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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Council; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; at the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Election of Councillors for the Borough of New Plymouth.

NORMANBY, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:

WHEREAS by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,” it is enacted that for the first election of Councillors under the said Act in every borough in which no Councillors shall as yet have been in office, those persons enrolled on any electoral roll which, under the provisions of “The Registration of Electors Act, 1866,” shall for the time being be in force, whose qualifications are in respect of lands and tenements situate within the borough, and none other, shall, on such day as the Governor shall appoint, not being less than forty days after the same shall have become such borough, and in the manner therein mentioned, elect the whole number of Councillors by the said Act assigned to such borough; and by the said Act it is also provided that every election of Councillors for any borough not divided into wards shall be held by and before the Mayor of the borough, and that if at any time there shall be no Mayor the Council of the borough, or if there be no such Council the Governor, may and shall appoint some person by and before whom such election shall be conducted:

And whereas the Town of New Plymouth was, by Proclamation bearing date the eleventh day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of this day’s date, constituted a borough under the said Act:

And whereas it has been made to appear to me that there is no Mayor of the said borough, nor any Council of the said borough, and that the said borough is not divided into wards:

Now know ye that I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers vested in me by the said Act, do hereby appoint the twenty-second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, to be the day whereon the first election of Councillors for the Borough of New Plymouth shall take place; and in further exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, I do hereby appoint

HARRY EYRE KENNY, Esq.,

of New Plymouth, to be the person by and before whom the said election shall be held.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Most Honorable George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy Council; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Com-

mander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; at the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Despatch from the Secretary of State.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 17th August, 1876.

THE following despatch from Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, with its enclosure, is published for general information.

DANIEL POLLEN.

[CIRCULAR.]

Downing Street, 21st February, 1876.

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 President of the Republic of Honduras for the mutual surrender of fugitive criminals, as well as a copy of the Order in Council of the 5th instant, for carrying that Treaty into effect.

I have, &c.,

CARNARVON.

The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.

[Extract from the London Gazette of Tuesday, Feb. 8, 1876.]
At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 5th day of February, 1876.

Present:

THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Session of Parliament held 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,” and also by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Session of Parliament held in the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled “An Act to amend the Extradition Act, 1870,” 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 Acts 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 sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, between Her Majesty and the President of the Republic of Honduras, for the Mutual Extradition 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 Excellency the President of the Republic of Honduras, 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 re-