RETURN OF SHEEP INSPECTED BY THE INSPECTORS OF SHEEP FOR THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY

DURING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER, 1866.

| Date of
preceding
Inspection | Name of Station | Where situate | Name of Manager or
Owner | No. of
Sheep on
the Station | No. of
Sheep
Inspected | Result | Date on which
Sheep were
last dressed | REMARKS |
|---------------------|-----------------|----------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------|-----------------------|---------|-------------------------------|---------|

NORTHERN DISTRICT.

| 1866 | | | | | | | | |
| Oct. 2 | Waiora | Woodend | Cooke Reynell (a) | 800 | 300 | Clean | | |
| 8 | Seadown | Kowai | Mrs. Carter | 2,000 | 900 | Do. | | |
| 9 | Horsleydown | Hurunui | J. W. Mallock | 46,000 | 5,000 | Do. | | |
| 16 | Bellingham | Cust | James Tipping (b) | 180 | 180 | Do. | | |
| 17 | Fernside | Ashley | Cunningham and Mannering | 4,500 | 1,200 | Do. | | |
| 18 | Wharfedale | Do. | G. H. Lee | 2,400 | 2,200 | Do. | | |
| 19 | Fernside | Do. | Cunningham and Mannering | 4,500 | 500 | Do. | | |
| 20 | Do. | Do. | Ditto | 4,500 | 2,800 | Do. | | |
| 27 | Stonyhurst | Coast | Clifford and Weld | 20,000 | 2,000 | Do. | | |

CENTRAL DISTRICT.

| Oct. 1 | May | Rakaia, South | H. P. M. Aynsley | 12,000 | 9,000 | Clean | July | |
| 8 | Farm | Papauui | Thomas Hall | 42 | 42 | Do. | | |
| 9 | August | Selwyn | J. J. King | 3,000 | 3,000 | Do. | January | |
| 24 | | Malvern Hills | Hill and Broom | 5,000 | 5,000 | Do. | | |
| 25 | Farm | Lincoln Road | G. Ell | 1,000 | 1,000 | Do. | | |
| 27 | Do. | Rhodes R. H., Papauui | | 150 | 150 | Do. | | |
| 30 | Do. | Templeton | Hepworth | 100 | 100 | Do. | | |
| 31 | | Waimakariri | A. McLean | 4,000 | 1,500 | Do. | | |
| 31 | Farm | Lincoln | Wright and Murray | 400 | 400 | Do. | | |

SOUTHERN DISTRICT.

| Oct. 3 | Mount Four Peaks | Geraldine | T. Bellet | 17,000 | 4,200 | Clean | | |
| 10 | Ditto | Do. | Ditto | | 5,000 | Do. | | |
| 17 | Opuha | Timaru | A. Hornbrook | 10,000 | 5,000 | Do. | | |
| 25 | | Do. | R. K. Parkerson | | 15 | Do. | | |
| 26 | Blue Cliffs | Do. | J. Hayhurst | 10,000 | 10,000 | Do. | | |

Christchurch, 5th November, 1866.

P. B. BOULTON, Chief Inspector of Sheep.

(a) DECLARATION. -- I, Cooke Reynell, of Waiora, near Woodend, do hereby solemnly declare that my Sheep, branded --, being 300 in number, now being at Waiora, have not within three months last past had applied to any of them any reputed scab-destroying preparation, nor within three months been mixed with any Sheep infected with scab or catarrh; and I make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true.

Declared before me at Waiora, this 2nd day of October, 1866. -- A. RAMSAY SCARVELL, Inspector of Sheep.

C. REYNELL.

(b) DECLARATION. -- I, James Tipping, of Bellingam, do hereby solemnly declare that I have made a complete muster of all the Sheep in my charge, and that my Sheep, branded --, being 180 in number, now being at Bellingam, have not within three months last past had applied to any of them any reputed scab-destroying preparation, nor within three months been mixed with any Sheep infected with scab or catarrh; and I make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true.

Declared before me at Bellingam, this 16th day of October, 1866. -- A. RAMSAY SCARVELL, Inspector of Sheep.

JAMES TIPPING.