[The New Zealand Gazette]

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Such rules as may be necessary for the good discipline of any public gaol, and the safe custody of the prisoners therein:

And whereas by a Warrant bearing date the ninth day of April one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, certain regulations were made for the Public Gaols within the then existing Province of Southland, and it is expedient to alter the scale of rations fixed by the said regulations so far as respects the Public Gaol at Invercargill, and to fix another scale in lieu thereof:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under and by virtue of the provisions of the said Ordinance, do hereby make the following regulation fixing the scale of rations to be allowed to prisoners confined in the Public Gaol at Invercargill, in the Province of Otago, that is to say,—

Prisoners at Hard Labor.

Prisoners not at Labor, and for Children of Female Prisoners over eight years of age.

Prisoners in Solitary Confinement.

Children of Female Prisoners under two years of age.

Children above two years and under eight.

Prisoners awaiting Examination before Magistrates.

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; and issued at the Government House, Wellington, this sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

W. Gisborne.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Wellington, 8th December, 1871.

THE following Ordinances, passed by the Provincial Council, and reserved by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago for the signification of the Governor's pleasure thereon, intituled:

• "Portobello School Glebe Exchange Ordinance 1871"
• "Sale of Land to Dunedin City Validation Ordinance 1871"
• "Clyde School Reserve Sale Ordinance 1871"
• "Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Reserve Management Ordinance 1871"
• "Ferry and Accommodation House Reserves Leasing Ordinances 1871"
• "Invercargill Reserve Leasing Ordinance 1871"
• "Blueskin Market Reserve Ordinance 1871"
• "District Roads Compulsory Land Taking Ordinance 1871"
• "Hampden Mechanics' Institute Reserve Management Ordinance 1871"
• "Oamaru Drill Shed Reserve Management Ordinance 1871"

having been laid before the Governor, his Excellency has been pleased to assent to the same.

W. Gisborne.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Wellington, 8th December, 1871.

THE following Ordinances passed by the Provincial Council, and reserved by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago for the signification of the Governor's pleasure thereon, intituled:

• "Dunedin Drill Shed Reserve Management Ordinance 1871"
• "Education Reserve Jacob's River Hundred Sale Ordinance 1871" and
• "Dunedin Reserves Management Ordinance 1871"

having been laid before the Governor, his Excellency has been pleased to withhold his assent to the same.

W. Gisborne.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

(Judicial Branch)
Wellington, 30th November, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Archibald Hadden Douglas, Esq., of Arrowtown, Otago, and John Tay Kitchingman, Esq., of Moa Flat, Otago, to be Justices of the Peace for the Colony.

This notice is published in consequence of clerical errors having been made in the names of these gentlemen as published in Gazette No. 59, of 12th October, 1871, page 549.

W. Gisborne.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

(Judicial Branch)
Wellington, 6th December, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to reappoint John McNeil, Esq., Mayor of Balclutha, Otago, to be a Justice of the Peace under "The Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act 1865."

W. Gisborne.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Mills, Dick & Co., of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.