NOTICE.

Appointment of Board under the “Branding of Cattle Ordinance, 1864.”

Superintendent’s Office,
New Plymouth, 18th February, 1865.

I HEREBY appoint

WILLIAM DEVENISH,
WILLIAM KING HULKE, and
HENRY ROBERT RICHMOND, J.P.,

to be a Board to examine into and ascertain the correctness of the Returns to be made under the authority of the “Branding of Cattle Ordinance, 1864,” and to value unbranded Cattle.

CHARLES BROWN,
Superintendent.

The following notice was received from the Colonial Secretary’s Office, and is reprinted for general information :—

NOTICE.

Marine Board Office,
Wellington, 27th January, 1865.

THE Light on Mana Island, Cook Strait, will be exhibited on and after the 1st February, 1865. It is a fixed white light of the second order Dioptric, erected at the North West extremity of the Island, and is elevated about 450 feet above the sea level. The light will be seen in clear weather at a distance from 25 to 30 miles.

CHARLES SHARP,
President Marine Board.

[Reprinted from the New Zealand Gazette.]

MILITIA AND VOLUNTEERS.

Colonial Defence Office,
Auckland, 6th February, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following promotions and appointments, viz. :—

In the Taranaki Militia.

Lieutenant William McKechney to be Captain, unattached. Date of commission, 6th February, 1865.

In the Taranaki Rifle Volunteers.

Lieutenant William Black to be Captain. Date of commission, 6th February, 1865.

Ensign Matthew Jenkin Jones to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 6th February, 1865.

John Richard Lawson to be Ensign. Date of commission, 6th February, 1865.

IN the Estate of SIMON AARONSON, of New Plymouth, Watchmaker, Jeweller, and General Dealer.—Notice is hereby given that the said SIMON AARONSON hath by deed of assignment, dated the 8th day of February instant, assigned all his estate and interest whatsoever unto FRANCIS ULLATHORN GLEDHILL, of New Plymouth, merchant, NATHANIEL EDWARDS, trading as Nathaniel Edwards and Company, of Nelson, in the Province of Nelson and New Plymouth aforesaid, merchant, and WILLIAM WATSON, also of New Plymouth, builder, in trust for the benefit of themselves and the other creditors of the said SIMON AARONSON, and that the said deed lies at the office of the undersigned for signature.

All persons having any claims against the above estate are hereby requested to sign the said deed on or before the 15th day of May next, otherwise they will be excluded from all benefit under the said deed.

Dated at New Plymouth the 8th day of February, 1865.

W. HALSE,
Solicitor.

[Reprinted from Wellington Provincial Gazette.]

IMPORTATION OF CATTLE FROM TARANAKI PROHIBITED.

PROCLAMATION

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

I, ISAAC EARL FEATHERSTON, by virtue of the powers vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that after the date hereof the Province of New Plymouth shall be deemed to be an Infected District within the meaning and for the purposes of the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” and that no Cattle after the date hereof until further notice shall be imported by vessel or otherwise into the Province of Wellington from such district.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the (L.S.) Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of January, 1865.

I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

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

DELEGATION UNDER “DISEASED CATTLE ACT, 1864.”

WHEREAS by the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” it was provided that the Governor in Council might by Warrant