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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

(8.) Or being guilty of any other misconduct
not provided against in these rules, subversive
of the peace, order, and good government of
the gaol,
shall be punishable by being placed in solitary con-
finement for any period not exceeding (7) seven
days, and in addition thereto (at the option of a
Visiting Justice), a diminution of his rations.
153. Every prisoner who shall be guilty of any of
the offences next hereinafter mentioned, that is to
say-
(1.) Attempting to escape;
(2.) Conniving at and concealing a prisoner or
prisoners attempting to escape;
(3.) Assaulting any officer of the gaol;
shall, in addition to any punishment to which he may
by law otherwise be sentenced, be punishable by
solitary confinement for any period not exceeding
one month, by diminished rations, and by being
placed in irons.
154. Every prisoner who shall be guilty of any of
the offences next hereinafter mentioned, that is to
say-
(1.) Mutiny or outbreak;
(2.) Assaulting an officer, with intent to do
grievous bodily harm;
(3.) Setting on fire, or attempting to set on fire,
the gaol buildings or other property, shall,
in addition to any punishment to which he may by
law or otherwise be sentenced, be punishable by solitary
confinement for any period not exceeding one month
at any one time, or for three months in periods of
one calendar month at intervals of at least one
calendar month each, by placing in irons, whipping,
not exceeding fifty lashes at one time, by imprison-
ment, not exceeding twelve calendar months, and by
diminished rations, in addition to the original
sentence.
155. Complaints touching the above, and all other
offences committed by prisoners, shall be heard and
determined upon due proof upon oath by two or
more Visiting Justices.
156. Females guilty of repeated breaches of gaol
regulations, shall be liable to have their hair cut
close, in addition to any other punishment to which
they may be subject.
157. In all cases where the punishment of
whipping shall be inflicted under these regulations
the surgeon or medical officer of the gaol, or if there
be none, then some legally qualified medical practi-
tioner shall be present when the punishment is
inflicted, and such surgeon, medical officer, or
medical practitioner, if he be of opinion that the
prisoner is not at any time able to bear the whole or
any part of the said punishment, shall certify the
same in writing to the Visiting Justices, or any two
of them, and in such case the infliction of the whole
or of such part as he shall certify that the prisoner
is not able to bear shall be altogether forborne, or
shall be postponed for such time as the Visiting
Justices, or any two of them, shall think fit.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

WHEREAS by "The Regulation of Elections
Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor, by warrant under his hand,
from time to time to appoint polling places for each
electoral district, within or without the limits thereof,
and to appoint any one of such places to be the
principal polling place for the district, and all or any
of such polling places at any time to abolish, and to
appoint other polling places in lieu thereof:

Now therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand, in
pursuance of the power and authority in him vested
by the said Act, do hereby appoint the following
places to be polling places for the electoral districts
hereinafter specified, for the election of Members of
the House of Representatives, namely-

District of Westland North:
The Court House, Westport.
The Police Camp, Mohikinui.
The Police Camp, Addison's Flat.
The Court House, Charleston.
The Court House, Brighton.
The Court House, Cobden.
The Police Camp, Ahaura.

District of Westland South :
Warden's Court, Greymouth.
Police Buildings, Rutherglen.
Fox's Store, Maori Gully.
Police Buildings, Chesterfield.
Police Buildings, Stafford Town.
Warden's Court, Waimea.
Mandle's Store, Big Paddock.
Warden's Court, Kanieri.
Warden's Court, Ross.
Gardner's Store, Donohue's.
Warden's Court, Okarito.
Warden's Court, Hokitika.
Card's Store, Junction of North Branch, New
River.

District of Westland Boroughs:
Warden's Court, Hokitika.
Warden's Court, Greymouth.
And doth further appoint the polling places here-
inafter specified to be the principal polling places for
such districts, namely---

District of Westland North:
The Court House, Westport.

District of Westland South:
Warden's Court, Hokitika.

District of Westland Boroughs :
Warden's Court, Hokitika.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington, this twentieth day
of February, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

IN exercise of the power vested in me by "The
Savings Bank Act, 1858," I, Sir George Ferguson
Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
do hereby nominate and appoint the persons herein-
after named to be Trustees of the Dunedin Savings
Bank, namely:

LATHAM OSBORNE BEAL,
THOMAS HILL,
HENRY DRIVER,
WILLIAM DICK MURISON, and
FREDERICK PANTLIN, Esquires.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir-
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New