June 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1221

"(1.) Every person engaged in such preparation or fit-
ting out, or assisting therein, or employed in
any capacity in such expedition, 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.

" 2.) All ships and their equipments, and all arms and
munitions of war, used in or forming part of
such expedition shall be forfeited to Her
Majesty.

" Any person who aids, abets, counsels, or procures the
commission of any offence against this Act shall be liable to
be tried and punished as a principal offender."

And whereas by the said Act it is further provided that
ships built, commissioned, equipped, or despatched in con-
travention of the said Act may be condemned and forfeited
by judgment of the Court of Admiralty ; and that if the
Secretary of State or chief executive authority is satisfied
that there is a reasonable and probable cause for believing
that a ship within our dominions has been or is being built,
commissioned, or equipped contrary to the said Act, and is
about to be taken beyond the limits of such dominions, or
that a ship is about to be despatched contrary to the Act,
such Secretary of State or chief executive authority shall
have power to issue a warrant authorising the seizure and
search of such ship and her detention until she has been
either condemned or released by process of law : And
whereas certain powers of seizure and detention are con-
ferred by the said Act on certain local authorities :

Now, in order that none of our subjects may unwarily
render themselves liable to the penalties imposed by the
said statute, We do hereby strictly command that no person
or persons whatsoever do commit any act, matter, or thing
whatsoever contrary to the provisions of the said statute,
upon pain of the several penalties by the said statute im-
posed, and of our high displeasure.

And We do hereby further warn and admonish all our
loving subjects, and all persons whatsoever entitled to our
protection, to observe towards each of the aforesaid sove-
reigns, their subjects and territories, and towards all bel-
ligerents whatsoever with whom we are at peace, the duties
of neutrality, and to respect in all and each of them the
exercise of those belligerent rights which We and our Royal
predecessors have always claimed to exercise.

And We hereby further warn all our loving subjects, and
all persons whatsoever entitled to our protection, that if any
of them shall presume, in contempt of this our Royal Pro-
clamation, and of our high displeasure, to do any acts in
derogation of their duty as subjects of a neutral sovereign
in a war between other sovereigns, or in violation or contra-
vention of the law of nations in that behalf, as more espe-
cially by breaking, or endeavouring to break, any blockade
lawfully and actually established by or on behalf of either of
the said sovereigns, or by carrying officers, soldiers, de-
spatches, arms, ammunition, military stores or materials,
or any article or articles considered and deemed to be contra-
band of war according to the law or modern usages of
nations, for the use or service of either of the said sovereigns,
that all persons so offending, together with their ships and
goods, will rightfully incur and be justly liable to hostile
capture, and to the penalties denounced by the law of
nations in that behalf.

And We do hereby give notice that all our subjects and
persons entitled to our protection who may misconduct
themselves in the premises will do so at their peril, and of
their own wrong, and that they will in nowise obtain any
protection from us against such capture or such penalties
as aforesaid, but will, on the contrary, incur our high dis-
pleasure by such misconduct.

Given at our Court at Windsor, this third day of May,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and ninety-seven, in the sixtieth year of our
reign.

God save the Queen!

THE Marquess of Salisbury to the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty :—*

Foreign Office, 3rd May, 1897.

My Lords,—Her Majesty, being fully determined to ob-
serve the duties of neutrality during the existing state of war
between His Imperial Majesty the Sultan of Turkey and His
Majesty the King of the Hellenes, and being, moreover,
resolved to prevent, as far as possible, the use of Her
Majesty's harbours, ports, and coasts, and the waters within
Her Majesty's territorial jurisdiction in aid of the warlike
purposes of either belligerent, has commanded me to com-
municate to your Lordships, for your guidance, the follow-
ing rules, which are to be treated and enforced as Her
Majesty's orders and directions :—

Her Majesty is pleased further to command that these
rules shall be put in force in the United Kingdom, the Isle of
Man, and the Channel Islands on and after the 8th instant,
and in Her Majesty's territories and possessions beyond the
seas six days after the day when the Governor or other chief
authority of each of such territories or possessions respec-
tively shall have notified and published the same, stating in
such notification that the said rules are to be obeyed by all
persons within the same territories and possessions.

