THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 645

long resident on South Head, and a reliable
authority. He considers rock to have about
three fathoms over it at high water. Bearings
are from general knowledge and not by com-
pass."

JULIUS VOGEL,
Commissioner of Customs.

NOTICES TO MARINERS.

No. 19 of 1872.

Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 23rd July, 1872.

THE following Notice to Mariners received from
the Government of the Cape of Good Hope, is
published for general information.

JULIUS VOGEL.

Colonial Office, Cape of Good Hope,
28th March, 1872.

WITH reference to Government Notice No. 33, of
the 18th January last,* His Excellency the Governor
directs the publication for general information
of the following Notice, furnished by Lieutenant
Archdeacon, R.N., the Admiralty Surveyor, respecting
the true position of the reef therein referred to.

By command of His Excellency the Governor.

R. SOUTHEY,
Colonial Secretary.

TRUE POSITION OF REEF REFERRED TO IN GOVERN-
MENT NOTICE, No. 33, 1872.

Cape Hermes, West $\frac{3}{4}$ South Magnetic, distant $2\frac{1}{8}$
miles, and $\frac{1}{6}$ (one-sixth) of a mile off shore.

The Reef has not more than six feet of water on it
at low water spring tides; with deep water between
it and the shore.

NOTE.—The Coast between the Bashee and Umkomass
Rivers is fringed with outlying rocks, varying from one to five
cable-lengths distance from the shore.

• Published in New Zealand Gazette No. 31, of 22nd June, 1872.

REPUBLISHED in pursuance of the Diseased
Cattle Acts.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor Arthur Penrose Seymour, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of Marl-
borough, in the Colony of New Zealand.

IN pursuance of the powers delegated to me under
the authority of "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,"
and "The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act,
1865," by His Excellency the Governor in Council,
on the fourth day of May, 1870, I, Arthur Penrose
Seymour, the Superintendent of the Province of
Marlborough, do hereby declare and proclaim that,
on and after the day next after the day on which this
Proclamation shall be published in the New Zealand
Gazette, the several Colonies of Australia—that is to
say, the Colonies of Victoria, New South Wales,
Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia,
and the Colony of Tasmania—shall be deemed to be
Infected Districts within the meaning of the said
Acts.

Given under my hand, and issued under the
Seal of the Province of Marlborough, at
Blenheim, this ninth day of July, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

A. P. SEYMOUR,
Superintendent.

By His Honor's command.

W. H. EYES,
Provincial Secretary.

REPUBLISHED in pursuance of the Diseased
Cattle Acts.

PROCLAMATION.

Declaring Infected Districts under the provisions of
"The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861."

WHEREAS by "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," it is
enacted that the Governor in Council may, by
Warrant under his hand, from time to time dele-
gate to the Superintendent of any Province within
the Colony, all or any of the powers vested in the
Governor or the Governor in Council by the said Act,
subject to such regulations as he may think fit:
And whereas by the fourth section of "The Diseased
Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865," it is enacted that
the Governor may, by an Order in Council, from time
to time annul, make void, alter or vary or make anew,
any Orders in Council, regulations, appointments, or
prohibitory or other declarations made and published
by the Governor under the authority of "The Diseased
Cattle Act, 1861," or of "The Diseased Cattle Act
Amendment Act, 1865," or by the Superintendent of
any Province under or in pursuance of any powers
delegated under the powers of delegation contained in
"The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," or "The Diseased
Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865:"

And whereas by the fifth section of "The Diseased
Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865," it is enacted that
the power of annulling, making void, or allowing or
varying and making anew, any such regulations,
appointments, or prohibitory or other declarations,
vested in the Governor by "The Diseased Cattle Act
Amendment Act, 1865," may from time to time be
delegated by the Governor in Council, by warrant
under his hand, to the Superintendent of any Pro-
vince:

And whereas the said Governor hath, by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
New Zealand, delegated to James Macandrew, Esq.,
the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, within
the said Province, so long as he shall remain Super-
intendent of the Province, the several powers vested
in the Governor or the Governor in Council by the
second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth and tenth sections
of "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," aforesaid, and
all the powers which by the fifth section of "The
Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865," the
Governor in Council is authorized so to delegate:

Now therefore, I, James Macandrew, by virtue of
such powers in me vested, do hereby proclaim and
declare that, after the date of the publication hereof in
the New Zealand Gazette, the Colonies of Victoria,
New South Wales, and South Australia, Queensland,
Western Australia, and Tasmania, and all the other
Provinces in the Colony of New Zealand, the County
of Westland in the said Colony, and the Chatham
Islands, shall be deemed Infected Districts within the
meaning of the said Acts: And I do further pro-
claim and declare the following Regulations for the
destruction of Diseased Cattle, and for the preventing
and regulating the removal or transportation of Cattle
from the said several Infected Districts into the
Province of Otago :--

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 any of the said infected districts into
the Province of Otago, except into a Quaran-
tine Ground, and after having obtained a
Quarantine certificate from an Inspector of
Cattle, 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