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the importation of cattle, sheep, and pigs into "Western Australia from all places beyond the Australasian Colonies, and that such importation has been prohibited for a period of two years from the publication of a notice to such effect in the London Times, to the office of which newspaper an advertisement has been forwarded. I have, &c, The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, New Zealand. Peed. P. Baklee. The Hon. the Colonial Secbetaet, "Western Australia, to the Hon. the Colonial Seceetaet, New Zealand. (No. 54.) Sib,— Colonial Secretary's Office, Perth, 27th August, 1873. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram dated 26th July ultimo, informing me that the House of Representatives in New Zealand rejected the Bill to empower the Government to prohibit the importation of stock into New Zealand, in pursuance of the resolution passed at the late Intercolonial Conference held at Sydney, New South "Wales. I have, Ac, The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, New Zealand. Feed. P. Baelee. The Hon. the Colonial Seceetaet, "Western Australia, to the Hon. the Colonial Seceetabt, New Zealand. (No. 54.) Sic, — Colonial Secretary's Office, Perth, 4th September, 1873. I have the honor, by direction of His Excellency Governor "Weld, to transmit for your information a copy of a proclamation which it has been thought necessary to issue, prohibiting the introduction into Western Australia of cattle, sheep, and pigs from New Zealand until such time as your Government shall have taken the requisite steps, in accordance with the decision of the late Intercolonial Conference, to guard against the introduction of rinderpest or foot-and-mouth disease. I have, &c, The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, New Zealand. Feed. P. Baelee. Enclosure Peoclamation. [Prohibiting the Introduction into Western Australia of Cattle, Sfc, from N~ew Zealand.~\ Westebn Austealia, ") By His Excellency Frederick Aloysius Weld, Esquire, Governor and Comto wit. ) mander-in-Chief in and over the Territory of Western Australia and its Dependencies, &c, &c, &c. Feed. A. Weld, Governor. Whebeas by section two of an Act of the Legislative Council of Western Australia, passed in the thirty-seventh year of the reign of Her present Majesty, entitled " An Act to further regulate the Importation of Cattle, Sheep, or Pigs," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Executive Council to make an Order, and from time to time to alter, vary, or revoke the same, for the purposes of prohibiting or regulating the importation into this Colony of cattle, sheep, or pigs from any other countries or colonies, or country or colony, or part of a country or colony : And whereas it was"agreed at the Intercolonial Conference held in Sydney, New South Wales, in February last, that all the Australian Colonies should join in a prohibition, for two years, to guard against the introduction of rinderpest or foot-and-mouth disease into the Australian Colonies, a notice was issued on the fifteenth day of July last, and forwarded to the Crown Agents for the Colonies, for publication in the London Times, prohibiting the introduction of cattle, sheep, and pigs from all places beyond tho Australian Colonies and New Zealand : Aud whereas all the Colonies excepting New Zealand have issued similar notices or proclamations: Now therefore, I, Frederick Aloysius Weld, the Governor aforesaid, do by this my proclamation hereby totally prohibit the introduction into Western Australia of any cattle, sheep, or pigs from the Colony of New Zealand, until such time as the Government of that Colony shall have issued a proclamation or notice, and published the same in the London Times, prohibiting the introduction of cattle, sheep, or pigs, as before mentioned, into that Colony. Given under my hand and tho Public Seal of the said Colony, at Government House, Perth, this fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and in the thirty-seventh year of Her Majesty's reign. (1.5.) By command. Feed. P. Baelee, Colonial Secretary. God Save the Queen ! The Hon. the Colonial Seceetabt, Western Australia, to the Hon. the Colonial Seceetabt, New Zealand. (No. 54-694.) Sic,— Colonial Secretary's Office, Perth, 12th March, 1874. I have the honor to notify, for the information of His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, that the proclamation which was issued by His Excellency the Governor of this Colony, on the 4th September, 1873, prohibiting the introduction into the Colony of stock from New Zealand, has been cancelled; and that this measure has been taken for the same reasons that induced the Government of Victoria to annul a proclamation to a similar effect, issued in that Colony. I have, <fee, The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, New Zealand. Feed. P. Baelee.