[From the Gazette of the Province of Canterbury dated 1st February, 1864.]

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by Proclamation dated October 30th, 1862, the Province of Otago was declared to be an infected district within the meaning of the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," and it was declared that no cattle should be imported from the said Province either by land or sea: Now, therefore, I, Samuel Bealey, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, by virtue of the powers vested in me in that behalf do hereby Proclaim and Declare the following Regulations for the destruction of diseased cattle and for preventing the introduction of cattle out of the said infected district into the Province of Canterbury.

I. If any person shall drive or remove, or cause to be driven or removed, or assist in driving or removing any cattle from the said infected district into the Province of Canterbury, such person shall be liable to a penalty of Fifty Pounds for every head of cattle so driven into the Province of Canterbury.

II. It shall be lawful for any Inspector of Cattle or Police Constable to destroy or cause to be destroyed any cattle which shall pass into this Province from the district of the Province of Otago.

III. If any person shall wilfully impede or obstruct any Inspector or any Police Constable acting under the authority of these Regulations, every person so offending shall and may be seized and detained by such person so acting as aforesaid, or any person or persons he may call to his assistance, until such offender or offenders can be taken before two Justices of the Peace, and shall be liable to a penalty of Fifty Pounds.

Given under my hand, at Christchurch, this thirtieth day of January, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-Four.

S. Bealey,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s Command,
Wm. Rolleston,
Provincial Secretary.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 3, January 26, 1864.]

R. L. Jeffreys, Esq., appointed Deputy Registrar of Deeds at Dunedin.

Attorney-General’s Office,
Auckland, 20th Jan., 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Richard Leslie Jeffreys, Esq.,
of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, to be Deputy Registrar of Deeds at Dunedin. The appointment bears date the 18th of December, 1863.

Fred. Whitaker.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 3, January 26, 1864.]

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 22nd Jan., 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Alfred Rowland Chetham Strode, and
John Jones, Esqs.,
of Otago, to be Trustees under the "Otago Public Buildings Loan Ordinance, 1862," the Otago Loan Ordinance, 1861-62," and the "Otago Loan Ordinance, 1862."

W. Fox.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 3, January 26, 1864.]

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 25th Jan., 1864.

IT is hereby notified that the Acts passed by the General Assembly during the Session of 1863, may be obtained either at this Office, or at the various Sub-Treasuries, at the following prices, viz.:

Volume ... 15s.
Separate Acts, per sheet, 6d.

W. Gisborne,
Under Secretary.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 3, January 26, 1864.]

"MARRIAGE ACT, 1854."

Officiating Ministers for 1864.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Auckland, 19th January, 1864.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and entitled "The Marriage Act, 1854," the following List of Officiating Ministers, within the meaning of the said Act, is published for general information:—

United Church of England and Ireland.

The Right Reverend Charles John Abraham, Bishop,
The Reverend Ihaia Te Ahu,
" Riwai Te Ahu,
" Benjamin Yate Ashwell,
" William Aylmer,
" John Charles Bagshaw,
" Charles Baker,
" William Bird,
" Samuel Blackburn,
" Thomas Adolphus Bowden,
" Croasdaile Bowen,
" Reginald R. Bradley,
" Edward Nugent Bree,
The Venerable Archdeacon Alfred N. Brown,
The Reverend Henry H. Brown,
" Lawrence Lawson Brown,
" Robert Burrows,
" Thomas Chapman,
" George J. Cholmondeley,
" Edward B. Clarke,
" Robert Henry Codrington,
" George Cotterill,
" Alexander Dasent,
" Benjamin Thornton Dudley,
" Benjamin Woolley Dudley,
" John Duffus,
" Christopher Blencowe Dunn,
" Edward G. Edwards,
" William C. Fearon,
" Henry Fendall,
" George Foster,