THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 327

ARTICLE XVII.
The present treaty shall be ratified and the ratifi-
cations shall be exchanged at London as soon as
possible.
It shall come into operation ten days after its
publication, in conformity with the laws of the
respective countries, and each of the contracting
parties may at any time terminate the treaty on
giving to the other six months' notice of its intention
to do so.
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries
have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the
seals of their arms.
Done at London, the fourth day of June, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight.
(L.S.) SALISBURY.
(L.S.) MARQUES DE CASA LAIGLESIA.

And whereas the ratifications of the said treaty
were exchanged at London on the twenty-first in-
stant:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the
advice of Her Privy Council, and in virtue of the
authority committed to her by the said recited Acts,
doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that, from and
after the ninth day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight, the said Acts shall apply
in the case of the said treaty with the King of Spain.
C. L. PEEL.

District Board and Auditors appointed for
Mangapai Highway District.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 3rd March, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to appoint

RICHARD KNAGGS,
WILLIAM HARRISON,
GEORGE MCCULLOUGH,
JAMES SLOANE, and
JAMES BLACKBURN

to be the District Board of the Mangapai Highway
District, County of Whangarei, for the ensuing year;
and also to appoint

EBENEZER CARTER and
LOUIS ADOLPHUS DURRIEU

to be Auditors of the said Highway Board for the
ensuing year.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Appointments of Medical Staff, Christchurch
Hospital, cancelled.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th March, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to cancel, at their own
request, the appointments held by

James S. Turnbull, Esq., M.D.,
William Deamer, Esq., M.D.,
Patrick Doyle, Esq., M.D.,
John David Frankish, Esq., M.D.,
Thomas Bell Hay, Esq., M.R.C.S.E.,
Courtney Nedwill, Esq., M.D.,
Llewellyn Powell, Esq., M.D.,
Henry Horsford Prins, Esq., and
William Henry Symes, Esq., M.D.,

as Members of the Medical Staff of the Christ-
church Hospital, Christchurch.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Australian International Exhibition.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th January, 1879.

REFERRING to the notice published in the New
Zealand Gazette No. 36, of the 26th of April,
1878, relative to the Australian International Ex-
hibition to be held in Sydney, New South Wales, in
August, 1879, it is hereby further notified that the
Government of New Zealand will be prepared to
receive and to forward to Sydney any articles for
exhibition which may be prepared by persons resi-
dent in this colony.

A Royal Commission will be appointed immediately,
who will prepare and publish regulations under which
they will receive exhibits for transmission.

As articles for exhibition should be shipped from
Wellington not later than June next, persons wish-
ing to exhibit are invited to communicate with Dr.
Hector, the Chairman of the Royal Commission,
without delay.

All expenses of transmitting and exhibiting ap-
proved articles will be defrayed by the Government;
but, as experience has proved that in exhibitions of
this kind the best effect is produced by a few well-
displayed objects of considerable size, and as the
space allowed to the colony for exhibition will be
limited, a careful selection will have to be made, so
that the representation may be complete.

The Collectors of Customs at the various ports have
been instructed to receive exhibits, and to forward
them to the Chairman of the Exhibition Commission
at Wellington, by whom they will be collected and
transmitted to Sydney; but no exhibits can be re-
ceived later than the 30th June, 1879.

After the Exhibition is closed, the exhibits will be
either returned to exhibitors free of expense, or sold
or otherwise disposed of in Sydney, at the desire of
the exhibitors; but the Government undertakes no
responsibility for loss or damage, either in transit or
during exhibition, or in regard to the price to be
realized if sold, nor will they guarantee the safe
remittance of the money.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Justices of the Peace appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 28th February, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JOHN MCELWAIN, Esq., of Auckland, and
EDWARD WILLIAM MILLS, Esq., of Wellington,

to be Justices of the Peace for the colony.
JOHN SHEEHAN.

Assistant Law Officer resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 28th February, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to accept the resigna-
tion by

EDWARD STAFFORD, Esq.,

of his appointment as Assistant Law Officer of the
Crown within the colony.
JOHN SHEEHAN.

Member of Licensing Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 28th February, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM ELDER, Esq., J.P.,