72
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

been destroyed, neglect or refuse to bury four feet
under ground or burn the carcasses thereof within
twenty-four hours after the destruction thereof, such
owner or person aforesaid shall be liable to a penalty
of ten pounds for every carcass which he shall neglect
or refuse to bury or burn.

5. If any Inspector for the said infected district
   shall suspect that any cattle within the said infected
   district are infected with pleuro-pneumonia, but shall
   not be satisfied that such cattle are actually infected,
   he may, if he think fit, give to the owner or the
   person having the custody, charge, or possession of
   such cattle, notice in writing of what cattle he
   suspects to be infected with pleuro-pneumonia, and
   shall in and by such notice order and require such
   owner or person having the custody, charge, or
   possession of such cattle, to drive or cause to be
   driven the cattle mentioned in the said notice, to
   such place within the said infected district as
   such Inspector shall think fit, and such Inspector
   may in and by such notice direct and fix by what
   roads and route the said cattle shall be so driven;
   and if any person being the owner of any cattle, or
   having in his custody, care, or possession any cattle
   within the said infected district, shall, after the expi-
   ration of forty-eight hours after such last-mentioned
   notice has been served upon him or left at his usual
   place of business or residence, neglect or refuse to
   obey such order, or shall neglect or refuse to drive or
   cause to be driven the cattle mentioned in the said
   notice to the place and by the roads and route
   directed and fixed on by the said notice, such person
   shall be liable to a penalty of ten pounds for every
   head of cattle included in such last-mentioned notice,
   and after the expiration of the said period of forty-
   eight hours it shall be lawful for any such Inspector,
   if such owner or person as aforesaid shall neglect or
   refuse to obey such order, to seize and take into his
   possession the cattle included in such notice, and
   drive or cause to be driven the said cattle to the
   place and by the roads and route mentioned and fixed
   in the said notice.

6. In case 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 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.

7. All owners or persons having the custody, care,
   or possession of any cattle within the said infected
   district shall, within fourteen days from the first day
   of March next, give a notice in writing to the
   Inspector of Cattle for the County of Westland
   containing the number of such cattle, the particulars
   as nearly as can be of the place or places where such
   cattle are kept or are, and the brands with which
   they are branded; and if such owners or persons shall
   neglect or refuse to obey this regulation, they shall
   be liable to a penalty of ten pounds.

8. These Regulations to take effect on and after
   Tuesday, the first March, one thousand eight hundred
   and seventy.

Given under my hand at Hokitika, this twenty-
fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy.
C. Hoos.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Copartnership
carried on for some time past at Mahakipawa,
in the Province of Marlborough, by the undersigned

William Evans Dive and Herbert Gaby, in the busi-
ness of Saw-Millers and Timber Merchants, under the
style or firm of "Dive and Gaby," was dissolved by
mutual consent on the 1st day of January, 1870.

The business will be continued in his own name by
the said William Evans Dive, who is empowered to
discharge and settle all debts due to and by the said
partnership concern.

Witness our hands, this second day of February,
1870.
WM. EVANS DIVE.
HERBERT GABY.

Witness—Joe Reginald Sommerville, Teacher,
Mahakipawa.
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DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership
heretofore existing between us in the business
of preparing the fibre of the Phormium tenax, under
the firm of "Peez and Co.," is this day dissolved by
mutual consent.

Witness our hands, at Christchurch, this second
day of February, 1870.
JOHN FRANCIS JULIUS HAAST.
OTTO PEEZ.

Witness to the signatures of John Francis Julius
Haast and Otto Peez—Joshua S. Williams, Solicitor,
Christchurch.
34

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership
hitherto subsisting between Henry Matson and
John Thomas Matson, Auctioneers and Commission
Agents, Cathedral Square, Christchurch, has this day
been dissolved by mutual consent; and that the
business will in future be carried on by the said H.
Matson as heretofore.

Dated this thirty-first day of December, 1869.
JOHN T. MATSON.

Witness to the signature of J. T. Matson—William
Mardon, Accountant, Christchurch.
HENRY MATSON.

Witness to the signature of H. Matson—A. G.
Marsh, Carrier, Auckland.
27

IN pursuance of "The Patents Act, 1860," I, Alfred
Charles Barker, of Christchurch, in the Province
of Canterbury, New Zealand, Medical Practitioner,
hereby give notice that I have applied for a grant of
Letters Patent for the sole use, benefit, and advan-
tage in New Zealand of a certain Invention of Pro-
cesses for the Artificial Production of Adipocere for
Commercial Purposes, and for applying it as a Deter-
gent. Any person who may wish to prefer any
objection to the granting of such Letters Patent is
required, within four months after the publication of
this advertisement, to send to the office or address of
John Boyle Bennett, Esquire, at Wellington, a state-
ment in writing, setting forth the grounds of such
objection, subscribed with his proper name and
address.
ALFRED CHARLES BARKER.

Christchurch, 4th February, 1870.
35

NEW ZEALAND STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY (LIMITED).—Notice is hereby
given, that a Special Resolution, "That the New
Zealand Steam Navigation Company (Limited) be
wound up voluntarily," has been passed at a meeting
of the shareholders of the said Company, held in
Wellington on the 30th November, 1869, and duly
confirmed at a subsequent meeting of the share-
holders of the said Company, held in Wellington