THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th September, 1866.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
grant Letters of Registration dated the four-
teenth day of September, 1866, under "The Patents
Act, 1860," in favor of

ZENAS WHEELER,

of San Francisco, California, (who has previously
obtained Letters Patent in the Colony of Victoria,
dated the thirteenth day of May, 1865,) for an
invention intituled " A new and improved Gold and
silver Amalgamator and Separator, the object of which
is to work every description of quartz containing
gold, silver, or other precious metals, whether com-
bined with mundic pyrites or other impurities, by
finely dividing that which contains the precious
metals and ultimately separating the same from the
pulp in the form of amalgam," with all the privileges
thereto belonging.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th September, 1866.
THE following Proclamation issued by His Honor
the Superintendent of Canterbury, is published
for general information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor WILLIAM SEFTON MOORHOUSE, Esq.,
Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury,
under "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861."

Whereas by "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," it
was provided that the Governor in Council might
by warrant under his hand, from time to time,
delegate to the Superintendent of any Province
within the said Colony all or any of the powers
vested in the Governor or Governor in Council by
the said Act, subject to such regulations as he might
think fit, and might from time to time rescind such
delegation.

And whereas the said Governor hath, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of New
Zealand, delegated to William Sefton Moorhouse,
Esq., so long as he shall hold the office of Superin-
tendent of the Province of Canterbury, the several
powers vested in the said Governor by the second,
fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth and tenth sections of the
said Act, subject to be rescinded as in the said Act
provided, and subject to the regulations issued by
the Governor on the eighteenth day of September
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and to
any other regulations to be from time to time duly
made.

And whereas by a proclamation dated the twelfth
day of March, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-six, and published in the New Zealand Gazette,
all that portion of the Province of Canterbury to the
west of the dividing range was appointed a
quarantine ground under the said Act:-

Now therefore, I, the said William Sefton Moor-
house, by virtue of such powers in me vested, do
hereby make the following regulation for the
management of the said quarantine ground, to take
effect from and after Friday the fifth day of October,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

"No cattle shall be driven or removed from the
said Quarantine ground into any other portion of the
Province of Canterbury, and any person driving or
removing, or causing to be driven or removed, or
assisting in driving or removing any cattle from the
said quarantine ground into any other portion of
the Province of Canterbury, shall be liable to a

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penalty of fifty pounds for every head of cattle so
imported driven or removed.”

Given under my hand this seventeenth day of
September, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-six.

W. S. MOORHOUSE,
Superintendent of Canterbury.

By His Honor's command,
F. E. STEWART,
Provincial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th September, 1866.
THE following letter, with enclosures, from the
Secretary to the proposed Melbourne Inter-
Colonial Exhibition, is published for general in-
formation.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Offices of the Royal Commission,
64, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, July, 1866.
SIR,—I have the honor to enclose for your approval,
copy circular addressed to the various Superintendents
of the New Zealand Provincial Governments, on the
subject of the forthcoming Exhibition; and which, as
the time for any active exertions in the matter has
now arrived, I take the liberty of bringing afresh
under your notice, relying upon the favour shown to
the enterprise in any communications received by
your direction.

I have, &c.,
J. G. KNIGHT.

To His Excellency Sir George Grey,
New Zealand.

Offices of the Royal Commission,
64, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, 20th June, 1866.
SIR,—Referring to the applications already made to
your Council on behalf of the objects of the Inter-
Colonial and Paris Exhibitions, I have the honor to
inform you that, amongst other things, it is considered
desirable to obtain a good collection of samples of the
following clays,—adapted for pottery, brick and tile
making, bricks made therefrom, building stones, lime
stones, flagging, &c.

I therefore, take the liberty of asking you to aid
us in this matter by forwarding samples of such of
these minerals as are peculiar to your district, with a
short descriptive account thereof. Each sample,
except the flagging, should contain one cubic foot.
Trusting to your assistance in this matter,

I have, &c.,
J. G. KNIGHT,
Secretary.

Offices of the Royal Commission,
64, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, 23rd July, 1866.
SIR,—Not having for some time received any infor-
mation from your Colony on the subject of progress
in Exhibition matters, I do myself the honor of
addressing you afresh on the subject; but with the
hope that any silence on the part of the New Zealand
Provinces is not to be interpreted as implying that
nothing has been done.

However, as the time is now approaching for the
opening of the Exhibition, and as all the Colonies of
the Australian group, and even beyond, as far as the
Netherland India, New Caledonia, &c., have all
generously responded to the invitation of the Mel-
bourne Commission, we trust that New Zealand will
fully redeem any promise made by her, and that her
principal resources will be adequately represented at
the forthcoming Exhibition.

The magnitude of the preparations for the