Council, the machinery therein mentioned shall be deemed to be machinery subject to the provisions of the said Act: And whereas it is expedient to declare that the machinery mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall be machinery subject to the provisions of the said Act: And whereas by Proclamation bearing date the twenty-sixth day of November, the said Act was brought into operation within the Provinces of Auckland, Taranaki, Wellington, Marlborough, Canterbury, Otago, and Westland:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the power and authority in this behalf enabling him, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, doth hereby declare that from and after the first day of January next, the machinery mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be, machinery subject to the provisions of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

Threshing machines, whether worked by steam or any other power

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

[Upon this Act being brought into operation in any Province or part of a Province, any person who may be the owner of any machinery declared to be subject to the provisions of this Act shall within one month thereafter send to the Inspector of the district where the same may be, or in which it is intended to use, keep, or work the same, a written notice stating the name of such owner, the place or town where such machinery is erected, kept, or is intended to be used, the nature and kind of machinery, the nature and amount of the moving power; and in default of his so doing, every such person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.]

From the New Zealand Gazette, January 7, 1875.

Inspectors under “The Inspection of Machinery Act, 1874,” appointed.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 5th January, 1875.

His Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS CAMNS BURT

to be Inspector for Machinery for the Otago District. This appointment to date from the 1st instant.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

[Note.—Mr. Burt has an office in the Custom House, Dunedin.]

From the New Zealand Gazette, December 31, 1874.

Fixing Sittings of District Court, Otago Gold Fields.

NORMANBY,
Administrator of the Government.

In pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in this behalf enabling me, I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that sittings of the District Court of the Otago Gold Fields, during the months of February and March next, shall be held as follows:—

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Naseby on the second Wednesday in February next.

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Clyde on the Monday next after the second Wednesday in February next.

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Queenstown on the Monday second after the second Wednesday in February next.

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Lawrence on the second Tuesday in March next.

Provided that in case any of the days so fixed as aforesaid shall happen to be a holiday, then the Court appointed for that day shall be held on the first day thereafter, not being a holiday.

Issued this twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

From the New Zealand Gazette, December 31, 1874.

Public Notice.

THE issuing, on payment, of Publications printed at the General Government Office, being now made only to the trade throughout the Colony, purchasers are requested to make application to any of the under-mentioned Booksellers:—

Mr. H. Wise, Dunedin.

Mr. A. Sligo, Dunedin.

Mr. T. Rodgers, Invercargill.

Mr. R. Erskine, Invercargill.

J. J. CHEWBETT,
Storekeeper.

General Government Stationery Office,
Wellington, 20th December, 1874.

From the New Zealand Gazette, 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 Governor 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 aforesaid, 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 of Tahita Point, in the Otago Harbor, 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 boundaries 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 Constantine, 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 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 Council; 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 Dependencies; 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!