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to be Members of the Land Board for the Land District of Taranaki, as from the 2nd January, 1890.

G. H. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

Police Gaoler appointed.

Department of Justice (Prisons Branch),
Wellington, 6th January, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable EDWIN JOSEPH LAWLISS

to be Police Gaoler at Herbertsville, vice — Schultz, transferred.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Officers under “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” appointed for Otago District.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 10th January, 1890.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 9 of “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,”

HENRY L. ST. GEORGE HAMILTON, of Glenoamaru,
RODERICK MCDONALD, of Whare Flat,
DONALD MCGUILKIN, Jun., of Whare Flat, and
WILLIAM FRAZER, of Lovell’s Flat,

have been appointed Officers for the purposes of that Act within all that area in the Provincial District of Otago bounded on the east and south by the ocean, from Shag Point to the mouth of the Mataura River; on the north-west by Lake County; on the west and south-west by the Mataura River; and on the north, north-west, and north-east by the Counties of Westland and Waitaki.

EDWIN MITCHELSON.

Volunteer Corps disbanded.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 15th January, 1890.

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

Heathcote Rifle Volunteers.

Date of disbandment, 19th December, 1889.

The under-mentioned gentleman therefore ceases to be an officer in the New Zealand Volunteer Force, his commission having lapsed under the provisions of “The Defence Act, 1886:”—

Lieutenant Harry Robert Peel.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Visiting Justice resigned.

Department of Justice (Prisons Branch),
Wellington, 6th January, 1890.

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

HENRY WIRGMAN ROBINSON, Esq., R.M.,

as a Visiting Justice of the Police Gaol at Oamaru.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Despatch. — Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation with Mexico.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 10th January, 1890.

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

W. R. RUSSELL.

Downing Street, 29th March, 1889.

SIR,—I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the colony under your Government, a copy of a Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation between Her Majesty and the United States of Mexico, signed at Mexico on the 27th of November, 1888, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Mexico on the 11th of February last.

I have to call your attention to Article XIV. of the treaty, from which you will observe that, if it is desired that the colony under your Government should come within the operation of the treaty, notice to that effect must be given to the Mexican Government within two years from the 11th ultimo, the date of the exchange of the ratifications.

I have therefore to request that you will be good enough to acquaint me as soon as possible of the wishes of your Government in the matter.

I have, &c.,

KNUTSFORD.

The Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand,

TREATY of FRIENDSHIP, COMMERCE, and NAVIGATION between HER MAJESTY and the UNITED STATES of MEXICO. —Signed at Mexico, 27th November, 1888.—Ratifications exchanged at Mexico, 11th February, 1889.

HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Excellency the President of the United States of Mexico, being desirous of maintaining and strengthening friendly relations, and of promoting commercial intercourse between the dominions of Her Britannic Majesty and the territories of the Mexican Republic, have resolved to conclude a Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation, and have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say,—

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: Sir Spenser St. John, Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Her Britannic Majesty in Mexico;

And His Excellency the President of the United States of Mexico: Señor Senador Don Emilio Velasco, ex-Minister Plenipotentiary of Mexico in France, &c. ;

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.

There shall be perfect peace and sincere friendship between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States of Mexico. The high contracting parties shall use their best endeavours that this friendship and good understanding may be constantly and perpetually maintained.

ARTICLE II.

The contracting parties agree that, in all matters relating to commerce and navigation, any privilege, favour, or immunity whatever, which either contracting party has actually granted, or may hereafter grant, to the subjects or citizens of any other State, shall be extended immediately and unconditionally to the subjects or citizens of the other contracting party, it being their intention that the trade and navigation of each country shall be placed, in all respects, by the other on the footing of the most favoured nation.

ARTICLE III.

The produce and manufactures of the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty which are imported into the United States of Mexico, and the produce and manufactures of Mexico which are imported into the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, whether intended for consumption, warehousing, re-exportation, or transit, shall be treated in the same manner as, and, in particular, shall be subjected to no higher or other duties, whether general, municipal, or local, than, the produce, manufactures, and goods of any third country the most favoured in this respect. No other or higher duties shall be levied in Mexico on the exportation of any goods to the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, or in the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty on the exportation of any goods to Mexico, than may be levied on the exportation of the like goods to any third country the most favoured in this respect.

Neither of the contracting parties shall establish a prohibition of importation, exportation, re-exportation, or transit against the other which shall not, under like circumstances, be applicable to any third country the most favoured in this respect.

In like manner, in all that relates to local dues, customs, formalities, brokerage, patterns, or samples introduced by commercial travellers, and all other matters connected with trade, British subjects in Mexico, and Mexican citizens in the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, shall enjoy most-favoured-nation treatment.

In the event of any changes being made in Mexican laws, customs tariff or regulations, sufficient notice shall be given, in order to enable British subjects to make the necessary arrangements for meeting them.

The Mexican authorities shall, moreover, deal equitably with all cases arising from unintentional ignorance of any of the changes above mentioned.

ARTICLE IV.

British ships and their cargoes shall, in Mexico, and Mexican vessels and their cargoes shall, in the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, from whatever place arriving, and whatever may be the place of origin or destination of their cargoes, be treated in every respect as ships and cargoes of the most favoured nation.

The preceding stipulation applies to local treatment, dues, and charges in the ports, basins, docks, roadsteads, harbours, and rivers of the two countries, pilotage, and, generally, to all matters connected with navigation.

Every favour or exemption in these respects, or any other privilege in matters of navigation, which either of the con-