THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 665

the vessel, and to execute without delay any orders
you may receive to prevent her from putting to sea,
and for this purpose, you will, when you think it
expedient, keep your ship under steam.
5. As soon as you have received instructions from
the Civil Authorities, you will take proper measures
to give effect to them, using your own discretion as
to the mode of disposing the naval force under your
command.
6. You will use especial caution in dealing with
armed vessels.
7. Wherever you are required to act, you will, if
possible, employ a commanding force, so as to prevent
all resistance.
8. If you have reason to believe that a vessel has
actually committed a breach of the 7th section of the
Statute, then, provided the case be one of emergency,
admitting of no delay, it will be your duty to detain
the vessel until you have communicated with the
Civil Authorities.
9. This power of detention is exercisable in British
waters over any private vessel, whatever be her
nationality.
10. This power is also exercisable on the High Seas,
not being territorial waters, over British vessels, but
over no other vessels.
11. It is not exercisable over any vessel in Foreign
territorial waters.
12. It is not exercisable in any waters over a
vessel belonging to the public navy of any Foreign
Power.
13. As soon as you have come to the determination
to exercise the power of detention intrusted to you,
you will announce the same to her master, and take
proper measures to secure the vessel.
14. You will use your own discretion as to whether
you will detain the vessel on the spot or bring her
into the nearest British port, and as to whether you
will take possession of her or allow her to be navi-
gated by her own crew.
15. You will not use force except in the last resort;
but you are authorized to use force if you meet with
resistance from the vessel, or if the vessel, after
having been duly warned, pertinaciously attempt to
escape to sea.
16. Having secured the vessel, you will forthwith
apply to the Civil Authorities for instructions.
17. A breach of the 5th section of the Statute is
committed if any private vessel, of whatever
nationality, enters British waters having on board, or,
being in British waters, takes on board, with or
without the knowledge of her master or owner-
(1.) Any British subject who
anywhere
(2.) Any person, of what-
ever nationality, who,
in British territory or
in British waters,
has enlisted,
or
has engaged to
enlist,
or
has left Her
Majesty's
dominions with a
view to enlist,
in any naval or military capacity, in the service of
any Foreign Power.
18. A breach of the 6th section of the Statute is
committed if the master or owner of any private
vessel, of whatever nationality, in British waters,
knowingly takes on board any person of whatever
nationality-
who has enlisted,
or
is engaged to enlist,
or
is leaving Her Majesty's
Dominions with a view to
enlist,
in any naval or
military capacity,
in the public
service of any
Foreign Power.
19. A breach of the 7th section is committed if a
private vessel of whatever nationality, whilst in
British waters, be commissioned or be equipped,
furnished, fitted out or armed, in order to be employed
in the service of a Foreign Power as a transport, store
ship, or cruiser, against any country with which
Great Britain is at peace.
But the following acts are not breaches of this
section:
(1.) The mere building or putting together the
hull of a vessel for whatever purpose, provided
nothing be done in the way of equipping,
furnishing, fitting out, or arming the vessel.
(2.) Equipping a merchant-
man in order that, as such,
she may carry a cargo
contraband of war.
(3.) Putting on board a mer-
chantman a cargo contra-
band of war.
(4.) Equipping a merchant-
man in order that, as such,
she may run a blockade.
Provided that the
vessel be not in-
tended to be em-
ployed in the ser-
vice of a Foreign
Power as a trans-
port, storeship, or
cruiser.
A breach of the 8th section is committed if a ship
of war or privateer of either belligerent, whilst in
British waters, augments her warlike force, whether
by embarking sailors or soldiers, or by undergoing
any warlike equipment or by taking on board muni-
tions of war.
(Signed) J. PARKER DEANE.
GODFREY LUSHINGTON.
Temple, 9th August, 1869.

Downing Street, 15th September, 1869.
SIR, -I transmit to you herewith, for your infor-
mation, a copy of a letter from the Post Office,
enclosing a Treasury Warrant, withdrawing, after the
31st December next, the privilege granted some
years ago to Officers of the Army and Navy serving
abroad and in the Colonies, of sending and receiving
in certain cases, their letters at a reduced rate of
postage.
You will give such publicity to this Treasury
Warrant as you may think necessary.
I have, &c.,
GRANVILLE.
The Officer Administering the Government
of New Zealand.

(Copy.)
Mr. Scudamore to Sir F. Rogers.
General Post Office, London,
31st August, 1869.
SIR,-I am directed by the Postmaster-General to
acquaint you, for the information of Earl Granville,
that the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury have had under their consideration the
question of retaining the privilege granted some
years ago to officers serving on board Her Majesty's
ships abroad of sending and receiving their letters at
a reduced rate of postage, in those cases where the
British rate exceeds sixpence per single letter, and
which privilege was subsequently extended to the
letters of officers in the army serving abroad, and
in the Colonies; and adverting to the difficulties
which have attended the arrangement, in the attempt
to confine it to those persons for whom alone it was
intended, their Lordships have come to the decision
that it is not expedient to continue such privileges
after the termination of the present year.
A Treasury Warrant, dated the 17th instant, has
accordingly been issued, withdrawing the privileges
in question after the 31st December next, from which
date the officers of both services will be placed, as
regards the postage of their letters, upon the same
footing as the general public.
Earl Granville will probably think it right to cause
the Governors of the several British Colonies to be