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Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1712, 1 April 1862, Page 7

INOIAL GOVERNMEN PROCLAMATION, By His Honor Isaac Earl Featheßston, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Inlands of Neio Zealand. I, Isaac Earl Featherston, Su- | perintendent of the Province of Wellington, in pursuance of the power and authority vested in me in this behalf, Do hereby proclaim and appoint that the Provincial Council, of the Province of Wellington, shall meet for the despatch of business at the Council Chamber in Wellington, on Friday, the twenty-fifth day of April, One thousand eight huni dred and sixty-two, at three o'clock in the afternoon. Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the said Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this Twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty two. I. E. Featherston. Superintendent. By His Honor's command, J. Woodward, Acting Provincial Secretary. (From the New Zealand Gazette, Feb. 15th 1862.) CIJSTOMvS, NOTICE is hereby given, that the undermentioned Warehouses have bean duly licensed and approved, under the "Customs' Regulation Act, 1858," as General Warehouses for the reception of Goods under Bond. A.P.Stuart & Co.'s, situated ill Farish Street. George Crawford's, also in Farish Street. S. Carkeek. Deputy Commissioner. Custom House, Wellington. Feb. 18th, 1862. (From the New Zealand Gazette, March 7.) PROCLAMATION. PLEURO PNEUMONIA. By His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, CaptainGeneral and Governor-in-Chief of the Colony of Queensland and its dependencies, and ViceAdmiral of the same, &c, &c. TMT HERE AS, by an Act passed in the ™ ' last Session of Parliament, intituled, "An Act to Prevent the Introduction of Diseased Cattle into the Colony of Queensland and to Check the Progress of Malignant Diseases iniCattle," it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, by Proclamation, to prohibit or put restrictions on the introduction or importation of Horned Cattle into the Colony of Queensland, or into any District thereof, from such places, and during such time, as may appear necessary, and any such Proclamation to alter or revoke by a similar Proclamation. And whereas the disease known or described as the PleuroPneumonia has appeared amongst Horned Cattle in certain parts of the neighborI ing Colony of New South Wales, and it is necessary to take measures to prevent the introduction into this Colony of the said disease : Now, therefore, I Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor aforesaid, with the advice of the Executive Council, do, by this my proclamation, prohibit the introduction or importation into this Colony of any Horned Cattle whatsoever, unless the person or persons in charge of the same shall have first obtained from the Commissioner for Diseases in Cattle, or one of the Inspectors appointed under the provisions of the above recited Act, a Certificate to the effect that the Cattle in his or their charge are not affected with the disease known or described as Pleuro-Pneumonia. And I do hereby also notify and proclaim, that all Horned Cattle which may be introduced or imported into the said Colony from any District of any of the Australian Colonies which shall be known to be, or to have been, infected with the said disease, shall be liable to be seized, and may be forfeited, although such Cattle may not be infected with the said disease, and the Commissioner or any Inspector may at his discretion refuse to give such Certificate in respect of any Cattle coming from any infected district, although the same may not be infected with the said disease. And I do hereby notify and proclaim that, in pursuance of the provisions of the said Act, Inspectors will be stationed at the following townships, namely, Warwick, Goondiwindi, and at or near the junction of the Mooni and Macintyre Rivers ; and aH persons travelling to this Colony with, or in charge of, Horned Cattle are hereby directed to give timely notice thereof to the said Commissioner, or to some one of such Inspectors. And I do hereby further notify and proclaim that the persons at present severally holding the omce of Scab Inspector at the ports of Brisbane, Maryborough, Gladstone, and Rockhampton, shall be the persons to whom notice shall be given, and of and from whom the necessary Certificate that all Horned Cattle arriving at the said ports are not affected as aforesaid shall bo obtained. And I