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Otago Daily Times, Issue 188, 23 June 1862, Page 2

Government. Notices. LAST DAYS FOR RECEIVING THE UNDERMENTIONED GOVERNMENT TENDEBS, Sec. :— 26 June clay for the election of District Road Trustees 27 „ implications for the Surgeonship Goldfields' Hospital 20 ~ Hospital keeper. Goldfields 20 ~ Snags, Clutha River 1 July Jail books 8 Aug. Steam Coastal Service. DIPPING TANKS FOR SHEEP wanted to be erected at the Moeraki and Waitiki Reserves, respectively, according to a plan and specification, to be seen at the Provincial Engineer's office, Dunedin, and at other places in the localities to be stated afterwards. Tenders to be lodged by four o'clock, on Friday, 18th July, 1862. X) EGISTRATION OF DOGS.—For the conveXV nience of parties residing on or near the Gold Fields, the Clerks to the Magistrates on the Gold Fields have been instructed to Register Dogs. A SSISTED IMMIGRANTS who arrived per jCX ship Storm Cloud, on 30th July, 1861, nre reminded that their Bills are over-due, and that payment must be made at this office without delay. COLIN ALLAN, Immigration Agent, Immigration Department, Superintendent's Office. 17th June, 1802. A DJOURNED LICENSING MEETING. — J\. Notice is hereby given that the adjourned Licensing Meeting will be held at the Court House. Dunedin, on Friday, the 27th iiist., at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, and not on the 29th as formerly stated, to take into consideration the application for Publicans' Licenses adjourned from the Annual Meeting held loth April last, namely :—Thomas Little, Jolin Crawford, John Hall, William Melhuish, Simon Rrss, John M'Cubbin, Thomas Brooks Smith. THOMAS CALCUTT, Clerk to the Bench, R. M.'s Office, Dunedin. June 17th, 1802. GOLD FIELDS' ACTS. Price One Shilling. A. R. LIVINGSTON, Bookseller, Staffordstreet, Dunedin. FTIHE Committee of the Benevolent Institution is J prepared to receive tenders for the use, for-a period of six months, of a building adapted for a benevolent Asylum. By order of Committee, EDWARD HAKDCASTLE, Hon. Sec ..TO. ARCHITECTS. rPHE Provincial Government of Canterbury, New JL Zealnnd, being about to erect a LUNATIC ASYLUM on Section No. 159, on the Lincoln Road, about2Jmilts from Cliristchurch, invite Architects to submit designs for such edifice. The building to be capable of accommodating 50 patients—say 33 males and 17 females, with all necessary offices: bath-rooms, reception-rooms, and Surgeon-Superintendent's residence; and to be so arranged that a portion could be erected, complete in itself, for the reception of half the above number of ttients. The design to comprise the modern improvements usually found in such buildings, with caTcful arrangements for classification, light, warmth, ventilation, BBnita|yJ;arrangements, and efficient security and supervision.. The material used 13 left to he suggestion of the Architects, —stone foundation being in any case indispensable, and well raised above the ground-line. The drawings required will be a black plan, showing sewage and water drains; a plan of each floor, and a roof plan, nt- least two elevations and two sections —all drawn to a scale of 8 feet to an inch : also, a perspective view finished in outline—Sepia, Indian Ink, or Pencil—no view in colours will be admissible. Thedrawings to be accompanied by a specification of a general character, and an approximate estimate of the cost of the whole ; and the part proposed to be first built. ' The Provincial Government offers the sums of £100 and £50 respectively, for the test and second best designs, which, in the opinion of their advisers may be most worthy of such premiums. Designs receiving premiums to become the property of the Government. Information can be obtained on application in writing, of the Provincial architects, at their offices Stone Buildings, Gloucester-street, Christehurch; and esigns to beisenton or before the Ist day of Sepmber next, addressed to the Provincial Secretai-y. No design of the Provincial Architect will bs placed in competition. '.-..., , THOMAS WE MAUDE, Provincial Secretary. Christehurch, May, 1862. . D' ESERTERS FROM HER MAJESTY'S SERVICE.