Nov. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1515

Members of Land Board reappointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to reappoint the under-mentioned Members of the several Land Boards noted, viz. :—

Canterbury Land Board.

ARTHUR PYNE O’CALLAGHAN, Esq., M.H.R., as from the 25th November, 1886.

JOHN OLLIVIER, Esq., as from the 28th November, 1886.

Otago Land Board.

JOHN MCKENZIE, Esq., M.H.R., as from the 25th November, 1886.

Southland Land Board.

CUTHBERT COWAN, Esq., M.H.R., as from the 3rd December, 1886.

ROBERT STOUT,
(For the Minister of Lands.)

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 24th November, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the under-mentioned appointment, viz. :—

Southland Hussars.

George Crosbie to be Honorary Veterinary Surgeon. Date of commission, 10th November, 1886.

ROBERT STOUT,
(For the Minister of Justice.)

Volunteer Officer transferred.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 24th November, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the transfer of

Honorary Surgeon PATRICK CONNOLLY

from the Wanganui Naval Artillery Volunteers to the Alexandra Cavalry Volunteers, vice Tripe, appointed Surgeon-Major to the West Coast (North Island) Battalion Rifle Volunteers.

ROBERT STOUT,
(For the Minister of Defence.)

Volunteer Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 24th November, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by the undermentioned officer :—

Timaru Rifle Volunteers.

Lieutenant George Hampden Rhodes. Date of resignation, 15th November, 1886.

ROBERT STOUT,
(For the Minister of Defence.)

Resignation of a Member of the Waikiekie Domain Board.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of

HENRY MASON, Esq.,

as a Member of the Waikiekie Domain Board.

ROBERT STOUT,
(For the Minister of Lands.)

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 17th November, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

WALTER GUTHRIE, Esq.,

of Invercargill, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the colony.

ROBERT STOUT,
(For the Minister of Justice.)

Notice under “The Justices of the Peace Act Amendment Act, 1886.”

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 21st November, 1886.

IT is hereby notified that

ALFRED LIPMAN LEVY

has, in accordance with the provisions of section 7 of “The Justices of the Peace Act Amendment Act, 1886,” ceased to be a Justice of the Peace.

ROBERT STOUT,
(For the Minister of Justice.)

Despatch.—Forwarding Copy of “International Copyright Act, 1886,” &c.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th November, 1886.

THE following despatch, received from Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Downing Street, 31st August, 1886.

Sir,—With reference to my predecessor’s despatch (general) of the 16th April last, I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the colony under your Government, a copy of the International Copyright Act (49 and 50 Vict., cap. 33) passed in the last session of Parliament.

I have also the honour to enclose a copy of the parliamentary paper* noted in the margin (Parliamentary Paper, C. 4856), containing further correspondence respecting the formation of an International Copyright Union, in continuation of the paper enclosed in Lord Granville’s despatch above referred to.

I have, &c.,

EDWARD STANHOPE.

The Officer Administering the Government of
New Zealand.

*Too voluminous for publication.

CHAPTER 33.

AN ACT to amend the Law respecting International and Colonial Copyright.

[25th June, 1886.

WHEREAS by the International Copyright Acts Her Majesty is authorized, by Order in Council, to direct that, as regards literary and artistic works first published in a foreign country, the author shall have copyright therein during the period specified in the order not exceeding the period during which authors of the like works first published in the United Kingdom have copyright ;

And whereas at an international conference held at Berne in the month of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, a draft of a convention was agreed to for giving to authors of literary and artistic works first published in one of the countries parties to the convention copyright in such works throughout the other countries parties to the convention :

And whereas, without the authority of Parliament, such convention cannot be carried into effect in Her Majesty’s dominions, and consequently Her Majesty cannot become a party thereto, and it is expedient to enable Her Majesty to accede to the convention :

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

Short Titles and construction.

1. (1.) This Act may be cited as “The International Copyright Act, 1886.”

(2.) The Acts specified in the first part of the First Schedule to this Act are in this Act referred to and may be cited by the Short Titles in that Schedule mentioned, and those Acts, together with the enactment specified in the second part of the said Schedule, are in this Act collectively referred to as the International Copyright Acts.

The Acts specified in the Second Schedule to this Act may be cited by the Short Titles in that Schedule mentioned, and those Acts are in this Act referred to and may be cited collectively as the Copyright Acts.

(3.) This Act and the International Copyright Acts shall be construed together, and may be cited together as the International Copyright Acts, 1844 to 1886.

Amendments as to extent and effect of order and International Copyright Acts.

2. The following provisions shall apply to an Order in Council under the International Copyright Acts :—

(1.) The order may extend to all the several foreign countries named or described therein :

(2.) The order may exclude or limit the rights conferred by the International Copyright Acts in the case of authors who are not subjects or citizens of the foreign countries named or described in that or any other order ; and if the order contains such limitation, and the author of a literary or artistic work first produced in one of those foreign countries is not a British subject nor a subject or citizen of any of the foreign countries so named or described, the publisher of