Aug. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2099

of the New Zealand Gazette, 1905, and that the interest and sinking fund on the said £2,000 loan shall not exceed £5 per centum per annum, payable half-yearly on the 1st day of January and the 1st day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty-six years, or until such loan is paid up.

Resolved, That, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and all other statutes enabling it so to do, the Council of the County of Grey hereby resolves, by way of special order, as follows: That, for the purpose of providing interest and other charges on a loan of £2,000, authorised to be raised by the said Council of the County of Grey, under the above-mentioned Acts, for the purpose of providing the Council’s proportion of the cost of reconstructing the Teremakau Bridge, Kumara-Greenstone Road, as set forth in the Governor’s Warrant gazetted on page 441 of the New Zealand Gazette, 1905, the said Council of the County of Grey hereby makes and levies a special rate of 1/16d. in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the County of Grey, comprising the Ridings of Waipuna, Nelson Creek, Red Jacks, Cobden, Brunnerton, Paroa, Maori Creek, Marsden, and Hohonu; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring one during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 1st day of January and the 1st day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty-six years, or until the loan is fully paid up.

We hereby certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of special order made by the Grey County Council at a special meeting held on the 17th day of April, 1906, and confirmed at a subsequent meeting held on the 23rd day of May, 1906.

J. MCCARTHY,
S. R. HARRIS,
Members of the County Council of the County of Grey.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 31st July, 1906.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Heathcote Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

W. HALL-JONES,
Colonial Treasurer.

HEATHCOTE ROAD BOARD.

Notice pursuant to the Provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

PURSUANT to the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers in respect of properties comprised in Rural Section 326, known as “North Linwood,” in the Avon Ward of the Heathcote Road District, to decide by vote of the ratepayers whether the proposals for raising a special loan of £5,800 for a period of twenty years, with interest and sinking fund at £5 per centum per annum, notice of which was published in the Lyttelton Times of the 20th and 27th June, and the 4th and 11th July, 1906, should be carried into effect, was duly taken in a marquee erected on a section at the corner of Worcester Street and Norwich Street, North Linwood, on Thursday, the 26th July, 1906, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. of the said day. And I hereby give further notice that at the taking of the said poll the votes of the said ratepayers in the said Rural Section No. 326, known as “North Linwood,” were given as follows: For the proposal, 45; against the proposal, 5.

The total number of valid votes recorded at the said poll in favour of the said proposal exceeds three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded thereat. I therefore declare the said proposal carried.

Dated this 27th day of July, 1906.

F. R. CORSON,
Chairman.

Despatch.—Extradition Treaty with Nicaragua.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 30th July, 1906.

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

JAMES MCGOWAN.

Downing Street, 2nd June, 1906.

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 11th of May, 1906, for giving effect to the Treaty between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Nicaragua for the mutual surrender of fugitive criminals, which was signed at Managua on the 19th of April, 1905.

I have, &c.,
ELGIN.

The Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

NICARAGUA EXTRADITION TREATY ORDER IN COUNCIL OF 11TH MAY, 1906.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 11th day of May, 1906.

Present:

THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

LORD PRESIDENT, LORD CHAMBERLAIN, LORD RIBBLESDALE, MR. L. HARCOURT.

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 expedient:

And whereas a Treaty was concluded on the nineteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and five, between His Majesty and the President of the Republic of Nicaragua, for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, which Treaty is in the terms following:—

Treaty between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Nicaragua for the Mutual Surrender of Fugitive Criminals.

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and His Excellency the President of the Republic of Nicaragua, having determined, by common consent, to conclude a Treaty for the extradition of criminals, have accordingly named as their Plenipotentiaries:

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India; Herbert William Broadley Harrison, Esquire, Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, His Majesty’s Chargé d’Affaires in the Republic of Nicaragua; and His Excellency the President of Nicaragua; Doctor Adolfo Altamirano, Minister of Foreign Affairs; who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon 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 committed in the territory of the one Party, shall be found within the territory of the other Party, under circumstances and conditions stated in the present Treaty.

ARTICLE II.

Extradition shall be reciprocally granted for the following crimes and offences:—

1. Murder, or attempt or conspiracy to murder.
2. Manslaughter.
3. Administering drugs or using instruments with intent to procure the miscarriage of women.
4. Rape.
5. Carnal knowledge, or any attempt to have carnal knowledge, of a girl under the age of puberty, according to the laws of the respective countries.
6. Indecent assault.
7. Kidnapping and false imprisonment.
8. Abandoning, exposing, or detaining children.
9. Abduction.
10. Bigamy.
11. Maliciously wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm.
12. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
13. Threats, by letter or otherwise, with intent to extort money or other things of value.
14. Perjury, or subornation of perjury.
15. Arson.