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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 9

NEW SOUTH WALES, }
TO WIT.

(L.S.)
CARRINGTON,
Governor.

PROCLAMATION by His Excellency the Right Honourable CHARLES ROBERT, Baron CARRINGTON, a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependencies.

WHEREAS by section ten of “The Imported Stock Act of 1871,” the Governor is empowered, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette, to restrict or absolutely prohibit for any specified time the importation or introduction of any stock, fodder, or fittings from any other colony or country in which there is reason to believe any infectious or contagious disease in stock exists: And whereas by a Proclamation under the hand of His Excellency the Governor, published in the Supplementary Government Gazette of the eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, pursuant to the provisions of “The Imported Stock Act of 1871,” amongst other things, scab in sheep was declared to be an infectious or contagious disease: And whereas there is reason to believe that scab at the present time exists in sheep both in the Colony of New Zealand and also in the Colony of Western Australia:

Now, therefore, I, Charles Robert, Baron Carrington, the Governor aforesaid, with the advice of the Executive Council, do, by this my Proclamation, declare that no sheep, fodder, or fittings used for sheep shall be imported or introduced into this colony for a further period of twelve months from fifth proximo from either of the Colonies of New Zealand or Western Australia.

Given under my hand and seal, at Government House, Sydney, this thirty-first day of December, 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 His Excellency’s command.
FRANCIS ABIGAIL.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

River Board Elections.—South Wairarapa, Mangaone, Mandeville and Rangiora, and Taradale.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 30th January, 1888.

THE following notices of elections of River Boards are published for general information.
G. S. COOPER,
Under-Secretary.

South Wairarapa River Board :
John Orbell Bidwill.
James Donald.
Alfred Matthews.
Peter Hume.
William O. Williams.

Mangaone River Board :
James Bell.
David Buick.
Andreas C. Clausen.
William L. Luxford.
William McDowall.
Samuel J. Relf.

Mandeville and Rangiora River Board :
Malcolm Duncan.
William Keleher.
Edward Mulcock.
William Pearson.
William Smith.

Taradale River Board :
John Drummond.
Henderson Gordon.
Isaac Jeffares.
Thomas Jeffares.
Richard Neagle.

Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 30th January, 1888.

THE following notices of election of members of Road Boards have been received at this office, and are published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”
G. S. COOPER,
Under-Secretary.

Parua Road District, County of Whangarei :
Lewis Thomas Lee.

Mangatawhiri Road District, County of Manukau :
Frederick B. Kingsford.

Lake Road District, County of Waitemata :
Richard Kelly.

Manga-atua Road District, County of Waipawa :
Harry McLellan Simmonds.

Eketahuna Road District, County of Wairarapa North :
John Mortimer Davie.

Pahiatua Road District, County of Wairarapa North :
George Whitcombe.

Featherston Road District, County of Wairarapa South :
Peter Hume.

Manganui Road District, County of Taranaki :
Thomas Meredith Smith.
Edwin Scrivener.
John Marchant.

Otaki Road District, County of Horowhenua :
Robert Kirk.

Officiating Ministers for 1888.—Notice No. 2.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 30th January, 1888.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend William Hogg.

Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.
The Reverend Hugh Kelly.

Congregational Independents.
The Reverend John Ebenezer Kelly.

Baptists.
The Reverend Griffith Owen Griffiths.
The Reverend Thomas Bray.

Church of Christ.
The Reverend William Samuel Houchins.

Salvation Army.
Josiah Parsons Taylor (commonly called “Colonel” Taylor).

[The name of the Reverend Hugh Kelly, above stated, is in substitution for the name “Hugh Kelly Ravensbourne,” published in Notice No. 1, Gazette of the 27th instant.]

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Bonus for Canned and Cured Fish for Export.

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.

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 ¼d. and ⅛d. a pound under similar conditions, as far as the same are applicable to those contained in the two last subsections.