LIST of Persons who have obtained Licenses for Depasturing Cattle within the several Hundreds for the present year:—

OTERAMIKA HUNDRED:

• DAVID McKAY.
• J. F. DUNDAS.

INVERCARGILL HUNDRED:

• PETER DALRYMPLE.
• ROBERT COUPLAND.
• W. R. PERKINS.
• WILLIAM LAWRENCE.
• JAMES H. WILSON.

NEW RIVER HUNDRED:

• JOHN GRIEVE.
• WILLIAM MAATEN.
• FREDERICK TWEMLOW.
• HUGH RODGER.
• W. LAWRENCE.

JACOB’S RIVER HUNDRED:

• HENRY YOUNG.

W. H. PEARSON,
Chief Commissioner.
Waste Land Board Office,
Invercargill, 2nd Feb., 1866.

SOUTHLAND HOSPITAL.

RULES FOR THE ADMISSION OF PATIENTS, AND THE GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF THE PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL.

1. Applications for Admission, except in cases of emergency, must be made on Mondays and Thursdays, between the hours of 10 and 12 a.m.

2. None shall receive gratuitous medical aid at the Hospital unless they can produce satisfactory evidence of their inability to pay for medical advice.

3. The entertaining of all Applications will rest with the Medical Staff, except when such applications are accompanied by a written order from Superintendent.

4. Patients for out-door treatment are to apply at the Hospital on Mondays and Thursdays, between the hours of 11 o’clock a.m. and 12 noon.

5. Cases of Accident and Emergency are admissible at all times.

6. Visitors are permitted to see their friends in the Hospital on Mondays and Thursdays, between the hours of 2 o’clock and 4 p.m.

7. Patients can be visited by their respective Clergy daily, between the hours of 2 o’clock and 4 p.m.

8. Seamen may be admitted, provided Masters of Vessels or others responsible for such payments shall deposit Five Pounds (£5) with the Resident Surgeon, and enter into an agreement to pay any sum over and above that amount which may be incurred for treatment, burial, or other necessary expenses.

9. No articles of diet, intoxicating liquors, clothing, or medicine, are to be introduced into the Hospital by the friends or patients or others, without the express sanction of the Resident Surgeon.

10. A breach of Rule No. 9 will result in denying admittance to such visitor or others committing the same, and, when circumstances permit, the instant dismissal of the patient for whose use they were intended.

11. In all cases of theft or drunkenness, the Resident Surgeon is empowered to immediately dismiss the person offending; or hand the same over to the Police.

12. In-door patients leaving the premises without a proper discharge, or the permission of the Resident Surgeon, will render themselves liable to re-admittance being refused.

JNO. P. TAYLOR,
Superintendent.
Invercargill, 29th January, 1866.

G. GREY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Southland Waste Lands, Act, 1865,” Section 36, it is enacted that, if any person shall contract with the Superintendent to make and complete within a given time any public road, bridge, drain, or other public work, or any part of any such road, bridge, drain, or public work, furnishing such security as the Superintendent may require for the due completion of such contract, and shall offer to accept rural land by way of payment or compensation, or by way of part payment or compensation, for such work, such person shall on the completion of such contract be entitled to a free grant of such land, or so much thereof as the Board shall adjudge, not exceeding one acre for every one pound sterling, which the Superintendent shall certify to the Waste Lands Board to be the bona fide value of the work.