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in violation of this Proclamation or of any such regulations, will, for every such offence, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds and not less than ten pounds.

Given under my hand and seal, at Government House, Brisbane, this sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, and in the fifty-first year of Her Majesty's reign.

By command. B. B. MORETON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Brisbane, 6th October, 1887.

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Diseased Animals Act (30 Victoria, No. 19), been pleased to make the following regulations for carrying into effect the provisions of the said Act:—

1. On the arrival at the Port of Brisbane of any ship from parts beyond the seas, having on board any cattle, horses, sheep, goats, dogs, deer, or camels, the master of the ship shall give immediate notice thereof to the Inspector of Stock for the port.

2. All such animals shall forthwith be examined by an Inspector and by a veterinary surgeon duly appointed for that purpose, who shall ascertain by inspection and inquiry whether such animals are infected or have been in contact with infected animals or matter; and no animals shall be removed from the ship except upon the certificate of an Inspector, nor until they have been washed and disinfected in such manner as the Commissioners and Inspector may direct.

3. If any of such animals are infected they shall, whether intended to be landed or not, be forthwith destroyed on the order of a Commissioner and an Inspector.

4. All cattle and sheep found to be free from infection shall be washed and disinfected in such manner as the Commissioners and Inspector may direct, and be conveyed at the owners' expense to the quarantine-station set apart for imported stock.

5. No fodder put on board of the ship with or for the use of the animals shall be landed at any port in the colony.

6. All fittings used on board of the ship for, with, or about any cattle, sheep, goats, deer, camels, or pigs, or with or about any other animals known to have been infected, and all effects belonging to their attendants, shall be disinfected in such manner as the Commissioners and Inspector may direct, or else shall be destroyed.

7. Cattle and camels shall, while in quarantine, be washed or disinfected in such manner as the Commissioners and Inspector shall direct.

8. Sheep shall, while in quarantine, receive two or more dressings, at intervals of not less than ten nor more than fifteen days, with an infusion of tobacco and sulphur, in the proportion of one pound of sound leaf or manufactured tobacco and one pound of flowers of sulphur to five gallons of water, or shall be immersed in a bath prepared by boiling for ten minutes in ten gallons of water (or proportionately for a larger quantity), ten pounds of flowers of sulphur, and five pounds of quicklime, and mixing one gallon of this solution with three gallons of hot water, the temperature of the dip in either case to be not less than 100° of Fahrenheit's thermometer, and shall be kept immersed in the bath not less than eighty seconds.

9. On the expiry of the prescribed terms of quarantine the animals shall be examined by a veterinary surgeon and an Inspector, and if they are found free from infection, and the owner has paid all charges in connection with their detention in quarantine, they may be released on the order of one or more Commissioners and an Inspector.

10. In the event of any owner refusing or failing to release any animals from quarantine, or refusing or neglecting to pay any charges in connection with their detention in quarantine, the animals may be sold by order of two or more Commissioners, and the proceeds shall be paid into the Treasury.

11. Goats and deer for zoological collections may be landed on the certificate of a veterinary surgeon and an Inspector that they are not infected with foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest, or any other infectious or contagious disease to which cattle and sheep are liable.

12. The foregoing regulations shall not apply to any animals the produce of the Australian Colonies, Tasmania, or New Zealand.

Stock from Australian Colonies.

13. No cattle, sheep, or pigs shall be introduced by sea from any of the Australian Colonies, Tasmania, or New Zealand, unless accompanied by a certificate from an Inspector of the colony in which they were shipped that they are the produce of that colony, or, if they have been imported from any country or place beyond that colony, that they have been detained in quarantine, and have been dis-

infected in the manner prescribed by the regulations then in force in such colony with regard to imported stock.

B. B. MORETON.

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Alterations in and Additions to the Scale of Charges in force on the New Zealand Railways.

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IN accordance with section 144 of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” I, Edwin Mitchelson, the Minister for Public Works, do hereby make the following alterations in and additions to the scale of charges, to come into force on and after the 31st October, 1887:—

PART III.—GOODS.

REGULATIONS.

(5.) Class H.—Scoured wool, undumped, in bales not exceeding 2½cwt. each, will be charged one-fifth less than the classified rates. Minimum charge, 1s. per bale. This will supersede the local rates specified in Part IV. where bales do not exceed 2½cwt.

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PART IV.—LOCAL RATES.

HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION.

Waimea Plains District Railway.

Class H.—Wool, undumped, consigned from stations between Stoney Creek and Longridge, inclusive, on the Waimea line to Invercargill or Bluff, will be charged the local rate upon the District Railway, and 6d. per bale less than the classified rates on the Government line.

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PART V.

Honey, extracted, packed, locally produced. Owner’s risk. Class C.

Honey, extracted, for export, in consignments of not less than 10cwt. Owner’s risk. Class D.

As witness my hand, this twenty-sixth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
Minister for Public Works.

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Bonus for Canned and Cured Fish for Export.

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Treasury Department,
Wellington, 10th November, 1885.

IT is hereby notified that bonuses under “The Fisheries Encouragement Act, 1885,” as set forth in the following sections (Nos. 8, 9, and 10) of that Act, will be paid subject to the conditions named therein, and in the regulations contained in the Order in Council of even date herewith.

JULIUS VOGEL.

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8. In order to encourage the production and curing of fish for export, the Colonial Treasurer shall during the next seven years after the passing of this Act, without further appropriation by Parliament, pay out of the Consolidated Fund to any person who shall prepare canned and cured fish for export, and actually export the same from the colony, a bonus or bonuses upon the quantity of canned and cured fish prepared and exported by such person as hereinafter mentioned, that is to say,—

(1.) In respect of the first 200 tons avoirdupois of fish canned with or without oil, the sum of 1d. per pound, the weight of the cans not to be included in the tonnage upon which such bonus is paid;

(2.) In respect of every ton avoirdupois of fish canned as aforesaid beyond the first 200 tons, the sum of ½d. per pound, the weight of the cans not to be included in the tonnage upon which such bonus is paid;

(3.) In respect to cured fish the bonus to be paid shall be respectively ¾d. and ⅔d. a pound under similar conditions, as far as the same are applicable to those contained in the two last subsections.

9. The total tonnage upon which the Treasurer may grant bonuses as aforesaid under this Act shall not exceed 6,000 tons.

10. Every person intending to apply for the grant of a bonus shall register a special trade-mark under the laws for the time being in force in New Zealand providing for the registration of trade-marks, such trade-mark to be used for all cured and canned fish to be prepared for export by such person, and shall, within six years after the passing of this Act, give notice to the Treasurer of his intention to export canned and cured fish with a view to applying for a bonus, and shall append to such notice a copy of such trade-mark; and all cases, barrels, or cans containing fish cured and canned for export by any such person shall, before exportation, be marked with the trade-mark so registered by him, and no part of any such bonus shall be payable except in respect of cases, barrels, or cans so marked.