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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Members and Auditors of Ruarangi Highway Board
appointed.

NORMANBY, Governor.

WHEREAS at the annual meeting of the rate-
payers of the Ruarangi Highway District, in
the County of Whangarei, held on the fourteenth day
of July last, there were not present at such meeting
ten qualified persons as is required by section thirteen
of "The (Auckland) Highways Act, 1874," and such
meeting therefore failed to elect a District Board
and Auditors; and whereas it is expedient to appoint
a District Board and Auditors, as is authorized by
the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the
powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act,
and by "The Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875," do
hereby appoint

WILLIAM BULLIONS,
THOMAS WEIR,
WALKER MORLEY,
WILLIAM FRASER, and
THOMAS COX,

to be the District Board of the Ruarangi Highway
District for the ensuing year:

And I do further appoint

THOMAS HUNTER, and
JOHN SOLON,

to be Auditors of the aforesaid Highway Board for
the ensuing year.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twenty-third day of No-
vember, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-seven.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Despatch from the Secretary of State.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 29th November, 1877.

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

G. S. WHITMORE.

[CIRCULAR.]

Downing Street, 22nd August, 1877.

SIR,-With reference to my circular despatch of
the 2nd August, 1876, I have the honor to transmit
to you, for publication in the colony under your
Government, a copy of an Order of the Queen in
Council for giving effect to a Declaration concluded
between the Government of Her Majesty and the
Government of His Majesty the King of the Belgians,
on the 23rd July last, extending the provisions of the
Extradition Treaty of the 20th May, 1876, to certain
additional crimes.

The Declaration will come into operation on the
27th of this month.

I have, &c.,
CARNARVON.

The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.

Extract from the London Gazette of Friday, 17th
August, 1877.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the
13th day of August, 1877.

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 Amend-
ing the Law relating to the Extradition of Criminals,"
and also by an Act of Parliament made and passed in
the session of Parliament holden 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
twentieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-six, between Her Majesty and the King
of the Belgians, for the mutual extradition of crimi-
nals, to which Treaty the above-mentioned Acts of
Parliament were applied by an Order in Council of
the twenty-first day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-six:

And whereas a Declaration was concluded on the
twenty-third day of July, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-seven, between the Government of Her
Majesty and the Government of His Majesty the
King of the Belgians, extending the provisions of
the above-mentioned Treaty to certain additional
crimes, which Declaration is in the terms following:---

The Government of Her Majesty the Queen of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
and the Government of His Majesty the King of the
Belgians, having judged it expedient, with the view
to the more complete prevention of crime within their
respective territories, that persons charged with or
convicted of certain crimes in addition to those
enumerated in Article I. of the Treaty between
Great Britain and Belgium for the mutual surrender
of fugitive criminals, of the 20th May, 1876, shall,
under the provisions of that Treaty, be reciprocally
delivered up, have agreed as follows:---

Persons charged as principals or accessories with
or convicted of the under-mentioned crimes committed
in the territories of the one Party, and who shall be
found within the territories of the other Party, shall
be reciprocally delivered up to each other under the
circumstances and conditions stated in the Treaty
between Great Britain and Belgium for the mutual
surrender of fugitive criminals, of the 20th May,
1876:---

1. Administering drugs or using instruments
   with intent to procure the miscarriage of
   women.
2. Bigamy.
3. Abandoning children, exposing or unlawfully
   detaining them.
4. Any malicious act done with intent to endan-
   ger persons in a railway train.
5. Receiving any chattel, money, valuable secu-
   rity, or other property, knowing the same to
   have been embezzled, stolen, or feloniously
   obtained.

The provisions of the present Declaration shall
come into force ten days after its publication, in
conformity with the forms prescribed by the laws
of the High Contracting Parties.

In witness whereof the undersigned have signed
the present Declaration, and have affixed thereto the
seals of their arms.