WELLINGTON.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume I, Issue 4, 25 July 1861, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

Our files extend to the 13th hist. The result of the “no confidence’’ motion had been received, and the Spectator in commenting upon it, terms it the “gratifying intelligence,” and says “ Welliungton may now expect to receive from the General Government, that consideration to which, it is fairly entitled, instead of being treated with the indifference and neglect it experienced from the Governor’s late Advisers;” and also trusts, “that Mr. Stafford, now he is fairly out of office, will not again be entrusted with its responsibilities—that his fall is signal and complete.” On the other hand the Adrertuer in an editorial headed “Pan-ic-Mongers” censures both Mr. Fox and Mr. Eenall for their want of consistency in blaming the Government for not, enforcing the terms of peace, and the restoration of plunder and dolefully painting the consequences of war.

TVTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that by a n Proclamation under the hand of John Chilton Lambton Carter, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Hawke’s Bay, dated the 4th day of July, 1861, His Honor has appointed that the operation of the “ SLAUGHTER HOUSE ORDINANCE, Sees. 8, No. 5,” intituled “An Ordinance for regulating the Slaughtering of Cattle in certain places.” shall extend to that portion of the Province of Hawke’s Bay called the Napier District. For further information the following clauses • have been extracted from the said Ordinance:— 2. Within any such District, and after a day to bo prescribed in any such Proclamation, no person snau seep a slauguter house, or place for slaughtering cattle intended for sale, barter, shipping, or exportation, except such house or place be duly licensed for that purpose, in manner hereinafter provided. 3. If any person shall slaughter, or cause to be slaughtered any cattle as aforesaid, in any house or place within such District, which shall not be duly licensed for that purpose as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of Five Pounds for every head of cattle so slaughtered. 6. Every person desirous of obtaining a license for a slaughter house, or place for slaughtering cattle, shall, ten days before any annual, quarterly, or special meeting of the Bench of Magistrates, nearest to such intended slaughter house or place, give to the Clerk of the Bench a notice in writing of his intention to apply for such license, and shall describe in the said notice the house or place intended to be licensed, and the Bench of Magistrates, (two or more being present), shall consider such application ; and if they shall consider that the 'applicant is a person of unexceptionable character, and that the place proposed to be licensed as a slaughter house is in a convenient and desirable situation, they shall grant such person a license, under the hands of any two of them, in the manner and form hereinafter set forth, (and marked A). 7. Every such license shall be in force for one year from the date thereof: and the person to whom the same shall be granted shall pay to the Clerk of the Bench the sum of Two Shillings and Sixpence for every such license. 8. For the purpose of preserving cleanliness in Towns and the health of persons residing therein, it shall bo lawful for any Justice of the Peace, and for any Constable authorised by writing under his hand, from time to time as any such Justice shall see occasion, to visit and inspect any slaughter house or place which may be situated within the boundaries of any Town, and to give such directions concerning the cleansing of any such slaughter house or place, both within and without, as to him shall seem needful. 9. If any butcher, or the owner or occupier of any such slaughter house or place, shall obstruct or molest such J ustice or Constable in the inspection thereof, or shall refuse or neglect to comply with such directions within a reasonable time, every such person shall, on conviction upon the information of any such Justice, or Constable, forfeit and pay for every such offence or neglect, any sum not exceeding Ten Pounds, nor less than Five Pounds. 10. It shall also be lawful for any Justice of the Peace, or Inspector of Police, Inspector of Slaughter Houses, or Constable duly authorised in that behalf, to enter, at any time of the day or night, any slaughter house, or place so licensed, as aforesaid, wherever the same may be situated, and where there shall be good cause to suspect that stolen cattle have been slaughtered, and to make such search and inquiry therein as shall seem necessary for the discovery of the offence and of the offender. 11. Every person who shall by any obstruction or hindrance, prevent any such Justice or Inspector of Police, Inspector of Slaughter Houses, or Constable, from entering any such licensed premises, for the purpose of such search and inquiry, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be dealt with accordingly, as in cases of misdemeanor at Common Law. 12. It shall be lawful for his Excellency-the Governor to appoint, within such Towns or Districts as he shall from time to time direct, by a notice to be published in the Government Gazette, fit persons to be called Inspectors of Slaughter Houses, and of cattle intended for slaughter, and every person who shall be so appointed shall, and is hereby required and directed, to repair, without delay to the place or places within this District in which he shall have information of any homed or neat cattle having been slaughtered, or of any such cattle intended to bo slaughtered: and also in all cases in which notice shall have been given to him, or left at his place of residence, of the intention to slaughter any cattle, and every such Inspector shall examine the said cattle slaughtered, or so intended to be slaughtered, in his District, and shall take a particular description thereof, with the color, mark or marks, brand or brands, sex, and apparent age, together with the time and place of slaughter, which particulars her shall carefully enter, or cause to be entered, in a book to be kept by him for that purpose, and which book such Inspector shall produce for examination before any annual, quarterly, or special meeting of the Bench of Magistrates, within, or nearest to the District for which he shall be appointed, and for the information of any Justice or Justices whenever he shall be so required, and such Inspector shall also make a w r eekly return to the bench of Justices, within or nearest to the District, of the number of cattle so sluaghtered, as aforesaid. 13. That every person intending to slaughter any such horned or neat cattle within any Town or District in which an Inspector shall be appointed as aforesaid; shall first (five sis hours notice, in writing, to such Inspector, of the cattle intended to be slaughtered, specifying the time and place, under a penalty oi Five Pounds for each and every head of such cattle which shall be so slaughtered without such notice having been given thereof, as last mentioned, unless it shall be made to appear to the Justice before whom such fine shall be sought to be recovered, that such notice could not have been given and that owing to some unforeseen accident, it was necessary that such cattle should have beeu immediately slaughtered, and in all cases in which any such cattle shall have been slaughtered within any such Town or District, without having boon previously inspected aa afore-

