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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 29

By-laws made by Bay of Islands County re the Licensing of Vehicles approved.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th May, 1888.

THE following by-laws, made by the Bay of Islands County Council, are published in accordance with section 311 of “The Counties Act, 1886.”

T. W. HISLOP.

By-laws for the Regulating and Licensing of Vehicles plying for Hire for the Carriage of Goods within the Bay of Islands County.

Definition.

1. WITHIN the meaning of these by-laws a “vehicle” shall be deemed to be any coach, cart, dray, wagon, hand-cart, or any other conveyance by which goods may be removed upon land from place to place.

“Persons” includes half-castes and Natives.

License and fee.

2. In respect of every vehicle plying for hire for the carriage of goods an annual license-fee shall be paid of £1, which license-fee shall entitle the owner of such vehicle to ply for hire with such vehicle for the carriage of goods from the 1st January to the 31st December in each year.

Penalty.

3. Any person who shall receive or demand payment for the carriage of goods in any vehicle, as before defined, without being duly licensed at the date thereof, shall be liable to a penalty of £2.

License-number and penalty.

4. On a license-fee being paid a number will be allotted to the license, which number must be distinctly marked on the outside of the vehicle licensed. Any person driving a licensed vehicle not bearing the license-number shall be liable to a penalty of £2.

Come into force.

5. These by-laws shall come into operation on approval by the Governor, signified by notice published in the Gazette.

H. WILLIAMS,
Chairman.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and inhabitants of the Bay of Islands, being a body corporate, known as the Bay of Islands County Council, was affixed by me to these by-laws, at a special meeting convened for the purpose of confirming these by-laws, on the 9th day of April, 1888, in the presence of—George F. Dickens, J. A. L. Hall, members of the Bay of Islands County Council.

I hereby approve of the above by-law.
Dated this fourth day of May, 1888.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

Republication of Proclamations declaring China, Java, &c., to be Infected Places under “The Public Health Act, 1876.”

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th May, 1888.

THE following Proclamations are republished for general information; and it is hereby notified that strict quarantine will be enforced in reference to all vessels arriving at any port or place in New Zealand from or having touched at any of the places mentioned in the Proclamations republished hereunder, or having received any person or thing whatsoever from or out of any vessel coming from or having touched at any of such places.

T. W. HISLOP.

China and Hong Kong declared Infected Places under “The Public Health Act, 1876.”

(L.S.)
ARTHUR GORDON,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

In pursuance of section ninety-two of “The Public Health Act, 1876,” I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and notify that the Empire of China and the British Possession of Hong Kong are infected with the disease called small-pox, being an infectious or contagious disease highly dangerous to the health of the people.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Honourable Arthur Hamilton Gordon, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Her Majesty’s High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, 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 Wellington, this eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Sumatra declared an Infected Place under “The Public Health Act, 1876.”

(L.S.)
ARTHUR GORDON,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

In pursuance of section ninety-two of “The Public Health Act, 1876,” I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and notify that the Island of Sumatra is infected with the disease called cholera, being an infectious or contagious disease highly dangerous to the health of the people.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Honourable Arthur Hamilton Gordon, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Her Majesty’s High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, 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 Wellington, this fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Java, Mauritius, and Islands of Eastern Archipelago declared Infected Places under “The Public Health Act, 1876.”*

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

A PROCLAMATION.

In pursuance of section ninety-two of “The Public Health Act, 1876,” I Wiliam Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and notify that the island of Java and the islands of the Eastern Archipelago are infected with the disease called cholera, and that the Mauritius* is infected with the disease called small-pox, being infectious or contagious diseases highly dangerous to the health of the people.

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 Honourable 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 Wellington, this seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

• Mauritius since declared clean. See New Zealand Gazette of 18th September, 1884, p. 1356.

Incendiarism.—Free Pardon and Reward.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 3rd May, 1888.

WHEREAS on the morning of the 22nd April last six stacks of wheat, the property of Dalgety and Company, and a threshing-mill, the property of John Henderson, both situate at Tarras Station, Otago, were destroyed by fire: And whereas there is reason to believe that such fire was the work of an incendiary:

This is to notify that His Excellency the Governor will grant a free pardon to any person implicated in the said fire, not being the principal offender, who will give such information as will lead to the apprehension and conviction of any one or more of the other offenders; and that a reward of £250 will be paid by Messrs. Dalgety and Company above mentioned to any person, not being the principal offender, who shall first give such required information.

THOS. FERGUS.