976
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 67
It is mutually agreed that if any seamen or appren-
tices, not being slaves, should desert from any ship
belonging to a subject of either of the Contracting
Parties, within any port in the territories or in the
possessions or colonies of the other Contracting
Party, the authorities of such port and territory,
possession or colony, shall be bound to give every
assistance in their power for the apprehension and
sending on board of such deserters, on application to
that effect being made to them by the Consul of the
country to which the ship of the deserter may belong,
or by the deputy or representative of the Consul.
It is understood that the preceding stipulations
shall not apply to subjects of the country where the
desertion shall take place.

Each of the two High Contracting Parties reserves
to itself the right of terminating this agreement at
any time, on giving to the other a year's notice of its
wish to that effect.

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

Done at London in duplicate, the fifth day of
November, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine.

(L.S.)
(L.S.)
SALISBURY.
MÜNSTER.

Downing Street,
6th May, 1880.
(New Zealand, No. 2.)
SIR,-I have the honor to transmit to you the
enclosed order of Her Majesty in Council, assenting
to the reserved Bill of the Legislature of New Zea-
land, 43° Vict., No. 49, entitled "An Act to amend
the Law relating to the Administration of the Estates
of Deceased Persons," a transcript of which accom-
panied your Despatch No. 85, of the 20th December
last.
I have, &c.,

Governor Sir Hercules Robinson,
G.C.M.G., &c.
KIMBERLEY.

At the Court, at Windsor, the twentieth day of April,
1880.
Present:

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, His Royal
Highness Prince Leopold, Lord President, Vis-
count Cranbrook, Lord John Manners, Mr. Secre-
tary Cross, Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr. W. H.
Smith.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the session held in
the fifteenth and sixteenth years of Her Majesty's
reign, entitled "An Act to grant a Representative
Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it is,
amongst other things, declared that no Bill which
shall be reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's
pleasure thereon shall have any force or authority
within the Colony of New Zealand until the Gover-
nor of the said colony shall signify, either by speech
or message, to the Legislative Council and House of
Representatives of the said colony, or by Proclama-
tion, that such Bill has been laid before Her Majesty
in Council, and that Her Majesty has been pleased
to assent to the same:

And whereas a certain Bill, passed by the Legisla-
tive Council and House of Representatives of the
said colony, "No. 49 of 1879, entitled an Act to
amend the Law relating to the Administration of the
Estates of Deceased Persons," was presented to the
Officer Administering the Government of the said
colony for Her Majesty's assent:

And whereas the said Bill was reserved by the said
officer for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure
thereon:

And whereas the said Bill so reserved as aforesaid
has been laid before Her Majesty in Council, and it
is expedient that the said Bill should be assented to
by Her Majesty:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of the
said Act, and in exercise of the power thereby reserved
to Her Majesty as aforesaid, doth, by this present
order, by and with the advice of Her Majesty's Privy
Council, declare her assent to the said Bill.
C. L. PEEL.

Notice to Mariners. No. 29 of 1880.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 28th June, 1880.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from
the Marine Board of South Australia, and the
Commissioner of Trade and Customs at Melbourne,
are published for general information.

H. A. ATKINSON.

CAPE PATTERSON.

THE following report from the Secretary to the
Gippsland Steam Navigation Company is published
for the information of mariners navigating in the
vicinity of Cape Patterson.

"During a severe squall on Saturday night, the
22nd instant, a mud pontoon, in tow of the steamer
'Murray' for Gippsland Lakes, parted from the
hawser about ten miles off Cape Patterson, and, owing
to the heavy sea, nothing could be seen of it, though
search was made for several hours. It is not known
whether it has foundered or may still be floating
about."

CHARLES B. PAYNE,
Chief Harbourmaster.
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Melbourne, 25th May, 1880.

GIPPSLAND LAKES. - LIGHT AT MCMILLAN'S STRAITS.

ON and after the 14th June, 1880, a red-and-white
light will be exhibited from a lamp-post, about 30
feet high, at the eastern entrance to McMillan's
Straits.

The light will be cut so as to show red to the
northward of the beacon on the shoal running off the
N.E. end of Raymond Island, and white to the south-
ward of the said beaeon.

CHARLES B. PAYNE,
Chief Harbourmaster.
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Melbourne, 27th May, 1880.

PILOTAGE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the provisions of the
Marine Board Acts, 1860 to 1879, which relate to
pilotage, are hereby extended by the Marine Board
to the following ports in this province, viz.: Port
MacDonnell, Port Beachport (Rivoli Bay), Port
Victor, Port Wallaroo, Port Pirie, and Port Augusta;
and that, from and after the 10th day of June, 1880,
if the master of any ship shall proceed to sea from
any of the above-mentioned ports without receiving
on board a qualified pilot to conduct the said ship,
such master shall be liable to the provisions and
penalties of section 123 of "The Marine Board Act,
1860," and of all other sections of the said Act, and
of all other Acts relating to the regulation of ship-
ping and pilots within the said province.

By direction of the Board.
THOS. N. STEPHENS,
Marine Board Offices,
Secretary.
Port Adelaide, 27th May, 1880.