made to appear to the Governor that any infectious or contagious disease has broken out amongst cattle in any district of the Colony, it should be lawful for the Governor by order in Council to declare that such district was infected within the meaning of the 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 should seem fit : And it was by the same Act also enacted that the Governor in Council might 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 might think fit, and might from time to 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 FEATHERSTON, Esquire, as 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in the Governor by the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth sections of the said Act, subject to being rescinded, as in the said Act was provided, and subject to the regulations issued on the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and to any other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 : And WHEREAS by Proclamation, issued on or about the fourteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, certain places were declared infected districts within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Act : Now, THEREFORE, I, the said 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 Provinces of Auckland, Hawke’s Bay, and Taranaki, Canterbury, Nelson, and Marlborough, shall also be deemed infected districts within the meaning and for the purposes of the above-mentioned Act, and that no cattle, after the date hereof, until further notice, shall be imported into the Province of Wellington from such districts.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

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

Diseased Cattle Regulations—Otago.

(From the Otago Government Gazette, 20th January, 1864.)

[Re-published from Special (Otago) Gazette, of date 18th January, current, in correction of certain errors.]

PROCLAMATION.

Of Regulations for the Destruction of Diseased Cattle, and for preventing the spread of the Disease called Pleuro-pneumonia.

By the Honorable JOHN HYDE HARRIS, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by virtue of the powers in me vested in that behalf, I, John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, did by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, dated the fourteenth day of January instant, Declare to be an Infected District within the meaning of the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” all that part of the said Province lying and being within the North Eastern District of the said Province, and bounded towards the North by Shag River, towards the East by the ocean, towards the South by the Southern boundary line of the Waikouaiti Native Reserve, thence by a direct line to Trigonometrical Station L of the Waikouaiti Survey District, thence towards the West by a direct line to Trigonometrical Station O of the Waikouaiti Survey District, thence by a line due north to the Waikouaiti River, and thence by the boundary of New Hawkesbury Hundred to the Shag River.

And Whereas, by virtue of the said powers I did by another Proclamation in the said Gazette, dated the sixteenth day of January instant, Declare to be an Infected District within the meaning of the said Act, all that part of the said Province bounded towards the north by Allen’s Creek to its source, thence by a direct line to Trigonometrical Station O, Waikouaiti Survey District, thence towards the East by a direct line to Trigonometrical Station L, in the said Waikouaiti Survey District, and thence by a direct line to Brinn’s Point, thence towards the South by the ocean to the mouth of the Taieri River, and thence towards the West by the Taieri River, the Waipori Lake and the Waipori River to Verter burn, thence to Allen’s Creek, the starting point; Now, therefore, by virtue of the powers vested in me in that behalf, I do make publish and proclaim the following Regulations for the destruction of Diseased Cattle in the Districts by the said Proclamations declared to be Infected Districts, and for Prohibiting the