Num. 35. 1195

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1904.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1904.

Further Notification respecting British Neutrality on occasion of War between Russia and Japan.

WHEREAS, under direction from His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies, certain notifications respecting the neutrality to be observed in the state of war which exists between the Empire of Russia and the Empire of Japan were published in Supplements to the New Zealand Gazette dated the eleventh February, one thousand nine hundred and four (page 535), and the seventeenth February, one thousand nine hundred and four (page 539): And whereas His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies has instructed the publication of a further notification respecting the same:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of such instructions, do hereby publish the documents set out in the Schedule hereto.

As witness my hand, at Government House, Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and four.

RANFURLY, Governor.

SCHEDULE.

(Circular.) Downing Street, 12th February, 1904.

SIR,—With reference to my telegram communicating to you the Rules for the observance of the duties of Neutrality to be in force during the existing state of War between Russia and Japan, I have the honour to transmit to you a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office embodying those Rules, together with copies of His Majesty’s Proclamation of Neutrality. [Foreign Office, 10th February, 1904. Proclamation of Neutrality.]

I have to request that you will cause both documents to be immediately published throughout the Colony under your Government, referring to the Proclamation or Notifications you may have already issued on receipt of my telegraphic instructions on the subject, and that you will not fail to conform to His Majesty’s commands.

I have, &c.,
ALFRED LYTTELTON.

The Officer administering the Government
of New Zealand.

[From the London Gazette Extraordinary, 11th February, 1904.]
By the KING.
A PROCLAMATION.

EDWARD, R. and I.

WHEREAS We are happily at Peace with all Sovereigns, Powers, and States:

And whereas a State of War unhappily exists between His Majesty The Emperor of All The Russias and His Majesty The Emperor of Japan, and between their respective Subjects, and others inhabiting within their Countries, Territories, or Dominions:

And whereas We are on Terms of Friendship and Amicable Intercourse with each of these Powers, and with their several Subjects, and others inhabiting within their Countries, Territories, or Dominions:

And whereas great Numbers of Our Loyal Subjects reside and carry on Commerce, and possess Property and Establishments, and enjoy various Rights and Privileges, within the Dominions of each of the aforesaid Powers, protected by the Faith of Treaties between Us and each of the aforesaid Powers:

And whereas We, being desirous of preserving to Our Subjects the Blessings of Peace, which they now happily enjoy, are firmly purposed and determined to maintain a strict and impartial Neutrality in the said State of War unhappily existing between the aforesaid Powers:

We, therefore, have thought fit, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, to issue this Our Royal Proclamation:

And We do hereby strictly charge and command all Our loving Subjects to govern themselves accordingly, and to observe a strict Neutrality in and during the aforesaid War, and to abstain from violating or contravening either the Laws and Statutes of the Realm in this behalf or the Law of Nations in relation thereto, as they will answer to the contrary at their Peril:

And whereas in and by a certain Statute made and passed in a Session of Parliament held in the thirty-third and thirty-fourth year of the reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled “An Act to Regulate the Conduct of Her Majesty’s Subjects during the Existence of Hostilities between Foreign States with which Her Majesty is at Peace,” it is, among other things, declared and enacted as follows:—

“This Act shall extend to all the Dominions of Her Majesty, including the adjacent territorial Waters,