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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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attempting to do so; assaults on board a ship on the high
seas, with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
10. Crimes and offences against the laws of both countries
for the suppression of slavery and slave-trading.
Extradition is also to take place for participation in any of
the crimes mentioned in this convention or in the aforesaid
Article X., provided such participation be punishable by the
laws of both countries.

ARTICLE II.

A fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered if the offence
in respect of which his surrender is demanded be one of a
political character, or if he proves that the requisition for
his surrender has in fact been made with a view to try or
punish him for an offence of a political character.
No person surrendered by either of the high contracting
parties to the other shall be triable, or tried, or be punished
for any political crime or offence, or for any act connected
therewith, committed previously to his extradition.
If any question shall arise as to whether a case comes
within the provisions of this article, the decision of the
authorities of the Government in whose jurisdiction the
fugitive shall be at the time shall be final.

ARTICLE III.

No person surrendered by or to either of the high con-
tracting parties shall be triable or be tried for any crime or
offence committed prior to his extradition, other than the
offence for which he was surrendered, until he shall have had
an opportunity of returning to the country from which he
was surrendered.

ARTICLE IV.

All articles seized which were in the possession of the
person to be surrendered at the time of his apprehension,
whether being the proceeds of the crime or offence charged,
or being material as evidence in making proof of the crime or
offence, shall, so far as practicable, and if the competent
authority of the State applied to for the extradition has
ordered the delivery thereof, be given up when the extradi-
tion takes place. Nevertheless, the rights of third parties
with regard to the articles aforesaid shall be duly respected.

ARTICLE V.

If the individual claimed by one of the two high contract-
ing parties, in pursuance of the present convention, should
also be claimed by one or several other Powers on account of
crimes or offences committed within their respective juris-
dictions, his extradition shall be granted to that State whose
demand is first received.
The provisions of this article, and also of Articles II. to IV.
inclusive, of the present convention shall apply to surrender
for offences specified in the aforesaid Article X., as well as
to surrender for offences specified in this convention.

ARTICLE VI.

The extradition of fugitives under the provisions of this
convention and of the said Article X. shall be carried out in
Her Majesty's dominions and in the United States, respec-
tively, in conformity with the laws regulating extradition
for the time being in force in the surrendering State.

ARTICLE VII.

The provisions of the said Article X. and of this convention
shall apply to persons convicted of the crimes therein respec-
tively named and specified, whose sentence therefor shall
not have been executed.
In case of a fugitive criminal alleged to have been con-
victed of the crime for which his surrender is asked, a copy
of the record of the conviction, and of the sentence of the
Court before which such conviction took place, duly
authenticated, shall be produced, together with the evidence
proving that the prisoner is the person to whom such sen-
tence refers.

ARTICLE VIII.

The present convention shall not apply to any of the
crimes herein specified, which shall have been com-
mitted, or to any conviction which shall have been pro-
ounced, prior to the date at which the convention shall
come into force.

ARTICLE IX.

This convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications
shall be exchanged at London as soon as possible.
It shall come into force ten days after its publication, in
conformity with the forms prescribed by the laws of the
high contracting parties, and shall continue in force until
one or the other of the high contracting parties shall signify
its wish to terminate it, and no longer.
In witness whereof the undersigned have signed the
same, and have affixed thereto their seals.
Done in duplicate, at the City of Washington, this twelfth
day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine.
(L.S.) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE.
(L.S.) JAMES G. BLAINE.

And whereas the ratifications of the said convention were
exchanged at London on the eleventh day of March, one
thousand eight hundred and ninety:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of
her Privy Council, and in virtue of the authority com-
mitted to her by the said recited Acts, doth order, and it is
hereby ordered, that from and after the fourth day of April,
one thousand eight hundred and ninety, the said Acts shall
apply in the case of the United States of America, and of the
said convention with the United States of America:
Provided always, and it is hereby further ordered, that
the operation of the said Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1873,
shall be suspended within the Dominion of Canada so far as
relates to the United States of America and to the said con-
vention, and so long as the provisions of the Canadian Act
aforesaid of 1886 continue in force, and no longer.
C. L. PEARL.

Notice under "The Justices of the Peace Act 1882 Amend-
*ment Act, 1886."

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th June, 1890.

IT is hereby notified that
NICHOLAS REID,
of Wellington, will, in accordance with the provisions of
section 7 of "The Justices of the Peace Act 1882 Amend-
ment Act, 1886," cease to be a Justice of the Peace, from the
26th June instant.
W. R. RUSSELL.

Notice to Mariners, No. 19 of 1890.

WELLINGTON HARBOUR.—EXTENSION OF WOOL JETTY, AND
ERECTION OF TIMBER-STAGING, JERVOIS QUAY.
Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 25th June, 1890.

NOTICE is hereby given that the wool jetty is being
extended 250ft., and that during the extension a
white light will be shown from the extremity of the works,
the former RED light continuing to be exhibited in its present
position until the works are completed.
Notice is also given that a timber-staging is being erected
along Jervois Quay, southward of the Queen's Wharf.
T. FERGUS,
(For the Minister having charge of the
Marine Department.)

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 21st January, 1890.

IN pursuance of regulations under "The Civil Service
Reform Act, 1886," notice is hereby given that for the
Senior Examination of January, 1891, the period of litera-
ture will be the period from 1800 to 1850, and the special
books will be Milton's Samson Agonistes, and Shelley's
Prometheus Unbound.
T. W. HISLOP.

Notice to Owners of Native Land under "The Crown and
*Native Lands Rating Act, 1882."

"TE Ture Reiti i nga Whenua o te Karauna me nga
Whenua Maori, 1882," me te Ture Whakatikatika i
taua Ture.
Ki te tangata nana, ki nga tangata ranei na ratou nga
whenua kua whakahuatia i roto i nga rooru whakaatu i
nga utu o nga whenua Maori, kua tukua atu nei ki nga
poari takiwa e mau nei nga ingoa i roto i te Kupu Apiti ki
tenei, i raro i nga tikanga o nga Ture kua whakahuatia i
runga ake nei me era atu Ture katoa e pa ana e whai
tikanga ana.
NOTEMEA kua tukua mai he tono ki ahau Te Minita Whaka-
haere i nga Moni o Niu Tireni, e mau nei toko ingoa i raro
iho nei, e nga poari takiwa e tatahi tangata ranei mo te taha
ki a ratou, i raro i nga tikanga o "Te Ture Reiti i nga
Whenua o te Karauna me nga Whenua Maori, 1882," kia
utua nga reiti e meingatia ana kia utua i runga i nga tikanga
o aua rooru mo te tau i oti atu 31 Maehe, 1889, me te tau i
oti atu te 31 o nga ra o Maehe, 1890 :
He panuitanga tenei ki a koutou kia tangata kia tangata
e koutou, kia mohio ai koutou kua takoto nga rooru o nga
whenua Maori ki nga tari o aua poari takiwa ko aua rooru he
mea tuhi ki te reo Maori, a e whakaatu ana hoki i nga utu o
nga whenua Maori kua whakahuatia i runga i aua rooru.
Na he tono tenei ki a koutou ki ia tangata ki ia tangata,
hoki o koutou nga tangata na ratou aua whenua kia utua
e koutou aua reiti a te 9 o nga ra o Hurae, 1890, i mua mai
ranei o taua ra, me utu e koutou aua moni reiti i te tari o te
poari o te takiwa i takoto ai aua whenua, tena te whakaatu-
ranga kei te Kupu Apiti.