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The following is the proclamation of the 17th April, 1873, referred to in the foregoing:— Peoclamation. [Prohibiting, for Two Tears, Importation of Cattle, £{c., into South Australia.'] South Attstealia / Proclamation by His Excellency Sir Richard Davies Hanson, Knight, Chief . .. ' > Justice of the Province of South Australia, the Officer Administering the \ Government thereof, &c, &c, &c. E. D. Hanson. Wheeeas by an Act of the Parliament of South Australia, passed in a session held in the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth years of Her Majesty's reign, No. 12, intituled " An Act to enable the G-overnor to prevent the Importation of Cattle into South Australia under certain circumstances, and for other purposes," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, by proclamation in the South Australian Government Gazette, to prohibit the introduction or importation of any cattle, or any particular description of cattle, into the said Province, from such places and during such times as should be set forth in such proclamation: And whereas by another Act of the said Parliament, passed in a session held in the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth years of the reign of Her said Majesty, No. 19, intituled " An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Customs," it is amongst other things enacted that if any goods enumerated or described in the table of prohibitions in the thirty-fourth section of the said Act, shall be imported or brought into the Province of South Australia, then and in every such case such goods shall be forfeited, or destroyed, or otherwise disposed of as the Treasurer may direct: And whereas in the said table of prohibitions of goods absolutely prohibited to be imported, are included infected cattle, sheep, or other animals, and hides, skins, horns, hoofs, or other part of cattle or other animals which the Governor in Council may prohibit, in order to prevent any infectious or contagious distemper or disease: And whereas at the Intercolonial Conference held at Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, during the months of January and February last past, it was agreed to as follows, namely:—" 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 limits of the Australasian Colonies ; and that such prohibition should take effect from and after the publication of a notice in the London Times." Now therefore, I, the Officer Administering the Government, in pursuance of the provisions of the said recited Acts, and of all other powers me enabling, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Province, do hereby prohibit the introduction or importation, into the Province of South Australia, of horned cattle, sheep, or pigs shipped at any place or places beyond the limits of the Australasian Colonies, for a period of two years : And I further order and direct that this proclamation shall take effect from the day of the publication hereof (or first publication, if published more than once) in the London Times newspaper, and shall extend to all horned cattle, sheep, and pigs which shall be shipped after the date of the publication aforesaid. Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the said Province, at Adelaide, this seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and in the thirty-sixth year of Her Majesty's reign. (1.5.) By command. Henby Atees, Chief Secretary. God Sate the Queen! The Hon. the Colonial Seceetaby, New Zealand, to the Hon. the Chief Seceetaet, South Australia. (No. 54). Sic,— Colonial Secretary's Office, "Wellington, 22nd April, 1874. I hare the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 161, of 17th March, enclosing a copy of a proclamation by His Excellency the Governor of South Australia, revoking so much of the proclamation published on the 17th April, 1873, prohibiting the introduction of live stock from places beyond the Australian Colonies, as relates to the portion of the Province of South Australia known as the Northern Territory, and to thank you for the same. I have, &c, William H. Reynolds, (in the absence of the Colonial Secretary). The Hon. the Chief Secretary, South Australia.

♦— TASMANIA. The Hon. the Colonial Seceetaey, Tasmania, to the Hon. the Colonial Seceetaey, New Zealand. (D. 1,281.) Sic, — Colonial Secretary's Office, 4th July, 1873. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th ultimo, in which you inform me that the Government of New Zealand are unable, in the present state of the law, to prohibit the importation of stock other than diseased cattle, but that a Bill will be submitted to Parliament aa soon as possible, to confer upon them the necessary powers. I have, &c, The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, New Zealand. James E. Scott. By Authority: Geobge DiDSßuay, Government Printer, Wellington,—lB7l. Price Is. 3d.]