RETURN OF SHEEP INSPECTED BY THE INSPECTORS OF SHEEP, &c.—continued.

| Date of
Inspection. | 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. |
|-----------------|--------------------------|------------------|----------------|-----------------------------|----------------------------|----------------------|----------|------------------------------------|----------|

CENTRAL DISTRICT—continued.

| 1867:
Sept. 27 | ... | Farm | Lower Lincoln Rd. | William Prebble | ... | 70 | 70 | Do. | ... |
| ... | ... | No. 16 | Harewood Road | J. Jackson | ... | 70 | 70 | Do. | ... |

SOUTHERN DISTRICT.

| Sept. 2 | ... | Ohapa Creek | Geraldine | A. C. Barker | ... | 600 | 400 | Clean | ... |
| Sept. 5 | ... | Green Hayes | Do. | Collins | ... | 42 | 42 | Do. | ... |
| Sept. 8 | ... | Templeton | Do. | Waddell | ... | 250 | 250 | Do. | ... |
| Sept. 9 | ... | Milford Farm | Do. | Dines and Wedderell | ... | 650 | 650 | Do. | ... |
| Sept. 11 | ... | Tripp Stream | Do. | W. Gosling | ... | 1,305 | 1,305 | Do. | ... |
| Sept. 12 | ... | Beach Farm | Do. | Woodhead | ... | 600 | 500 | Do. | ... |
| Sept. 14 | ... | Highbank | Do. | S. Medlicott | ... | 750 | 750 | Do. | ... |
| Sept. 17 | ... | Rocklands | Do. | H. J. Gladstone | ... | 1,260 | 1,260 | Do. | ... |
| Sept. 17 | ... | The Stumps | Do. | T. Dunn | ... | 1,300 | 900 | Do. | ... |
| Sept. 18 | ... | Invenette | Do. | A. Wilson | ... | 750 | 500 | Do. | ... |
| Sept. 18 | ... | Smithfield | Do. | Robert Smith | ... | 1,200 | 1,260 | Do. | ... |
| Sept. 20 | ... | Grange Farm | Do. | George Dyson | ... | 150 | 150 | Do. | ... |
| Sept. 26 | ... | Carrington | Timaru | J. Shrimpton | ... | 6,900 | 2,300 | Do. | ... |

Christchurch, 9th October, 1867.

P. B. BOULTON,
Chief Inspector of Sheep.

(a) DECLARATION.—I, John Bonifant, of Balmoral, Amuri, do hereby solemnly declare that the Sheep (499 in number, marked —) now being depastured by me at the Hurunui Crossing, have not within three months last past had applied to any of them any reputed scab-destroying preparation, nor been mixed with any sheep infected with scab or catarrh; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true.

JOHN BONIFANT.

Declared before me at Hastie’s, this 10th day of September, 1867.—H. RAMSAY SCARVELL, Inspector of Sheep.

Schedule A.—I, Robert Charles Pasley, Inspector of Sheep, hereby certify that I have carefully examined the sheep, branded —, the property of T. H. Wigley, now being depastured at Balmoral, Amuri, and that I find such sheep to be entirely free from scab.

Dated at Balmoral, Amuri, this 5th day of February, 1867.—R. C. PASLEY, Inspector of Sheep.

(b) DECLARATION.—I, R. K. Laurie, of St. Leonards, do hereby solemnly declare that the Sheep, 733 in number, marked —, now being depastured by me at the Hurunui Crossing, have not within three months last past had applied to any of them any reputed scab-destroying preparation, nor been mixed with any sheep infected with scab or catarrh; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true.

R. K. LAURIE.

Declared before me at Hastie’s, this 12th day of September, 1867.—H. RAMSAY SCARVELL, Inspector of Sheep.

Schedule A.—I, Robert Charles Pasley, Inspector of Sheep, hereby certify that I have carefully examined the isolated Hills sheep, branded —, the property of Messrs. Rhodes and Wilkin, being depastured on the Isolated Hills, St. Leonards, Amuri, and that I find such sheep to be entirely free from scab.

Dated at St. Leonards, the 13th day of May, 1867.—R. C. PASLEY, Inspector of Sheep.

(c) DECLARATION.—I, J. G. Shrimpton, of Sandford Downs, Amuri, do hereby solemnly declare that the Sheep, 440 in number, marked —, now being depastured by me at the Hurunui Crossing, have not within three months last past had applied to any of them any reputed scab-destroying preparation, nor been mixed with any sheep infected with scab or catarrh; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true.

J. G. SHRIMPTON.

Declared before me at Burnt Hut, this 24th day of September, 1867.—H. RAMSAY SCARVELL, Inspector of Sheep.

Province of Nelson.—Schedule C.—I, Robert Charles Pasley, do hereby solemnly declare that I have carefully examined the sheep, branded —, the property of John Shrimpton, now being depastured at Sandford Downs, and that I find such sheep to be entirely free from scab.

Dated at Sandford Downs, this 2nd day of March, 1865.—R. C. PASLEY, Inspector of Sheep.

(d) DECLARATION.—I, Thomas Allen, of Highbank Station, Rakaia, do hereby solemnly declare that I have made a complete muster of all the Sheep in my charge, and that my Sheep, branded —, being 4,000 in number, now being at Highbank Station, 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.

THOMAS ALLEN.

Declared before me at Highbank, this 10th day of September, 1867.—R. F. HOLDERNESS, Inspector of Sheep.

Corroborative of Thomas Allen’s Declaration.—I, William Allen, of Highbank Station, Rakaia, do hereby solemnly declare that the flock of 4,000 sheep inspected by the Inspector of Sheep this 13th day of September, 1867, have not within three months last past had applied to 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.

WILLIAM ALLEN.

Declared before me at Highbank, this 10th day of September, 1867.—R. F. HOLDERNESS, Inspector of Sheep.