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TENDERS will be received, at the Office of His Honor the Superintendent until 4 p.m. of FRIDAY, 12th September, for the Erection of a Two-stalled Stable for Police Horses at Blueskin.

Plans and Specifications may be seen, and forms of Tenders obtained, at the office of the Provincial Engineer.

By order, Thomas Dick, Provincial Secretary.
9th September 1862.

I HEREBY CERTIFY that Robert Urquhart, of Port Chalmers, in the Province of Otago, has this day submitted for my examination his Diploma from the Royal College of Surgeons in London, admitting him a Member of the College, and authorising him to practise as a Surgeon, in accordance with the provisions of an Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council of New Munster, Session I., No. 2, of 1849, intituled, "An Ordinance to define the qualifications, and to provide for the remuneration in certain cases, of Medical Practitioners."

Dated at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Port Chalmers, this 8th day of September, 1862.

Thomas A. Mansford,
Resident Magistrate.

ORDER IN COUNCIL

Prohibiting Importation of Diseased Cattle into Stewart’s Island, Ruapuke, &c.

At the Government House at Wellington the 16th day of July, 1862.

PRESENT.

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861" it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor by Order in Council to make such Regulations as to him shall seem fit for prohibiting the importation of Cattle into the Colony from Districts infected with disease within the meaning of the said Act.

Now therefore His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, Doth hereby order that from and after the date of this Order the several Colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, and the Cape of Good Hope, so far as relates to the importation of Diseased Cattle into the Southern or Stewart’s Island and the Island of Ruapuke and other Islands in, near to, and to the South of Foveaux Straits, be deemed to be infected Districts within the meaning of the said Act, and the Governor with such advice and consent as aforesaid doth hereby make the following Regulations, that is to say—

No Cattle after the date hereof until further notice shall be imported from any such Districts into the said Stewart’s Island, Ruapuke and the other Islands in, near to, and to the South of Foveaux Straits under a Penalty for each offence not exceeding five hundred Pounds (£500).

E. L. Layard,
For the Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 12th July, 1862.

The following Acts, passed by the Provincial Council of Otago, intituled—

"The Education Ordinance, 1862."
"The Licensing Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1862."
"The Otago Loan Ordinance, 1861-62."
"The Vagrant Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1862."
"The Trigonometrical Station Ordinance, 1861-62."
"The prevention of cruelty to Animals Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1862."
"The Roads Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1862."
"The Scab Prevention Ordinance, 1862,"

having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased to leave the same to their operation.

William Fox.

NOTICE.

Attorney-General’s Office,
Wellington, 9th July, 1862.

All parties who have corresponded with this Department between the 1st January, and the 30th June, 1862, are requested to forward Duplicates of these communications to replace those lost in the steamer "White Swan."

Henry Sewell,
Attorney-General.

Office of Secretary for Crown Lands,
Wellington, 12th July, 1862.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be Lost Land Orders Commissioners, under "The Lost Land Orders Act, 1861."

William Halse, Esq., Taranaki
David Lewis, Esq., Wellington
Alfred Domett, and John Poynton, Esqrs., Nelson and Marlborough
William Guise Brittan, Esq., Canterbury
William Henry Cutten, Esq., Otago and Southland.
Crosbie Ward.