Oct. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1975

persons have been appointed officers for the purposes of that Act for the districts set opposite their names respectively, viz.:

Name and Address. District.
WILLIAM BROOKLAND, of Lower Pare-ora The South Canterbury Acclimatisation District.
CHARLES HENRY VERITY, of Totara Valley, Pleasant Point
DONALD FRASER, of Upper Pareora ..
STANLEY BARBER, of Woolmeres, Mount Somers County of Ashburton.

J. CARROLL.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 18th October, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES THORNE

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Waihi.

J. CARROLL.

Rangers under the Animals Protection Acts, South Canterbury and Ashburton Districts, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th October, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned persons to be Rangers under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, for the districts set opposite their names respectively, viz.:

Name. District.
DONALD FRASER .. South Canterbury.
WILLIAM BROOKLAND
CHARLES HENRY VERITY
STANLEY BARBER .. Ashburton.

J. CARROLL.

Notice of Election of a Member of the Board of Conciliation for the Wellington Industrial District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1894,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that

HENRY FIELD, of Wellington, Coal Merchant,

has been duly elected a member of the Board of Conciliation for the Wellington Industrial District, vice Samuel Brown, resigned.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

R. J. SEDDON

Visiting Justice appointed.

Department of Justice (Prisons Branch),
Wellington, 20th October, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ABRAHAM SOLOMON, Esq., J.P.,

to be a Visiting Justice at Her Majesty’s Prison at Dunedin.

J. CARROLL,
For Minister of Justice.

Cadet appointed.

Government Insurance Department,
Wellington, 20th October, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES HENDRY

to be a cadet in the Government Insurance Department at Timaru, the appointment to date from the 20th September, 1899.

W. C. WALKER,
For Colonial Treasurer.

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Militia and Staff Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 18th October, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the under-mentioned appointment:—

New Zealand Militia.

Captain Richard Hutton Davies, from the Hawera Mounted Rifle Volunteers, to be Major and Staff Officer for Instruction of Mounted Rifle Volunteers in the North Island. Commission to date from the 3rd day of October, 1899.

T. THOMPSON,
Minister of Defence.

Despatch.—Order in Council of 8th August, 1899, extending Operation of certain Orders in Council re International Copyright to the Empire of Japan.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 18th October, 1899.

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

J. CARROLL.

(Circular.) Downing Street, 24th August, 1899.

Sir,—With reference to Lord Knutsford’s circular despatch of the 29th February, 1888, enclosing copies of an Order of Her Majesty in Council dated 28th November, 1887, for giving effect to the International Copyright Convention of the 9th September, 1886, and to my circular despatch of the 15th March, 1898, enclosing copies of an Order of Her Majesty in Council dated the 7th March, 1898, for giving effect to the Additional Act of Paris modifying that convention, and also to my circular despatch of the 10th June, 1898, enclosing an Order of Her Majesty in Council of the 19th May, 1898, extending the operation of the Order in Council of the 7th of March, 1898, to the Republic of Hayti, I have the honour to transmit to you, for information and publication in the Colony under your government, copies of an Order of Her Majesty in Council dated the 8th August, 1899, extending the operation of the Orders in Council of the 28th November, 1887, and the 7th March, 1898, to the Empire of Japan as from the 15th of July last.

I have, &c.,

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

The Officer administering the Government of New Zealand.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 8th day of August, 1899.

Present:

THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, LORD CHANCELLOR, LORD PRESIDENT, LORD JAMES OF HEREFORD, SIR FLEETWOOD EDWARDS.

WHEREAS on the 9th day of September, 1886, a convention (hereinafter called the Berne Convention) with respect to the protection to be given by way of copyright to the authors of literary and artistic works was concluded between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the foreign countries following, that is to say: Belgium, Hayti, Switzerland, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Tunis:

And whereas on the 5th day of September, 1887, the ratifications of the said convention were duly exchanged between Her Majesty the Queen and the aforesaid countries:

And whereas, by an Order in Council dated the 28th day of November, 1887, and made under the authority committed to Her Majesty by the International Copyright Acts, 1844 to 1886, Her Majesty was pleased to make provision for giving rights of copyright throughout Her Majesty’s dominions to the authors of literary and artistic works first produced in any of the said foreign countries (therein referred to as the foreign countries of the Copyright Union) and otherwise giving effect throughout Her Majesty’s dominions to the terms of the said Berne Convention; and an English translation of the said convention was set out in the First Schedule to the Order in Council now in recital:

And whereas, since the date of the said Order in Council hereinbefore recited, the foreign countries following—namely, Luxembourg, Monaco, Montenegro, and Norway—have acceded to the said Berne Convention, and, by Orders in Council dated respectively the 10th day of August, 1888, the 15th day of October, 1889, the 16th day of May, 1893, and the 1st day of August, 1896, and made under the au-