THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 447
SCHEDULE.
FIRST COLUMN.
Description of Land.
Province of Wellington, Pal-
merston North.—All that par-
cel of land in the Province of
Wellington, containing by ad-
measurement three (3) roods,
more or less, being Town Sec-
tions Nos. 681 and 682 of the
Township of Palmerston North,
District of Manawatu.
Purpose for
which Reserve
is made.
SECOND
COLUMN.
Date of Order
in Council
excepting Land
from Sale.
For Postal and
Telegraph
Purposes.
24th June,
1874.
put in force in all their stipulations and in their full
tenour, and shall continue to have effect as before
the Act of Denunciation of the 15th of March, 1872.
The High Contracting Parties guarantee to each
other reciprocally, as well in the United Kingdom as
in France and Algeria, the treatment, in all respects,
of the most favoured nation.
It is therefore understood that, in conformity
with the stipulations of Article XIX. of the Treaty
of Commerce concluded on the 23rd of January,
1860, and of Article V. of the Supplementary Con-
vention of the 16th of November of the same year,
each of the High Contracting Parties engages to give
the other, immediately and unconditionally, the
benefit of every favour or immunity, every privilege
or reduction of Tariff in regard to the importation of
merchandise, whether mentioned or not in the Treaty
and Conventions of 1860, which have been or may be
conceded by one of the High Contracting Parties to
any foreign nation whatsoever, whether within or
beyond Europe.
It is likewise understood that, in all that relates
to transit, warehousing, exportation, re-exportation,
local dues, brokerage, Customs formalities, samples,
designs for manufactures, and likewise in all matters
relating to the exercise of commerce and industry,
British subjects in France or in Algeria, and French
in the United Kingdom, shall enjoy the treatment of
the most favoured nation.
Despatches from the Secretary of State.
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, 28th March, 1874.
SIR,—I transmit to you, for general information in
the colony under your government, a copy of the
Treaty of the 23rd July, 1873, and of the Supple-
mentary Convention of the 24th January, 1874,
between Great Britain and France, relative to
matters of Commerce and Navigation.
I have, &c.,
CARNARVON.
The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.
TREATY OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION BETWEEN
GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE.
Signed at Versailles, July 23, 1873.
[Ratifications exchanged at Paris, August 4, 1873.]
HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland and the President of the
French Republic, being equally animated with the
desire to draw closer the ties of friendship which
unite the two countries, and of placing on a satisfac-
tory footing the commercial and maritime relations
between the two States have, with this object
determined to conclude a Treaty of Commerce and
Navigation, and they have accordingly appointed
their respective Plenipotentiaries, that is to say,—
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honorable
Richard Bickerton Pemell Lord Lyons, a Peer of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order
of the Bath, one of Her Britannic Majesty's Most
Honorable Privy Council and Her said Majesty's
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to
the French Republic, &c., &c., &c.;
And the President of the French Republic, M. le
Duc de Broglie, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Vice-
President of the Council, Chevalier of the National
Order of the Legion of Honor, &c., &c., &c.;
Who, after having communicated to each other
their respective full powers, found in good and due
form, have agreed upon the following Articles:—
ARTICLE I.
The Treaty of Commerce concluded on the 23rd
of January, 1860, between the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland and France, as also the
Supplementary Conventions of the 12th of October
and 16th of November of the same year, are again
ARTICLE II.
British ships and their cargoes shall in France
and in Algeria, and French ships and their cargoes
shall in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, from whatever place arriving, and whatever
may be the place of origin or destination of their
cargoes, be treated in every respect as national ships
and their cargoes.
The coasting trade, however, is excepted from the
preceding stipulation, and remains subject to the
respective laws of the two countries.
ARTICLE III.
The High Contracting Parties agree to settle by
means of a Supplementary Convention, the ratifica-
tions of which shall be exchanged before the 31st of
January, 1874, such arrangements as may appear to
them to be necessary in regard to Consular attri-
butions, to transit and Customs regulations affecting
entry of goods, expertise, samples, and any other
matters of the like nature, and they agree, moreover,
to substitute this Supplementary Convention for the
stipulations about similar matters comprised in the
Treaties and Conventions of 1860.
ARTICLE IV.
Mineral oils of British origin shall be admitted
into France and Algeria from the 1st of January, 1874,
or sooner if possible, at a Customs duty of 5 per
cent., that is to say, at the rate of duty levied pre-
viously to the passing of the Law of the 8th of July,
1871. It is, nevertheless, agreed that the said oils
shall, in conformity with the stipulations of Article
IX. of the Treaty of the 23rd of January, 1860, again
put into force by Article I. of the present Treaty, be
likewise subject to the duty of 5 fr. or 8 fr. per 100
kilog. established on crude or refined oils by the Law
of the 16th of September, 1871, or that which may
be hereafter levied on the like oils manafactured in
France.
A Commission, consisting of one member on the
part of each Government, shall meet at Paris im-
mediately after the ratification of the present Treaty,
in order to settle, as hereinafter directed, questions
concerning duties levied in France on British mineral
oils, as well as to consider and report on any other
questions which the High Contracting Parties agree,
or shall agree, to refer to it.