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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 3

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th January, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz. :

Name. District.
WILLIAM FORRESTER JARVIE .. Kaitangata.
CHARLES BAKER .. Waiwera.
DAVID JAMES DONALD .. Pleasant Point.

C. H. MILLS,
For Colonial Secretary.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th January, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

EDWARD BROPHY

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

C. H. MILLS,
For Colonial Secretary.

Pilot appointed, Port of Wairau.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 8th January, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased, in pursuance of the power and authority vested in him by section 13 of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” to appoint

HENRY FISK

to be Pilot for the Port of Wairau.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 11th January, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

NICHOLAS O’TOOLE, Esq.,

of Fairlie, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Justice.

Public-school Cadet Companies, Detachments, and Battalion recognised.

Education Department,
Wellington, 14th January, 1904.

THE undermentioned public-school cadet companies, detachments, and battalion are recognised under the regulations published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 13th May, 1902:—

Wanganui Education District.
The Marton Public School Cadet Company.

Hawke’s Bay Education District.
The Ormond Public School Cadet Detachment.
The No. 2 Hawke’s Bay Public School Cadet Battalion, with the following officers:—
Andrew Stevenson, commanding the Fifth Battalion, Wellington Rifle Volunteers, to command the battalion; and
Frank Burley Curd, commanding the Ormondville Public School Cadets, to be Adjutant; and
Richard Philip Soundy, Headmaster of Dannevirke Public School, to be Quartermaster.

Wellington Education District.
The Pahiatua Public School Cadet Company.

North Canterbury Education District.
The Amberley Public School Cadet Detachment.

Otago Education District.
The No. 2 Company Arthur Street Public School Cadet Company.
The Fairfax (Milton) Public School Cadet Detachment.
The No. 2 Company North-east Valley Public School Cadet Company.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Education.

Despatch.—International Copyright Extension to Kingdom of Denmark and Faroe Islands.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th January, 1904.

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

ALBERT PITT,
For Colonial Secretary.

(Circular.)
Downing Street, 26th October, 1903.

SIR,—With reference to Lord Knutsford’s circular despatch of the 29th February, 1888, enclosing an Order of Her late Majesty in Council, dated 28th November, 1887, for giving effect to the International Copyright Convention of the 9th September, 1886, and to Mr. Chamberlain’s circular despatches of the 15th of March, 1898, the 10th June, 1898, and the 24th August, 1899, enclosing further Orders in Council relative to the operation of that Convention, I have the honour to transmit to you, for information and publication in the colony under your Government, copies of an Order of His Majesty in Council, dated the 9th October, 1903, giving effect to the accession of the Kingdom of Denmark and the Faroe Islands to the Convention and to the Additional Act of Paris of 1896, as from the 1st of July, 1903.

I have, &c.,

ALFRED LYTTELTON.

The Officer Administering the Government
of New Zealand.

[Extract from the London Gazette of Friday, October 16, 1903.]

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 9th day of October, 1903.

Present :

THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS on the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, 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 late Majesty Queen Victoria and the foreign countries following—that is to say, Belgium, Hayti, Switzerland, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Tunis :

And whereas on the fifth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, the ratifications of the said Convention were duly exchanged between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and the aforesaid countries :

And whereas by an Order in Council dated the twenty-eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, and made under the authority committed to Her late Majesty Queen Victoria 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 said Order in Council :

And whereas since the date of the said Order in Council 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 tenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, the fifteenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, the sixteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, and the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, and made under the authority aforesaid, the provisions of the said Order in Council of the twenty-eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, have been extended to the last-mentioned foreign countries respectively :

And whereas an Additional Act to the said Berne Convention was agreed upon between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and the following foreign countries for the purpose of varying the provisions of the said Berne Convention—namely, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, Monaco, Tunis, France, and Montenegro—and the ratifications of the said Additional Act were on the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, exchanged between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and the said foreign countries :

And whereas by an Order in Council dated the seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and made under the authority aforesaid, Her late Majesty Queen Victoria was pleased to make provision for varying the hereinbefore-recited Order in Council of the twenty-eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, and otherwise giving effect to the said Additional Act