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53, 54, 55, 56, Block VIII., Makuri; 68, Block IX., Makuri, for the purpose of providing interest and sinking fund on a loan of £500, to be borrowed by this Council under the provisions of “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act 1886 Amendment Act, 1887;” such rate to be an annually-recurring rate for twenty-six years, to be paid in one sum on the 1st day of October in each year.

I hereby certify that the above resolution making special order was duly passed at a special meeting of the Pahiatua County Council on the 27th November, adopted on the 11th December, 1889, and confirmed on the 8th January, 1890, in accordance with section 124 of “The Counties Act, 1886.”

GEORGE MOORE,
Clerk, Pahiatua County.

Special Order made by the Wairoa Road Board, County of Patea.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 14th January, 1890.

THE following special order, made by the Wairoa Road Board, is published in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

W. R. RUSSELL.

SPECIAL ORDER.

THE following special order, adopting a by-law, was made by the Wairoa Road Board, at a meeting held on the 4th January, 1890:—

That the following penalties be levied on all cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, and entires found straying on the roads in the Wairoa Road District: Cattle, 1s. per head; horses, 1s. per head; pigs, 5s. per head; sheep, 1d. per head; entire animals, 10s. per head: and that such foregoing penalties be collected in the usual way as ordinary driving fees.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly made and passed by the Wairoa Road Board, at a meeting held on the 4th January, 1890, all the provisions of the Act relating to the same having been duly complied with.

F. P. FOOKES,
Clerk, Wairoa Road Board.

Waverley, 4th January, 1890.

Holiday on the Anniversary of the Settlement of Wellington, 22nd January.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th January, 1890.

IT is hereby notified that the public offices in the Provincial District of Wellington will be closed on Wednesday, the 22nd January instant, being the anniversary of the settlement of Wellington.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Quarterly Returns under Section 19 of “The Sheep Act, 1878.”—Notice No. 281.

The Minister’s Office, Live-stock Branch,
Wellington, 8th January, 1890.

THE following quarterly returns of runs or farms on which there were infected sheep on the 31st December, 1889, are published in accordance with section 19 of “The Sheep Act, 1878.”

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

MIRANDA SHEEP DISTRICT.

Douglas, R. T., late Porter, W. F., Miranda | Cross-bred | 901 | 5 Nov., 1889.

E. CLIFTON,
Inspector of Sheep.

MARLBOROUGH SHEEP DISTRICT.

Blenheim Subdivision.

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited), Mount Patriarch | Merino | 2,887 | 27 Nov., 1888.

T. G. RICHARDSON,
Inspector of Sheep.

NELSON SHEEP DISTRICT.

Nelson Subdivision.

Kerr, John, Lake Station .. | Merino | 5,400 | 6 Sept., 1889.

T. G. RICHARDSON,
Inspector of Sheep.

Importation of New Zealand Sheep into Victoria prohibited.—Notice No. 282.

The Minister’s Office, Live-stock Branch,
Wellington, 13th January, 1890.

THE following Proclamation, issued by the Governor of Victoria, is published for general information.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

“THE SCAB ACT, 1870.”—IMPORTATION OF SHEEP FROM NEW ZEALAND PROHIBITED.

At the Executive Council Chamber, Melbourne, the twenty-eighth day of October, 1889.

Present:

His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR,
Mr. Gillies, Mr. Deakin, Mr. Wrixon, Mr. Cuthbert, Dr. Pearson, Mr. Bell, Mr. Patterson.

WHEREAS by the seventy-eighth section of “The Scab Act, 1870,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make, alter, or repeal regulations for any purpose whatsoever connected with the execution of the said Act: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, doth by this present order make the following regulation, that is to say: As it is believed that the disease known as scab in sheep still exists in certain parts of the Colony of New Zealand, the importation of sheep into Victoria from the said Colony of New Zealand is by this order prohibited on and after the first of November next ensuing.

And the Honourable Duncan Gillies, for Her Majesty’s Minister of Agriculture for Victoria, shall give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

G. WILSON BROWN,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Approving and Appointing a Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the powers in me for this purpose vested by “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” I, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do hereby approve and appoint the under-mentioned warehouse to be a warehouse for the reception of goods under bond, namely,—

Port of Dunedin.

Cellar and upper flat of a brick building situated in High Street, Allotment No. 1, part Reserve No. 4, and part Block 50L, City of Dunedin, to be known as

HIGH STREET BOND.

(Given under my hand, at Wellington, this tenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
(For the Commissioner of Trade and Customs.)
Commissioner’s Order No. 357.

Notice to Owners of Native Land under “The Crown and Native Lands Rating Act, 1882.”

“TE Ture Reiti i nga Whenua o te Karauna me nga Whenua Maori, 1882,” me te Ture Whakatikatika i taua Ture.

Ki te tangata nana, ki nga tangata ranei na ratou nga whenua Maori i raro i taua Ture kua whakahuatia i roto i nga rooru whakaatu i nga utu kua tukua atu nei ki nga poari takiwa e mau nei nga ingoa i roto i te Kupu Apiti ki tenei, i raro i nga tikanga o nga Ture kua whakahuatia i runga ake nei me era atu Ture katoa o pa ana o whai tikanga ana.

NOTEMEA kua tukua mai he tono ki ahau Te Minita Whakahaere i nga Moni o Niu Tireni, e mau nei toko ingoa i raro iho nei, e nga poari takiwa e tetahi tangata ranei mo te taha ki a ratou, i raro i nga tikanga o “Te Ture Reiti i nga Whenua o te Karauna me nga Whenua Maori, 1882,” kia utua nga reiti e meingatia ana ki utua i runga i nga tikanga o aua rooru mo te tau i oti atu 31 Maehe, 1890:

He panuitanga tenei ki a koutou ki ia tangata ki ia tangata o koutou, kia mohio ai koutou kua takoto nga rooru o nga whenua Maori ki nga tari o aua poari takiwa ko aua rooru he mea tuhi ki te reo Maori, a e whakaatu ana hoki i nga utu o nga whenua Maori kua whakahuatia i runga i aua rooru.

Na he tono tenei ki a koutou kia ia tangata ki ia tangata hoki o koutou nga tangata na ratou aua whenua kia utua e koutou aua reiti a te 29 o nga ra o Hanuere, 1890, i mua mai ranei o taua ra, me utu e koutou aua moni reiti i te tari o te poari o te takiwa i takoto ai aua whenua, tena te whakaaturanga kei te Kupu Apiti.