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4. That, after the 25th of September next, all stock shipped for Canterbury should be accompanied with a certificate of soundness from a duly qualified veterinary surgeon, attested by a notary public; and that unless such certificate can be produced, no stock should be allowed, under any circumstances, to be landed. 5. That before any stock are taken from the ship and placed on the quarantine ground, they should be inspected by such competent persons, inclusive of at least one duly qualified veterinary surgeon, as shall be appointed by the Provincial Government, and if found diseased, they shall not be allowed to be landed ; if considered free from disease, they shall be placed on the quarantine ground for a period of not less than two months, and if then found free from disease, it shall be lawful for the owner to remove them. 6. That due public notice shall be given of such regulations, both in the Colonies and United Kingdom, both by advertisement and by sending copies of regulations to the New Zealand shipping agents. (True copy.) H. B. Quinn, Clerk of Council. The Supeeintendent, Otago, to the Hon. the Colonial Seceetaet. (Telegram.) Dunedin, Bth May, 1873. I quite approve of the proposed prohibition of stock. J. Macandeew. [Extract from New Zealand Gazette No. 62, of 17th October, 1873.] Notice to Impoetees of Stock. "Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1873." Colonial Secretary's Office, "Wellington, 17th October, 1873. The attention of Importers of Stock is especially called to the following sections of " The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1873." Daniel Pollen. 0. From and after the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, no cattle shipped to New Zealand from any foreign district shall be landed in New Zealand unless the owner of such cattle shall produce to the Cattle Inspector at the port or place in New Zealand where the same shall arrive, a certificate in writing, signed by a duly qualified veterinary surgeon, to the effect that such cattle were inspected and examined by him immediately before shipment, and that they were at the time of such examination and shipment free from any contagious or infectious disease whatever, and which would be likely to propagate amongst men or animals any such contagious or infectious disease, or any other disease. 7. Every such certificate of inspection and examination shall be attested before a Justice of the Peace or a notary public. Every such certificate so attested before a Justice of the Peace or a notary public as aforesaid shall, for all purposes, be receivable in the Colony as sufficient evidence of compliance with the provisions of this Act by any such owner as aforesaid. 8. From and after the passing of this Act, no cattle imported from any foreign district shall be landed at any port or place in the Colony of New Zealand except at a port proclaimed to be a port where cattle may be landed ; and such cattle shall only be landed at such place in such port as the Local Cattle Board may from time to time appoint. The Governor may from time to time proclaim such ports within the Colony as he thinks fit to be ports at which cattle may be landed ; and from and after tho publication of such proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, cattle shall be landed at such proclaimed port, and at no other port or place. 9. Whenever it shall appear to the Local Cattle Board that any such cattle as last aforesaid are affected with any disease which is by this Act, or may hereafter be, declared to be a disease for the purposes of this Act, the Local Cattle Board at the port or place where such cattle shall arrive shall cause the same to be forthwith destroyed, and the owner thereof shall not be entitled to any compensation whatsoever for the cattle so destroyed. "Whenever cattle imported from a foreign district shall be driven or taken to a quarantine ground, or to any place to be appointed under this Act as a place to which cattle shall be driven or taken, such cattle shall be kept therein at the risk and expense of the owner for such period as may be prescribed by any regulations to bo made in that behalf. And in case any such disease as aforesaid shall break out amongst such cattle when in quarantine, or in such place as aforesaid, the same shall be destroyed by the owner on being required to do so by the Local Cattle Board, and such owner shall not be entitled to any compensation whatsoever by reason of such destruction.

FOBEIGN COEEESPONDENCE. HEW ZEALAND. (Circular No. 60;) Sib, — Colonial Secretary's Office, "Wellington, 4th June, 1873. Eeferring to the resolution passed by the Delegates of the Australasian Colonies at the Conference held at Sydney in February last, which recommends that the importation of stock from places beyond the Australasian Colonies should be prohibited for a period of two years, I have the honor to inform you that the Executive Government of this Colony have not, in the present state of the law, the power to interdict the importation of stock, other than diseased cattle.