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the Governor by Order in Council to declare that, if at any time it shall be made to appear to the Governor that any infectious or contagious disease has broken out in any district out of the Colony, such district is infected within the meaning of the said Acts, and from time to time to make such Regulations as to him shall seem fit for prohibiting the importation of cattle into the Colony from such district, and the landing and driving of such cattle, and for destroying cattle imported landed or driven contrary to such Regulations:

And whereas the State of Panama is a district in which it has been made appear to the Governor that an infectious and contagious disease has broken out:

Now therefore His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the above recited power and authority, do hereby declare that Panama is an infected district within the meaning of the Acts, and doth make the following Regulations:

Regulations.

No cattle shall be imported into or landed or driven in New Zealand, which shall have come from Panama.

Any person guilty of any breach of this Regulation shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred pounds for every head of cattle so imported landed or driven.

All such cattle so imported landed or driven, shall be destroyed by the nearest Inspector of Diseased Cattle.

This order shall take effect on the 25th instant, and shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette, and the Provincial Government Gazettes of the Provinces within the Colony.

Forster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. Grey, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the twenty-fourth day of August, 1866.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

Whereas by an Act of the General Assembly, intituled “The Customs Regulation Act, 1858,” it is amongst other things enacted, that if any goods enumerated or described in the Table of Prohibitions contained in the 32nd section of the said Act, shall be imported or brought into New Zealand, then, and in every such case, such goods shall be forfeited and shall be destroyed or disposed of as the Commissioner of Customs may direct.

And whereas in the said Table of Prohibition of Goods absolutely prohibited to be imported are included infected cattle, sheep, or other animals, and hides, skins, horns, hoofs, or any other part of cattle or other animals, which the Governor in Council may prohibit in order to prevent any infectious or contagious distemper or disease:

Now therefore His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, doth in pursuance of the hereinbefore recited provisions of the said Act, by this present Order, absolutely prohibit the importation from the State of Panama into New Zealand of any cattle, sheep, goats, horses, pigs, or poultry, and of hides, skins, horns, hoofs, and all other parts of such animals, in order to prevent the infectious or contagious distemper or disease, now prevalent in Panama among animals of the several kinds aforesaid, from spreading in New Zealand.

Forster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st August 1866.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Arthur David Harvey, Esq.,
to be Deputy-Registrar of Marriages, &c., for the District of Blackstone, in the Province of Otago.

E. W. Stafford.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st August 1866.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

John Smith Hickson, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of Mount Benger, in the Province of Otago.

E. W. Stafford.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st August, 1866.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

William Lawrence Simpson, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of Blackstone, in the Province of Otago.

E. W. Stafford.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th August, 1866.

It is hereby notified, that in conformity with clause 3 of “The Otago Municipal Corporation Empowering Act, 1865,” the names of the following persons have been sent in to this office by the several Town Clerks, as having been elected Mayors for the places set opposite their names:—

William Mason, ... Dunedin.
Daniel Rolfe, ... Port Chalmers.
Jean Desire Ferand ... Clyde.
John Campbell Gilchrist ... Oamaru.
MacLeod Clement Orbell ... West Hawksbury.
James Elder Brown ... Milton.
William Jackson Barry ... Cromwell.

E. W. Stafford.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st August 1866.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the services of the undermentioned Corps, viz.:—

Clyde Company Otago Rifle Volunteers. Date of acceptance, 27th July, 1866.

T. M. Haultain.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 15th August, 1866.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the Post Offices at the following places, viz.:—

West Taieri, Hamilton’s, in the Province of Otago,
to be Money Order Offices for the issue and payment of Money Orders.

James Paterson,
Postmaster-General.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 15th August, 1866.

It is hereby notified for general information that the Post Office at Oamaru, in the Province of Otago, has been constituted an office of the second class, for the exchange of mails and other purposes, within the meaning of the fourth clause of the Postal Regulations of 1st January, 1866.

James Paterson,
Postmaster-General.

Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Daniel Campbell, of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Printer to the said Provincial Government for the time being.