THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 455

and furniture, together with all the materials, arms, ammuni-
tion, and stores which may belong to or be on board of any
such ship or vessel, shall be forfeited; and it shall be lawful
for any officer of His Majesty's Customs or Excise, or any
officer of His Majesty's Navy, who is by law empowered to
make seizures for any forfeiture incurred under any of the laws
of Customs or Excise, or the laws of trade and navigation,
to seize such ships and vessels aforesaid, and in such places
and in such manner in which the officers of His Majesty's
Customs or Excise, and the officers of His Majesty's Navy
are empowered respectively to make seizures under the laws
of Customs and Excise, or under the laws of trade and naviga-
tion; and that every such ship and vessel, with the tackle,
apparel, and furniture, together with all the materials, arms,
ammunition, and stores which may belong to or be on board
of such ship or vessel, may be prosecuted and condemned in the
like manner and in such Courts as ships or vessels may be
prosecuted and condemned for any breach of the laws made
for the protection of the revenues of Customs and Excise, or
of the laws of trade and navigation.

And it is in and by the said Act further enacted, -

That if any person in any part of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, or in any part of His Majesty's
dominions beyond the seas, without the leave and license of
His Majesty for that purpose first had and obtained as aforesaid,
shall, by adding to the number of the guns of such vessel, or
changing those on board for other guns, or by the addition of
any equipment for war, increase or augment, or procure to be
increased or augmented, or shall be knowingly concerned in
increasing or augmenting, the warlike force of any ship or vessel
of war, or cruiser, or other armed vessel, which at the time of
her arrival in any part of the United Kingdom or any of His
Majesty's dominions was a ship of war, cruiser, or armed vessel
in the service of any foreign Prince, State, or Potentate,
or of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise
any powers of Government in or over any colony, province, or
part of any province or people belonging to the subjects of any
such Prince, State, or Potentate, or to the inhabitants of any
colony, province, or part of any province or country under the
control of any person or persons so exercising or assuming to
exercise the powers of Government, every such person so offend-
ing shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall, upon
being convicted thereof upon any information or indictment,
be punished by fine and imprisonment, or either of them, at the
discretion of the Court before which such offender shall be
convicted.

Now, in order that none of Our subjects may
unwarily render themselves liable to the penalties
imposed by the said Statute, We do hereby strictly
command, that no person or persons whatsoever do
commit any act matter or thing whatsoever contrary
to the provisions of the said Statute, upon pain of the
several penalties by the said Statute imposed, and of
Our high displeasure.

And We do hereby further warn and admonish all
Our loving subjects, and all persons whatsover
entitled to Our protection, to observe towards each
of the aforesaid Sovereigns, their subjects and
territories, and towards all belligerents whatsoever,
with whom we are at peace, the duties of neutrality;
and to respect, in all and each of them, the exercise
of those belligerent rights which We and Our royal
predecessors have always claimed to exercise.

And We do hereby further warn all Our loving
subjects, and all persons whatsoever entitled to Our
protection, that if any of them shall presume, in
contempt of this Our Royal Proclamation and of
Our high displeasure, to do any acts in derogation
of their duty as subjects of a neutral Sovereign in
a war between other Sovereigns, or in violation or
contravention of the Law of Nations in that behalf,
as more especially by breaking, or endeavouring to
break, any blockade lawfully and actually established
by or on behalf of either of the said Sovereigns, by
carrying officers, soldiers, despatches, arms, ammu-
nition, military stores or materials, or any article or
articles considered and deemed to be contraband of
war according to the law or modern usages of nations,
for the use or service of either of the said Sovereigns,
that all persons so offending, together with their
ships and goods, will rightfully incur and be justly
liable to hostile capture, and to the penalties
denounced by the Law of Nations in that behalf.

And We do hereby give notice that all Our subjects
and persons entitled to Our protection who may mis-
conduct themselves in the premises will do so at
their peril, and of their own wrong; and that they
will in nowise obtain any protection from Us against
such capture or such penalties as aforesaid, but will,
on the contrary, incur Our high displeasure by such
misconduct.

Given at Our Court at Osborne House, Isle
of Wight, this nineteenth day of July,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy, and in the
thirty-fourth year of Our reign.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

General Post Office,
Wellington, 9th September, 1870.
T is notified for general information, that, from and
after the 23rd March last, the Post Office at
THE THAMES
was constituted an Office of the Second Class for the
exchange of separate Mails and other purposes within
the meaning of the 22nd clause of the Postal Regula-
tions of the 16th July, 1867, and also a separate
Accounting Office.

JULIUS VOGEL,
Postmaster-General.

PIONEER STEEL COMPANY (LIMITED).—
Notice is hereby given, that at an Extraordinary
General Meeting of the Pioneer Steel Company
(Limited), held at the registered office of the Com-
pany, in Brougham Street, New Plymouth, on
Wednesday, the 31st August, 1870, at the hour of
4 p.m. (of which meeting due notice had been given),
to confirm the Resolution passed on the 26th July last,
the following Resolution was passed unanimously :—
"That the Resolution 'That the Pioneer Steel
Company (Limited) be wound up volun-
tarily' be confirmed."

6th September, 1870.
L. H. CHOLWILL.
440

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership
between the undersigned Patrick Francis Smyth
and John Corr, in the trade or business of Store-
keepers, at Westport, in the Province of Nelson, in
New Zealand, under the firm of "P. F. Smyth and
Co.," was this day dissolved by mutual consent; and
in future the business will be carried on by the said
John Corr on his separate account. The said John
Corr will pay and receive all debts owing from and to
the said Partnership in the regular course of business.
Witness our hands, this 24th day of June, 1870.
P. F. SMYTH,
JNO. CORR.
Witness-William Pitt, Solicitor, Westport, N.Z.
413

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership
which has for some time been carried on by
Peter Langwill, William Alfred Fitzherbert and John
Journeaux, under the style or firm of "Langwill,
Fitzherbert & Co.," in the business of Flax Manufac-
turers, in the Wainui-o-mata District, Province of
Wellington, was this day dissolved by mutual consent.
All debts and liabilities due and contracted by the
said Firm will be paid by Peter Langwill, Esq., one
of the said partners, and all debts due to the said
Firm must be paid to William Alfred Fitzherbert, Esq.
As witness our hands, this fifteenth day of Septem-
ber, 1870.
443
JOHN JOURNEAUX.
P. LANGWILL.
WM. ALFRED FITZHERBERT.