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be modified by the two Administrations whenever those
Administrations recognise, by mutual consent, the necessity
for modification.

ARTICLE XIII.

The Postal Administrations of the two countries are
authorised to determine, by mutual consent, the conditions
of the conveyance, by French services, of the mails to or
from British colonies not comprised in the Postal Union, as
well as the conditions of the conveyance, by British services,
of the mails of French origin destined for those colonies, or
passing in transit through their territories.

The same Administrations may also fix, by mutual consent,
the rates of postage applicable to correspondence exchanged
between France and French colonies on one side, and
British colonies not comprised in the Postal Union on the
other side.

ARTICLE XIV.

The present convention shall be carried into effect as soon
as possible, and it shall continue in force until one of the
two contracting parties shall have announced to the other,
one year in advance, its intention to terminate it.

ARTICLE XV.

The stipulations of the present convention shall be ap-
plicable to all the colonies and possessions of Her Britannic
Majesty, excepting to those hereinafter named, that is to say,
except to India, the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland,
the Cape, Natal, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland,
Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia, and New
Zealand.

Provided always that the stipulations of the present con-
vention shall be made applicable to any of the above-named
colonies or possessions on whose behalf notice to that effect
shall have been given by Her Britannic Majesty's repre-
sentative at Paris to the Government of the French Republic
within one year from the date of the signature of the pre-
sent convention.

The Government of Her Britannic Majesty engages to
invite the Governors of these colonies to recommend the
adoption of the present convention to the proper authorities.

The stipulations of the present convention shall be ap-
plicable to all the colonies and possessions of France.

ARTICLE XVI.

The present convention shall be ratified, and the ratifica-
tions shall be exchanged as soon as possible.

In witness whereof the undersigned have signed the pre-
sent convention, and have affixed thereto the seal of their
arms.

Done at London, the 30th day of August, 1890.

(L.S.) SALISBURY.

(L.S.) WADDINGTON.

Special Order made by Moa Road Board, County of
Taranaki.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Wellington, 2nd May, 1892.

THE following special order, made by the Moa Road
Board, is published in accordance with "The Road
Boards Act, 1882."

P. A. BUCKLEY.

MOA ROAD ROARD, COUNTY OF TARANAKI.

THE following special order has been made by the Moa Road
Board, on the 30th March, 1892, and confirmed on the 28th
April, 1892, viz.:-

That, to secure the repayment of a loan of £300, raised
under "The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,"
for the purpose of grading and forming the Lincoln and York
Roads, a special rate of 2½d. in the pound be made and levied
on all rateable property within the Lincoln Special-rating
District, comprising the following lands, viz.: Sections 1, 2,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, Block XIII., Waitara Survey District. This
rate to be an annually-recurring rate for twenty-six years,
and shall be payable, in two half-yearly instalments, on the
1st January and the 1st July in each year.

I certify that the above special order has been duly made
in accordance with section 75 of "The Road Boards Act,
1882."

N. SCHUMACHER,

Clerk, Moa Road Board.

Resolution passed by Whakatane County Council.-Abolish-
ing Waiotahi Riding.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Wellington, 3rd May, 1892.

THE following resolution, made by the Whakatane County
Council, is published in accordance with "The Coun-
ties Act, 1886."

P. A. BUCKLEY.

either to appear in person or to be represented, the proceed-
ings shall go on in their absence.

The execution of such measures shall not delay the depar-
ture of the vessel for more than an hour after the time of
departure fixed in the time-tables of the company, which
must be duly communicated by the respective companies to
the authorities of each port of call.

The present article shall not apply to packets intrusted
with a mail service and belonging to companies subsidised
by either State, until a bond has been entered into, once for
all, by the said companies to satisfy, after due hearing and
definite decision, the legal consequences of any liability in-
curred either by the captains of their packets or by the com-
panies themselves.

The aforesaid bond must be guaranteed by a security
within the jurisdiction of the tribunals of the country in
which the bond may have been entered into.

ARTICLE VI.

The packets of the two Administrations shall be at liberty
to take on board, or land at the ports of the two countries
at which they touch, whether regularly or accidentally,
specie and gold and silver bullion, as well as passengers, of
whatever nation they may be, with their wearing apparel or
baggage, on condition that the captains of those packets
shall submit to the sanitary, police, and Customs regula-
tions of those ports concerning the arrival and departure of
travellers and merchandise.

ARTICLE VII.

The packets of the two Administrations may enter and
leave the ports of the two States at any hour of the day or
night. They may also, if they think proper, without anchor-
ing, embark or disembark the mails and passengers in the
roads or at the entrance of the harbours, so long as they
observe the regulations referred to in the preceding article.

ARTICLE VIII.

Whenever a packet carrying mails shall be compelled to
put into any port of either of the two States other than
that at which such packet ought to touch, the Administration
on whose territory the said mails shall be landed shall use
the most certain and expeditious means of forwarding them
to their destination.

ARTICLE IX.

In case of war between the two nations the packets of the
two Administrations shall continue their navigation without
impediment or molestation, until a notification is made on
the part of either of the two Governments of the discon-
tinuance of postal communications; in which case they
shall be permitted to return freely, and under special pro-
tection, to their respective ports.

ARTICLE X.

The captains of the packets engaged in the conveyance of
the respective mails of the two Administrations are forbidden
to take charge of any letter not included in those mails,
with the exception, however, of despatches of their Govern-
ments. They must take care that no letters are conveyed
illegally by the crews or passengers, and they must give
information in the proper quarter of any infringement which
may be committed in this respect.

ARTICLE XI.

There shall be reserved in the vans, carriages, or trucks
conveying between Modane and Calais the mails from the
East Indies for Great Britain, or from Great Britain for the
East Indies, a place free of charge for a British courier, who
shall keep the said mails under his special care, and who
shall have the right to be present at the disinfection of the
correspondence contained in those mails whenever it shall
take place, and at all other operations to which the said
correspondence may be subjected.

The same advantages shall be granted in the territory of
Great Britain to the couriers of the French Postal Adminis-
tration, should that Administration think proper to send a
French courier in charge of mails containing correspondence
from or for France passing through Great Britain and paid
for at special transit rates.

ARTICLE XII.

The British Postal Administration and the Postal Ad-
ministration of France shall nominate, by mutual consent,
the offices through which the exchange of correspondence
shall respectively take place. They shall also determine the
direction of the correspondence reciprocally transmitted,
and shall settle the arrangements relating to the preparation
and liquidation of the accounts arising out of the reciprocal
transmission of correspondence, as well as every other
matter of detail or arrangement necessary to insure the
execution of the stipulations contained in the present con-
vention.

It is understood that the measures above alluded to may