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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 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 Isaac Earl Featherston Esq. 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vested in the Governor by the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth and tenth Sections of the said Act subject to being rescinded as in the said Act is provided and subject to the regulations issued by the Governor in Council on the 18th day of September 1865 and to any other regulations to be from time to time duly made:

Now therefore I the said Isaac Earl Featherston 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 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 and the Colony of 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 Wellington 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. And I do also proclaim and declare that after the date hereof the Provinces of Auckland, Otago and Southland in the Colony of New Zealand shall be deemed to be infected districts within the meaning of the said Act and that no cattle shall be imported into the Province of Wellington from either of the said Provinces.

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Wellington at Wellington this nineteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
A. FOLLETT HALCOMBE,
Provincial Secretary.

Election of Wardens for the North Makara Road District.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 14th Sept., 1865.

NOTICE has been given to this office, under the hand of T. D. McManaway, Chairman, that at the annual meeting of ratepayers, held on the 4th instant, the following persons were elected members of the Board of Wardens for the North Makara Road District, viz. :

Peter Trotter and James Barnes, vice Richard Robinson and Wm. Longhurst, resigned.

A. FOLLETT HALCOMBE,
Provincial Secretary.

Election of Wardens for the Turakina Valley Road District.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, August 26, 1865.

NOTICE has been given to this office, by the hand of the undermentioned Chairman, that at the general annual meeting, held at the Ben Nevis Hotel, Turakina, on the 16th August, 1865, the following ratepayers were elected a Board of Wardens for the Turakina Valley Road District, viz. :

Mr. George Yates Lethbridge
,, Archibald Cameron
,, James Bowen
,, Robert Wilson
,, Jas. Bruce (Chairman).

A. FOLLETT HALCOMBE,
Provincial Secretary.

Greytown School District.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
14th September, 1865.

THE following gentlemen have been elected to the respectively undermentioned offices, in connection with the Greytown School District, viz. :

Mr. Moritz Hirschberg, Treasurer
,, Hart Udy, sen., Chairman
,, John Dillon, Collector of Rates.

A. FOLLETT HALCOMBE,
Provincial Secretary.

SPEECH OF HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT ON CLOSING THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FOURTH PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

MR. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL,

I beg to intimate that I have, on behalf of the Governor, assented to the following Acts, viz. :--