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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Payment under "The Public Payments without
Probate Act, 1869."

CHARLES HUNTER MCINTOSH, formerly an officer of
the New Zealand Government, residing at
Parnell, Auckland, deceased intestate.

UNDER the provisions of "The Public Payments
without Probate Act, 1869," and the Regula-
tions made thereunder, published in the New Zealand
Gazette of 1870, page 212, the Colonial Treasurer
intends to make a payment of money due to the
above-named deceased to a person not being his legal
representative. All persons objecting to such pay-
ment being made must give notice to the Colonial
Treasurer, at Wellington, within one calendar month
from the date of the Gazette bearing this notice, when
their objections will be considered.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
(for the Colonial Treasurer).

Treasury,
Wellington, 17th November, 1875.

The Foot-and-Mouth Disease.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 13th November, 1875.

THE following notice, received from the Agent-
General in London, is published for general
information.

AMELIUS M. SMITH,
(for the Under Secretary).

(Extract from London Times of 16th September, 1875.)

REPORTS from nearly all parts of the country continue to show
an increase in the foot-and-mouth disease. In Kent the cases,
as at present reported, are as follow:-Ashford division, 149;
Bearsted, 34; Bromley, 529; Cranbrook, 210; Dartford, 316;
Elham, 31; Faversham, 245; Sittingbourne, 425; Home, 660;
Malling, 400, Ramsgate, 25 Bochistor, 18 Borea,
Tonbridge, 299; Tunbridge Wells, 198; Wingham, 721: total,
4,426. A week ago, 3,735 cases were reported.

The week's returns for Dorsetshire give the following
figures:-Diseased cattle, 3,463; sheep, 11,974; swine, 643:
total, 16,080 animals, against 15,445 in the preceding week.
In Dorchester division there were 25 fresh outbreaks, 125
affected farms, 1,238 diseased cattle, 6,045 sheep, 313 swine.
-Blandford division: 4 fresh outbreaks, 7 farms, 64 cattle, 49
swine. Bridport division: 20 fresh outbreaks, 37 farms, 475
cattle, 615 sheep, 79 swine. Cerne Abbas division: 10 fresh
outbreaks, 37 farms, 439 cattle, 2,261 sheep, 60 swine. Shaftes-
bury division: 11 fresh outbreaks, 40 farms, 289 cattle, 70
sheep, 26 swine. Sherborne division: 20 fresh outbreaks, 85
farms, 671 cattle, 1,069 sheep, 89 swine. Sturminster division:
5 fresh outbreaks, 21 farms, 96 cattle, 71 sheep, 14 swine.
Wimborne division: 12 fresh outbreaks, 43 farms, 191 cattle,
1,843 sheep, 13 swine. Shaftesbury cattle market has been
closed in consequence of the prevalence of the disease. The
malady is also largely prevalent in the adjoining county of
Somerset. Nearly 1,300 head of stock are suffering in the dis-
trict extending from Nether Stowey to Halse in the Western
division of the county.

In Wiltshire, the police divisions of Bradford and Trow-
bridge, Chippenham, Devizes, Hindon, Malmesbury, Marl-
borough, Salisbury and Amesbury, Swindon and Warminster,
representing 169 parishes, are still proclaimed infected places,
and the epidemic has considerably extended since the previous
weekly return.

In Gloucestershire, according to last week's returns, 11,095
animals are suffering, the following being the numbers in each
police district:-Bristol, 87 cattle; Campden, 523 cattle, 962
sheep, and 6 pigs; Cheltenham, 782 cattle, 206 sheep, and 65
pigs; Cirencester, 76 cattle; Dursley, 1,368 cattle, 401 sheep,
and 648 pigs; Forest, 299 cattle, 688 sheep, and 39 pigs; Glou-
cester, 789 cattle, 69 sheep, and 80 pigs; Sodbury, 275 cattle,
106 sheep, and 52 pigs; Stow, 1,591 cattle, 1,239 sheep, and
119 pigs; Stroud, 659 cattle, 485 sheep, and 81 pigs: total,
6,449 cattle, 4,156 sheep, and 490 pigs. There were 5,772 fresh
attacks during the week, and 2,104 animals recovered. About
30 animals died. Among the remedies tried is that of feeding
the stock on cabbage leaves. Several local farmers speak of its
succeeding admirably. The leaves are cool and refreshing, and

the cattle eat them with avidity. At Cheltenham, on Thurs-
day, two farmers were fined 40s. each for moving animals
suffering from the disease along a public road.

