Supreme Court Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Supreme Court will sit in Banco on Monday, the eighth day of October next, at the hour of Eleven o’clock a.m., in the Supreme Court Buildings, Lambton-quay.

ROBERT R. STRANG,
Registrar.
Wellington, Sept. 5, 1866.

Appointment of Inspector of Sheep.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 11th Sept., 1866.

HIS HONOR the Superintendent has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT DOUGLAS WALLACE,

to be Inspector of Sheep for the District of Wellington:

Appointment to date from the 1st Instant.

By His Honor’s command,
W. HICKSON,
Provincial Secretary.

Appointment of Sub-Inspector of Sheep.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 11th Sept., 1866.

HIS HONOR the Superintendent has been pleased to appoint

JOSEPH WILLIAM JORDAN,

to be Sub-Inspector of Sheep for the District of Wellington.

Appointment to date from the 1st Instant.

By His Honor’s command,
W. HICKSON,
Provincial Secretary.

General Government Notices.

G. GREY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the 24th day of August, 1866.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” and by “the Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor by Order in Council to declare 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, such district is infected within the meaning of the said Acts, 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 and driving of such cattle, and for destroying cattle imported, landed or driven contrary to such Regulations:

And whereas the State of Panama is a district in which it has been made to appear to the Governor that an infectious and contagious disease has broken out:

Now therefore His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the above recited power and authority, doth hereby declare that Panama is an infected district within the meaning of the Acts, and doth make the following Regulations:

Regulations:

No cattle shall be imported into or landed or driven in New Zealand, which shall have come from Panama.

Any person guilty of any breach of this Regulation shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred pounds for every head of cattle so imported, landed or driven.

All such cattle so imported, landed or driven, shall be destroyed by the nearest Inspector of Diseased Cattle.

This Order shall take effect on the 25th instant, and shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette, and the Provincial Government Gazettes of the Provinces within the Colony.

FOSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
N.Z. Gazette, August 24, 1866.

G. GREY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the 24th day of August, 1866.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly, intituled “The Customs Regulation Act, 1858,” it is amongst other things enacted that if any goods enumerated or described in the Table of Prohibitions contained in the 32nd section of the said Act, shall be imported or brought into New Zealand, then, and in every such case, such goods shall be forfeited and shall be destroyed or disposed of as the Commissioner of Customs may direct.

And whereas in the said Table of Prohibition of Goods absolutely prohibited to be imported are included infected cattle, sheep, or other animals, and hides, skins, horns, hoofs, or any other part of cattle or other animals, which the Governor in Council may prohibit in order to prevent any infectious or contagious distemper or disease.

Now therefore His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, doth in pursuance of the hereinbefore recited provisions of the said Act, by this present Order, absolutely prohibit the importation from the State of Panama into New Zealand of any