TREASURER'S ACCOUNT with the Tomahawk Road Board, 1871-72.

Income.

Expenditure.

We have examined the above accounts, and find them to be correct.

David Reid,
Tros. Robertson, junr., } Auditors.
J. H. Patrick, Treasurer.

Tomahawk, August 12, 1872.

BALANCE SHEET, Kaihiku Road Board.

Receipts.

Expenditure.

Assets.

Liabilities.

Audited and found correct.

James Main, }
Walter Niccol, } Auditors.

August 12, 1872.

(From New Zealand Gazette, July 15, No. 34.)

(L.S.) G. F. Bowen, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1871,” it is amongst other things enacted that the said Act shall come into operation on such day as shall be fixed by the Governor, whereof Proclamation shall be made and published in the New Zealand Gazette:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G., the Governor as aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and declare that on and from the fourteenth day of August next, “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1871,” shall come into operation within the Colony of New Zealand.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House at Wellington; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this twelfth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

W. Gisborne.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

(From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 36, July 20, 1872.)

(L.S.) G. F. Bowen, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

NOW THEREFORE I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in me vested in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the limit of jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrate’s Court of the District of Clutha, so constituted as aforesaid, which is specified in the Schedule hereto, shall, from and after the first day of September next, be extended to one hundred pounds; and that the limit of jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrates’ Courts of the District of Otago Gold Fields and the District of Kaipara, so constituted as aforesaid, which are specified in the Schedule hereto, shall, from and after the said first day of September next, be extended to fifty pounds.\n

SCHEDULE.

Clutha District.
Otago Gold Fields District.
Kaipara District.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 18th July, 1872.

THE following Extract from the London Gazette of 29th September, 1871, is published for general information.

W. Gisborne.

“The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Henry Houghton, as Consul for the Province of Otago, to reside at Dunedin, New Zealand, for His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia.”

(From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 39, August 3, 1872.)

(L.S.) G. F. Bowen, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Oyster Fisheries Act, 1866,” it is amongst other things enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, declare any natural oyster bed to be closed against dredging for any period to be stated in such proclamation:

And whereas it is expedient that the natural oyster...