1. During the continuance of the present state of war all
   ships of war of either belligerent are prohibited from making
   use of any port or roadstead in the United Kingdom, the Isle
   of Man, or the Channel Islands, or in any of Her Majesty's
   colonies or foreign possessions or dependencies, or of any
   waters subject to the territorial jurisdiction of the British
   Crown, as a station, or place of resort, for any warlike pur-
   pose, or for the purpose of obtaining any facilities for war-
   like equipment ; and no ship of war of either belligerent
   shall hereafter be permitted to sail out of or leave any port,
   roadstead, or waters subject to British jurisdiction, from
   which any vessel of the other belligerent (whether the same
   shall be a ship of war or a merchant ship) shall have pre-
   viously departed, until after the expiration of at least
   twenty-four hours from the departure of such last-men-
   tioned vessel beyond the territorial jurisdiction of Her
   Majesty.

2. If any ship of war of either belligerent shall, after the
   time when this order shall be first notified and put in force
   in the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel
   Islands, and in the several colonies and foreign possessions
   or dependencies of Her Majesty respectively, enter any port,
   roadstead, or waters belonging to Her Majesty, either in the
   United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands, or
   in any of Her Majesty's colonies or foreign possessions or
   dependencies, such vessel shall be required to depart and to
   put to sea within twenty-four hours after her entrance into
   such port, roadstead, or waters, except in case of stress of
   weather, or of her requiring provisions or things necessary
   for the subsistence of her crew, or repairs ; in either of which
   cases the authorities of the port, or of the nearest port (as
   the case may be), shall require her to put to sea as soon as
   possible after the expiration of such period of twenty-four
   hours without permitting her to take in supplies beyond
   what may be necessary for her immediate use ; and no such
   vessel which may have been allowed to remain within
   British waters for the purpose of repair shall continue in
   any such port, roadstead, or waters for a longer period than
   twenty-four hours after her necessary repairs shall have been
   completed. Provided, nevertheless, that in all cases in
   which there shall be any vessel (whether ships of war or
   merchant ships) of the said belligerent parties in the same
   port, roadstead, or waters within the territorial jurisdiction
   of Her Majesty there shall be an interval of not less than
   twenty-four hours between the departure therefrom of any
   such vessel (whether a ship of war or merchant ship) of the
   one belligerent and the subsequent departure therefrom of
   any ship of war of the other belligerent ; and the time
   hereby limited for the departure of such ships of war re-
   spectively shall always, in case of necessity, be extended so
   far as may be requisite for giving effect to this proviso, but
   no further or otherwise.

3. No ship of war of either belligerent shall hereafter be per-
   mitted, while in any port, roadstead, or waters subject to the
   territorial jurisdiction of Her Majesty, to take in any supplies,
   except provisions and such other things as may be requisite
   for the subsistence of her crew, and except so much coal
   only as may be sufficient to carry such vessel to the nearest
   port of her own country, or to some nearer destination, and
   no coal shall again be supplied to any such ship of war in
   the same or any other port, roadstead, or waters subject to
   the territorial jurisdiction of Her Majesty, without special
   permission, until after the expiration of three months from
   the time when such coal may have been last supplied to her
   within British waters as aforesaid.

4. Armed ships of either party are interdicted from carry-
   ing prizes made by them into the ports, harbours, roadsteads,
   or waters of the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, the
   Channel Islands, or any of Her Majesty's colonies or pos-
   sessions abroad.—I have, &c.,

SALISBURY.

New Zealand Hemp.—Notice No. 478.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 30th March, 1897.

The time for receiving applications for the bonuses
mentioned in Notice No. 430 has been extended to
31st December, 1897.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister for Agriculture.

• Similar letters have been addressed to the Treasury, Home
  Office, Colonial Office, War Office, India Office, and Scottish Office.