License to Kill Wild Unbranded Cattle.

Superintendent’s Office,
Wellington, 18th Feb. 1873.

By virtue of the power vested in me
by Clause 7 of the Act of the
Provincial Council of Wellington, session
No. 13, I hereby authorise

JOHN CROSS,
grazier, at Alfredton, in the Wairarapa
district, to kill any cattle the property of
the Government of the Province, on his
own land.

Given under my hand this eighteenth
day of February one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-
three.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Superintendent.

Countersigned,
HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

Sheep Inspector’s Report.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th Feb., 1873.

NOTICE has been received at this office
from the Acting Inspector of Sheep
for the Wairarapa District, that he has
granted clean certificates to the following
stock-owners:—

Mr. Robert Grant, for the whole of
his flock, 18th February, 1S73.
Mr. Jas. Strang, for the whole of
his flock, 22nd February, 1873.

HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

Delegation of the Governor’s Powers under
"The Public Health Act, 1872," to the
Superintendent of the Province of Wellington.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Public Health
Act, 1872," it is amongst other
things, enacted that the Governor may
from time to time, as he thinks fit, order
that all or any of the powers, functions,
duties, authorities, or acts vested in, conferred on,
or authorised or required to be performed
by the Governor within any
Province, district, port, or place in the
Colony, by or under the fifty-third and
seventy-seventh sections of the said Act,
shall be exercised, performed, or done by
the Superintendent of such Province with
the advice of the Executive Council of
such Province (if any), as in the said Act
mentioned; subject, however, to any limitations
or restrictions as he may think
fit: And whereas by the said Act it is
also enacted that the term "Superintendent"
shall include the Chairman of the
County Council of the County of West-
land:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursu-

ance and in exercise of the power and
authority enabled him under the herein-
before in part recited Act, doth hereby
order that all the powers, functions, duties,
authorities, or acts vested in, conferred on,
or authorised or required to be done by him
as such Governor as aforesaid, within the
Province of Wellington, under the fifty-
third and seventy-seventh sections of the
said Act, shall be exercised, performed, or
done by

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Esq.,
Superintendent of the Province of Wel-
ington, as and in manner by the said
Act required: Provided that this order
shall only remain in force so long as the
said William Fitzherbert shall be and re-
main such Superintendent as aforesaid, or
until other provision in that behalf shall
be made by the Governor under the powers
aforesaid.

Given under the hand of His Excel-
lency Sir George Ferguson
Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of
the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint
George, Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over
Her Majesty’s Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same;
and issued at Wellington, this
twelfth day of February, in the
year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-three.

G. M. WATERHOUSE.

Approved in Council.

FOSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Delegation of the Governor’s powers under
"The Gold Fields Act, 1866," to the
Superintendent of the Province of Wel-
ington.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, in-
tituled "The Gold Fields Act, 1866,"
it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor in Council, under his hand
and the Public Seal of the Colony, from
time to time to delegate to the Superintend-
ent of any Province, or such other
person as the Governor may deem fit,
all or any of the powers vested in the
Governor or the Governor in Council by
the Act now in recital, except the powers
conferred by sections twenty-two, forty,
forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and one
hundred and seven of the said Act, subject
or not to any limitations or restrictions
as he may think fit and in like manner to
alter or revoke any such power:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson
Bowen, the Governor as aforesaid of the
said Colony, with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council thereof, and in
exercise of the power and authority for