At Oxford the weekly return to the Local Authority up to the
11th instant shows that, during the past week, the fresh attacks
numbered 2,277 cattle, 2,403 sheep, and 358 pigs. One cow
has died, and another and a pig were killed; 899 beasts, 1,190
sheep, and 121 pigs had recovered. There still exist in the
whole county 405 infected farms, including 140 fresh outbreaks,
against the previous weekly return of 3,328 cattle, 3,682 sheep,
and 457 pigs, on 314 infected farms. The Bullingdon division
still comes first, the fresh attacks being 431 cattle, 662 sheep,
and 102 pigs, on 94 infeoted farms (an increase of six); one
cow and 43 pigs had died in the week; 811 cattle, 915 sheep,
and 55 pigs had recovered, but 26 fresh outbreaks were re-
ported, the number of diseased animals now being 886 cattle,
1,587 sheep, and 62 pigs, against the last return of 767 cattle,
1,840 sheep, and 158 pigs. In the other petty sessional divi-
sions, Bampton East had 71 farms, comprising 775 cattle, 240
sheep, and 49 pigs infected; Bampton West, 166 cattle, 102
sheep, and 20 pigs diseased on 18 farms; Banbury, 44 farms,
with 539 cattle, 5,848 sheep, and 81 pigs diseased; Chedling-
ton, 453 cattle, 411 sheep, and 51 pige, on 54 infected farms;
Henley, 26 farms, with 156 cattle and 105 sheep affected (five
with scab); Ploughley, 621 cattle and 1,286 sheep, on 14 infected
farms; Watlington, 52 cattle and 220 sheep, on eight infected
farms; Wootton N., on seven infected farms, 122 cattle, 224
sheep, and 39 pigs; Wootton S., 933 cattle, 124 sheep, and 169
pigs, on 59 infected farms.

The disease is rapidly spreading in the agricultural districts
of Staffordshire. The number of localities in which the disease
has made its appearance is 350, and the number of animals
afflicted is roughly estimated, in the absence of any official
return, at 1,500. There have been 83 fresh outbreaks within
the last seven days.

On Monday, before the borough magistrates at Stockton, a
cattle dealer was charged with exposing a pig for sale in Stock-
ton market on the 8th of September, the animal being affected
with foot-and-mouth disease. Mr. Hall, veterinary surgeon, and
Mr. Garry, inspector, said that the pig in question was evidently
in great pain, and had been brought to market with eleven
others. Its hoofs were beginning to come off. The defendant
pleaded he bought the twelve pigs together at Newcastle, and
had not noticed the condition of this particular one. The
Bench said that foot-and-mouth disease might thus be sent to eleven
different localities. They fined the defendant 40s., including
costs.

This disease still continues to rage, with an increased number
of attacks, in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdenshire. This
week's returns from the Deputy Chief Constable give the follow-
ing particulars: -Cambridgeshire division: Arrington, upon
11 farms, 57 head of cattle, 367 sheep, and 36 swine are
diseased; Bottisham, upon seven farms, 36 cattle and 76 sheep;
Cambridge, upon 108 farms, 832 cattle, 546 sheep, and 19
swine; Caxton, upon 18 farms, 171 cattle, 12 sheep, and 124
swine; Linton, upon three farms, 18 sheep; Newmarket, upon
56 farms, 348 cattle, and 33 swine. This gives a total of 203
farms, 1,444 cattle, 1,039 sheep, and 212 swine, showing an in-
crease of 44 farms, 573 cattle, 86 sheep, and 18 pigs in the Cam-
bridge division of the county. At Linton, however, there is a
decrease of 42 sheep upon the three farms attacked. The deaths
have also decreased by three. Huntingdonshire: Leightonstone,
upon 42 farms, 280 cattle, 96 sheep, and 31 swine are attacked;
Hurstingstone, upon 16 farms, 135 cattle, 21 sheep, and 50
swine; Toseland, upon 54 farms, 178 cattle, 61 sheep; Norman-
cross, 34 farms, 274 cattle, and 619 sheep; Ramsay, upon 37
farms, 191 cattle, 206 sheep, and 4 swine. This shows, as
compared with the previous week, an increase of 45 farms, 61
cattle, a decrease of sheep by 109, and of swine by 37. There
has been one death less. There has been a case of pleuro-pneu-
monia in the Leightonstone and Thurstingstone divisions, and
the diseased animals were at once slaughtered.

In East Sussex, the weekly report issued on Monday by the
Chief Constable, Colonel Mackay, shows a large decrease in the
number of animals affected, as compared with that of last week.
The disease is still very prevalent in the Hailsham division,
which has shown the largest figures throughout, the present re-
turn giving 1,866 cattle, 2,033 sheep, and 22 swine as being
affected therein. The totals for the 11 divisions of East Sussex
in which the disease now prevails are cattle, 2,939; sheep,
3,492; swine, 75. In the previous week they were-cattle,
3,282; sheep, 4,811; swine, 32-showing a total decrease of
1,626. Cattle only are affected in three divisions-viz., Bur-
wash, 279; Hastings, 50; Preston, 2. In the East Grinstead
division, 16 sheep only are returned. The most noticeable de-
crease is that among sheep in the Lewes district-viz., from
2,214 to 1,320.