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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(iv.) The candidates are either to be nominated direct, or
selected after passing an examination held by the local uni-
versity, according as the Governor and Admiral on the
station may determine. They must also pass the physical
examination referred to in clause 8 of the regulations for
entry of candidates.

(v.) The selected candidates are to be appointed provision-
ally only, their commissions in the Royal Navy being de-
termined by the result of the course of training at Haslar,
in which they will be expected to qualify to the satisfaction
of the naval medical authorities.

2. I am to request, therefore, that you will place yourself
   in communication with the Governor-General of the
   Australian Commonwealth and the Governor of New
   Zealand, with a view to carrying this arrangement into
   effect forthwith.

I am, &c.,
EVAN McGREGOR.

The Commander-in-Chief,
H.M. Ships and Vessels, Australia.
[D. 04/546.]

New Zealand Government Railways.—By-law re Persons
joining or leaving Trains in Motion.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by
“The Government Railways Act, 1900,” I, Joseph
George Ward, Minister for Railways, do hereby cancel
By-law 14 of the by-laws gazetted on the 27th October, 1882,
and in lieu thereof do hereby make the following by-law
prohibiting the joining or leaving any part of a train while
in motion. And I do hereby declare that this by-law shall
come into operation on and from the date of the publication
thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

BY-LAW.

No person shall get into or upon or quit, or attempt to
get into or upon or quit, any part of a train while it is in
motion; and any person who commits a breach of this by-
law shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £10 for each
such breach.

Given under my hand, this thirtieth day of March,
one thousand nine hundred and four.

J. G. WARD,
Minister for Railways.

Commercial Relations between Germany and the British
Empire.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 28th March, 1904.

THE following despatch, with its enclosure, received
from His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, is published for general information.

C. H. MILLS,
Minister for Trade and Customs.

(Circular.) Downing Street, 9th January, 1904.
SIR,—With reference to my predecessor’s circular despatch
of the 12th September, 1901, I have the honour to transmit
to you, for the information of your Government, copies of a
notification of the Bundesrath (30th December, 1903) which
has been issued prolonging after 31st December, 1903, the
provisions contained in their last notification of 11th June,
1901, respecting German commercial relations with the
British Empire, and of a memorandum (30th December,
1903) on the subject prepared by the commercial attaché to
His Majesty’s Embassy at Berlin.

I have caused the information contained in these papers
to be conveyed to you by telegram, as it supplements and
modifies that contained in my recent despatch of 19th ultimo
on this subject.

I have, &c.,
ALFRED LYTTELTON.

The Officer Administering the Government
of New Zealand.

(Enclosure 1 in Circular dated 9th January, 1904.)
MEMORANDUM ON COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH THE BRITISH
EMPIRE.

The Reichsanzeiger of this evening publishes the text of
the Law, recently passed by the Reichstag, which authorised
the Bundesrath to grant most-favoured-nation treatment to
the British Empire up to the 31st December, 1905, a trans-
lation of which has already been forwarded.

Below that Law the formal notification of the Bundesrath
is now published, which in the present instance does not
even mention by name any country as exempted from the
benefits of such treatment, but it provides that the same
conditions as prevailed in the last similar notification of
11th June, 1901, shall continue to be in force after 31st De-
cember, 1903, until further notice. A copy and translation
of this notification are enclosed herewith.

It will be remembered that the notification of 1901 ex-
cluded Canada from the privilege of most-favoured-nation
treatment. Under the wording of the new notification,
therefore, the Dominion of Canada still continues to be
exempted, as before.

No action is taken, at present, to exempt the imports from
the Cape and New Zealand from the benefits of most-
favoured-nation treatment in view of the preferences re-
cently accorded by those countries to goods imported from
Great Britain.

WILLIAM S. H. GASTRELL.

Berlin, 30th December, 1903.

(Enclosure 2 in Circular dated 9th January, 1904.)
NOTIFICATION CONCERNING THE COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH
THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

(Of 30th December, 1903.)

By virtue of the foregoing Law the Bundesrath has decided
to prolong the duration of the provisions contained in the
notification of 11th June, 1901 (Reichsgesetzblatt, page 205),
beyond the 31st December, 1903, until further notice.

For the Imperial Chancellor,
GRAF VON POSADOWSKY.

Berlin, 30th December, 1903.

Notice of Intention to take Lands for a Road through
Blocks V., VI., IX., and X., Linkwater Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the
provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” to
execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a
road through Blocks V., VI., IX., and X., Linkwater Survey
District, Pelorus Road District, and for the purposes of such
public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are
required to be taken. And notice is further given that the
plan of the said road and of the land so required to be
taken is deposited in the Post-office at Grove (Marlborough),
and is there open for inspection. And notice is also hereby
given that all persons affected by the execution of the said
public work or by the taking of the said land shall, if they
have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the
said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the
same in writing, and send such writing within forty days
from the first publication of this notice to the Minister for
Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Marlborough Land District; as the same are
more particularly delineated on the plan marked and
coloured as above mentioned, deposited in the office of the
Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington
Land District.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth
day of March, one thousand nine hundred and
four.

JAS. McGOWAN,
Acting Minister for Public Works.