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to be expended before any portion can be
made available, that it would be quite idle to
attempt to people it by the same means as
are applicable to the level, accessible, and
well-grassed plains of Southland. If Stewart's
Island is to be peopled at all, it must be
done by offering special inducements to a
suitable class of colonists to settle there.
The Nova Scotian Highlanders are the only
colonists likely to attempt, and to succeed
in, such an enterprise. To these skilful
axe-men the forests would present no dif-
ficulties, and the facilities for fishing and
ship-building would be a great inducement
to them. In comparison with the rocky
surface and the bitter winters of Nova
Scotia the soil and climate of Stewart's
Island would be genial and inviting; and
when once the great difficulties of clearing
and settling were over, such a community
could not fail to become prosperous, and the
remainder of the Island would then acquire
value.

The proximity of such settlers would be
of the greatest possible advantage to South-
land, both by the increase of trade which it
would involve, and by the great supply of
labour which it would provide. But to effect
this it is clear that a special land law will be
required, and as this cannot be done for
some time, it would be premature to take
any steps for topographical survey on an
extensive scale.

The Admiralty survey gives a very fair
outline of the Island, and as any surveys
which will be required for many years will
be on the east coast only, there can be no
difficulty in connecting them, either by main
traverse lines across the points, or by a
minor triangulation according to circum-
stances: and the only steps that I conceive
it will be necessary to take at an early
period, will be the laying off a small town-
ship, with a few 20 acre Sections immediately
round Port William; and perhaps defining
and marking the Reserves it may be neces-
sary to make for native purposes, and the
portions of land which may be appropriated
to the present inhabitants of the Island.

I have, &c.,

THEOPHL. HEALE.

To His Honor the Superintendent
of Southland.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 22nd March, 1863.

HIS Excellency has been pleased to ap-
point

EDWARD LEYLAND,

of Auckland, to be an Inspector of Weights
and Measures, and to be a person with whom
shall be deposited certain Copies or Models
of the Standard Weights and Measures of
the Colony, in the room of Thomas James
Jaggar.

THOS. B. GILLIES,
In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.

Appointment of Registrar of Births, Deaths, and
Marriages.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 22nd March, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

MATTHEW MORRIS

to be Registrar of Marriages, and Registrar
of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the
District of Mount Grey, in place of Richard
Ramsay Armstrong.

This appointment to take effect on and
from the Twentieth day of April, 1864.

THOS. B. GILLIES,
In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.

Appointment of Registrar of Births, Deaths, and
Marriages.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 22nd March, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

CHARLES HASELDEN

to be Registrar of Marriages, and Registrar
of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the Dis-
trict of Mangawai, in place of Robert Skeen.

This appointment to take effect on and
from the First day of April, 1864.

THOS. B. GILLIES,
In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.

Diseased Cattle Regulation, Wellington.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 19th March, 1864.

THE following Proclamations under the
"Diseased Cattle Act 1861," issued by
their Honors the Superintendents of Wel-
lington and Otago respectively; are pub-
lished for general information.

FREDERICK WHITAKER,
In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor ISAAC EARL FEATHER-
STON, Esquire, Superintendent of
the Province of Wellington, in
the Islands of New Zealand.

WHEREAS, by Section Number X. of the
"Diseased Cattle Act 1861," it was enacted
that if at any time it should be made to ap-
pear to the Governor that any infectious or
contagious disease has broken out amongst
cattle in any district of the Colony, it should
be lawful for the Governor by Order in Council
to declare that such district was infected
within the meaning of the Act, and from time
to time to make such regulations for destroy-
ing diseased cattle therein, and for prohibit-
ing the removal or transportation of cattle
from one part of the Colony to another, and
preventing the further spread of such
disease as to him should seem fit; And it was
by the same Act also enacted that the Governor
in Council might by warrant under his hand
from time to time delegate to the Superin-
tendent of any Province within the Colony,