—No. 282, Private Charles Ward, absent since 16th Dec , 1801. Size, 5 feet 11 inches ; com- : plexion, sunburnt; eyes, grey; hair, dark brown ; whiskers, sandy and short very thick ; age, about SO years. No. 579, Private Denis Hughes, absent since the 6th of March, 1862. Size, about 5 feet 8 inches ; age, 20 years ; complexion, fresh ; eyes, hazel; hair, dark brown ; no beard or whiskers. No. 310, Private James M'Partlin, absent since the 14th March, 1862. Size, 5 feet 10 inches ; age, 23 years ; complexion fresh ; eyes, hazel; hair, black ; no beard nor whiskers. '■ No. 332, Private Edward Doyle, absent since the 15th March, 1862. Size, 5 feet 11£ inches ; age, 22 years; complexion, fresh ; hair, dark brown; eyes, hazel; no beard nor whiskers. No. 3589, Private Thomas Duckworth, absent since the 28th March, 1862. Size, 6 feet; age, 26 years ; complexion, fresh; eyes, grey ; hair, brown ; whislcers, sandy and thick. John Dcvelin. Size, 6 ft. half-inch; age, about 82 ; complexion, dark; eyes, grey : hair, black and short j whiskers, do ; ago, about 32 yenrs: No. 647, Private Thomas Lees Hall, absent Mace the 11th April, 1862. Size, 5 feet 9-1 inches; age, 20 ■years: complexion, fresh; eyes, blue; hair, light nrown; whiskers or beard, none ; has an impediment . -b his speech. £25 Reward for the arrest of each deserter. NOTICE. . , Respecting Deserters from the Army and Navy. Attorney-General's Office, Auckland, sth April, 1862. ""OREQUENT instances having occurred of DeJP. sertion from Her Majesty's .Sea and Land Forces in this Colony, Notice is hereby given, that the most rigorous proceedings will be taken against any person enticing ■ away, harboring, concealing, or employing Deser- " ters. The enactments relating to the above offence ' ' are subjoined for information. •■■•■•■•■" FRANCIS D. FENTON, Assistant Law Officer. CLAUSES OF IMPERIAL ACTS RELATING TO DESERTERS. '■■ r NayAi Desertion. • 10 and 11 Viet., chap. 62, sec. 11. 'Amd be it enacted, That every person who, by words or any other means whatsoever, shall persuade any person in Her Majesty's Navy to desert, or improperly absent himself from his duty, shall forfeit ■ ana pay the sum of twenty pounds for every such act; and every person who shall assist or procure any person in Her Majesty's Navy to desert, or improperly absent himself from his duty; or shall conceal employ, or continue to employ any person belonging to Her Majesty's Navy, who shall be a deserter, or improperly absent from his duty, knowing liim to be such a desertor, or so improperly absent, shall forfeit and pay the sum of thirty pounds for every such assistance, procurement, concealment, employment, or continuing of employment, as aforesaid.1' Marine Desertion. ' ' '21 Viet.-, cap. 7, sec. 54. " Any person who shall, in any part of Her Majesy's dominioro, by words or any other means whatsoever, directly or indirectly, procure any Marine to .desert; or shrJl by words or by any other means whatsoever, attempt to procure or persuade any Marine to desert; and any person who, knowing that Marine is about to desert, shall aid or assist him in deserting; or, knowing any Marine to be a deserter, shall conceal such deserter, or aid or assist _ such deserter in concealing himself, or aid or assist in his rescue, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, And shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to be ' punished by fine or imprisonment, or both, as the Court before which, such conviction shall take place may adjudge." Military Desertion. 21. Viet., cap. 9, Sec. 88. "Any person who shall, in any part of Her Majesty's dominions, or by any means whatsoever, di- ■ rectly or indirectly,' procure any Soldier to desert, or - attempt to procure or persuade any Soldier to desert, ■ and any person who, knowing that any Soldier is ' about to desert, shall aid or assist him in deserting; or, knowing any Soldier to be a" deserte, shall conceal such deserter, or aid or assist such' deserter in con- ' sealing himself, or aid or assist in his rescue, shall be aeemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to be punished by fine or - imprisonment, or both, as the Court before which suck conviction shalijtake place may adjudjre.