[Re-printed from the New Zealand Gazette.]

Removal of the Prohibition to import Cattle into Wellington from Canterbury, Marlborough, Nelson, Hawke’s Bay, and Taranaki.

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor Isaac EARL FEATHERSTON, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Islands of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by section number X of the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," it was enacted that if at any time it should be made to appear to the Governor that any infectious or contagious disease has broken out amongst cattle in any district of the Colony, it should be lawful for the Governor by order in Council to declare that such district was infected within the meaning of the Act, and, from time to time, to make such regulations for destroying diseased cattle therein, and for prohibiting the removal or transportation of cattle from one part of the Colony to another, and for preventing the further spread of such disease as to him shall seem fit: And it was by the same Act also enacted that the Governor in Council might 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 might think fit; and might 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, Esquire, 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in the Governor by the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth sections of the said Act, subject to being rescinded, as in the said Act was provided, and subject to the regulations issued by the Governor in Council, on the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and to any other regulations to be from time to time duly made: And Whereas by Proclamation, issued on or about the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, certain places were declared infected districts within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Act:

Now therefore, I, the said Isaac Earl Featherston, by virtue of the powers vested in me in this behalf, do hereby rescind the said Proclamation, in so far as it relates to the Provinces of Canterbury, Marlborough, Nelson, Hawke’s Bay, and Taranaki.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.

A PROCLAMATION

For the Naturalization of certain Persons.

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.

WHEREAS by the "Naturalization Act, 1863," it is enacted that every person who shall be declared to come within the operation of that Act by any Proclamation to be issued in that behalf by His Excellency the Governor, shall, as from the time in such Proclamation specified, be deemed and taken, until the termination of the next Session of the General Assembly, to be, and to have been from such specified time, a natural-born subject of Her Majesty within the Colony of New Zealand, as fully to all intents and purposes as if his name had been inserted in the Schedule to that Act annexed: Provided always that every such Proclamation shall contain the description, occupation, or calling of every person therein named and his place of residence at the date of such Proclamation:

Now therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the person hereinafter mentioned shall come within the operation of the said Act from the date hereinafter specified, viz. —

Henry Endes, from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, native of Bavaria, Publican: residence, New Plymouth, in the Province of Taranaki.

Given under my hand, at the Government House at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this fifth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s Command,
WILLIAM FOX.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Appointment of Crown Solicitor.

Attorney-General’s Office,
Auckland, 25th August, 1864.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Arthur Standish, Esq., of New Plymouth, in the Province of Taranaki, to be Crown Solicitor within the said Province for the conduct of Prosecution under the Regulations of the 23rd day of February, 1864.

FRED. WHITAKER.