Oct. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1589

Services of Volunteer Corps accepted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 2nd October, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept, under clause 39, (1), “The Defence Act, 1886,” the services of the

Newton Rifle Volunteers (Auckland).

Acceptance to date from the 1st day of October, 1898.

T. THOMPSON.

Volunteer Officer transferred.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 28th September, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the transfer of

Surgeon-Major MILLEN COUGHTREY

from the 1st Battalion, Otago Rifle Volunteers, to the Otago Battalion of Mounted Rifle Volunteers, with his present rank, and with effect from the 1st day of September, 1898.

T. THOMPSON.

Queen’s Regulations regarding Foreign Orders and Medals.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd October, 1898.

THE following despatch (with enclosure), received by His Excellency the Governor from Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

J. CARROLL.

(Circular.) Downing Street, 17th August, 1898.

SIR,—With reference to Lord Granville’s circular despatch of the 1st March, 1886, I have the honour to transmit to you, for information in the colony under your government, copies of the Queen’s Regulations respecting Foreign Orders and Medals, recently revised as regards foreign orders, and I have to request that they may be substituted for the copies of those previously in force.

It will be observed that the exceptions under Rule II. of the regulations of 1886 have been extended.

I have, &c.,

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

The Officer administering the Government
of New Zealand.

THE Queen has been pleased to direct that the following regulations respecting foreign orders and medals shall be substituted for those now in force:—

Regulations respecting Foreign Orders.

1. No subject of Her Majesty shall accept a foreign order from the sovereign of any foreign country, or wear the insignia thereof, without having previously obtained Her Majesty’s permission to that effect, signified by a warrant under her Royal Sign-manual.

2. “Unless the foreign decoration shall have been conferred in consequence of active and distinguished service, either at sea or in the field, such permission will not be given to any subject of Her Majesty, except in the following cases, if recommended specially by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs:—

“(1.) The chief of a complimentary mission from Her Majesty.

“(2.) A military or naval attaché, on the termination of his appointment.

“(3.) Any person, not at the time in the service of Her Majesty, who has rendered valuable service to the sovereign bestowing the order outside Her Majesty’s dominions, or in an embassy or legation of that sovereign in this country.”

3. The intention of a foreign sovereign to confer upon a British subject the insignia of an order must be notified to Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, either through the British Minister accredited to the Court of such foreign sovereign, or through his Minister accredited at the Court of Her Majesty.

4. If the service for which it is proposed to confer the order has been performed during war, the notification required by the preceding clause must be made not later than two years after the exchange of the ratifications of a treaty of peace.

If the service has been performed in time of peace, the notification must be made within two years after the date of such service.

5. After such notification shall have been received, Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs shall, if the case comes within the conditions prescribed by the present regulations, and arises from naval or military services before the enemy, refer it to Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the War Department, previously taking Her Majesty’s pleasure thereupon, in order to ascertain whether there be any objection to Her Majesty’s permission being granted.

A similar reference shall also be made to the Commander-in-Chief if the application relates to an officer in the army, or to the Lords of the Admiralty if it relates to an officer in the navy.

6. When Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs shall have taken the Queen’s pleasure on any such application, and shall have obtained Her Majesty’s permission for the person in whose favour it has been made to accept the foreign order, and wear the insignia thereof, he shall signify the same to Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, in order that he may cause the warrant required by clause 1 to be prepared for the Royal Sign-manual.

When such warrant shall have been signed by the Queen, a notification thereof shall be inserted in the Gazette stating the service for which the foreign order has been conferred.

7. The warrant signifying Her Majesty’s permission may, at the request and at the expense of the person who has obtained it, be registered in the College of Arms.

8. Every such warrant as aforesaid shall contain a clause providing that Her Majesty’s license and permission does not authorise the assumption of any style, appellation, rank, precedence, or privilege appertaining to a Knight Bachelor of Her Majesty’s realms.

9. When a British subject has received the Royal permission to accept a foreign order, he will at any future time be allowed to accept the decoration of a higher class of the same order to which he may have become eligible by increase of rank in the foreign service, or in the service of his own country; or any other distinctive mark of honour strictly consequent upon the acceptance of the original order, and common to every person upon whom such order is conferred.

10. The preceding clause shall not be taken to apply to decorations of the Guelphic Order, which were bestowed on British subjects by Her Majesty’s predecessors, King George IV. and King William IV., on whose heads the crowns of Great Britain and of Hanover were united.

Decorations so bestowed cannot properly be considered as rewards granted by a foreign sovereign for services rendered according to the purport of clause 2 of these regulations: they must be rather considered as personal favours bestowed on British subjects by British sovereigns, and as having no reference to services rendered to the foreign Crown of Hanover.

Foreign Office, 23rd June, 1898.

Regulations respecting Foreign Medals.

1. Applications for permission to accept and wear medals which, not being the decoration of any foreign order, are conferred by a foreign sovereign on British subjects in the army or navy, should be addressed to the Commander-in-Chief or the Lords of the Admiralty, as the case may be, who, if they see fit, may submit the same for Her Majesty’s sanction, upon obtaining which they may grant such permission without other formality.

2. Any other British subject, having obtained Her Majesty’s permission, is at liberty to accept and wear a foreign medal not being the decoration of a foreign order.

3. No permission is necessary for accepting a foreign medal, if such medal is not to be worn.

(Signed) SALISBURY.

Foreign Office, August, 1885.

Special Order made by the Ekatahuna Road Board, County of Wairarapa North.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th October, 1898.

THE following special order, made by the Ekatahuna Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

J. CARROLL.

EKETAHUNA ROAD BOARD.

Notice is hereby given that the following special order was made on Saturday, the 6th day of August, 1898, and confirmed on Saturday, the 1st day of October, 1898: “That, for the purpose of securing payment of £60, borrowed by the Board under ‘The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,’ for the purposes of formation and metalling Bengston Street, Ekatahuna, a special rate of ½d. in the pound will be struck on the following properties: Allotments 13, 14–14r, 15–15r, 16–16r, part 17–17r, part 18–18r, 19–19r, 20–20r, 21–21r, and 22–22r, part Section 13, Block VI., Mangaone. Such rate to be an annually recurring rate