48 AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Thomas Horsbrugh): 15 years’ lease of 15½ constituted the District hereinafter described, to be acres 1 rood and 30 perches, 45 men’s ground, an Educational District under the said Act, and have situated at upper Tararu adjoining the “Cy-appointed a time and place of meeting for the clops” Claim; lease dated 6th December 1871: election of a District School Committee for the said John Borthwick and another (assigned to The Celt Educational District as hereunder set forth.

Gold Mining Company Registered): 15 years’ lease of 16 acres 2 roods and 4 perches, 48 men’s ground, situated at Upper Tararu, adjoining the “City of Aberdeen,” “St. George,” and North Western” Claims; lease dated, 29th April, 1871.

By order of the Board,
Frederick J. Moss,
Secretary.

James Baxter and James Foster: 15 years’ lease of 16 acres 2 roods and 4 perches, 49 men’s ground, situated at Upper Tararu; lease dated, 15th January, 1872.

The Brighton Gold Mining Company Registered: 15 years’ lease of 10 acres, 29 men’s ground, adjoining the “Australasian,” “Cambria,” and “Great Republic” Claims; lease dated 15th January, 1872.

SCHEDULE.

THE GISBORNE EDUCATIONAL DISTRICT.
Comprising all the lands included within the town and suburbs of Gisborne, Poverty Bay.

Meeting for the election of District School Committee to be held at the School-house, Gisborne, on Wednesday, the 26th February, 1873, at 7.30 p.m.

Frederick J. Moss,
Secretary.

[Republished from the New Zealand Gazette No. 7, dated 3rd February, 1873.]

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 19th February, 1873.

I HEREBY notify that the Fees and Prices set forth in the following Schedule may be taken and charged by the Keeper of the Public Pound at Morningside, within the Mount Albert Highway District, in addition to those notified in the Gazette, No. 49, of 31st October, 1870.

Thomas B. Gillies,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.
Poundage Fees.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 22nd February, 1873.

NOTICE is hereby given in accordance with the provisions of “The Highways Act, 1871,” that a certified copy of the Assessment List for the Poverty Bay Highway District, has been forwarded to this Office.

Hugh H. Lusk,
Provincial Secretary.

CROWN GRANT.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 18th February, 1873.

I HEREBY notify that a Crown Grant in favour of Mata Hira, of 10 acres of land at Rangitaiki, is now ready for delivery at the Office of the Registrar of Deeds, Auckland.

D. A. Tole,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Office of the Board of Education,
Auckland, 22nd February, 1873.

IT IS HEREBY notified that the Board of Education, under “The Education Act, 1872,” have

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 1st February, 1873.

THE following copy of an Act, and of certain Regulations published thereunder, for the Prevention of Diseases in Stocks, which have been received from the Government of Victoria, are published for general information, and the attention of Stockowners and others interested in the exportation of stock to the Colony of Victoria is particularly directed to the subject.

John Hall.

An Act for the Prevention of Diseases in Stock.

[17th December, 1872.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Victoria, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows (that is to say):—

1. This Act shall be called and may be cited as “The Diseases in Stock Act, 1872.”

2. Part III. of “The Prevention of Diseases of Animals Statute, 1864,” and “The Prevention of Diseases of Animals Statute, 1872,” No. 418, are hereby repealed.

3. In the construction of this Act, the following words shall, if not inconsistent with the context or subject matter, have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them (that is to say):—

“Inspector of Stock” shall include the Chief Inspector of Stock.

“Stock” shall include any bull, cow, ox, calf, stallion, mare, gelding, foal, ass, mule, ram, ewe, wether, lamb, pig, goat, dog, or other animal whatsoever.

“Drive” shall mean drive, conduct or convey, whether by land or by water.

“Disease” shall mean any contagious or infectious disease to which any animal is subject, which the Governor in Council may from time to time, by order, declare to be a contagious or infectious disease for the purposes of this Act.

“Diseased Stock” shall mean all Stock proclaimed by the Governor in Council to be diseased.

“Fittings” shall mean any sheep pens, cattle or horse boxes, and any materials used for penning, yarding, or confining stock; as also any halters, brushes, clothes, buckets, or other