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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3218, 4 September 1879, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTICE.

ANY person or persons found INJURING tbe TELEGRAPH POSTS, WIRE INSULATOBS, or any portions of tbe Telegraph Line, will be prosecuted in accordance with the following Clauses of " The Malioioue Injuries to Property Aot, 1867 :" — Clause XXXVII. — Whosoever Bhall unlawfully and malioionaly out, break j throw down, destroy, iojore, or remove any battery, machinery, wife, cable, post, or other matter or thing whatsoever, being part of or being need or employed in or about any Eleotrio or Magnetic Telegraph, or in the working thereof, or shall unlawfully and maliciously prevent) or obstruct in any manner Whatsoever the sending, conveyance, or delivery of any communication by any such Telegraph, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and, beiug oonvioted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Conrt, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour : Provided that if it shall appear to any Jostioe, on the examination of any person charged with any offence against this soot ion, tbat it is not expedient to the ends of justice that tbe same should be prose> onted by indiotment, the Justice may prooeec summarily to hear and determine tbe same, and the Offender shall on conviction thereof, at the discretion of tbe Jnstioo, either be committed to some public gaol there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for any term not exceeding three months, or else shall forfeit aod pay suoh earn of money not exceeding ten founds ast~ tbe Justice shall seem meet. I Clause XXXVIII. Whosoever shall unlaw. folly and malioiously, by any overt act, attempt to commit any of tbe offences in tbe last preoeding section mentioned, shall, on oonviotion thereof before a Justice of the Peace, at the discretion of the Justice, either be oommitted to any publio gaol there to be mprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for any term not exceeding three month* , or else shall forfeit and pay such sum of money not exceeding ten founds as to the Justice shall seem meet. By order of the Telegraph Commissioner O. LEMON, General Manager. New Zealand Telegraph, Wellington, December 29, 1869, 5 to