NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,

(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.

VOL. IX.] TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1862. [No. 27]

Diseased Cattle Regulations.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor Isaac Earl Fetherston,
Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Islands of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by Section Number Nine 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 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 regulations as to him shall seem fit, for prohibiting 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 Ten 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 amongst 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 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 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 subject to such Regulations as he may think fit, and may from 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 Fetherston, 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 is 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...

Now therefore, I, the said Isaac Earl Fetherston, 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 Australasia, 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...