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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 92

Volunteer Officers appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 19th October, 1901.

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

Christ’s College Rifle Volunteers (Christchurch).
Claude Horace Weston to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 18th June, 1901.

Heretaunga Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
Richard John Spotswood Seddon to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 3rd December, 1900.

Hokianga Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
The Rev. Hector Alfred Hawkins to be Honorary Chaplain. Date of commission, 4th May, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Services of a Volunteer Cadet Corps accepted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st October, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the services of the

Manawatu Rifle Cadet Volunteers,

with headquarters at Palmerston North. Acceptance to date from the 27th August, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officers resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th October, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commissions held by the under-mentioned officers:—

Port Guards Rifle Volunteers (Timaru).
Lieutenant George Anderson. Date of resignation, 30th July, 1901.

Mercantile Rifle Volunteers (Invercargill).
Lieutenant Joseph F. Wilson. Date of resignation, 20th August, 1901.

Wellington Post and Telegraph Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant James Gorthorn Rule. Date of resignation, 29th July, 1901.

Timaru City Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Geoffrey Bailey. Date of resignation, 11th September, 1901.

Ashburton Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant John Studholme. Date of resignation, 14th August, 1901.

Canterbury Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
Captain Rochfort Snow. Date of resignation, 31st July, 1901.

Waipawa Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant William Joll. Date of resignation, 20th August, 1901.

College Rifle Volunteers (Wellington).
Lieutenant Alfred Barnes Rose. Date of resignation, 20th August, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Amendment to Volunteer Regulations, 1895.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th October, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the following amendment to paragraph 67, Volunteer Regulations, 1895:—

After the words “vivâ voce examination” add “and in the event of his unavoidable absence the District Commandant will appoint a Staff Officer to represent him.”

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Despatch.—Extradition Treaty with Servia.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 21st October, 1901.

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

JAMES McGOWAN.

(Circular.)
Downing Street, 23rd August, 1901.

SIR,—I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the colony under your government, a copy of an order of His Majesty the King in Council, dated the 15th of June, 1901, for giving effect to the treaty between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and His Majesty the King of Servia for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, signed at Belgrade on the 6 December, 1900, the ratifications of which were exchanged at that city on the 13th March, 1901.

I have, &c.,
J. CHAMBERLAIN.

The Officer administering the Government
of New Zealand.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.—EXTRADITION TREATY—SERVIA.

Saint James’s, 15th June, 1901.

At the Court at Saint James’s, the 15th day of June, 1901.

Present:

THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

Lord Privy Seal, Duke of Richmond and Gordon, Duke of Rutland, Earl Waldegrave, Earl Brownlow, Lord Currie, Mr. Gerard Noel, Sir Dighton Probyn.

WHEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1895, it is, 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, His Majesty may, by Order in Council, direct that the said Acts shall apply in the case of such foreign State; and that His 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 His 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 sixth day of December, one thousand nine hundred, between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and His Majesty the King of Servia 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 His Majesty the King of Servia, having judged it expedient, with a view to the better administration of justice and to the prevention of crime within their respective territories, that persons charged with or convicted of the crimes hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up; 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—Sir George Francis Bonham, a Baronet of the United Kingdom, her Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of Servia; and His Majesty the King of Servia—His Excellency Monsieur Alexa S. Jovanovic, his President of the Council of Ministers, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Member of the Council of State, Grand Officer of the Order of Milosh the Great, Grand Cross of the Order of Takovo, Officer of the Order of the White Eagle, Commander of the Order of St. Sava, Grand Cross of the Order of Osmanieh, &c., &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, or attempt or conspiracy to murder.
2. Manslaughter.
3. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Maliciously wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm.