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to be Registration Officer for the formation of
Provincial Rolls for the Province of Canterbury.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th November, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
HENRY JOHN ABEL, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of Gabriels, as the
same is defined in Proclamation of 12th day of
November, 1867, and published in New Zealand
Gazette, No. 61, of 14th day of November, 1867.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th November, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the following gentlemen to be Returning
Officers for the election of Members of the Provincial
Council of the Province of Nelson for the Districts
set opposite their names respectively, viz. :--
JOSEPH GILES, Esq., Buller.
JAMES ROGER DUTTON, Esq., Grey.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th November, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM LAWRENCE SIMPSON, Esq.,
to be Returning Officer for the election of Members
of the Provincial Council for the District of Tuapeka,
in the Province of Otago.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1868.
THE following Ordinance, passed by the Provincial
Council, and reserved by the Superintendent of
the Province of Southland for the signification of
the Governor's pleasure thereon, intituled
"The Oreti Ferry Leasing Ordinance, 1868,"
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has been pleased to assent to the same.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 5th November, 1868.
THE following Despatch from Her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies
is published for general information.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Downing Street,
15th August, 1868.
SIR,-I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of
a Treaty of Navigation, which was signed at Vienna
on the 30th April last, between Her Majesty and the
Emperor of Austria, the ratifications of which were
exchanged on the 26th June last.
I have, &c.,
BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS.
Governor Sir G. F. Bowen, G.C.M.G.

TREATY OF NAVIGATION BETWEEN HER MAJESTY AND
HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA.
Signed at Vienna, April 30, 1868. - Ratifications
exchanged at Vienna, June 26, 1868.
HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, on the one part, and His

Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, on the other
part, being equally animated by the desire of extend-
ing and promoting the facilities of Navigation between
their respective States and Dominions, have resolved
to conclude a Treaty for that purpose, and have
named for their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say-
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honorable
John Arthur Douglas Baron Bloomfield of Oak-
hampton and Redwood, a Peer of Ireland, a Member
of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order
of the Bath, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary to His Imperial and Royal
Apostolic Majesty; and Louis Mallet, Esquire,
Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath
Assistant-Secretary to the Committee of Her
Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council for Trade
and Foreign Plantations;
And His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty,
Frederic Ferdinand Baron Beust, His Imperial
Majesty's Privy Councillor, Chancellor of the Empire,
and Minister of the Imperial House and of Foreign
Affairs, Grand Cross of the Orders of Saint Stephen
and Leopold:
Who, after having communicated to each other
their respective full powers, found to be in due and
proper form, have agreed upon and concluded the
following Articles: -

ARTICLE I.
British ships and their cargoes in all the dominions
of His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, and
ships belonging to the citizens of the Imperial and
Royal States and their cargoes in all the dominions
of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, from whatever place
arriving and whatever may be their place of destina-
tion, and whatever may be the place of origin or
destination of their cargoes, shall be treated in every
respect as national ships and their cargoes.
Every favour or exemption in these respects, or
any other privilege in matters of Navigation, which
either of the Contracting Parties shall grant to a
third Power, shall be extended immediately and
unconditionally to the other Party.
It is, however, agreed that this stipulation shall
not be applicable to the national fisheries of either of
the two countries.

ARTICLE II.
The stipulations contained in the preceding Article
are also to be applied to the Colonies and Foreign
Possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, as well as to
the ships and cargoes of the same; but, as regards
the coasting trade, only in those Colonies and
Foreign Possessions the coasting trade of which shall
have been or shall be hereafter opened to foreign
ships in conformity with the Acts of Parliament
which govern this matter.
The Foreign Possessions and Colonies of Her
Britannic Majesty the coasting trade of which has
been already so opened to foreign ships, and in which
therefore ships belonging to the citizens of the
Imperial and Royal States are placed on the national
footing, are-
British India,
Ceylon,
Cape of Good Hope,
Victoria,
St. Lucia.

ARTICLE III.
If any ship of war or merchant-vessel of one of
the Contracting Parties should run aground or be
wrecked, or meet with any casualty upon the coasts
of the other, the same aid and assistance shall be
rendered to it, and to the cargo, apparel, and