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9. Debtors will be permitted to see visitors on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., from the 1st day of October to the 31st day of March inclusive; and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. from the 1st day of April to the 30th day of September inclusive; or at any other hours or for any specified time, by permission, in writing, of a Visiting Justice. The visit of each visitor not to exceed one hour in one day, except by permission of a Visiting Justice, or by leave of the Gaoler for sufficient cause assigned, to be entered by him in the books of the Gaol; and more than one visitor to one debtor at one time shall not be permitted without reasonable cause assigned, if the Gaoler shall deem an addition to the number of visitors at the time inconvenient.

10. Visitors shall not be admitted on Sundays during Divine Service, or at any other time on Sundays, except by leave in writing of a Visiting Justice, specifying the hour at which such visit shall take place and the duration thereof: Provided that the Gaoler may, for any urgent cause, the particulars of which he shall enter in the books of the Gaol at the time, admit Visitors to any Debtor at times other than those appointed by the two last-mentioned rules, either on Sundays or on week-days.

11. Debtors shall have access during daylight to the airing yard, at all times consistent with the circumstances of the Prison.

12. The Gaoler shall forthwith transmit to a Judge of the Supreme Court acting in the district within which the Gaol is situated, any complaint or petition which any such Debtor may wish to present to such Judge.

13. The Judge of the district within which such Gaol is situated, may make any such special order as to all or any of the Debtors imprisoned in such Gaol consistent with the circumstances and resources thereof, and not inconsistent with these Rules, as he may think fit.

14. A Copy of these Rules shall be posted in some part of the Gaol where every Debtor in the same may be able to see them.

15. The following acts are strictly prohibited, and will be punishable either by reduction in quantity or quality of rations, or by a penalty not exceeding £10, to be recovered summarily under the provisions of the eighth section of the Prisons’ Ordinance, or by confinement in a solitary cell on bread and water, under the eleventh section of the said Ordinance, hereinafter mentioned:—

(1.) Disobedience of any of the foregoing Rules.

(2.) Smoking elsewhere than in the airing yard of the Gaol.

(3.) Gambling, or playing at any game of chance.

(4.) Holding, or attempting to hold, conversation with Prisoners, or persons waiting for trial.

(5.) Giving, or attempting to give, to any Convicts, or Prisoners waiting for trial, or Lunatics, any food, drink, tobacco, pipes, lucifer matches, newspapers, or other prohibited articles.

(6.) Writing upon or otherwise defacing walls, doors, windows, or other parts of the Gaol.

(7.) Making noises by shouting, singing, whistling, or otherwise, after notice given by Gaoler.

(8.) Closing doors or windows contrary to the orders of the Gaoler.

(9.) Using or making any insulting, violent, indecent, or threatening language, or gestures to any officer of the Gaol.

Alexander J. Johnston, Acting C. J.
Henry Barnes Gresson, J.
Christopher W. Richmond, J.
Henry S. Chapman, J.
Joseph S. Moore, J.

NOTICE.

I. By the eleventh section of “The Prisons Ordinance, 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 transportation there is now substituted, by “The Secondary Punishments Act, 1854,” penal servitude not exceeding 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.”

(From the New Zealand Gazette, October 11, No. 52.)

G. Grey, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor at any time subsequent to the proclamation of a Gold Field, to withdraw by proclamation therefrom any Crown Lands which he may deem it necessary to withdraw:

And whereas the land herein described is required for the public purposes of the Colony:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in me vested for this purpose, do hereby withdraw from the “Otago Gold Field,” proclaimed on the 29th day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven,

All that piece or parcel of land in the township of Lawrence and Province of Otago, being block XLIII of the said township, bounded on the north by Colensay street, on the West and south-west by Peel street, on the South by Lismore street, and on the East by Lancaster street.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, at the Government House, at Wellington, this seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty seven.

God Save the Queen!

W. STAFFORD.