THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 7

the exchange of the ratifications. In case
neither of the two High Contracting Parties
should hace notified, twelve months before the
end of the said period, its intention to terminate
the Treaty, it shall remain in force until the
expiration of a year dating from the day on
which either of the High Contracting Parties
shall have given notice for its termination.
The High Contracting Parties reserve to
themselves the right to introduce into the
Treaty, by common consent, any modifications
which may not be at variance with its spirit or
principles, and the utility of which may be
shown by experience.

ARTICLE XXVI.

From and after the date fixed by the
preceding Article, the Treaty of Commerce
and Navigation of the 27th of October, 1851,
shall cease to be in force.

ARTICLE XXVII.

The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the
ratifications shall be exchanged at London be-
fore the first day of September, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two.

In witness whereof the respective Pleni-
potentiaries have signed the same, and have
affixed thereto the seal of their arms.

Done in deplicate at London, the twenty-
third day of July, in the year of Our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

(L.S.) RUSSELL.
(L.S.) THOS MILNER GIBSON.
(L.S.) SYLVAIN VANDEWEYER.

Protocol of Conference held at the Foreign
Office, July 23, 1862, between the Plenipo-
tentiaries of Great Britain and of Belgium.

THE Plenipotentiaries of Her Britannic
Majesty and of His Majesty the King of the
Belgians, in proceeding to the signature of
the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation
between their august Sovereigns, placed upon
record that they have agreed upon the
following points :-

1. That the declarations relative to the
   arrest of seamen deserters, dated the 4th of
   January, 1855, and the Order in Council
   bearing date the 8th of February, 1855, and
   published in the "London Gazette," of the
   13th of February, shall continue in force
   and validity, as if they had been inserted in
   the said Treaty.

2. That although the Fishery Convention
   concluded on the 22nd of March, 1852,
   between Her Britannic Majesty and His
   Majesty the King of the Belgians, is provi-
   sionally maintained, it is under the reservation
   made by the Government of His Majesty the
   King of the Belgians, that they will again
   bring forward, in a future negotiation, the
   proposition relative to the reciprocal permission
   to fish within the marine territorial limit.

In maintaining the said Convention con-
eluded on the 22nd of March, 1852, an excep-
tion to the stipulations of the Treaty of Com-
merce and Navigation signed this day, is made
in so far as regards the advantages which are
or may be given in either country to the pro-
duce of national fishery.

3. With regard to sugar, the Government
   of His Majesty the King of the Belgians
   reserve to themselves to renew their pro-
   position that an agreement should be come to
   between Great Britain, Belgium, France, the
   Zollverein, and the Netherlands, for respec-
   tively bringing the duties upon raw and
   refined sugars imported from any one of those
   countries into the others to an equality with
   the taxes imposed upon the same productions
   of national origin, and for terminating sim-
   ultaneously in those five countries the system
   of bounties on the exportation of sugar.

The Belgian Government rely upon the
support and co-operation of the Government of
Her Britannic Majesty for this purpose.

(Signed) RUSSELL.

THOS. MILNER GIBSON.

SYLVAIN VAN DE WEYER.

Protocol of Conference held at the Foreign
Office, August 30, 1862, between the Pleni-
potentiaries of Great Britain and of
Belgium.

THE Undersigned, in proceeding to the
exchange of the ratifications of the Treaty of
Commerce and Navigation concluded on the
23rd of July, 1862, between Her Majesty the
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the
King of the Belgians, have agreed to record
in the present Protocol the modifications in
the said Treaty arranged this day between
them; and in consequence of which the
following Tariff is adopted :

COTTON YARNS.
Nos. First year. Second year.
20,000m and under ... 0 22c ... 0 20c
20,000 to 30,000 ... 0 30c ... 0 25c
30,000 to 40,000 ... 0 45c ... 0 35c
40,000 to 65,000 ... 0 60c ... 0 50c
Above 65,000, free entry (weighing charge
of 10 centimes) during the whole duration of
the Treaty.

These modifications shall have the same
force and effect as if they were textually
inserted in the said Treaty, and they shall
come into operation from the 1st of October,
1862, the old duties continuing to be applied
to the above-mentioned articles, as well as
to the mixed tissues (Article XXII of the
Treaty), up to that date.

In testimony whereof the Plenipotentiaries
have signed the present Protocol, and have
thereto affixed their seals.

Done in London, the 30th of August, 1862.

(L.S.) RUSSELL.
(L.S.) THOS. MILNER GIBSON.
(L.S.) SYLVAIN VAN DE WEYER.

FLAX REWARDS.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 13th January, 1863.

THE attention of the public is called to the
notice (now re-published) issued in the New
Zealand Gazette of the 14th Sept. 1861, No