JUNE 30.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Places for First Meetings of Voters in the Motueka
and other Highway Districts, County of Waimea.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 29th June, 1881.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the following places to be the places at
which the first meetings of the voters in the under-
mentioned highway districts shall be held :-

Motueka Highway District,-
The Institute, Motueka.

Riwaka Highway District,-
The Schoolroom, Riwaka.

Lower Moutere Highway District,--
The Schoolroom, Lower Moutere.

Upper Moutere Highway District,-
The Public Hall, Upper Moutere.

Pangatotara Highway District,-
The Schoolroom, Ngatimoti.

The day and hour at which such meetings shall be
held being Monday, the 4th July next, at noon, as
provided by "The Nelson Highways Act, 1872."

THOMAS DICK.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd June, 1881.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to issue Letters of Naturalisation, under
"The Aliens Act, 1880," in favour of the under-
mentioned persons, viz. :-

THOMAS DICK.

Despatch.—Treaty with Luxemburg for Surrender of
Fugitive Criminals.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th June, 1881.

THE following despatch from Her Majesty's Prin-
cipal Secretary of State for the Colonies is pub-
lished for general information.

THOMAS DICK.

Downing Street,
15th March, 1881.

SIR,—I have the honor to transmit to you, for pub-
lication in the colony under your government, a copy
of a letter from the Foreign Office, enclosing an
Order of Her Majesty in Council, dated the 2nd of
March, for giving an effect to the treaty between
this country and Luxemburg, signed on the 24th
of November last, for the mutual surrender of fugi-
tive criminals.

I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.

The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.

Foreign Office,
5th March, 1881.

SIR,—I am directed by Earl Granville to acquaint
you, for the information of the Secretary of State for
the Colonies, that an Order in Council was passed on
the 2nd instant for carrying into effect the treaty for
the mutual surrender of fugitive criminals signed
between Great Britain and Luxemburg on the 24th
of November last,

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The Order in Council was published in the London
Gazette of the 4th instant, of which I am to enclose
copies; and I am to add that the treaty will come
into operation in this country on the 15th instant,
in conformity with the stipulation contained in
Article XV.

I am, &c.,
TENTERDEN.

The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.

[Extract from the London Gazette of Friday, March 4, 1881.]

At the Court at Windsor, the second day of
March, 1881.
Present:

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, LORD PRE-
SIDENT, LORD STEWARD, MARQUESS OF HUNTLY,
MR. BRIGHT, SIR ARTHUR HOBHOUSE.

WHEREAS by the Extradition Acts of 1870 and 1873
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 fugi-
tive criminals who are in or are 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 twenty-
fourth day of November, one thousand eight hundred
and eighty, between Her Majesty and the King of
the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, 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 Majesty the King
of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg,
having judged it expedient, with a view to the better
administration of justice, and to the prevention of
crime within the territories of Her Britannic Majesty
and the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, that persons
charged with or convicted of the crimes hereinafter
enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should,
under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered
up, their said Majesties have named as their Plenipo-
tentiaries to conclude a treaty for this purpose,
that is to say,—

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland: The Honorable William
Stuart, a Companion of the Most Honorable Order
of the Bath, Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of
the Netherlands, as Grand Duke of Luxemburg:

And His Majesty the King of the Netherlands,
Grand Duke of Luxemburg: Baron Felix de Bloc-
hausen, Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of
Oak, Chevalier of the Second Class of the Order of
the Golden Lion of the House of Nassau, &c., &c, his
Minister of State, President of the Government of
the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg;

Who, after having communicated to each other
their respective full powers, found in good and due
form, have agreed upon and concluded the following
articles :—

ARTICLE I.

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland engages to deliver up,
under the circumstances and on the conditions stipu-
lated in the present treaty, all persons, and His
Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke
of Luxemburg, so far as concerns the Grand Duchy
of Luxemburg, engages to deliver up, under the like