Honduras,
Jamaica,
Lagos,
Malta,
Mauritius,
Montserrat,
Natal,

Tobago,
Trinidad,
Turk's and Caicos
Islands,
Virgin Islands,
Western Australia,

all the said pieces of money so to be coined shall be
current and lawful money in our said several
Colonies and Possessions, and shall pass and be
received as current and lawful money, and be a legal
tender in the United Kingdom and the said Colonies
and Possessions respectively, from the times aforesaid,
at the like values and by the like names as the cor-
responding coins of the currency of this realm, and
concurrently with any coins now current in the
United Kingdom and the said Colonies and Posses-
sions respectively.

Given at our Court at Osborne House, Isle of
Wight, this fourteenth day of January,
in the year of our Lord, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one, and in
the thirty-fourth year of our reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

A PROCLAMATION.

For giving Currency in certain Colonies to Gold Coins
made at Sydney, New South Wales, of the like
designs of those approved for the corresponding
Coins of the Currency of the United Kingdom.

VICTORIA R.

WHEREAS, in pursuance of Orders issued and to
be issued by Us, a coinage of gold coins, in
accordance with the standards of weight and fineness
of the coins of the currency of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland and of the like designs
as now are and from henceforth may be from time to
time approved by us and in force for the corre-
sponding coins of the currency of the said United
Kingdom, is being or will be made at the Sydney
Branch of our Royal Mint, We have, by and with the
advice of our Privy Council, thought fit to issue this
our Royal Proclamation. And We do ordain,
declare, and command, that upon and from and after
the promulgation thereof by the respective Governors
or Officers Administering the Governments of our
Colony of Victoria and all or any other of our
Colonies and Possessions wherein gold coins issued
from our Mint in London are a legal tender, other
than the Colonies and Possessions specified in the
Proclamation promulgated in pursuance of our Order
in Council of the 14th January, 1871, relating to the
aforesaid gold coins, all the said pieces of gold money
so coined or to be coined shall be, and shall pass and
be received as, current and lawful money, and be a
legal tender for payments in our said Colony of
Victoria and our said other Colonies and Possessions
respectively from the times aforesaid, at the like
values and by the like names as the corresponding
coins of the currency of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, and concurrently with any
coins now current in the said Colony of Victoria and
the said other Colonies and Possessions respectively.

Given at our Court at Windsor, this twenty-
fourth day of March, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one, and in the thirty-fourth year
of our reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

[CIRCULAR.]

Downing Street, 15th March, 1871.

SIR,—The Secretary of State for War has informed

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me that as Her Majesty's troops have been with-
drawn from the Pacific Colonies, he does not consider
that it would be expedient to claim for further
service any men who may be in such Colonies in a
state of desertion from their regiments.

It will therefore be unnecessary to take any steps
for the apprehension of such men in the Colony
under your Government.

I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.

The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.

Downing Street, 8th April, 1871.

SIR,—I submitted to the Law Officers of the Crown
the Memorandum prepared by your Ministers and
transmitted in your Despatch No. 153, of 7th
December last, respecting certain questions which
had been raised in the Colony concerning the Order
in Council regulating Appeals from New Zealand, and
other points affecting the Constitution of the Supreme
Court of the Colony.

The Law Officers have advised that the true con-
struction of "The Supreme Court Act, 1860," is to
make the Court dealt with under a continuation only,
with considerable alteration in its structure and
functions, of the old Supreme Court.

With respect to the questions, Whether, supposing
the present Supreme Court to be a continuation of
the old Supreme Court, it is necessary or desirable
to issue a new Order in Council to regulate appeals
therefrom, and whether direct appeal can or should
be given from the Supreme Court, or whether parties
to suits in New Zealand should be obliged, as a rule,
first to resort to the Court of Appeal now constituted
and regulated in that country by "The New Zealand
Court of Appeal Act, 1862,"—they have advised that
no new Order in Council is necessary, inasmuch as
the power of the Queen to pass by a Colonial Court
of Appeal at Her pleasure, and to hear appeals direct
to Herself, is undoubted; and in such appeals as Her
Majesty may please to entertain direct from the
present Supreme Court in New Zealand, the Order in
Council of the 10th May, 1860, appears to lay down
perfectly proper rules. But "The New Zealand
Court of Appeal Act, 1862," creates a fresh and
there is no reason to doubt an efficient Court of
Appeal, with large powers and an apparently complete
and satisfactory procedure. From this Court, by
the Queen's undoubted prerogative, an appeal lies to
Her Majesty in Council. And that it would be a
very proper rule that (reserving Her Majesty's right
to hear appeals direct from the Supreme Court)
appeals should in general, and as matter of ordinary
practice, come to this country only from the Appeal
Court in New Zealand. This rule might be laid down
by the Judicial Committee for its own guidance and
of its own authority, and would speedily become
known in New Zealand. But it would be perhaps
better, and certainly more respectful to the Colonial
Appeal Court, that such a rule should be made the
subject of a distinct Order in Council, to be formally
communicated to the Colonial authorities.

This opinion of the Law Officers was referred to
the Lord President of the Council, and I transmit to
you a copy of the reply of 10th March. Upon a
further reference to the Law Officers with respect to
the question raised in the last paragraph of that
letter, they reported that legislation in the Colony
was not needed in the matter, and a Draft Order in
Council has been prepared by them to carry out the
views of your Ministers, which shall be submitted to
the next Council. As, however, a question was raised
as to the constitution of the Supreme Court, and as
some short time may elapse before another Council