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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 32

"The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886," for the purpose of forming 140 chains (more or less) of dray-road, from the junction of Dagg’s Road, Wairere, to Section 139, Block VIII., Kopuaranga :—

Number of ratepayers on special roll, 3, exercising 6 votes: Number of ratepayers voting for the proposal, 3, exercising 6 votes; number of votes against the proposal, nil.

There being a majority of voters and votes in favour, I therefore declare the proposal carried.

C. E. COCKBURN-HOOD,
Chairman.

Bideford, 3rd April, 1899.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Ashburton County.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th April, 1899.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Ashburton County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Counties Act, 1886,” and “The Water-supply Act, 1891.”

T. THOMPSON.

ASHBURTON COUNTY COUNCIL.

Ashburton County Council,
30th March, 1899.

To the Honourable the Colonial Secretary,
Wellington.

In pursuance of the provisions of the 199th section of “The Counties Act, 1886,” I give you notice that on the 27th day of March, 1899, a poll was taken of the ratepayers of the Ruapuna Subdivision No. 2 of the Ashburton-Rangitata Water-race District—being a district duly constituted under the provisions of “The Water-supply Act, 1891,” and the Acts amending the same, for the purpose of the construction of water-races therein—in respect of a proposal of the Ashburton County Council to raise and borrow a sum of £1,000 for the purpose of the construction of water-races and other works for the supply of water to the said subdivision, and that the following votes were recorded for the proposal: Six votes, representing £8,036 of rateable value. No votes were recorded against the proposal.

As the number of votes recorded in favour of the proposal represents not less than one-half of the total number of ratepayers, and three-fifths of the rateable value of the rateable property in the said subdivision, I have declared the resolution in favour of the proposal to be carried.

EDWARD G. WRIGHT,
Chairman of the County of Ashburton.

I, Frederic Mainwaring, of Ashburton, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, in the Colony of New Zealand, Clerk of the Ashburton County Council, do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare—

1. I am the Clerk of the Ashburton County Council.

2. All proceedings required by “The Counties Act, 1886,” or by “The Water-supply Act, 1891,” or its amendments, to be taken in or towards obtaining the sanction of the ratepayers of the Ruapuna Subdivision No. 2 of the Ashburton-Rangitata Water-race District—being a district duly constituted under the provisions of “The Water-supply Act, 1891,” and the Acts amending the same, for the purpose of the construction of water-races therein—to the proposal of the said Council for raising and borrowing a sum of £1,000 for the purpose of the construction of certain water-races and other works for the supply of water to the said subdivision have been duly taken, and the resolution in favour of the proposal has been duly carried.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

FREDERIC MAINWARING.

Declared at Ashburton aforesaid, this 30th day of March, 1899, before me—Robert Alcorn, a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.

Celebration of St. George’s Day.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 11th April, 1899.

THE Government offices throughout New Zealand will be closed on Monday, the 24th April, in celebration of St. George’s Day, which this year falls on Sunday, the 23rd instant.

T. THOMPSON

Despatch.—Extradition Treaty with Netherlands.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 12th April, 1899.

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

T. THOMPSON.

(Circular.)
Downing Street, 9th February, 1899.

SIR,—I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the colony under your government, a copy of an Order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council, dated the 2nd of February, 1899, for giving effect to the treaty between Her Majesty and the Queen of the Netherlands for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, signed at London on the 26th of September, 1898, the ratifications of which were exchanged at London on the 14th of December, 1898.

I have, &c.,

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

The Officer administering the Government
of New Zealand.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.—EXTRADITION TREATY.—NETHERLANDS.

Osborne House, Isle of Wight, 2nd February, 1899.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 2nd day of February, 1899.

Present:

THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

LORD PRESIDENT, LORD PRIVY SEAL, DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, EARL OF KINTORE.

WHEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1895, it was amongst other things enacted that, where an arrangement has been made with any foreign State with respect to the surrender to such State of any fugitive criminals, Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, direct that the said Acts shall apply in the case of such foreign State; and that Her Majesty may, by the same or any subsequent Order, limit the operation of the Order, and restrict the same to fugitive criminals who are in or suspected of being in the part of Her Majesty’s dominions specified in the Order, and render the operation thereof subject to such conditions, exceptions, and qualifications as may be deemed expedient:

And whereas a treaty was concluded on the twenty-sixth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, between Her Majesty and the Queen of the Netherlands for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, which treaty is in the terms following:—

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, having mutually resolved to conclude a new treaty for the extradition of criminals, the said high contracting parties have named as their plenipotentiaries to conclude a treaty for this purpose, that is to say:—

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, the Most Honourable Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, Earl of Salisbury, Viscount Cranborne, Baron Cecil, Peer of the United Kingdom, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, &c.;

And Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, Alexander William Baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Chargé d’Affaires, ad interim, of the Netherlands in London, Knight of the Order of Orange Nassau, &c.:

Who, having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles:—

ARTICLE I.

The high contracting parties engage to deliver up to each other those persons who, being accused or convicted of a crime or offence committed in the territory of the one party, shall be found within the territory of the other party, under the circumstances and conditions stated in the present treaty.

ARTICLE II.

The crimes or offences for which the extradition is to be granted are the following:—

1. Murder, including infanticide, or attempt or conspiracy to murder, including such crimes when directed against the sovereign, his heir, or any other person whomsoever, provided that the crime is not of a political character.

2. Manslaughter, including the manslaughter of a child.

3. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

4. Maliciously wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm.

5. Counterfeiting or altering money, or uttering counterfeit or altered money.