JUVENILE UNCONVICTED PRISONERS.

146. Will be subject to the same rules as the adult unconvicted prisoners.

Matron.

147. Will also reside in the establishment, from which she will not be absent without authority.

148. The Matron is charged with the immediate care and superintendence of the female prisoners, and will conform to all rules and regulations laid down for the guidance of the male division of the Gaol, in so far as they may be found applicable.

149. The Matron will be present at all inspections of the female prisoners by whomsoever made, and especially when they are searched on their admission, and when they leave the establishment.

150. The Matron, or Female Warder, is required to attend Divine Service with the female prisoners.

Female Prisoners.

151. Female prisoners will be subject to all rules and regulations laid down for the guidance of male prisoners, so far as they may be applicable to them.

NEW ZEALAND FLAX.

£4,000 Reward.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 18th December, 1863.

THE Government of New Zealand is prepared, subject to the undermentioned conditions, to give rewards to the amount of £4,000 for the discovery of efficient means for rendering the Flax and other fibrous plants of New Zealand, available as articles of exports, viz.:

£2,000

To the person who shall, by some process of his own invention, first produce from the phormium tenax, or other fibrous plants indigenous to New Zealand, forty tons of merchandise.

£1,000

To any person, other than the person entitled to the first reward, who shall, by some process of his own invention, next produce from the phormium tenax, or other fibrous plant indigenous to New Zealand, forty tons of merchandise.

£1,000

Viz.: £200 to any person, not exceeding five in all, other than those entitled to the first and second rewards, who shall, by any process, whether of his own invention or not, produce from the phormium tenax, or other fibrous plant indigenous to New Zealand, twenty tons of merchandise.

Every claim for the above rewards must be preferred before the 1st January, 1865.

The merchandise must be saleable as an article of export from the Colony of New Zealand, and have been produced at a cost not exceeding 75 per cent. of its value at the port of entry from which it is exported; and the process used must be fully made known, with a view to the discovery being made at once unconditionally available to the public.

His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand will from time to time appoint Commissioners, to consist of not less than three persons, to act at such places as circumstances may require, and each claim for reward will be referred to such commission as may be considered the most convenient for its proper investigation. The acts of the majority will be deemed the acts of the Commission.

Each Commission shall be at liberty to adopt such means as it may deem most fit for determining the value and cost of production of the merchandise, for ascertaining the process employed, and for fully investigating in all respects and reporting upon the validity of any claim.

Every competitor wishing to have flax inspected must apply to the Collector of Customs at the nearest port, who shall forthwith give notice to the commissioners acting for the particular locality, who shall forthwith appoint some convenient time and place for the inspection, and communicate the same in writing to the competitor. Any competitor may exhibit to the Commissioners any quantity of flax not less than five tons at a time.

For each quantity inspected and approved by the Commissioners they shall give the competitor a certificate signed by them, a duplicate of which must be forthwith deposited at the Collector’s Office, at the nearest Custom House.

When the total quantity shall have been inspected by instalments, and more than one certificate is given to a claimant, then each certificate after the first shall state in words the quantity already passed and approved on behalf of the same competitor.

Whenever the quantity approved on behalf of any one competitor amounts to forty tons, the Commissioners shall certify in words, at length, the date on which the full quantity was passed, and the name of the competitor, which certificate they shall immediately deposit with the Colonial Secretary, keeping one copy for themselves, and giving the competitor one. The date of such certificate shall be deemed the day on which the claimant produced the forty tons of merchandise required.

Whenever any quantity of flax is brought for inspection, satisfactory proof will have to be given to the Commissioners that no part of the flax has been already inspected by them.

One half of the reward will be paid at once to any person whom the Governor, on the report of a commission, shall declare in writing to be entitled to the same; after which no other claim to a reward of the same class will be entertained; and the other half of such reward will be paid upon satisfactory proof being given to the Governor, or his appointee in London, of the bona fide sale of twenty tons of the merchandise in Europe, at an advance of not less than twenty per cent. upon the actual cost of the article landed in Europe.

All costs and expenses connected with the carriage to or removal from the place of inspection of any flax offered for inspection, and all other expenses, if any, connected therewith, to be borne by the competitor.

SUPREME COURT, OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND DISTRICT.

NOTICE is hereby given, that a sitting of this Court will be held within the Court House, Dunedin, on Monday, the 22nd day of February next, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, for the dispatch of all business accruing under the provisions of the “Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862.”

Robert Chapman,
Registrar.
Dunedin, 11th January, 1864.

KAIKORAI DISTRICT ROAD RATE.

NOTICE is hereby given to the Ratepayers under the “Road Ordinance, 1856,” that the General Road Board have issued a Precept for the payment of the District Road Rate, recently authorised to be levied over the Kaikorai District, to the undersigned Collectors of the said Rate, which is payable at the respective houses of the said Collectors, on Monday, the 25th day of January, 1864, under penalty in case of failure so to pay, of proceedings being taken for recovery under said Ordinance.

Jno. Burton,
David Mason,
Collectors.