Numb. 68. 843

                           THE
                  NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
                       Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1874.

The hulk "Sarah and Esther" to be a Public Prison.

(L.S.) NORMANBY,
Administrator of the Government.

                            A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Prisons Act, 1873," it is,
amongst other things, enacted that the Go-
vernor may from time to time, by Proclamation
published in the New Zealand Gazette, appoint any
hulk, ship, or floating prison to be used as and to be
a public prison for the reception and safe keeping of
prisoners convicted and sentenced for any offences
by any Court in New Zealand; and may from time
to time define, by Proclamation published as afore-
said, the limits and boundaries around such hulk
within which no person shall come, and the place of
embarking and landing prisoners to and from such
hulk; and that any such Proclamation as aforesaid
may from time to time be altered or revoked by the
Governor:

Now therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Administrator of the
Government of New Zealand, in pursuance and
exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me
by the said Act, do hereby appoint the hulk called
the "Sarah and Esther," now moored off Tahita
Point, in the Otago Harbour, to be used as and to
be a public prison within the meaning of the said
Act; and do also hereby define the space of twelve
yards around such hulk to be the limits and bound-
aries within which no person shall come; and do
further hereby define Deborah Bay to be the place
of embarking and landing prisoners to and from such
hulk.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of
Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron
Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County
of York, in the Peerage of the United

ERRATUM.-In Gazette of 1874, No. 61, page 798, for "Hugh Culverden McIlraith, Esq., J.P.," read "Hugh McIlraith,
Esq., J.P.

Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New
Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the
Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her
Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Coun-
cil; Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael
and Saint George; Administrator of the
Government in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its Depend-
encies; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, at the Government House
at Wellington, this seventeenth day of
December, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Time when Oysters are not to be taken for Sale.

(L.S.) NORMANBY,
Administrator of the Government.

                            A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Oyster Fisheries Act Amend-
ment Act, 1874," it is enacted that the
Governor may from time to time, by Proclamation in
the New Zealand Gazette, declare that, within such
district of the colony as shall therein be described,
and during such consecutive months as shall therein
be named, not exceeding four, it shall not be lawful
to take or catch for sale any rock oysters, whether
between high and low watermarks or not; and if
any person shall within such district and during
such months as shall be named in any such Procla-
mation, take or catch for sale, or sell or expose for
sale, or buy, any such rock oysters, he shall be liable
to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds for any
one offence, to be recovered in a summary way before
any one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace: