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landed or driven contrary to such regula-
tions" and by Section 10 of the same Act it is also enacted that "if at any time it shall be made to appear to the Governor that an infectious or conta-gious disease has broken out among cattle in any district of the Colony it shall be lawful for the Governor by Order in Council to declare that such district is infected within the meaning of this Act and from time to time make such regu-lations for destroying diseased cattle therein and for prohibiting the removal or transportation of cattle from one part of the Colony to another and for prevent-ing the further spread of such disease as to him shall seem fit" and it is by the same Act also enacted that the Governor in Council may by warrant under his hand from time to time delegate to the Superintendent of any Province within the 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 may think fit and may from time to time rescind such delegation. And whereas the Governor hath with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand delegated to Isaac Earl Featherston Esq. so long as he shall hold the office of Superintendent of the Province of Wellington the several powers vested in the Governor by the second fourth fifth seventh ninth and tenth Sections of the said Act subject to being rescinded as in the said Act is pro-vided and subject to the regulations issued by the Governor in Council on the 18th day of September 1865 and to any other regulations to be from time to time duly made:

Now therefore I the said Isaac Earl Featherston by virtue of the powers vested in me in this behalf do hereby proclaim and declare—first that after the date hereof the several Colonies of Aust-ralia that is to say the Colony of Vic-toria the Colony of New South Wales the Colony of Queensland the Colony of South Australia and the Colony of Western Australia as well as the Colony of Tasmania and the Colony of Cape of Good Hope and the Islands of Great Britain and Ireland shall be deemed to be infected districts within the meaning and for the purposes of the above-mentioned Act and that no cattle after the date hereof until further notice shall be im-ported into the Province of Wellington from either of the said Provinces.

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Wellington this nineteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
A. FOLLETT HALCOMBE,
Provincial Secretary.

COMMISSION.

INTERNATIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL EX-HIBITIONS TO BE HELD IN BOMBAY, PARIS, AND MELBOURNE RESPEC-TIVELY.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

To Their Honors the Superintendents for the time being of the Pro-vinces in the Colony of New Zealand, Greeting:

WHEREAS it has been proposed that an International Exhibition of Works of Industry and Art should be held in Bombay, which Exhibition it is proposed should be opened on the fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.