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REGISTRATION OF DOGS.—NOTICE.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,

Christchurch, November 28th, 1862.

THE Public are informed that after the passing of the amendment to the “Dog Nuisance Ordinance.” All Dogs will have to be registered on the 1st of January next, or as soon as possible.

The officers appointed to register, and the places of registration will appear in a future notice.

THOS. WM. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,

Christchurch, 11th December, 1862.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint

EDWARD BUTLER, ESQUIRE,

to be Provincial Surgeon for the District of Timaru. This appointment to date from the 1st December, 1862.

THOS. WM. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,

Christchurch, 19th December, 1862.

HIS Honor the Deputy Superintendent directs it to be notified that

JAMES EDWARD FITZGERALD, ESQUIRE,

has resigned his seat as a Member of the Provincial Council for the Town of Akaroa.

THOS. WM. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

SALE OF TOWN & RURAL LANDS.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,

Christchurch, November 26th, 1862.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Sections of Land, specified below, will be submitted to public auction at the sitting of the Waste Lands Board, to be held at the Land Office, Christchurch, on THURSDAY, January 15th, 1863, at the hour of Noon, subject to the usual conditions of sale, and in conformity with the regulations for the disposal, sale, letting, and occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown now in force within the Province of Canterbury.

THOS. WM. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

TIMARU TOWN LANDS.

RURAL LANDS—ASHLEY DISTRICT

Further applications will be received by the Waste Lands Board up to Monday, the 5th of January, 1863.

WILLIAM GUISE BRITTAN,
Chief Commissioner.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” it was provided that the Governor in Council might, by warrant under his hand, from time to time delegate to the Superintendent of any Province within the said Colony, all or any of the Powers vested in the Governor or Governor in Council by the said Act, subject to such regulations as he might think fit, and might from time to time revoke such delegation:

And whereas the said Governor hath, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegated to William Sefton Moorhouse, Esquire, so long as he shall hold the office of Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, the several powers vested in the said Governor by the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth sections of the said Act, subject to being rescinded, as in the said Act provided, and subject to the Regulations issued by the Governor in Council on the fifteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and to any other regulations to be from time to time duly made. Now therefore I, William Sefton Moorhouse, by virtue of such powers in me vested, do hereby proclaim and declare:

1. That after the date hereof, the several Colonies of Australasia, that is to say, the Colony of Victoria, of New South Wales, of Queensland, of South Australia and Western Australia, as well as the Colony of Tasmania, and the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, and the Islands of Great Britain and Ireland, shall be deemed to be, for the purposes of the above-recited Act, infected districts within the meaning of the said Act, and that no cattle shall be allowed to be imported from the above-mentioned districts, and that in the case where any cattle may be imported from the said districts, such cattle shall be destroyed forthwith, in such manner and at such places as the Superintendent may proclaim and appoint.

2. That after the date of these regulations...