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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: Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in pursuance and exercise of the said power and authority, do by this Warrant under my hand dele- gate to Isaac Earl Featherston, Esquire, so long as he shall hold the Office of Su- perintendent of the Province of Wellington in the said Colony, the several powers vested in me by the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth sections of the said Act, subject to be rescinded as in the said Act provided, and subject to the Re- gulations issued on the fourteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and to any other Regula- tions to be from time to time duly made.

Given under my hand at the Go- vernment House, at Auckland, this fourteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

G. Grey.

By His Excellency’s command,
Thos. B. Gillies.

The Regulations mentioned in the above delegation are precisely the same as those published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 48, of the 15th September, 1863, and re- published in the Government Gazette of the Province of Wellington, No. 46, of the 16th October, 1863.

DISEASED CATTLE REGULATIONS.

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor Isaac Earl Feath- erston, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by Section No. 9 of the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” it is enacted that “If at any time it shall be made to appear to the Governor that any infectious or contagious disease has broken out among Cattle in any district out 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 to make such regula- tions as to him shall seem fit, for pro- hibiting the importation of Cattle into the colony from such district, and the landing or driving of such Cattle, and for destroying Cattle imported, landed or driven contrary to such regulations;” 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 any infectious or contagious 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 to make such regulations for destroying diseased Cattle therein, and for prohibiting the removal or transporta- tion 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 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, sub- ject to such regulations as he may think fit, and may from time to time rescind such delegation: And whereas the Go- vernor 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 Super- intendent 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 provided, and subject to the regulations issued by the Governor in Council on the 14th day of September, 1864, 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 Australia, that is to say, the colony of Victoria, 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 Is- lands 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 shall be imported into the Province of Wellington from such districts: Provided, however, that the Superintendent of the Province may allow any Cattle to be landed from vessels from the Islands of Great Britain and Ireland, subject to such