THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE: 567

Session for an Ordinance
and that the property men-
tioned in the annexed Schedule, or some part thereof, in which you
are supposed to be interested as therein stated, will or may be
required for the purposes of the said undertaking. A plan and
section of the said undertaking, with a book of reference
thereto, will be deposited in the Provincial Secretary's Office,
Christchurch, one month before the commencement of the
ensuing Session, on which plans your property is designated by
the numbers set forth in the annexed Schedule.
You are requested to state whether you assent or dissent from
the proposed undertaking, or are neuter in respect thereto, by
filling up the form sent herewith, and returning the same to the
Provincial Secretary, at his office at Christchurch, on or before
the day of next, and if there should be any
error or misdescription in the annexed Schedule, at the same
time to inform the Provincial Secretary of the same.

SCHEDULE.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Public Houses Act, 1868,"
it is enacted that whenever the Colonial
Forces shall be employed for the purpose of sup-
pressing rebellion or other disturbances in any
part of the Colony, and shall be stationed at any
place near to or within such part, it shall be lawful
for the Governor from time to time by Proclamation
to declare that, from and after a day to be fixed
therein, such part of the Colony as shall be defined
in the Proclamation shall be a proclaimed district
within the meaning and for the purposes of the said
Act, and thereupon it shall not be lawful for any
person, whether holding a license under any Act or
Ordinance regulating the sale of wine, ale, beer, or
spirits, or not, to sell or supply any wine, beer, or
spirituous or fermented liquors of any kind, without
the permission of such person as the Governor shall
from time to time appoint to grant permits for the
sale of such articles within such district:

And whereas by a Proclamation issued on the
twenty-second day of October, His Excellency the
Governor, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities for that purpose vested in him, did
proclaim and declare that all that part of the Colony
situated in the Province of Hawke's Bay, lying within
the following boundary-The sea coast, from the mouth
of the River Esk or Waiohinganga to the mouth of
the River Waikare; thence the said River Waikare
to a point distant nine miles in a direct line from its
mouth; thence a straight line drawn north-west,
true bearing, till it intersects the northern boundary
of the said Province; thence the said northern
boundary to its western extremity; thence the
western boundary of the said Province to its inter-
section with the River Mohaka; thence down the
said river to the mouth of the Inangatahi, following
up that stream to the southern edge of the Pohui
Bush; thence to the road known as Marshall's Bridle
Track; thence by that track to the River Esk, and
thence by that river to its mouth-should, from and
after the fifteenth day of October, be a Proclaimed
District within the meaning and for the purposes of
the said Act:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power
and authority for that purpose vested in me, do hereby
appoint

His Honor JOHN DAVIES ORMOND, Esq.,
to be the person who may grant permits for the sale
of wine, ale, beer, or spirits within the said Proclaimed
District.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same; and issued this
twenty-second day of October, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-nine.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 22nd October, 1869.

THE following Despatch, from Her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is
published for general information.

W. GISBORNE.

Downing Street, 14th July, 1869.

SIR, I desire to call your attention to the following
passages in the Paper respecting Colonial Hospitals
which accompanied the Duke of Newcastle's Circular
Despatch of 6th April, 1864:-

"With proper provisions for sufficient space, area,
and ventilation, contagious and infectious diseases,
with the exception of small-pox, may be received
in limited numbers in general wards appointed to
adult patients." (Page 20.)

"The rules with reference to . . . the admission
of cases of contagious and infectious diseases in
general wards have been submitted to the Royal
College of Physicians, and have received the sanction
of its approval and concurrence."

I am advised that, whatever may have been the
views of this subject taken by some eminent autho-
rities in 1864, there is now reason to suppose that a
large body of professional opinion would be found
to be opposed to the doctrine thus laid down. I am
informed that, according to concurrent opinions of
much weight, the limitation expressed in the text
should be extended certainly to plague, typhus, and
scarlatina, and perhaps to some other diseases of the
same class.

In Hospitals with the most perfect sanitary
arrangements and administration, it is considered
that only a very small proportion of such diseases
could, with any chance of safety to the patients
suffering from other diseases, be distributed through-
out the general wards-a proportion so small, indeed,
as to make it impossible for the Hospital to perform
any important function in providing for the wants of
the community during an epidemic. But in such
Hospitals as are generally to be found in the
Colonies, it is stated that a single case of one of
these infectious fevers might not unreasonably
be regarded as involving serious probabilities of
extension.

As to the means of meeting epidemics, I have
resorted to Mr. Simon for advice, and he is of opinion
that, looking at the way in which, at irregular times,
the diseases in question become extensively prevalent,
the best way of dealing with them would be to select
a site in a healthy locality apart from any buildings
except such as could, as required, be made use of for