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WHEREAS by Section No. 9, of “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand, in Parliament assembled, 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 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 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 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 to time rescind such delegation.

And whereas the Governor hath, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegated to me, Donald McLean, Esquire, so long as I shall hold the office of Superintendent of the Province of Hawke’s Bay, 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in the Governor by the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth sections of the said Act, subject to being rescinded as in the said Act is provided, and subject to the regulations issued by the Governor in Council on the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and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 Donald McLean, Esquire, by virtue of the powers vested in me in this behalf, do hereby Proclaim and declare 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, as well as from all the ports situate in the Colony of New Zealand, and the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, and the Islands 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 after the date hereof, until further notice, shall be imported into the Province of Hawke’s Bay 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 conditions and restrictions as he may deem expedient and the circumstances of any case may require.

Given, under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Hawke’s Bay, at Napier, this first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

DONALD McLEAN,
Superintendent.

Diseased Cattle Regulations—Canterbury.

(From the Canterbury Government Gazette, 1st February, 1864.)

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by Proclamation dated October 30, 1862, the Province of Otago was declared to be an infected district within the meaning of the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” and it was declared that no cattle should be imported from the said Province either by land or sea: Now, therefore, I, Samuel Bealey, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, by virtue of the powers vested in me in that behalf do hereby proclaim and declare the following Regulations for the destruction of diseased cattle and for preventing the introduction of cattle out of the said infected district, into the Province of Canterbury.

1. If any person shall drive or remove, or cause to be driven or removed, or assist in driving or removing any cattle from the said infected district into the Province of Canterbury, such person shall be liable to a penalty of fifty pounds for every head of cattle so driven into the Province of Canterbury.

2. It shall be lawful for any Inspector of Cattle or Police Constable to destroy or cause to be destroyed any cattle which shall pass into this Province from the district of the Province of Otago.

3. If any person shall wilfully impede or obstruct any Inspector or any Police Con-