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Twenty-fourth day of September next, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, has been appointed for the hearing of such petition, at the Court House, Christchurch; and such order was declared to be a vesting order pursuant to section 8 of the said "Debtors and Creditors Act Amendment Act, 1865."

Dated this 31st day of August, 1866.

Thomas I. Joynt,
Petitioner’s Solicitor.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
CANTERBURY DISTRICT.

In the matter of the "Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862;" and
In the matter of the "Debtors and Creditors Act Amendment Act, 1865;" and
In the matter of Robert Falloon, of Christchurch, in the said District, Carter, a debtor.

NOTICE is hereby given that the estate of the above mentioned debtor has been sequestrated, by order of His Honor Mr. Justice Gresson, made on the Twenty-first day of August instant, on a petition filed in this Honorable Court in pursuance of the above named Acts, and Monday, the Twenty-fourth day of September next, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, has been appointed for the hearing of such petition, at the Court House, Christchurch; and such order was declared to be a vesting order pursuant to section 8 of the said "Debtors and Creditors Act Amendment Act, 1865."

Dated this 31st day of August, 1866.

Thomas I. Joynt,
Petitioner’s Solicitor.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, Sept. 3, 1866.

HIS Honor the Superintendent has granted a Conditional License, under "The Public House Ordinance, 1866," to

Joseph Nicholl, for a House at Porter’s Pass.

F. E. STEWART,
Provincial Secretary.

NOTICE.

In accordance with Clause 6 of the "Municipal Council Ordinance, Session XIV, No. 2," we, the undersigned householders of the Town of Hokitika, (having signed the petition praying that Hokitika might be constituted a Municipal District,) hereby call a public meeting of householders and others who are entitled to vote for the election of members of the Hokitika Municipal Council, to be held at the Prince of Wales Opera House, on Tuesday, the 25th day of September, 1866, at four o’clock p.m., for the purpose of electing two persons to act as Assessors at the election of Municipal Councillors, and also for the purpose of nominating candidates for the Hokitika Municipal Council:—

Thomas Munro and Co.
James R. Anderson.
Moir and Staito.
Henderson and Bonar.
Hawkes and Strouts.
Cassins and Comiskey.
J. S. Wagner.
Thomas Pringle.
James J. Bartlett.
Anderson and Mowat.
W. Parker and Co.
Oakes and Button.

G. Grey, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the 24th day of August, 1866.

Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," and by "The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor by Order in Council to declare that, if at any time it shall be made to appear to the Governor that any infectious or contagious disease has broken out in any district out of the Colony, such district is infected within the meaning of the said Acts, and from time to time to make such Regulations as to him shall seem fit for prohibiting the importation of cattle into the Colony from such district, and the landing and driving of such cattle, and for destroying cattle imported, landed, or driven contrary to such Regulations:

And whereas the State of Panama is a district in which it has been made appear to the Governor that an infectious and contagious disease has broken out:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the above recited power and authority, doth hereby declare that Panama is an infected district within the meaning of the Acts, and doth make the following Regulations:

Regulations.

No cattle shall be imported into or landed or driven in New Zealand which shall have come from Panama.

Any person guilty of any breach of this Regulation shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred pounds for every head of cattle so imported, landed, or driven.

All such cattle so imported, landed, or driven shall be destroyed by the nearest Inspector of Diseased Cattle.