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The Agent-Geneeal, London, to the Hon. the Colonial Seceetabf, New Zealand. (No. 890.) 7, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W., Sib,— 12th January, 1874. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 18th October (No. 133), on the subject of "The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1873," and to inform you, in reply, that an advertisement (copy herewith) calling attention thereto, has been inserted by me in the following newspapers, namely, Times, Field, Daily Telegraph, Standard, Land and Water. I shall use every means in my power to make the provisions of the Act generally known to shippers and exporters of stock. I have, &c, I. E. Featheeston, The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Wellington. Agent-General. Enclosure. Notice. " The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1873." In pursuance of the provisions of the above-mentioned Act, the Governor of New Zealand has proclaimed the following as ports within the Colony at which cattle may be landed, viz.: —Auckland, New Plymouth, Napier, Wellington, Nelson, Picton, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, the Bluff Harbour, and Hokitika. Intending shippers or exporters of stock can receive further information on application at this office. I. E. Featherston, No. 7, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, S.W., Agent-General for New Zealand. 7th January, 1874. ♦ VICTORIA. The Hon. the Chief Seceetaet, Victoria, to the Hon. the Colonial Seceetaet, New Zealand. (No. 2,283.) Sib,— Chief Secretary's Office, Melbourne, 7th April, 1873. With reference to the resolution arrived at by the late Intercolonial Conference, recommending that a prohibition should be placed on the importation of stock for a period of two years, I have the honor to transmit a copy of an Order in Council, to give effect to that resolution as far as this Colony is concerned. I have also to add that the Agent-General received instructions by the last mail, 28th February, to publish the required notice in the London Times without delay. I have, &c, The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, New Zealand. J. G. Feancis. Enclosure. ORDER IN COUNCIL. [Landing in Victoria of Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs Restricted, ,] At the Executive Council Chamber, Melbourne, the twenty-fourth day of March, 1873. Present: His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, Mr. Francis, Mr. Mackay, Mr. Casey, Mr. Fraser. Mr. Stephen, Wheeeas by an Act of the Parliament of Victoria, passed in the thirty-first year of Her Majesty's reign (31 Viet. No. 310), intituled "An Act to amend the Laws relating to or affecting Public Health," it is amongst other things enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make, alter, or vary, and may revoke, such orders as may seem to be necessary for the purpose of prohibiting or regulating the introduction into Victoria, from any country or colony, or part of a country or colony (in which respectively any disease in sheep, cattle, horses, swine, or other animals of the same or any other kind or kinds whatsoever, is known to exist), of all sheep, cattle, horses, swine, or other animals of the same or any other kind or kinds whatsoever ; or of meat, skins, hides, horns, hoofs, or other parts of any animals ; or of hay, straw, fodder, or other articles likely to propagate amongst men or other animals any infectious or contagious disease whatsoever; and all orders for any of these purposes shall have the like force and effect as if the same had been inserted in the said Act; and all persons offending against any order made under the authority of this section shall for each and every offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding fifty pounds, or such smaller sum as the Governor in Council may in any case by such order direct, and such sum shall go to and form part of the consolidated revenue; provided that nothing in this section shall apply to the disease in sheep called scab: And whereas by an Order in Council, made on the fourteenth day of October, 18G7, it was amongst other things directed that all cattle, sheep, and swine brought to this Colony by sea from Europe or elsewhere should be inspected, and if found to be diseased should be placed in quarantine : And whereas at the Intercolonial Conference, held at Sydney in New South Wales, during the months of January and February, 1873, it was agreed to as follows, viz.: —" The Conference having taken into consideration the great danger to which Australian live stock are exposed from the importation of animals from countries in which infectious diseases prevail, it was resolved that it is expedient to prohibit, for the period of two years, the landing of cattle, sheep, and pigs from any places beyond the