NOTICE

Appointing a Public Pound on Suburban Allotment No. 18, Waitara East, and fixing scale of Pound Fees and of Charges for Food.

Superintendent’s Office,
November 14, 1868.

In exercise of the authority vested in the Superintendent by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of Taranaki, intituled “An Ordinance to authorize and regulate the Impounding of Cattle, and to provide for the summary recovery of compensation for damage done by cattle trespassing,” Ses. i., No 8, I, Henry Robert Richmond, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Taranaki, do hereby appoint that the Stockyard on suburban allotment No. 16, on the plan of the East Waitara District, shall be a Public Pound, and I do hereby further notify that the said pound fees taken and charged at the said pound shall be according to the scale published in the Government Gazette of the Province, No. 34, December 21, 1865, and that the charges made for the sustenance of cattle in the said pound shall be according to the scale published in the said Gazette, No. 4, January 2, 1868.

H. R. Richmond,
Superintendent.

T. Kelly,
Provincial Secretary.

Superintendent’s Office,
New Plymouth, November 14, 1868.

HEREBY appoint

Thomas Elliot,

to be Keeper of the Public Pound on suburban allotment No. 16, East Waitara.

H. R. Richmond,
Superintendent.

(From the ‘New Zealand Gazette’)

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the second section of “The Colonial Forces Courts-Martial Act, 1868,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, appoint and declare any portion of the Colony defined in such Proclamation to be a “Disturbed District” within the meaning of the said second section of the said Act; and that during the time that any of the officers or men of the New Zealand Armed Constabulary, embodied under the “Armed Constabulary Act, 1867,” shall be stationed, employed, or in any way on service within any district proclaimed under the said section of the said Act as a Disturbed District, all things contained in any Act of the Imperial Parliament which shall then be in force in New Zealand for the punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better payment of the Army and their quarters, and in the Articles of War made in pursuance of such Act, shall apply to, and the powers thereby created shall be exercised by, such officers and men of the New Zealand Armed Constabulary aforesaid:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise and in pursuance of the power and authority in that behalf vested in me, do hereby proclaim and declare all that portion of the Colony bounded as follows, that is to say:—By the sea coast from the mouth of the River Wanganni to the mouth of the River Hangatahua to its source; thence by a straight line to the summit of Mount Egmont; thence by a straight line to Pipiriki, on the Wanganni River; thence by the Wanganni River to the commencing point at its mouth,—to be a “Disturbed District,” within the meaning of the second section of “The Colonial Forces Courts-Martial Act, 1868,” aforesaid.

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, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

T. M. Haultain,
Colonial Secretary.