TIMARU BOROUGH COUNCIL.

HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that under Clause 331 of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,” I have appointed

GEORGE CLIFFE,
of Timaru, to be Fire Inspector for the Borough of Timaru.

HENRY CAIN,
Mayor.

Timaru, January 30, 1871.

RETURN of BIRTHS, DEATHS, and MARRIAGES, in the Christchurch District, for the month ending January 31, 1871.

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, February 6, 1871.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has made the following Reserve, temporarily, under the 19th Clause of the Waste Lands Regulations, viz. —

No. 1295, in red.—Forty-four acres, more or less, situate in the Malvern district, bounded on the northward by the Oxford-Tram road; on the eastward by section No. 8183; on the southward by section 11,579; and on the westward by the Rangiora and Waimakariri road.—For Educational purposes.

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Secretary for Public Works.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may, by Warrant under his hand, from time to time delegate to the Superintendent of any Province within the Colony, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council by the said Act, subject to such regulations as he may think fit:

And whereas by the fourth section of “The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by any Order in Council, from time to time, annul, make void, or alter, or vary, or make anew, any Orders in Council, regulations, appointments, or prohibitory or other declarations made and published by the Governor under the authority of “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” or “The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865”:

And whereas by the fifth section of “The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865,” it is enacted that the power of annulling, making void, or allowing or varying and making anew any such regulations, appointments, or prohibitory or other declarations, vested in the Governor by “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1865,” may from time to time be delegated by the Governor in Council, by Warrant under his hand, to the Superintendent of any Province:

And whereas the said Governor hath, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegated to William Rolleston, Esquire, the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, within the said Province, so long as he shall remain Superintendent of the Province, the several powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council by the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth sections of “The Diseased Cattle Act 1861,” aforesaid, and all the powers which by the fifth section of “The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865,” the Governor in Council is authorized so to delegate:

Now therefore, I, William Rolleston, by virtue of such powers in me vested, do hereby proclaim and declare that, after the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, all that district of the Province of Marlborough lying between the Clarence River, the Conway River, the seaward Kaikoura Range, and the Sea; the Province of Otago; and the County of Westland, in the Middle Island of New Zealand, shall be deemed Infected Districts within the meaning of the said Acts; and I do further proclaim and declare the following Regulations for the destruction of Diseased Cattle, and for the preventing and regulating the removal or transportation of Cattle from the said several Infected Districts into the Province of Canterbury:—

I.—If any person shall import, drive, or remove, or cause to be imported, driven, or removed, or assist in driving or removing any cattle from either of the said infected districts into the Province of Canterbury, except upon Quarantine ground, and the authority of a Quarantine certificate, such person shall be liable to a penalty of not less than five pounds, and not exceeding fifty pounds, for every head of cattle so imported, driven, or removed.

II.—It shall be lawful for any Inspector of Cattle or Police Constable to destroy, or cause to be destroyed any cattle which shall pass into this Province from either of the said districts, contrary to these Regulations.