SEPT. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1449

Notifying Lands in Auckland for Sale by Public Auction.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and thirteenth section of "The Land Act, 1892," I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Friday, the sixteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction at Auckland, and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Section. Block. Area. Upset Price.

TOWN OF TAUPO.

5 XIV. 0 1 8 6 0 0

TOWN OF NGARUAWAHIA.

111 .. 0 0 27 2 14 0
112 .. 0 0 27 2 14 0

RAGLAN COUNTY.-PARISH OF KARIOI.

96A .. 11 0 0 5 10 0

MANUKAU COUNTY.-PARISH OF KOHEROA.

95A .. 3 3 30 12 0 0

PARISH OF MAKARAU.

71 and 72 .. 99 0 0 150 0 0

WHANGAREI COUNTY.-TANGIHUA SURVEY DISTRICT.

35B II. 113 0 0 1,097 0 0
35C .. 198 0 0 538 8 0

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twelfth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

JOHN McKENZIE,

Minister of Lands.

Rules of Validation Court.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities in that behalf conferred upon me by "The Native Land (Validation of Titles) Act, 1893," I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby make and prescribe for the purposes of the said Act the additional rule set out in the Schedule hereto, and numbered 45A; and I do hereby further order and declare that such rule shall take effect on and after the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

SCHEDULE.

45A. PROVIDED that, when it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Judge that any party is unable or ought not to be called upon to pay any of the fees in such Schedule mentioned, or any part thereof, it shall be lawful for the Judge to dispense with the payment thereof, or any part thereof, subject to such terms as he shall think fit.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this nineteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

R. J. SEDDON.

Despatch.-Proclamation of British Neutrality, and warning all Persons to observe the Same on Occasion of War between China and Japan.

THE Governor has received the following despatch from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, enclosing copy of Her Majesty's Proclamation of neutrality on the occasion of the war between China and Japan, and copy of a letter from the Foreign Office embodying rules which Her Majesty has directed to be observed on the same occasion. And the Governor therefore now, on Her Majesty's behalf, enjoins that the said rules are to be obeyed by all Her Majesty's subjects within the Colony of New Zealand.

GLASGOW, Governor.

Government House, Wellington, 19th September, 1894.

(Circular.) Downing Street, 8th August, 1894.

SIR,-I have the honour to transmit to you copies of Her Majesty's Proclamation of neutrality on the occasion of the war between China and Japan, together with copy of letter from the Foreign Office embodying rules which Her Majesty has directed to be observed on the same occasion; and I have to request that you will cause both documents to be immediately published throughout the colony under your government, and that you will not fail to conform to Her Majesty's commands.

I have, &c.,

RIPON.

The Officer administering the Government of New Zealand.

BY THE QUEEN.-A PROCLAMATION.

VICTORIA R.

WHEREAS We are happily at peace with all Sovereigns, Powers, and States;

And whereas a state of war unhappily exists between His Majesty the Emperor of China and His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, and between their respective subjects and others inhabiting within their countries, territories, or dominions;

And whereas We are on terms of friendship and amicable intercourse with each of these States, and with their subjects and others inhabiting within their countries, territories, or dominions;

And whereas great numbers of our loyal subjects reside and carry on commerce, and possess property and establishments, and enjoy various rights and privileges, within the territory of each of the aforesaid States, protected by the faith of treaties between Us and each of the aforesaid States;

And whereas We, being desirous of preserving to our subjects the blessings of peace which they now happily enjoy, are firmly purposed and determined to maintain a strict and impartial neutrality in the said state of war unhappily existing between the aforesaid States;

We therefore have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our Royal Proclamation;

And We do hereby strictly charge and command all our loving subjects to govern themselves accordingly, and to observe a strict neutrality in and during the aforesaid war, and to abstain from violating or contravening either the laws and statutes of the realm in this behalf, or the law of nations in relation thereto, as they will answer to the contrary at their peril;

And whereas in and by a certain statute made and passed in a session of Parliament holden in the 33rd and 34th year of our reign, intituled "An Act to regulate the Conduct of Her Majesty's Subjects during the Existence of Hostilities between Foreign States with which Her Majesty is at Peace," it is, amongst other things, declared and enacted as follows:-

"Illegal Enlistment.

"If any person, without the license of Her Majesty, being a British subject, within or without Her Majesty's dominions, accepts or agrees to accept any commission or engagement in the military or naval service of any foreign State at war with any foreign State at peace with Her Majesty, and in this Act referred to as a friendly State, or, whether a British subject or not, within Her Majesty's dominions, induces any other person to accept or agree to accept any commission or engagement in the military or naval service of any such foreign State as aforesaid,-

"He shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall be punishable by fine and imprisonment, or either of such punishments, at the discretion of the Court before which the offender is convicted; and imprisonment, if awarded, may be either with or without hard labour.

"If any person, without the license of Her Majesty, being a British subject, quits or goes on board any ship with a view of quitting Her Majesty's dominions, with intent to accept any commission or engagement in the military or naval service of any foreign State at war with a friendly State, or, whether a British subject or not, within Her Majesty's dominions, induces any other person to quit or to go on board any ship with a view of quitting Her Majesty's dominions with the like intent,-

"He shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall be punishable by fine and imprisonment, or either of such punishments, at the discretion of the Court before which the offender is convicted; and imprisonment, if awarded, may be either with or without hard labour.

"If any person induces any other person to quit Her Majesty's dominions, or to embark on any ship within Her Majesty's dominions, under a misrepresentation or false representation of the service in which such person is to be engaged, with the intent or in order that such person may accept or agree to accept any commission or engagement in the military or naval service of any foreign State at war with a friendly State,-