said, notice thereof shall be immediately given to the said Inspector, and the skins of such cattle shall be kept or preserved for three days, and bo produced on demand, at the place of slaughter, to the Inspector for the Town or District wherein such cattle should have been slaughtered, under the pealty of Five Pounds for every skin so neglected to be preserved and produced. 14. That every keeper of a licensed house, or place for slaughtering cattle, excepting in any Town or District for which an Inspector shall be appointed as aforesaid, shall keep a book, in which he shall enter a particular account and description of all such homed or neat cattle slaughtered in such house or place, specifying the cplor, mark or marks, sex and apparent ago of such cattle, and if purchased, the name of the person for whom the same shall have been slaughtered, and the time of slaughter, and shall transmit monthly to the Bench of Justices in or nearest to the District wherein such slaughter house, or place for slaughtering cattle shall be situated, a report in writing, under the hand of such keeper, containing the particulars above stated, and shall produce such book for the information of any J ustice, whenever he shall he so required. And if any such keeper of a licensed slaughter house or place for slaughtering cattle shall neglect to keep such book or record, or shall wilfully make a false entry therein, or shall fail, or refuse to make such monthly report as aforesaid, or shall refuse to produce such book or record to any J ustice, he shall for every such offence, forfeit a sum not exceeding Five Pounds. 15. That nothing hereinbefore contained shall extend to any person or persons slaughtering at his, her, or their own residence, or farms, cattle for his, her, or their owm use. 16. That it shall and may be lawdul for any Justice of the Peace to demand the skin of any horned or neat cattle whatsoever, that may have been slaughtered witliin one month previous to the date of such demand, or a full and satisfactory account to whom such skin has been sold, or in what manner disposed of, and any person who npon such demand shall refuse or neglect to produce the skins of any such cattle that have been slaughtered, or in case the same cannot be produced, to give a full and satisfactory account of how, and in what manner the same have been disposed of, shall on conviction forfeit and pay for every such offence, a sum not exceeding Ten Pounds. 17. And if any person shall cut out, burn, or otherwise destroy or deface any brand which shall have been on any skin, or shall be in possession of or shall purchase any such skin from which the brand shall have been cut, or burnt, or otherwise destroyed, or defaced, without being able to give a satisfactory account thereof, every such person shall, upon conviction of every such offence, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding Ten Pounds. 21. AH fines and penalties imposed under the authority of tills Ordinance shall be recoverable in a summary way. 22. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the word “cattle,” unless otherwise expressly stated, shall be taken to include homed Or neat cattle, sheep, goats, and swine, and the word “ Governor” shall be taken to include the Lieutenant-Governor, or the Officer administering the Government of the Colony for the time being. WILLIAM LANGFORD, Inspector of Slaughter Houses. Government Buildings, Dated the 11th day of July, 1861. SCHEDULE A. FORM OF LICENSE. LICENSE FOII SLAUGHTEBING CATTLE. We, , of Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, do certfy that, by virtue of the authority vested in us in this behalf, Mr. , of , is hereby authorised to keep a Licensed Slaughter House in his , situated and being in . And this License to remain in force from the date hereof until the day of Given under our hands, at , this day of