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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 12

SOUTH AUSTRALIA,) PROCLAMATION by His Excellency the
TO WIT. Honourable JAMES PENN BOUCAUT,
Her Majesty’s Senior Judge of the
Supreme Court of the Colony of South
Australia, the Administrator of the
(L.S.) JAMES P. BOUCAUT, Government of the said Colony of
Administrator. South Australia, and the Dependencies
thereof, &c.

WHEREAS the disease called scab exists in sheep in the
Colony of Western Australia, and whereas it is desirable to
prevent the introduction of such disease into the Province
of South Australia: Now, therefore, I, the Administrator
of the Government, with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council, by virtue of the provisions of “The
Stock Diseases Act, 1888,” do hereby proclaim, order, and
direct that the importation or introduction of sheep from
the said Colony of Western Australia into the said Province
of South Australia shall be and is hereby prohibited for a
period of two years from the publication hereof; and I
further proclaim, order, and direct that no sheepskins shall
be imported or introduced from the Colonies of Western
Australia or New Zealand into the said Province of South
Australia for a period of two years from the publication
hereof, unless such sheepskins shall be securely packed in
bales.

Given under my hand and the public seal of the said
colony, at Adelaide, this twenty-ninth day of
January, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and ninety, and in the fifty-third
year of Her Majesty’s reign.

By command.
JOHN A. COCKBURN,
Chief Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Notice respecting Native and Imported Game, &c.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 12th March, 1890.

THE attention of sportsmen, game-dealers, and others is
called to the provisions of “The Animals Protection
Act Amendment Act, 1889,” which is now in force. A digest
of the chief of such provisions is subjoined, viz.:

Section 4. No person shall kill, destroy, or shoot at any
game or native game with anything but a shoulder-gun, and
no such gun must exceed size No. 10 at muzzle, or be fitted
with barrels exceeding 36in. in length. No gun shall
exceed 10lb. in weight.

Any person offending against this provision is liable to a
penalty not exceeding £10.

Section 5. No person shall sell any native game, or take
or kill any native game for the purpose of sale, without pre-
viously taking out the required license.

Penalty not exceeding £20.

Section 6. No sale of native game shall take place prior to
the 1st May and subsequently to the 1st August in any
year.

If any person hold a license to sell game—i.e., imported
game—he is not liable to pay a second fee on taking out a
license to sell native game. But both licenses must be taken
out if it is intended to sell both kinds of game.

Section 7. Every holder of a license to sell game or native
game shall keep a book in which he is to enter the name of
every person from whom any game or native game is pur-
chased, the number and description of all such game or
native game purchased from each person, and the district
in which such game was killed or taken. The book is to be
open for inspection at all reasonable hours by any police
officer or holder of a game license.

Penalty not exceeding £10.

Sections 10 and 11. Every Acclimatisation Society is to
forward to the Colonial Treasurer before the 21st April in
each year a detailed statement of accounts as up to the 31st
March preceding, together with a balance-sheet duly audited;
and the statement is also to be published in a newspaper
circulating in the district. If default be made by any
society for three calendar months, such society is not to
receive any fees, fines, or penalties under the Animals Pro-
tection Act while such default continues.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 5th March, 1890.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders
is published for general information.

THOS. FERGUS,
Minister for Public Works.

GLENOMARU CONTRACT, CATLIN’S RIVER RAILWAY.

Accepted.
£ s. d.
J. Innes, Hindon.. .. .. .. 11,372 9 2

Declined.
D. Kirkwood, Dunedin .. .. .. 12,337 12 3
R. Meikle, Dunedin .. .. .. 12,977 0 0
J. Whittaker and Co., Dunedin .. .. 13,086 0 0
A. Bain and Co., Dunedin .. .. 13,658 0 0
McLeod and Shaw, Invercargill .. .. 13,901 2 6
Green and Webster, Christchurch .. .. 14,816 5 1
J. Walker, Dunedin .. .. .. 16,330 0 0

UTAWAI CONTRACT, BLENHEIM-AWATERE RAILWAY.

Accepted.
£ s. d.
McGrath and Burke, Wellington .. .. 17,359 10 0

Declined.
J. Saunders and Co., Wellington .. .. 17,797 11 8
Jones and Peters, Palmerston North .. 17,904 5 0
J. McLean and Sons, Auckland .. .. 18,750 0 0
Mackle Brothers, Kaikoura .. .. 20,708 19 6
A. Maguire, Wellington .. .. .. 21,636 12 11
Swanston and Webster, Christchurch .. 23,229 13 3
F. G. Mace, Westport .. .. .. 24,015 0 0
Price and Co., Wellington .. .. 27,047 5 4

Notice to Mariners, No. 7 of 1890.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 11th March, 1890.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the
Portmaster, Brisbane, Queensland, is published for
general information.

W. R. RUSSELL,
(For the Minister having charge of the
Marine Department.)

MORETON BAY.—NEW FLOATING BEACON AT ENTRANCE TO
NORTH OF HOWE CHANNEL.

NOTICE is hereby given that a new floating beacon, to replace
that destroyed in the gale of July last, will, weather per-
mitting, be laid on the 20th February, to the northward
of the East Banks, to mark the entrance to the port by
the North or Howe Channel.

G. P. HEATH, Commander, R.N.,
Portmaster.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 18th February, 1890.

Notice to Mariners, No. 8 of 1890.

MANUKAU HARBOUR BEACONS.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 11th March, 1890.

NOTICE is hereby given that a new upper beacon is to
be constructed on Manukau South Head, and, in order
that, whilst in course of construction, it may not be taken
for a leading beacon, a square flag will be kept flying from
the present upper leading beacon.

NOTE.—The new beacon while being constructed will be
about 150ft. south of the present upper leading beacon.

W. R. RUSSELL,
(For the Minister having charge of the
Marine Department.)

Land taken for a Further Portion of the Waitaki-Bluff
Railway: Portion of Moeraki-Dunedin Section.

A NOTIFICATION.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto
is required to be taken for a further portion of the
Waitaki-Bluff Railway, namely, portion of Moeraki-Dunedin
Section, which is a railway vested in the New Zealand Rail-
way Commissioners, under the provisions of “The Govern-
ment Railways Act, 1887:”

And whereas all conditions precedent required by law to
be observed and performed prior to the taking of such land
in the manner hereby provided have been observed and
performed:

Now, therefore, we, the New Zealand Railway Commis-
sioners, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred
on us by “The Government Railways Act, 1887,” and of
every other power and authority in anywise enabling us in
that behalf, do hereby notify and declare that the land
mentioned in the Schedule hereto is taken for the further
portion of the said line of railway hereinbefore specified.