THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

District Registrar of Land of the District of Auck-
land, as the same is defined in proclamation of 29th
November, 1866.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 6th December, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
nominate

JOHN MORRISON, Esq.,
of 3, Adelaide Place, King William Street, London,
E.C., as Agent to communicate on behalf of New
Zealand with the Committee appointed in London in
connexion with the Exhibition proposed to be held in
Paris in 1867.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th December, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

BURRELL PARKERSON, junior, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths
and Marriages, for the District of Christchurch, in
the room of Dr. Barker, who has resigned.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th December, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

DANIEL SHEA LAWLOR, Esq.,
to be Registration Officer for the Electoral District
of Riverton, in the Province of Southland, for the
election of a Member of the House of Representa-
tives.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 10th December, 1866.

THE following Proclamation issued by His Honor
the Superintendent of Otago, under "The
Diseased Cattle Act," is published for general
information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

PROCLAMATION

Declaring a portion of the Province of Otago an
Infected District under the provisions of "The
Diseased Cattle Act, 1861."

By His Honor THOMAS DICK, Esq., Superintendent
of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by virtue and in exercise of the powers
delegated to and vested in me in that behalf, I did,
by proclamation in the Government Gazette of the
Province of Otago, dated the seventeenth day of
October last, proclaim and declare that, from and
after the day of the date thereof, the territory therein
mentioned and described should be deemed an Infected
District within the meaning and for the purposes of
"The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861:" And whereas it
is expedient still further to extend the limits of the
said Infected District, so as to include therein the
whole of the territory hereinafter described: Now
therefore, I, Thomas Dick, Esquire, Superintendent
of the Province of Otago, by virtue and in exercise
of the powers delegated to and vested in me in this
behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that from and
after the nineteenth day of December next, the limits
and boundaries hereinafter described shall be the
limits and boundaries of the said Infected District
and that the said Infected District shall include the
territory hereinafter mentioned, which territory

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shall be deemed an Infected District within the
meaning and for the purposes of the said "Diseased
Cattle Act, 1861," (that is to say)-All that area
within the Province of Otago, bounded towards the
north by the Province of Canterbury from Awarua
Bay to the eastern shore of the Wanaka Lake; thence
by the said eastern shore of the Wanaka Lake and
the Clutha River to the Dunstan Mountains; thence
by the Dunstan Mountains to Mount Saint Bathan's;
thence by the Hawkdun Mountains, the Kakanui
Mountains and the Horse Ranges to the ocean;
thence towards the east by the ocean to the Clutha
River; thence in a northerly direction along the
Clutha River to the Tallaburn; thence by a direct
line to the summit of the Papanui Range; thence to
Rankleburn at its source, and by Rankleburn,
Pomahaka, and Waipahi Rivers, to the southern
boundary line of Run numbered 167; thence by the
said southern boundary line to the Waikaka Stream,
and by the Waikaka Stream to the Mataura River,
and by the Mataura River and the northern boundary
line of the Province of Southland to the Manipori
Lake; thence by the Waiau River to the ocean; and
thence towards the west and south by the ocean to
Awarua Bay, the starting point.

Given under my hand and issued under the
Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at
Dunedin, this twenty-sixth day of
November, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-six.

(L.S.)
THOMAS DICK,
Superintendent.

By His Honor's Command,
JOHN MOUAT,
Provincial Secretary.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 26th November, 1866.

THE following Bye-Laws (Regulations for Licensed
Watermen and Boats) for the Bluff Harbour,
approved of by the Governor in Council, are published
for general information.

E. W. STAFFORD,
(In the absence of Mr. Hall.)

BYE-LAWS, BLUFF HARBOUR.
Regulations for Licensed Watermen and Boats.

1. If any person shall ply for hire in Bluff Harbour
   with any boat in the conveyance of passengers, unless
   both he and the boat which he shall use for that pur-
   pose shall be thereto duly licensed in manner herein-
   after directed, he shall for every such offence be liable
   to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

2. Before any license shall be granted to any person
   he shall prove to the satisfaction of the Harbour
   Master that he thoroughly understands the manage-
   ment of a boat, and the Harbour Master shall there-
   upon give him a certificate to that effect, upon the
   presentation of which, and the payment of a fee of
   ten shillings to the Provincial Treasurer, he shall be
   entitled to receive a Waterman's License in the form
   hereto annexed, and he shall thereafter be called a
   licensed waterman.

3. Every such license shall remain in force as long
   as it shall not be suspended or cancelled in manner
   hereinafter provided.

4. Every licensed waterman, when employed either
   on the Jetty or in the Harbour, shall be subject to
   the control of the Harbour Master, and if any such
   licensed waterman shall fail or neglect to obey any
   order or instructions given to him by the Harbour
   Master, in the discharge of his duty as Harbour
   Master, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
   five pounds.

5. The Harbour Master shall inspect every boat