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to have been guilty of a misdemeanour and shall on conviction thereof be liable to be imprisoned with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding two years or fined any sum not exceeding five hundred pounds.

VIII. Any Commissioner of Crown Lands or other person connected with the administration of any of the Waste Lands of the Colony who shall cause or attempt to cause or knowingly permit any person to apply for the purchase of any portion of the Waste Lands of the Crown such applicant not being a bona fide intending purchaser or who shall knowingly countenance or permit any collusion or arrangement between intending purchasers of land having for its object to preclude or supersede the necessity of bona fide competition at any such auction sale as aforesaid shall on conviction thereof be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds and shall for ever thereafter be rendered incapable of holding any office or employment under the Crown.

A. CHETHAM SVDYE,
Deputy-Commissioner of Crown Lands
Lands Department,
Dunedin, 9th August, 1876.

THE following is published for general information:

For the information of his Honor the Superintendent of Otago, in reply to his memo. of the 4th instant.
J. W. BLACKETT,
Geological Survey Office,
Wellington, 12th August, 1876.

NEW ZEALAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY LABORATORY

Result of Analysis of Specimen No. 1829, forwarded to his Honor the Superintendent of Otago from West Coast of South Island, on the 7th August, 1876.

GUANO.

This guano contained 36.98 per cent. of water as received by me, but when exposed freely to the air for three days as a coarse powder it lost nearly 20 per cent. of this, the exact amount of water remaining in it after such treatment being 17.58 per cent. The following are the results afforded by its analysis:

• Phosphate of lime and magnesia ... 45.62
• Carbonate of lime ... 2.14
• Soluble salts ... 4.1
• Siliceous matters ... 5.18
• Organic matters ... 9.87
• Water ... 36.98

100.00

Phosphoric acid—23.80 per cent.
Soluble phosphates—Traces.

This guano is therefore eminently a phosphatic one, and after exposure to the air under cover for some time would somewhat resemble that occurring upon Coral Island (see Jurors’ Report, No. 3, Exhibition, 1865, page 423) and should serve the same purposes as those to which it has been applied.\n
W. SKEY,

GEO. O. CASSELS,
Palmerston-street, Riverton,
Sole Agent.

Country friends will please leave their orders as early as possible, as a quantity is already disposed of.

Price £6 10s. per ton.

FENCING ORDINANCE.

Just Published.
Price 6d., Usual Discount to the Trade.
JOHN LOGAN.

SUPREME COURT,

NOTICE is hereby given that a Sitting of the Supreme Court, for the despatch of Criminal and Civil business, will be holden at the Supreme Court-house at Dunedin, on Monday, the second day of October next, at the hour of ten o’clock in the forenoon, at which time and place all persons bound by recognizances to appear as prosecutors, plaintiffs, defendants, or witnesses are required to give their attendance.

EDWARD H. WARD,
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office,
Dunedin, 1st September, 1876.

Republished from the New Zealand Gazette, Sept. 14, 1876.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE APPOINTED UNDER “OTAGO MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS EMPOWERING ACT, 1865.”

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 13th September, 1876.

HIS EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR has been pleased to appoint

JEREMIAH JOSEPH EAGERTY, Esq., Mayor of Green Island, and
ROBERT CHURCH, Esq., Mayor of Maori Hill,

to be Justices of the Peace under “The Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act, 1865.”

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Republished from the New Zealand Gazette, Sept. 14, 1876.

PROCLAMATION

Of Public Prisons at Arrow, Clyde, and Naseby.

(L.S.)
NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Prisons Act, 1873,” it is provided that the Governor may from time to time, as to him shall seem meet, by proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, declare any house, building, enclosure, or place to be a public prison, and from and after the publication of any such proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, or from any latter time specified in the proclamation, such house, building, enclosure, or place shall be deemed to be a public prison:

Now therefore I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare the following houses or buildings to be public prisons in lieu of the old wooden buildings hitherto used for that purpose:

The New Prisons built of stone and concrete, and situated on the Police Reserves at Arrow, Clyde, and Naseby respectively.

Given under the hand of His Excellency this thirteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by George Jones, of High-street, Dunedin, Printer to said Provincial Government for the time being.