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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

and Southland in the Middle Island, and the Pro-
vinces of Auckland and of Taranaki in the North
Island, shall be deemed to be infected districts
within the meaning of the said Act. And I do
further proclaim and declare the following regula-
tions for the destruction of diseased cattle, and for
the preventing and regulating the removal or trans-
portation 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 quaran-
tine ground and the authority of a quarantine
certificate, such person shall be liable to a
penalty of 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.
III. If any person shall wilfully impede or obstruct
any Inspector or any police constable acting
under the authority of these Regulations,
every person so offending shall and may be
seized and detained by such person so acting
as aforesaid, or any person or persons he may
call to his assistance, until such offender or
offenders can be taken before two Justices of
the Peace, and shall be liable to a penalty of
fifty pounds.
Given under my hand, and issued under the
Public Seal of the Province, at Christ-
church, this twenty-seventh day of
November, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-five.
(L.S.)
S. BEALEY,
Superintendent.
By His Honor's command,
EDW. JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th January, 1866.
THE following Regulation, issued by His Honor
the Superintendent of the Province of Nelson
under "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," is published
for general information.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Regulation made by His Honor the Superintendent of
Nelson under the provisions of " The Diseased Cattle
Act, 1861," for regulating the landing and driving of
Cattle imported into the Province of Nelson.

ON and after this date no cattle shall be landed
inside the Nelson Harbour, or driven through any of
the streets of the City of Nelson, between the hours
of six o'clock a.m. and twelve o'clock midnight; and
any person guilty of any breach of this regulation,
shall be liable to a penalty of not less than two
pounds nor more than five pounds for every head of
cattle so landed or driven.

ALFRED SAUNDERS,
Superintendent.
Superintendent's Office,
Nelson, 20th December, 1865.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th January, 1866.
THE following Paper respecting the proposed
International Exhibition at Melbourne is pub-
lished for general information.
E. W. STAFFORD.

INTERCOLONIAL EXHIBITION OF
AUSTRALASIA, 1866.

COMMISSIONERS :
Sir Redmond Barry, Knight, President.
Hon. George Harker,
Hon. G. F. Verdon,
Hon. J. F. Sullivan,
Sir James Palmer, Knt.,
Hon. C. J. Jenner, M.L.C.,
Hon. Wm. Degraves, M.L.C.,
Sir Francis Murphy, Knt.,
S. H. Bindon, Esq., M.L.A.,
J. C. Riddell, Esq., M.L.A.,
Robert McDougall, Esq.
J. T. Smith, Esq., M.L.A.,
Edward Cope, Esq., M.L.A.,
Rev. J. J. Bleasdale, D.D.,
Thomas Black, Esq.,
Ferdinand Mueller, Esq., F.R.S.
Professor McCoy,
Phipps Turnbull, Esq.,
Charles E. Bright, Esq.,
T. J. Sumner, Esq.,

His Excellency Sir Charles Darling having been
pleased to issue a Commission, authorizing the above-
named persons to take the necessary steps for
managing and conducting an International Exhibi-
tion, to be held in Melbourne, the Honorable the
Chief Secretary of Victoria addressed himself to the
Governments of the various Dependencies of the
Crown in Australasia, inviting their cordial co-opera-
tion.

Highly encouraging replies have been received:
these convey a well-founded assurance that the pro-
ject of instituting a series of exhibitions of Natural
Products, General Industries and Art, to be held in
succession in the several Australian Colonies, has
been accepted in a spirit which acknowledges the
truth of the proposition, that such exhibitions would
"prove of public advantage alike to all."

The Commissioners are conscious, however, that it
is not sufficient to rely solely on the good intentions
and proffered support of the respective Govern-
ments. They deem it right to appeal to the public
spirit of the different communities. They have now
the honor, therefore, to invoke the earnest assistance
of their fellow subjects, not only of those who dwell
in Victoria, but of those also resident in the other
British Colonies in these seas, to aid them in further-
ance of the design, and they do so with a confident
expectation that the appeal will be considered worthy
of a generous encouragement.

The Commissioners do not propose to demonstrate
by labored arguments the benefits which must arise
almost unbidden from a comprehensive, well-directed
organization, for such a purpose, of the inhabitants
of these regions, so favored by Divine Providence—
those benefits are self-apparent.

They desire, however, to impress upon all thought-
ful and energetic persons the necessity for engaging
actively in its support.

An opportunity for united exertion, such as is now
afforded, is of a character eminently interesting.

Exhibitors will be undismayed by the manifold dis-
turbing influences which encumber a competition
with the populous and opulent societies of the old
world, will be unaffected by the innumerable distrac-
tions, which, in the perplexing variety of European
exhibitions, call away the mind of the beholder from
objects purely Colonial.

Although the contemplated display cannot vie with
the splendor of those which excite the rivalry of
nations, purposes of the highest utilitarian and social
importance to those immediately concerned may be
thereby served.

A searching and penetrating attention may be con-
centrated on our mineral treasures, portions only of
the boundless stores of which have been hitherto
brought to light; -on improved economic methods of
winning them from the earth, and applying them to
the ends for which they are intended; -on the sources
of wealth which, in their raw state, abound on the
surface of our soils, in the rivers, and in the waters
which encircle our coasts; -and on the rare excellen-
cies and peculiar development, in different latitudes,