SEPT. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1471

The interests of the under-mentioned owners under disability as minors are, in accordance with the provisions of “The Maori Real Estate Management Act, 1888,” vested in the trustees in each case respectively specified, during such disability.

Approval of Private Industrial School.

Education Department,
Wellington, 9th September, 1898.

BY virtue of the power vested in me by sections 8 and 11 of “The Industrial Schools Act, 1882,” I, William Campbell Walker, the Minister of Education, do hereby notify my approval of St. Vincent de Paul’s Orphanage and Industrial School, situate in South Dunedin, as a private school within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Act, for the reception of female children of the Roman Catholic faith, and also my approval of the Right Reverend Michael Verdon as Manager of the said school.

W. C. WALKER.

Commercial Relations between the British Empire and Germany.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 13th September, 1898.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
For the Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

(Circular.) Downing Street, 5th July, 1898.

SIR,—With reference to my circular despatch of the 5th May last forwarding papers relative to the treatment to be accorded by Germany to the subjects and products of Great Britain and her colonies after the expiration, on the 30th July, 1898, of the treaty of 1865, I have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of your Government, translations of the text of the law signed by the Emperor on the 11th May last, and of a notice published thereunder in the Reichsanzeiger relative to the commercial relations between Germany and the British Empire after that date.

I have, &c.,

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

The Officer administering the Government
of New Zealand.

LAW REGARDING COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH BRITISH EMPIRE OF 11TH MAY, 1898.

(Translation.)

We, William, &c., decree in the name of the German Empire, after due approval by the Bundesrath and Reichstag, as follows:—

The Bundesrath is empowered to grant to the subjects and products of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and also to the subjects and products of British colonies and British foreign possessions, for the period up to the 30th July, 1899, those privileges which are granted by the German Empire to the subjects and products of the most favoured nation.

Granted under our hand and seal, at Urville, the 11th May, 1898.

(Signed) WILHELM.

(Signed) GRAF VON POSADOWSKY.

[Extract from the Reichsanzeiger of 14th June, 1898.]

NOTICE RESPECTING THE COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH THE BRITISH EMPIRE (11TH JUNE, 1898).

(Translation.)

The Bundesrath has decided that, by virtue of the law of 11th May, 1898, concerning the commercial relations with the British Empire, there will be granted to the subjects and products of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as also to those of the British colonies and foreign possessions, with the exception of Canada, all those advantages which are granted by the German Empire to the subjects and products of the most favoured nation. This treatment is to take effect from the 31st July of this year, and until further notice.

Election of Trustees of Hautapu Drainage District, County of Waikato.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 14th September, 1898.

THE following result of the election of Trustees of the Hautapu Drainage District has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Land Drainage Act, 1893.”

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Hautapu Drainage District :
William Henry Thomas.
George Watt.
Charles Lake.
John Browne.
W. George McCann.