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Extension of Road, Matarawa District.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, March 26th, 1864.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Board of Wardens of the Matarawa District, have given notice of their intention to extend the line of road known as “No. 2 line,” to the high bank of the Wangaehu river, and have deposited a survey plan of the line, with book, &c., in this Office, as required by the District Highways Act, 1862, together with the assent of all the landholders on the line to the said extension.

J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.

Diseased Cattle Regulations—Canterbury.

PROCLAMATION.

(From the Canterbury Government Gazette, 24th March, 1864.)

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

And whereas the said Governor, hath with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegated to SAMUEL BEALEY, Esquire, so long as he shall hold the office of Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, the several powers vested in the said Governor by the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth sections of the said Act, subject to being rescinded as in the said Act provided, and subject to the regulations issued by the Governor in Council on the fifteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and to any other regulations to be from time to time duly made.

Now, therefore, I, SAMUEL BEALEY, by virtue of such powers in me vested, do hereby proclaim and declare, that from and after the twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, the Province of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, shall be deemed to be an infected district within the meaning of the said Act, and that no cattle shall be imported into the Province of Canterbury from the said Province.

Given under my hand, at Christchurch, this twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

S. BEALEY,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
WM. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

General Government Notices.

A PROCLAMATION,
Abolishing Districts constituted under the “Districts Courts Acts, 1858.”

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 “Districts Courts Act, 1858,” it is provided that there shall be within the Colony Courts of Record possessing Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction, to be called District Courts, and the Governor is empowered from time to time as he shall think fit by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the Colony, or any part thereof, Districts within which such Courts shall be respectively held, and such Districts to abolish, and the boundaries thereof to define, or alter, and also to declare by what local name each such Court shall be designated.

And whereas under and in pursuance of the said recited Act sundry Districts have from time to time been established, and Courts held in divers places in the Colony, and whereas several of such Courts have ceased to be in operation, but doubts have existed whether such Courts have been validly discontinued. And whereas it is expedient to remove such doubts and to abolish the remainder of the Courts and Districts so constituted as aforesaid.

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor as aforesaid of the said Colony, in pursuance and execution of the power and authority in me vested under the provisions of the said recited Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the Districts of Taranaki, Otago, Auckland, Nelson, Wellington and Wanganui, so constituted as aforesaid, are and from henceforth shall be abolished, and that the Districts of Hawke’s Bay, the Hutt and Marlborough, shall be and remain...