Governor's Assent withheld from Bills

(Southland)

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th August, 1865.

THE following Bills passed by the Provincial Council of the Province of Southland, intituled—

"Police Ordinance, 1865,"

"Church of England Cemetery Ordinance, 1865;"

which Bills were reserved for the signification of the Governor's pleasure thereon, having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased to withhold his assent to the same.

J. C. RICHMOND.

(Re-published from the New Zealand Government Gazette, Canterbury, No. 46, August 24, 1865.)

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor SAMUEL BEALEY, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, declaring certain Districts to be infected under "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861."

WHEREAS by "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," it was provided that the Governor in Council might, by warrant under his hand, from time to time delegate to the Superintendent of any Province within the said Colony, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor or Governor in Council by the said Act, subject to such regulations as he might think fit, and might from time to time rescind such delegation: And whereas the said Governor hath, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegated to SAMUEL BEALEY, Esquire, so long as he shall hold the office of Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, the several powers vested in the said Governor by the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Sections as in the said Act provided, and subject of the said Act, subject to being rescinded to the Regulations issued by the Governor in Council on the Fourteenth day of September, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and to any other Regulations to be from time to time duly made:

Now, therefore, I, SAMUEL BEALEY, by virtue of such powers in me vested, do hereby proclaim and declare, that after the date hereof, the several Colonies of Australia, that is to say, the Colony of Victoria, of New South Wales, of Queensland, of South Australia, and Western Australia, as well as the Colony of Tasmania, and the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, and the Islands of Great Britain and Ireland; the several Provinces of the Colony of New Zealand, that is to say, the Province of Otago, of Southland, in the Middle Island, and the Province of Auckland in the North Island, shall be deemed to be infected districts within the meaning of the said Act; and that no cattle shall be imported from the said districts into the Province of Canterbury: And I do further proclaim and declare the following regulations for the destruction of diseased cattle, and for the preventing the removal or transportation of cattle from the said several infected districts 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 either of the said infected districts 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 either of the said districts.

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 Twenty-second day of August,