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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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pursuant to the said Act, is to be the said drainage-works and waterworks (the subject-matter of the loan), and the revenues therefrom (subject to special loan already secured on them), and the general rates, rents, and revenues of the borough not being moneys received by way of grant from the Government or moneys heretofore pledged as security for any special loan or appropriated for any special purpose. That the whole loan is to be repayable on the 1st day of August, 1915, and is to bear interest at the rate of £4 10s. per centum per annum, payable half-yearly. That in connection therewith forty debentures of £100 each are to be issued, each payable on the said date, with separate coupons attached thereto for each half-year’s interest, and the principal and interest secured by such debentures are to be payable at the National Bank of New Zealand (Limited), Dunedin or Mosgiel, and that the cost of raising the loan and the interest for the first year are to be paid out of the said loan. And at the said poll the following votes were recorded:—

For the proposal, 106; against the proposal, 19; majority for the proposal, 87; informal, 5.

I therefore declare the proposal duly carried.

THOMAS AITKEN,
Mayor.

Mosgiel, 4th August, 1905.

Despatch.—Extradition Treaty with Switzerland.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 14th August, 1905.

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

JAS. McGOWAN,
Minister of Justice.

(Circular.)
Downing Street, 17th June, 1905.

Sir,—With reference to the Earl of Kimberley’s circular despatch of the 30th May, 1881, 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 29th of May, 1905, bringing into operation, as from the 9th instant, a Convention between His Britannic Majesty and the Federal Council of the Swiss Confederation supplementing Article XVIII. of the Extradition Treaty concluded between Great Britain and Switzerland, November 26th, 1880.

This Supplementary Convention was signed at London on the 29th of June, 1904, and the ratifications were exchanged at the same place on the 29th of March, 1905.

I have, &c.,
ALFRED LYTTELTON.

The Officer administering the Government of

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

APPLYING THE EXTRADITION CONVENTION OF THE 29TH JUNE, 1904.

Buckingham Palace, 29th May, 1905.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 29th day of May, 1905.

Present:

THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

LORD PRESIDENT, LORD STEWARD, MR. C. B. STUART-WORTLEY, SIR W. H. WALROND, SIR A. NICOLSON, SIR W. E. GOSCHEN.

WHEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1895, it was 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 twenty-sixth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and the Swiss Federal Council, for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, in the case of which treaty the Extradition Acts of 1870 and 1873 were applied by Order in Council of the eighteenth May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one:

And whereas a Supplementary Convention was concluded on the twenty-ninth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and four, between His Majesty and the Federal Council of the Swiss Confederation, amending Article XVIII. of the said treaty of the twenty-sixth November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, which Supplementary Convention is in the terms following:—

Convention supplementing Article XVIII. of the Extradition Treaty concluded between Great Britain and Switzerland, November 26th, 1880.

The Government of His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Federal Council of the Swiss Confederation having deemed it necessary to extend, so far as regards the relations of Switzerland with the British colonies and foreign possessions, the periods of thirty days and two months respectively fixed by Article III., paragraph 3, and Article VIII. of the treaty concluded on the 26th November, 1880, between Her late Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, &c., and the Swiss Federal Council respecting the extradition of persons accused or condemned, the undersigned, duly authorised to that effect by their respective Governments, have agreed as follows:—

The following stipulation is added to the first paragraph of Article XVIII. of the Treaty of Extradition:—

“Nevertheless, so far as regards the relations of Switzerland with these colonies and foreign possessions, the period of time fixed by Article III., paragraph 3, within which the requisition for extradition is to be made through the diplomatic channel shall be six weeks; and that provided by Article VIII. for the production of proof sufficient to warrant the extradition shall be three calendar months.”

The present Convention shall come into force from the date when the ratifications shall be exchanged. It shall have the same force and duration as the Treaty of Extradition of the 26th November, 1880, to which it relates.

It shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London as soon as possible.

In witness whereof the undersigned have signed the present Convention, and have affixed their seals thereto.

Done at London in duplicate, the 29th day of June, 1904.

(L.S.)

Lansdowne.

And whereas the ratifications of the said Supplementary Convention were exchanged at London on the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and five:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, and in virtue of the authority committed to Him by the said recited Acts, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the ninth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and five, the said Acts shall apply in the case of Switzerland, under and in accordance with the said treaty, as amended by the said Supplementary Convention above set forth:

Provided always that the operation of the said Acts shall be and remain suspended within the Dominion of Canada so long as an Act of the Parliament of Canada passed in one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, and entitled “An Act respecting the Extradition of Fugitive Criminals,” shall continue in force there, and no longer.

A. W. FitzRoy.

[Extract from the London Gazette of Tuesday, the 30th May, 1905.]

Notice fixing Closing-hours of Chemists and Druggists’ Shops in the Borough of Gore.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the chemists and druggists’ shops in the Borough of Gore (not being one of the districts mentioned in section 3 of “The Shops and Offices Act, 1904”), has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the borough shall be closed at 8 o’clock p.m. on every working-day of the week, except Wednesday, the weekly half-holiday, when the hour for closing is at 1 p.m., and Saturday, when the hour for closing shall be 9 p.m.: And whereas the Gore Borough Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the chemists and druggists’ shops within the borough.

Now, therefore, I, James Carroll, acting for and on behalf of the Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 21 of the said Act, do hereby direct that from and after the 21st day of August, 1905, all chemists and druggists’ shops in the Borough of Gore shall be closed in accordance with such requisition.

Dated at Wellington, this 16th day of August, 1905.

J. CARROLL,
For Minister of Labour.