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NEW ZEALAND

OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VOL. X. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1866. No. 452

[WITH SUPPLEMENT.]

REPLY TO HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT’S OPENING ADDRESS.

WE coincide with your Honor in the satisfaction which you express on the possession for the first time of a suitable place for our deliberations.

We are happy to learn that the Finances of the Province, so far as they are within our control, are in a satisfactory condition, and we trust that a judicious economy may continue to be exercised in the various departments of the Public Service.

We recognise in the unexpected amount of Territorial Revenue, evidence of the material prosperity of the Province.

We are glad to learn that so many important Public Works are in progress, and that there is a prospect of obtaining the co-operation of the Government of Canterbury in the construction of a Bridge over the Waitaki. We look forward to the achievement of that work as calculated to unite us in an alliance with that Province, which we are sure will be attended with mutual benefits.

We trust that the provisions of the Waste Lands and Gold Fields Acts may tend to the settlement of a permanent population throughout the Province, and to the development of its numerous and valuable resources.

We join with your Honor in the opinion of the necessity which exists for giving due attention to the subject of Immigration.

We hope that the improved condition of the Money Market in London will have the effect of inducing a Company to undertake the important Railway to the South, in terms of the “Southern Trunk Railway Guaranteed Interest Ordinance.”

We will direct our attention to such Resolutions regarding the reduction of the Export Duty on Gold, as may be laid before us.

We are prepared to give due attention to the various Bills submitted to us; and when the Estimates are laid before us, the supplementing the rates which the various Country Municipalities propose to levy, shall receive our full consideration.

We regret that, in the opinion of your Honor’s Government, the legislation of the General Assembly, during the late Session, had a tendency to interfere with the performance of the responsible duties devolving upon us; and on the introduction of Resolutions

on the subject, we shall give them that consideration which their importance demands.

We regret, with your Honor, that the lamented death of two of the Members of the Civil Service Commission has prevented their Report from being finished.

Passed the Provincial Council, November 21, 1866.

J. RICHARDSON,
Speaker.

CHAS. SMITH,
Clerk of Council.

PROCLAMATION

Declaring a portion of the Province of Otago an Infected District under the provisions of the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,”

By His Honor THOMAS DICK, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS, by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to and vested in me in that behalf, I did, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Province of Otago, dated the seventeenth day of October last, proclaim and declare that, from and after the day of the date thereof, the Territory therein mentioned and described should be deemed an Infected District, within the meaning and for the purposes of the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861.” And whereas it is expedient still further to extend the limits of the said Infected District, so as to include therein the whole of the Territory hereinafter described;—Now therefore I, Thomas Dick, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to and vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after the nineteenth day of December next, the limits and boundaries hereinafter described shall be the limits and boundaries of the said Infected District, and that the said Infected District shall include the Territory hereinafter mentioned, which Territory shall be deemed an Infected District within the meaning and for the purposes of the said “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” (that is to say) All that area within the Province of Otago, bounded towards the north by the Province of Canterbury from Awarua Bay to the eastern shore of the Wanaka Lake; thence by the said eastern shore of the Wanaka Lake and the Clutha River to the Dunstan Mountains;