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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 8

-Havelock Cemetery Trust Managers for the year
1881.

WM. MACANDREW,
JOHN NORMAN,
JOHN YORK,
} Managers.

Declared before me, at Waitahuna, this 11th
day of January, 1882-Francis Oudaille, J.P.

BALANCE-SHEET of the Palmerston South Ceme-
tery for Year ending 31st December, 1881.

1880. Dec. 31. To Balance in hand

1881. Mar. 31. To Arrears, Sayers...
      Sayers, 1881.

DR.
£ s. d.
23 16 5
2 0 0
30 0 0
£55 16 5

1881. CR.
      Jan. 10. By W. Pollock, labour done ...
      " 12. James Diack, iron standards
      Aug. 2. Barr and Oliver, surveying
      Sept. 14. W. Pickup, inspection of trees
      R. Brown, inspection of trees
      Nov. 1. J. Davidson, trenching contract
      J. T. Gwynne, stamps, stationery
      Dec. 13. W. Barry, labour done
      " 31. Secretary, salary
      Balance in Bank

£ s. d.
1 0 0
10 4 0
2 10 0
0 6 3
0 4 0
16 0 0
0 12 5
0 15 0
5 0 0
19 4 9
£55 16 5

We hereby certify that the above is a correct
statement of receipts and expenditure in connection
with the affairs of the Palmerston South Cemetery.

ROBERT HIGHET, }Managers.
WILLIAM ALFRED YOUNG,

Signed and declared before me, this 10th day of
January, 1882-William Brown, J.P.

Despatch.-Forwarding Copy of Agreement between
Great Britain and Denmark re Merchant Seamen
Deserters.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 19th January, 1882.

THE following circular despatch received from the
Secretary of State for the Colonies, forwarding
copy of an agreement made between Great Britain
and Denmark relative to merchant seamen deserters,
together with its enclosures, is published for general
information.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Downing Street, 7th November, 1881.

SIR,-With reference to my circular despatch of the
8th August, I have the honor to transmit, for pub-
lication in the colony under your Government, a
copy of the agreement between Great Britain and
Denmark relative to merchant seamen deserters,
signed on the 21st June.

I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.

The Officer Administering the Government
of New Zealand.

At the Court at Windsor, the fifteenth day of July,
1881.
Present:
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN
COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Foreign Deserters Act, 1852," it
is provided that, whenever it is made to appear to
Her Majesty that due facilities are or will be given
for recovering and apprehending seamen who desert
from British merchant ships in the territories of any
foreign Power, Her Majesty may, by Order in Coun-
cil, stating that such facilities are or will be given,

declare that seamen, not being slaves, who desert
from merchant ships belonging to a subject of such
Power when within Her Majesty's dominions, shall
be liable to be apprehended and carried on board
their respective ships, and may limit the operation of
such order, and may render the operation thereof
subject to such conditions and qualifications, if any,
as may be deemed expedient:

And whereas it hath been made to appear to Her
Majesty that due facilities for recovering and appre-
hending seamen (not being Danish subjects) who
desert from British merchant ships in territories
belonging to His Majesty the King of Denmark will
be given under an agreement between the Govern-
ments of Great Britain and Denmark, signed at
London on the 21st of June, 1881:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the
powers vested in her by the said "Foreign Deserters
Act, 1852," and by and with the advice of her Privy
Council, is pleased to order and declare, and it is
hereby ordered and declared, that, from and after the
publication hereof in the London Gazette, seamen,
not being slaves (and not being British subjects), who
desert from merchant ships belonging to subjects of
the King of Denmark within Her Majesty's dominions,
shall be liable to be apprehended and carried on board
their respective ships; provided always that, if any
such deserter has committed any crime in Her
Majesty's dominions, he may be detained until he has
been tried by a competent Court, and until his sen-
tence, if any, has been fully carried into effect.

And Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers vested
in her by the said "Foreign Deserters Act, 1852,"
and by and with the advice of her Privy Council, is
further pleased to order and declare that, upon and
after the publication hereof in the London Gazette,
the Order in Council relating to seamen who desert
from the merchant ships belonging to the subjects of
the King of Denmark made, by virtue of the said
Act, on the 13th day of June, 1853, and published in
the London Gazette on the 14th day of June, 1853,
shall be revoked, and the same is hereby revoked
accordingly.

And the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the
Secretary of State for India in Council, are to give
the necessary directions herein accordingly.

C. L. PEEL.

AGREEMENT between the Governments of Great
Britain and Denmark relative to Merchant Sea-
men Deserters.-Signed at London, 21st June,
1881.

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 Den-
mark, being desirous, for the benefit of the commerce
of the two countries, to facilitate the discovery,
apprehension, and surrender of seamen who may
desert from merchant vessels of either country, on
the basis of a full and entire reciprocity, have agreed
as follows:-

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