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PROCLAMATION,

By His Honor ISAAC EARL FEATHERSTON, ESQUIRE, Superintendent of
the Province of Wellington, in the
Islands of New Zealand:

WHEREAS by an Act of the Provincial Council of the Province of
Wellington—Session III, No. 4, Intituled "An Act to consolidate the
law relating to District Highways,"
it was enacted among other things
that the Superintendent might for the
purposes of the said Act from time to
time by Proclamation, divide the Province or any part thereof into Districts,
and might in like manner sub-divide
alter or re-unite the same. And Whereas it is expedient to proclaim the portion
of the province hereinafter mentioned to
be a District for the purposes of the said
Act. NOW THEREFORE I ISAAC EARL
FEATHERSTON, Superintendent of the
Province of Wellington, in virtue of the
power and authority vested in me, in
this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the Block of Land known as
the Hundred of Masterton; in the Wairarapa Valley in the said province the
boundaries of which are as follows;—viz.
North a line commencing at the North-
East corner of Section Number Seventy-
one and running to a point Sixty Chains
from the Wai-poua River at the Pa-kai-
ko-kiri-kiri and from thence in a straight
line till it strikes the Wai-poua River,
East the Ruamahunga River, South the
Waingaroa River, West the Tararua
Range, shall form and constitute a District for the purposes of the District
Highways Act and shall be called the
"Masterton District."

Given under my hand and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Province of Wellington, at
Wellington, this twenty-
eighth day of February, one
thousand eight hundred and
sixty two.

I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

By His Honor's command.
J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.

(From the Southland Gazette, 26th
December, 1861.)

PROCLAMATION

By JAMES A. R. MENZIES, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province
of Southland.

WHEREAS His Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased to
delegate under the "Diseased Cattle Act,
1861." to the Superintendent of the Province of Southland the several powers
vested in the Governor by the 2nd, 4th,
5th, 7th, 9th, and 10th sections of the
said Act, subject to the Regulations contained in the Order in Council of 1st October 1861 ;

And whereas by a Proclamation given
under my hand, dated 2nd October 1861,
it was amongst other things declared that
the Inspector was thereby prohibited
from granting a Certificate to land any
Cattle imported from the Colony of Victoria ; And whereas it is expedient to
make further provision in that behalf:

Now, therefore, I, the said Superintendent, in virtue of the powers vested in
me, do hereby proclaim that the inspector of Cattle under the Said Act shall not
be authorised to grant a Certificate to
land in the Province of Southland Cattle
coming from any of the Australian Colonies, namely, Queensland, New South
Wales (excepting as hereinafter mentioned), Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania, from the
date hereof: Provided that the Cattle
arriving in the Province of Southland
from the Port of Newcastle, in the Colony
of New South Wales, in a vessel which
shall have put to sea with the same on or
before the 24th of December current
(and which shall not thereafter have
touched at the same, or at any other port
until her arrival at a port within the Province of Southland), shall, under the
provisions of sub-section d, section 4, of
the said Act, be permitted to land upon
the Quarantine Ground as the same has
been defined in the Proclamation of 2nd
October 1861 aforesaid, there to remain
until the said inspector shall permit the
same to be removed from thence ; the
said Quarantine Ground being bounded
on the west by the Bluff Harbour, on the
north by the eastern arm of the said
harbour, and by a right line extending
due east from its eastern extremity until
it intersects the east boundary of the
Campbelltown Hundred; on the east by
the east boundary of the Campbelltown
Hundred, from the said point of intersection to the sea coast; on the south
by the ocean.

Given under my hand, at Invercargill, this twenty-sixth day of December, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

J. A. R. MENZIES,
Superintendent.

• The above proclamation has been republished
  from the Southland Provincial Government Gazette
  of 10th December 1861 (with the addition of a
  definition of the Quarantine Ground) in consequence of a typographical error in the said proclamation, namely, "26th October" for "2nd
  October."