THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 739

specified and described in the Schedule hereunder
written are required for the purposes mentioned and
set opposite to the descriptions of the said parcels of
land respectively in the said Schedule, and that the
same have been respectively excepted from sale and
reserved to Her Majesty by the Orders in Council
bearing the dates mentioned in the second column of
the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.
FIRST COLUMN.
Description of Land.
Purpose for
which Reserve
is made.
SECOND COLUMN.
Date of Order
in Council
excepting Land
from Sale.

Town of Akaroa.
All that parcel of land containing
by admeasurement one (1) rood
and four (4) poles more or less.
Bounded-Towards the North-
east by Section No. 97, two
hundred and six (206) links;
towards the South-east by Sec-
tion No. 8, one hundred and
fifty (150) links; towards the
South-west by Rue Balgueri;
and towards the West by
Akaroa Harbour, and num-
bered eighty-one (81) in red.
Site for Custom House or other
purposes of the General Govern-
ment.
18th September, 1872.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

TO JOHN DAVIES ORMOND, Esquire, Superintendent
of the Province of Hawke's Bay.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the several parcels
of Waste Lands of the Crown particularly
specified and described in the Schedule hereunder
written are required for the purposes mentioned and
set opposite to the descriptions of the said parcels of
land respectively in the said Schedule, and that the
same have been respectively excepted from sale and
reserved to Her Majesty by the Orders in Council
bearing the dates mentioned in the second column of
the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.
FIRST COLUMN.
Description of Land.
Town of Napier.
All that parcel of land containing
by admeasurement twenty-five
and a half (25¼) poles more or
less. Bounded-Towards the
North by Waghorne Street,
forty-nine (49) feet; towards
the East by a public road, one
hundred and forty (140) feet
four (4) inches; towards the
South by a public road, thirty-
three (33) feet, and twenty-six
(26) feet five (5) inches; and
towards the West by Town
Section No. 516.
Purpose for
which Reserve
is made.
Site for Custom House or other
purposes of the General Govern-
ment.
SECOND COLUMN.
Date of Order
in Council
excepting Land
from Sale.
18th September, 1872.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd September, 1872.

THE following Despatch, with Enclosure, from
the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for the
Colonies, is published for general information.

HENRY SEWELL.

[CIRCULAR.]
Downing Street, 12th July, 1872.
SIR, I transmit to you, for your information and
guidance, and for publication in the Colony under
your Government, a Copy of an Order of Her
Majesty in Council for carrying into effect a Treaty
between Her Majesty and the Emperor of Germany
for the mutual surrender of Criminals, which was
signed at London, on the 14th of May ultimo.
You will observe that Article 15 declares that the
stipulations of the Treaty shall be applicable to the
Colonies, and provides for the manner of making and
disposing of requisitions for the surrender of fugitive
Criminals who may have taken refuge in any
Colony.
I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.

The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.

EXTRADITION.

Order in Council, dated 25th June, 1872, for carrying
into effect a Treaty between Her Majesty and
the Emperor of Germany for the Mutual Sur-
render of Criminals, signed at London, 24th May,
1872.

At the Court at Windsor, the 25th day of June, 1872.
Present :
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament made and passed
in the Session of Parliament holden in the thirty-
third and thirty-fourth years of the Reign of Her
present Majesty, intituled "An Act for amending
the Law relating to the Extradition of Criminals," it
was, amongst other things, enacted, that where an
arrangement has been made with any Foreign State
with respect to the surrender to such State of any
fugitive criminals, Her Majesty may, by Order in
Council, direct that the said Act shall apply in the
case of such foreign State, and that Her Majesty
may, by the same or any subsequent order, limit
the operation of the Order, and restrict the
same to fugitive Criminals who are in or suspected
of being in the part of Her Majesty's dominions
specified in the Order, and render the operation
thereof subject to such conditions, exceptions, and
qualifications as may be deemed expedient:

And whereas a Treaty was concluded on the four-
teenth day of May last between Her Majesty and the
Emperor of Germany, for the Mutual Extradition of
Fugitive Criminals, which Treaty is in the terms
following:---

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kindgom of
Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the
Emperor of Germany, having judged it expedient,
with a view to the better administration of justice
and to the prevention of crime within the two countries
and their jurisdiction, that persons charged with
or convicted of the crimes hereinafter enumerated,
and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain
circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up; their
said Majesties have named as their Plenipotentiaries
to conclude a Treaty for this purpose, that is to
say :--

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of
ville George Earl Granville, Lord Leveson, a Peer of
the United Kingdom, Knight of the Most Noble Order
of the Garter, a Member of Her Majesty's Privy