New Zealand Gazette, may from time to time establish and define such and so many districts as he shall think fit to be districts under the said Act, and to each such district there shall, in the Proclamation defining it, be attached such name as the Governor shall think fit, and by which name it shall thereafter be called, and that every such district may from time to time in like manner be altered or constituted anew in such manner as the Governor may think fit:—

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand aforesaid, in pursuance and exercise of the above recited power and authority, do hereby define all that tract of country, comprising the the Province of Otago, as and to be a district under and for the purposes of “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1871;” and in further pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the said Act, I do hereby attach to the said district, the name of “The Otago District;” and lastly, I do hereby declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the twenty-second day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

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 thirteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

God Save the Queen!

W. Gisborne.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th August, 1872.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned persons to be Cattle Sub-Inspectors under “The Diseased Cattle Act 1871,” for the District of Otago:—

W. H. Feldner — Invercargill.
B. P. Bayly — Oamaru.
W. Gisborne.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th August, 1872.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Edmund Webber, Esq., to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of Waipori, as the same is defined in Proclamation of 12th day of November, 1867, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 61, of 14th November, 1867.

W. Gisborne.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th August, 1872.

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

John Parkin Taylor — Riverton;
Edward Herbert — Lawrence;
Michael John Malaghan — Queenstown.
W. Gisborne.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th August, 1872.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned persons to be Chairmen and Members of the Local Cattle Boards for the Districts set opposite their names respectively, under “The Diseased Cattle Act 1871.”

DISEASED CATTLE ACT 1871.
LOCAL BOARDS

W. Gisborne.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 21st August, 1872.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Horace Bastings, Esq., of Lawrence, Otago, and Thomas Turnbull, jun., Esq., of Oamaru, Otago, to be Justices of the Peace for the Colony.

W. Gisborne.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th August, 1872.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned persons to be Cattle Inspectors under “The Diseased Cattle Act 1871,” for the districts set opposite their names respectively:—

William Logan — Otago.
W. Gisborne.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 21st August, 1872.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by John Turnbull, Esq., of Tuturau, Otago, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Colony.

W. Gisborne.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 13th August, 1872.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint William Beresford, Esq., Mayor of Alexandra; John Ussill Cambridge, Esq., Mayor of Clyde; Michael Faed, Esq., Mayor of Cromwell; Thomas Slater Pratt, Esq., Mayor of West Hawksbury; and John Stubbs Wait, Esq., Mayor of Oamaru, to be Justices of the Peace for the Colony, under “The Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act 1865.”

W. Gisborne.

Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Mills, Dick, and Co., of Stafford Street, Printers to the Provincial Government for the time being.