NOTICE.

A MEETING will be held at the Land Office, Invercargill, at 12 o'clock, on Saturday, the 12th day of February, for the election of Wardens of New River Hundred, for the current year.

W. H. PEARSON,
Chief Commissioner.

Crown Lands Office,
14th January, 1870.

NOTICE TO MAKE A FENCE.

To James Grieve, owner of Sections 38 and 39, Block XVI., Invercargill Hundred.

TAKE notice that I desire the boundary or separating fence between your said Sections of land and my Section, No. 41 of said Hundred, be made immediately, and that such fence shall be a substantial post and three-rail fence of the usual durable wood.

Dated this 19th day of January, 1870.

WILLIAM RUSSELL,
Solicitor for William Young, owner of said Section No. 41.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

DELEGATION TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SOUTHLAND, UNDER THE “WASTE LANDS ACT, 1858.”

WHEREAS, by the “Waste Lands Act, 1858,” the Governor is empowered from time to time to delegate to the Superintendent of any Province, or to such other person as he may think fit, all or any of the powers vested in him by sections three, four, and five, and also by section fourteen of the said Act, subject or not to any limitations or restriction as the Governor may think fit.

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the said power and authority, do hereby delegate unto William Wood, Esq., the Superintendent of the Province of Southland, all such powers as are vested in me by section fourteen of the said Act to be exercised within the limits of the said Province without any limitation or restriction.

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; and issued under the seal of the said Colony at Auckland this seventh day of January, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

Approved in Council.

Henry D. Pitt, Captain, R.A.,
Private Secretary,
(for Clerk of the Executive Council).

QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.

THE following additional Regulations, made by Order in Council, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, of date 20th September, 1869, folio 490, are re-published for general information, in accordance with the Eleventh Section of the “Marine Act, 1867.”

WILLIAM WOOD,
Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office,
Southland, 27th Jan., 1870.

REGULATIONS.

1. In the event of there being any sickness on board of any vessel arriving from any Port in the Australian Colonies or New Zealand, or in the event of there having been any sickness on board any vessel so arriving during her voyage from any such Australian or New Zealand Port, the Master of such vessel shall hoist the Health Officer’s flag mentioned in the Quarantine Regulations already in force, and otherwise act in the same manner as if such vessel were arriving from a Port not in the Australian Colonies.

2. No vessel which is bound by the foregoing regulation, or by the Quarantine Regulations already in force, to hoist the Health Officer’s flag, shall be brought up in the usual anchorage, even in the event of there being delay in communicating with her, from any cause whatsoever; and every vessel so bound to hoist the Health Officer’s flag as aforesaid, which may enter any New Zealand Port by night, shall be brought up clear of the shipping, and the Master of such vessel shall hoist a bright light at the main, in addition to the usual anchor light, as if such vessel were actually in quarantine, until she has been communicated with as provided by the Quarantine Regulations; and the Master shall be in all cases responsible for any breach of this regulation by or on board such vessel, whether done or caused by his directions or neglect or not.

3. Until such vessel has been communicated with by the Health Officer, or officer acting for him, the Master shall not allow any person to go on board; but in the event of any person going on board, the Master shall keep him or her on board until the Health Officer has declared the vessel clean.

4. No Master or Surgeon of any vessel shall on any pretext give false or evasive answers to any questions put to him relative to the health of the ship by the Health Officer, or by the Harbor Master, Pilot, or other officer of the Port who shall first communicate with such vessel; nor shall any Master or Surgeon fill up the report prescribed by the Quarantine Regulations already in force untruly or incorrectly, or in such a manner as to be calculated to lead the Health Officer or other officer of the Port acting as Health Officer to under-estimate the seriousness of any sickness which may be, or may have been, on board such vessel.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

NOTE.—Any person offending against any of the above Regulations is subject, by “The Marine Act, 1867,” to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, from time to time to delegate to the Superintendent of any Province, or such other person as the Governor may deem fit, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council by the Act now in recital, except