Oct. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1407

Consulate in Adelaide.

District: The Colonies of South and West Australia.

Consulate in Melbourne.

District: The Colonies of Victoria and Tasmania.

Consulate at Sydney.

District: The Colonies of New South Wales, Queensland,
and New Zealand.

Consulate at Quebec.

District: The Counties of Maskinongé and St. Maurice,
the Town of Three Rivers and the territory thereto belong-
ing, the Counties of Nicolet, Athabaska (with the exception
of the County of Drummond), Mégantic, and Beauce, with
all the counties lying east of these.

Consulate in Montreal.

District: All the counties situated to the west and south
of the territory belonging to the Consular District of Quebec,
including the County of Drummond.

Consulate at St John.

District: New Brunswick and Newfoundland.

Consulate in Halifax.

Main District: The Province of Nova Scotia and the
Island of Breton.

Sub-district: The Province of Nova Scotia, with the ex-
ception of the Port of Pictou and the County of Pictou, of
the portion of Nova Scotia lying eastward of the Port and
of the County of Pictou, and also with exception of Island of
Breton.

Sub-office.

Consular Agency in the Port of Pictou.

District: The Port and County of Pictou and the division
of Nova Scotia lying eastward of the County of Pictou, in-
cluding the Island of Breton.

Consulate in Belize.

District: British Honduras.

Consulate at Kingston (Jamaica).

District: The Island of Jamaica; also the Turks and
Caicos Islands.

Despatch.—Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation
between Her Majesty and the Republic of the Equator.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd October, 1886.

THE following despatch, with its enclosures, received
from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
the Colonies, is published for general information.
P. A. BUCKLEY.

Downing Street, 16th July, 1886.

SIR,—With reference to Lord Kimberley's circular de-
spatch of the 8th July, 1881, I have the honour to transmit
to you, for information and publication in the colony under
your Government, a copy of a Treaty of Friendship, Com-
merce, and Navigation between Her Majesty and the
Republic of the Equator, signed at Quito on the 18th
October, 1880, the ratifications of which were exchanged at
Quito on the 19th February last.

You will observe that the terms of the protocol of the 17th
July, 1885, relating to the colonies, accord with the wishes
of your Government, as expressed in reply to the above-
quoted despatch.
I have, &c.,
GRANVILLE.

The Officer Administering the Government of
New Zealand.

TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP, COMMERCE, AND NAVIGATION be-
tween Her Majesty and the Republic of the Equator.
—Signed at Quito, the 18th October, 1880.—Ratifications
exchanged at Quito, the 19th February, 1886.

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, and the Republic of the Equator, being
desirous of extending and facilitating the relations of com-
merce between their respective territories and subjects and
citizens, have resolved to conclude a treaty for that purpose,
and have named as their respective Plenipotentiaries, that is
to say,—
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland: Frederic Douglas Hamilton, Esquire,
her Minister Resident to the Republic of the Equator;
And His Excellency the President of the Republic of the
Equator: General Cornelio E. Vernaza, Minister of Foreign
Affairs;
Who, after having communicated to each other their re-
spective full powers, found in good and due form, have
agreed upon and concluded the following articles:—

ARTICLE I.

There shall be perpetual friendship between the dominions
and subjects of Her Majesty the Queen of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, her heirs and successors,
and the Republic of the Equator and its citizens.

ARTICLE II.

There shall be between all the dominions and possessions
of the two high contracting parties reciprocal freedom of
commerce and navigation. The subjects and citizens of
each of the two contracting parties respectively shall have
liberty freely and securely to come, with their ships and
cargoes, to all places, ports, and rivers in the dominions and
possessions of the other to which other foreigners are or
may be permitted to come, and shall, throughout the whole
extent of the dominions and possessions of the other, enjoy
the same rights, privileges, liberties, favours, immunities,
and exemptions in matters of commerce and navigation
which are or may be enjoyed by native subjects or citizens
generally.

ARTICLE III.

No other or higher duties shall be imposed on the im-
portation into the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic
Majesty of any article the produce or manufacture of the
dominions and possessions of the Republic of the Equator,
from whatever place arriving, and no other or higher duties
shall be imposed on the importation into the dominions and
possessions of the Republic of the Equator of any article the
produce or manufacture of Her Britannic Majesty's domi-
ions and possessions, from whatever place arriving, than
are or shall be payable on the like article the produce or
manufacture of any other foreign country; nor shall any
prohibition be imposed on the importation of any article the
produce or manufacture of the dominions and possessions of
either of the two contracting parties into the dominions and
possessions of the other, which shall not equally extend to
the importation of the like articles being the produce or
manufacture of any other country.

ARTICLE IV.

No other or higher duties or charges shall be imposed in
the dominions and possessions of either of the contracting
parties on the exportation of any article to the dominions
and possessions of the other than such as are or may be
payable on the exportation of the like article to any other
foreign country; nor shall any prohibition be imposed on
the exportation of any article from the dominions and pos-
sessions of either of the two contracting parties to the
dominions and possessions of the other which shall not
equally extend to the exportation of the like article to any
other country.

ARTICLE V.

Goods in respect of which import duties shall have been
paid upon the importation thereof by a subject or citizen of
either country, at a port of the United Kingdom or the Re-
public of the Equator, shall not be liable to the payment of
any further import duty in the event of such goods being
conveyed by sea to any other port of the United Kingdom or
Republic: Provided always that both in the United King-
dom and in the Republic of the Equator such reshipments
shall have been made in conformity with the laws of the two
countries respectively for the regulation of the coasting
trade.

ARTICLE VI.

Equality of treatment in regard to warehousing and to the
transit trade, and also in regard to bounties, facilities, and
drawbacks, shall be enjoyed by the subjects and citizens of
the high contracting parties reciprocally.

ARTICLE VII.

All articles the produce or manufacture of the dominions
and possessions of either of the contracting parties, or of any
other country, which are or may be legally importable into
the ports of the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic
Majesty in British vessels, may likewise be imported into
those ports in Equatorian vessels without being liable to
any other or higher duties or charges, of whatever denomina-
tion, than if such articles were imported in British vessels;
and, reciprocally, all articles the produce or manufacture of
the dominions and possessions of either of the contracting
parties, or of any other country, which are or may be legally
importable into the ports of the dominions and possessions
of the Republic of the Equator in Equatorian vessels, may
likewise be imported into those ports in British vessels
without being liable to any other or higher duties or charges,
of whatever denomination, than if such articles were im-
ported in Equatorian vessels. Such reciprocal equality of
treatment shall take effect without distinction, whether
such articles come directly from the place of origin or from
any other place.

In the same manner there shall be perfect equality of
treatment in regard to exportation; so that the same export
duties shall be paid, and the same bounties and drawbacks