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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 15

Mineral Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 5th March, 1888.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned mineral lease cancelled, and that the ground is now open for application as if no lease of the said ground had ever been applied for:—
No. 16. Samuel J. Veale; Section 1, Block X., Kyeburn, Otago Mining District.

GEO. FISHER,
(For the Minister of Mines.)

Addition to the Scale of Charges in force on the New Zealand Railways.

IN accordance with section 144 of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” I, Edwin Mitchelson, the Minister for Public Works, do hereby make the following addition to the scale of charges, to come into force from and after the 29th day of February, 1888:—

PART III.—GOODS.

REGULATIONS.—GLASGOW EXHIBITION.

Ores consigned for testing purposes at the Glasgow Exhibition, to be held in 1888, will be carried free over the New Zealand Railways to the port of shipment, provided that they shall be so carried at the sole risk of the consignors, and that each packet shall be consigned to the Globe Milling Company, and marked legibly “For Testing Purposes at the Glasgow Exhibition;” and that the loading and unloading shall be done at the expense of the consignors.

As witness my hand, this thirty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
Minister for Public Works.

Tasmania.—Proclamation, also Regulations, admitting Stock (Pigs excepted) from Places outside the Australasian Colonies.—Notice No. 250.

The Minister’s Office, Live Stock Branch,
Wellington, 1st March, 1888.

THE following Proclamation and regulations, issued and made by the Governor of Tasmania, for limiting and regulating the introduction of stock into that colony from places outside the Australasian Colonies, are published for general information.

G. F. RICHARDSON.

THE DISEASED ANIMALS IMPORTATION PREVENTION ACT.

By His Excellency Sir ROBERT GEORGE CROOKSHANK HAMILTON, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of Tasmania and its Dependencies.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation dated the second day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, Sir George Cuming Strahan, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of Tasmania and its Dependencies, absolutely prohibited the importation into Tasmania of cattle, sheep, pigs, and goats, and the hides, skins, horns, and hoofs of those animals, save and except as therein mentioned: And whereas it is expedient to permit the importation, subject to certain restrictions and with certain conditions and limitations, of cattle, sheep, and goats: Now, therefore, I, Sir Robert George Crookshank Hamilton, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief as aforesaid, in Council, in pursuance of the provisions of “The Diseased Animals Importation Prevention Act” (47 Vict., No. 2), do hereby permit the importation into Tasmania of cattle and sheep, subject only to such restrictions, and with such conditions and limitations, as are prescribed by the regulations set forth in the Schedule to this my Proclamation; and, in further pursuance of the provisions of the said Act, I do hereby permit the importation into Tasmania of goats, provided such goats are imported for zoological gardens only.

And whereas I, Sir Robert George Crookshank Hamilton, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief as aforesaid, deem it probable that the importation of deer and camels from all parts of the world other than the Australian Colonies and New Zealand may cause disease to be introduced in Tasmania: Now, therefore, I, Sir Robert George Crookshank Hamilton, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief as aforesaid, in Council, in further pursuance of the provisions of the said Act, do hereby prohibit the importation into Tasmania of deer from all parts of the world other than the Australian Colonies and New Zealand; but this prohibition shall not extend to deer imported for zoological gardens only; and, in further pursuance of the said Act, I do hereby prohibit the importation into Tasmania of camels from all parts of the world, other than the Australian Colonies and New Zealand, except subject to such restrictions, and with such conditions and limitations, as are contained in the said regulations.

Given under my hand at Hobart, in Tasmania aforesaid, this ninth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

R. G. C. HAMILTON.

By His Excellency’s command.

P. O. FYSH,
Chief Secretary.

SCHEDULE.
REGULATIONS.

1. IN the interpretation of these regulations the following words in inverted commas shall have the following meanings:—
   “Animal” shall mean cattle, camels, and sheep of every age and sex:
   “Destroy” shall mean kill and burn, so that the carcase be consumed, or kill and bury at least 12in. under the surface of the ground, or throw overboard and sink at sea:
   “Inspector” shall mean any Inspector appointed under “The Scab Act, 1875,” and any person authorised in writing by the Honourable the Chief Secretary of Tasmania for the time being to act as an Inspector under these regulations:
   “Land” shall include farms, pasturage, paddocks, enclosures, yards, stables, and buildings:
   “Disease” shall mean any of the diseases known as rinderpest, pleuro-pneumonia, scab, sheep-pox, foot-and-mouth disease, catarrh, anthrax, cancer, scrofula, tuberculosis, and any other disease in any animal which the Governor may hereafter, by notice in the Hobart Gazette, declare to be infectious or contagious:
   “Owner” or “consignee” shall include any person having the custody or right to dispose of any animal, fodder, or fittings, whether for his own benefit or for that of any other person:
   “Fittings” shall mean any sheep-pens, cattle-boxes, any materials used for penning, yarding, or confining animals, halters, brushes, clothes, buckets, and other articles whatever which may have been brought into contact with any animal, and also any wool or hair taken from any animal:
   “Fodder” shall mean any food, bedding, straw, or litter used, or which shall have been brought into contact with any animal.

2. All animals intended to be imported into Tasmania must be shipped at the port of London, in England, and all such animals intended to be shipped from any place beyond Great Britain must be landed and kept within the limits of the United Kingdom for at least fourteen days before being shipped for Tasmania.

3. No animal shall be landed in Tasmania at any place other than the Quarantine Ground, Middle Island, River Tamar.

4. Every owner, consignee, or person desiring to introduce any animal into Tasmania shall, before landing the same, give not less than six weeks’ previous notice, in writing, of such desire to the Chief Inspector of Sheep, at Hobart, and shall, in such notice, give particulars of the description, number, and brands (if any) of the animals intended to be introduced; the place whence, and the time when, the same were shipped; and the name of the vessel by which the same are expected to be conveyed to Tasmania.

5. No animal shall be introduced into Tasmania except the state of health of such animal shall be authenticated by the following declarations, which declarations shall be forwarded by the consignee or owner of the animals therein mentioned to the Chief Inspector of Sheep, at Hobart, within twenty-four hours from their arrival at Launceston, and before any such animals shall be landed, that is to say,—
   (a.) A declaration by the breeder or owner of the animal at the time of shipment that the animal was, at the time of shipment, and had been for the preceding sixty days, free from infection, and had not during such sixty days been in contact with or feeding on the same land with any animal infected with disease, and that such animal was not conveyed to the port of shipment in any truck, cart, or other vehicle; or, if such animal was so conveyed, that such truck, cart, or other vehicle had, for the purpose of and before conveying such animal, been washed and disinfected. Such declaration shall be in the form of Schedule A hereto, or as near thereto as circumstances will per-