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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1883.

Declaring Fiji no longer an infected Place under "The
Public Health Act, 1876."

(L.S.) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of all powers and authorities conferred upon
me by "The Public Health Act, 1876," and of all other
powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in that
behalf, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and
notify that the Colony of Fiji is no longer infected with the
diseases called smallpox, cholera, and measles, being in
fectious or contagious diseases, highly dangerous to the
health of the people, and that a Proclamation to that effect
given under my hand, and issued under the Seal of the
Colony, on the 17th day of July, one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-three, and published in the New Zealand Gazette
of the seventeenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-three, has no force or effect from the day of the
gazetting hereof.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William
Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General
in Her Majesty's Army, Knight Grand Cross of
the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael
and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honour-
able Order of the Bath, 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 under the Seal of the
said Colony, at the Government House, at Wel.
lington, this twenty-second day of August, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-three.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Importation of Cattle prohibited.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twentieth day
of August, 1883.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him
by the seventy-seventh section of "The Animals Protection
Act, 1881," His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said colony, doth hereby absolutely prohibit
the introduction into the Colony of New Zealand from the
countries following, that is to say, Europe, Asia, Africa,
America, and the islands in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian
Oceans, save and except the Australasian Colonies, of all
cattle, sheep, horses, swine, and goats, and also of fresh
meat, skins, hides, hair, horns, hoofs, offal, or other parts of
any such animal, and of all hay, straw, and fodder, and of all
fittings which have been used in the transport of any such
animal:

And with the like advice and consent doth declare that
this Order in Council shall come into force from and after
the date hereof: Provided that this Order in Council shall
not apply to animals which shall have been shipped from any
of the above-mentioned countries before the first day of
December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Land temporarily reserved in the Land Districts of Auck-
land, Canterbury, and Otago.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

W
HEREAS by the one hundred and forty-fourth section
of "The Land Act, 1877," it is enacted that the
Governor may from time to time, either by general or
particular description, and whether the same has been sur-
veyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding
that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any
Crown lands which, in his opinion, are required for any of
the purposes in the said section mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and
pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the
said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in
the Land Districts of Auckland, Canterbury, and Otago
described in the Schedule hereunder written for the pur-
poses in the said Schedule specified.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND.

ALL that piece or parcel of land being Section No. 337A, Block
XI., Opotiki Survey District, in the Parish of Waioeka,
County of Whakatane, containing by admeasurement 4 acres,
more or less. Bounded on the North by a public road 100

ERRATUM. In New Zealand Gazette No. 75, of 2nd August, 1883, page 1082, under appointment of Volunteer officers,
for "Henry Edward Percy Adams," read "Henry Edward Poynter Adams," to be Lieutenant in the Patea Rifle
Volunteers.