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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 42

Patent Office Agent appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 29th July, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

EDWARD RAWSON

to be Patent Office Agent at Palmerston North.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Member of Land Board appointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 29th July, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

LEMUEL JOHN BAGNALL, Esq.,

to be a Member of the Land Board for the Land District of Auckland.

G. F. RICHARDSON.

Trustees for Newmarket Public Hall appointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 29th July, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased, in pursuance of the provisions of section 8 of “The Newmarket Public Hall Act, 1874” (Provincial), and “The Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875,” to appoint

WILLIAM MORGAN, Esq.,
GEORGE BISHOP, Esq.,
WILLIAM DINNISON, Esq., and
ROBERT RIDLEY HOLMES, Esq.,

to be a Committee for the management and administration of the land and buildings.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

Commissioner of Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—ERNEST MARTIN GODFREY, of Melbourne Chambers, Chancery Lane, Melbourne, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, has been appointed this day, by His Honour the Chief Justice, a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in Victoria, under the second section of “The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,” for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated this 26th day of July, 1890.

D. G. A. COOPER,
Registrar, Supreme Court, Wellington.

Volunteer Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 30th July, 1890.

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

East Coast Hussars Volunteers.

Lieutenant Arnold Wethered. Date of resignation, 20th February, 1890.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th July, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue Letters of Naturalisation, under “The Aliens Act, 1880,” in favour of the under-mentioned persons :—

W. R. RUSSELL.

Despatch.—Extradition Treaty with Tunis.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th July, 1890.

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

W. R. RUSSELL.

(Circular.)
Downing Street, 27th May, 1890.

Sir,—I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the colony under your Government, a copy of an Order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council, dated the 1st May, 1890, for carrying into effect an arrangement concluded on the 31st December, 1889, between the Government of Her Majesty and the Government of the French Republic, acting in the name of His Highness the Bey of Tunis, for extending to Tunis the provisions of the treaty between Her Majesty and the President of the French Republic, dated the 14th August, 1876, for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals.

You will observe that the extension of the treaty to Tunis came into operation on the 16th instant.

I have, &c.,

KNUTSFORD.

The Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.—EXTRADITION TREATY: GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND TUNIS.

[Extract from the London Gazette of Tuesday, 6th May, 1890.]

At the Court at Windsor, the first day of May, 1890.

Present :

THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY,
LORD PRESIDENT, EARL OF COVENTRY, EARL OF LIMERICK.

WHEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1873, it was, amongst other things, enacted that, where an arrangement has been made with any foreign State with respect to the surrender to such State of any fugitive criminals, Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, direct that the said Acts shall apply in the case of such foreign State ; and that Her Majesty may, by the same or any subsequent order, limit the operation of the order, and restrict the same to fugitive criminals who are in or suspected of being in the part of Her Majesty’s dominions specified in the order, and render the operation thereof subject to such conditions, exceptions, and qualifications as may be deemed expedient ; and that if, by any law made after the passing of the Act of 1870 by the Legislature of any British possession, provision is made for carrying into effect within such possession the surrender of fugitive criminals who are in or suspected of being in such British possession, Her Majesty may, by the Order in Council applying the said Acts in the case of any foreign State, or by any subsequent order, suspend the operation within any such British possession of the said Acts, or of any part thereof, so far as it relates to such foreign State, and so long as such law continues in force there, and no longer :

And whereas by an Act of the Parliament of Canada, passed in 1886, and entitled “An Act respecting the Extradition of Fugitive Criminals,” provision is made for carrying into effect within the Dominion the surrender of fugitive criminals :

And whereas by an Order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council, dated the seventeenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, it was directed that the operation of the Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1873, should be suspended within the Dominion of Canada so long as the provision of the said Act of the Parliament of Canada of 1886 should continue in force, and no longer :

And whereas a treaty was concluded on the fourteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, between Her Majesty and the President of the French Republic, for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, in the case of which treaty the above-mentioned Acts of Parliament were applied by an Order in Council of the sixteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight :

And whereas an arrangement was concluded on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, between the Government of Her Majesty and the Government of the French Republic, acting in the name of the Government of His Highness the Bey of Tunis, for extending the provisions of the said treaty of August 14, 1876, to Tunis, which arrangement is in the terms following :—

The Government of Her Britannic Majesty, on the one part, and the Government of the French Republic, acting in the name of the Government of His Highness the Bey of Tunis, on the other part, with a view to insure as far as possible the arrest and delivery to the competent jurisdiction of criminals who seek to escape by flight from the action of justice, have agreed as follows :—

The provisions of the Anglo-French Convention of the fourteenth August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, are extended to Tunis, except that the period of fourteen days, stipulated by Article IX. of the said Convention, is prolonged to two months.

The present arrangement shall have the same duration as the Convention of Extradition to which it relates.

In witness whereof the undersigned His Excellency the Earl of Lytton, Her Britannic Majesty’s Ambassador at Paris,