416
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Provided that in case any of the days so fixed as
aforesaid shall happen to be a holiday, then the Court
so appointed for that day shall be holden on the first
day thereafter, not being a holiday.

Issued this twenty-third day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

Resignation of Seat in the Executive Council of
New Zealand.

Executive Council Chamber,
Wellington, 24th June, 1874.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to accept the resignation by
Commodore GOODENOUGH, R.N.,
of his seat in the Executive Council of New Zealand.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Despatches from the Secretary of State.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 24th June, 1874.

THE following Despatches, with enclosures, from
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
the Colonies, are published for general information.

DANIEL POLLEN.

[CIRCULAR.]
Downing Street, 14th March, 1874.

SIR,-I transmit to you, for your information and
guidance, and for insertion in the Book of Colonial
Regulations in lieu of the existing Rule numbered
84, a fresh section relating to suspension from office,
which has been drawn up in accordance with sugges-
tions which I have received from the Governor of the
Leeward Islands.

I have, &c.,
CARNARVON.

The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.

84. If no answer is given by the officer within the
    time allowed to him for that purpose by the Governor,
    or if the answer is not so far satisfactory as to obviate,
    in the Governor's opinion, the necessity of proceed-
    ing to suspension, the Governor must apprise the
    officer that, on a day to be named, and which shall
    be after such an interval as will allow the officer a
    reasonable time for preparing his defence, the ques-
    tion whether he shall be suspended or not will be
    brought before the Executive Council, or in British
    Guiana the Official Members of the Court of Policy,
    and that he must defend himself before the Council
    in writing. The Council may determine whether, in
    addition to such written defence, the officer shall be
    required also to defend himself orally.

[CIRCULAR.]
Downing Street, 30th March, 1874.

SIR,-I have the honor to transmit to you, for
publication in the Colony under your Government, a
copy of a Treaty between Her Majesty and the
Emperor of Austria for the mutual surrender of
Fugitive Criminals, as well as a copy of the Order in
Council of the 17th instant, for carrying into effect
that Treaty, which will come into operation on the
30th of March.

I have, &c.,
CARNARVON.

The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.

At the Court at Windsor, the 17th day of March,
1874.

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 third
day of December last between Her Majesty and the
Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, &c., &c., and
Apostolic King of Hungary, for the mutual extra-
dition of fugitive criminals, which Treaty is in the
terms following:--

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the
Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, &c., &c., &c.,
and Apostolic King of Hungary, 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 jurisdictions, 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
Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honorable
Sir Andrew Buchanan, 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 Plenipo-
tentiary to His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Ma-
jesty;

And His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty,
the Count Julius Andrassy of Csik-Szent-Király
and Kraszna Horka, His Imperial and Royal Ma-
jesty's Privy Councillor, Minister of the Imperial
House and of Foreign Affairs, Grand Cross of the
Order of St. Stephen, &c.;

Who, after having communicated to each other their
respective full powers, found in good and due form,
have agreed upon and concluded the following
Articles:--

ARTICLE I.

The High Contracting Parties engage to deliver
up to each other those persons who, being accused or
convicted of a crime committed in the territory of
the one Party, shall be found within the territory of
the other Party, under the circumstances and con-
ditions stated in the present Treaty.

ARTICLE II.

The crimes for which the extradition is to be
granted are the following:--

1. Murder, or attempt to murder.
2. Manslaughter.
3. Counterfeiting or altering money; uttering
   or bringing into circulation counterfeit or altered
   money.