infected cattle, or cattle which have mixed with cattle which are actually infected, or suspected to be infected, if after the lapse of one month from the date of such notice any Inspector shall be satisfied that disease is likely again to recur upon the said farm or run, then the cattle may be declared by the Superintendent to be infected cattle, and he may order them to be slaughtered within a reasonable period, provided that the carcasses of any such cattle which on inspection may prove to be free from disease may be sold for food in accordance with the tenth regulation contained in the Proclamation published as aforesaid.

Given under my hand at Christchurch this Ninth day of September, One thousand eight hundred and sixtynine.

Wm. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.

has been cleared by the Health Officer or the Officer acting as such, nor shall any person quit any vessel so entering any port until she has been moored and cleared by the Health Officer as aforesaid, and any person offending against this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds.

Clause 63—No boat shall be made fast to any steps or landing-place, or so near thereto as to obstruct the approach of other boats, or lie longer alongside than required for landing passengers, and any person offending against the provisions of this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Five Pounds.

Clause 64—All boats alongside of vessels or jetties, or public landing places, shall give way to Government boats on duty, and any person offending against this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Five Pounds.

By His Honor’s command,

FREDK. D. GIBSON,
Chief Harbour Master.

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, Sept. 17, 1869.

His Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has altered the Place of Meeting for the Revision of the Ratepayers’ Roll for the Rakaia District from the Selwyn Hotel to Derritt’s Accommodation House, Upper Selwyn.

EDWD. JOLLIE,
Secretary for Public Works.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, Sept. 20, 1869.

THE following Reports on the examination of the three Superior Schools in the Province are published for general information.

EDWD. JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.

PUBLICANS’ LICENSES.

LIST OF LICENSES granted at the Quarterly Licensing Meeting held at Timaru on the 7th September, 1869, for the year ending the 30th June, 1870:—

CONDITIONAL LICENSES.

Ross, William, Ferry Hotel, Waitangi.
Walden, Jane Peach, Accommodation House, Opawa.

REFRESHMENT LICENSE.

Taylor, Robert, Temperance Hall, Timaru.

THOMAS HOWLEY,
Clerk to the Bench.

Timaru, September 7, 1869.

NOTICE.

THE attention of Watermen is directed to the following clauses of the Harbour Regulations, the penalties for any infringement of which will be strictly enforced.

Clause 27—No waterman or other person in charge of any boat, steamer, or lighter shall go alongside or otherwise communicate with, and no person shall go on board of, any vessel arriving in port, except officers on duty and persons who hold a written authority from the Superintendent, until such vessel has been moored or secured by at least one anchor, and

Christchurch, July 1, 1869.

To THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Sir,—In accordance with your instructions I have during the past month examined the three Superior Schools, viz., Christ’s College Grammar School, and the High Schools of Christchurch and Lyttelton, and have the honour to submit the annexed report.

I am, sir,
Your obedient servant,
J. V. COlborne VEEL, M.A.

CHRIST’S COLLEGE SCHOOL.

This school contains 90 boys, all of whom were present and underwent examination. It is divided into six forms, the third being subdivided into Upper and Lower. The three lower forms were examined entirely by viva voce, and the upper three by papers. The subjects of examination, so far as it was conducted by me, were classics, ancient and modern history, geography, and, in the first and second forms, English grammar.

The two first forms had of course advanced but a short way in the rudiments of Latin, but, so far as they had gone, they were well grounded. In English history several boys