTICE is hereby given that a sitting of the
Court of Appeal of New Zealand shall be held
within the Supreme Court House, Lambton Quay, in
the City of Wellington, upon Saturday, the twelfth
day of October next, at Eleven o'clock in the fore-
noon, when all persons having business before the
said Court are required to give their attendance.

ROBERT R. STRANG,
Acting Registrar of the Court of Appeal of
New Zealand.

Wellington, 26th September, 1867.