Dec. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3585

3577 links ; and towards the west by said Section 210,
1614 links : be all the aforesaid linkages more or less :
as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 1911/1557,
deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at
Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-fifth day of November, one thousand
nine hundred and eleven.

D. BUDDO,
For Minister of Lands.

Further Notification respecting British Neutrality in the
War between Italy and Turkey.

WHEREAS, under instructions received from His
Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, a
notification was published in the New Zealand Gazette
No. 80, dated sixth October, one thousand nine hundred
and eleven (page 2995), respecting the neutrality to be
observed in the state of war which exists between the
Kingdom of Italy and the Ottoman Empire, which said
notification contained the purport of the Royal Proclama-
tion of Neutrality by His Majesty the King, together
with the rules to be observed therein : And whereas His
Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies has in-
structed the publication of a further notification respect-
ing the same :

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson - Poynder,
Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New
Zealand, in pursuance of such instruction, do hereby pub-
lish the documents set out in the Schedule hereto.

As witness my hand, at Government House, at Wel-
lington, this twenty-fifth day of November, one
thousand nine hundred and eleven.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

SCHEDULE.
[From the London Gazette Extraordinary of the 3rd October,
1911.]
By the KING.
A PROCLAMATION.
GEORGE, R. 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 King of Italy, and His Imperial Majesty
The Sultan of Turkey, and between their respective Sub-
jects, and others inhabiting within their Countries, Terri-
tories, 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 Procla-
mation :

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 holden in the 33rd
and 34th 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.

" Illegal Enlistment.

" If any Person, without the License of Her Majesty,
being a British Subject, within or without Her Majesty's
Dominions, accepts or agrees to accept any Commission or
Engagement in the Military or Naval Service of any
Foreign State at War with any Foreign State at Peace
with Her Majesty, and in this Act referred to as a
friendly State, or, whether a British Subject or not,
within Her Majesty's Dominions, induces any other
Person to accept or agree to accept any Commission or
Engagement in the Military or Naval Service of any such
Foreign State as aforesaid,—

" He shall be guilty of an Offence against this Act,
and shall be punishable by Fine and Imprison-
ment, or either of such punishments, at the dis-
cretion of the Court before which the Offender is
convicted ; and Imprisonment, if awarded, may
be either with or without Hard Labour.

" If any Person without the License of Her Majesty,
being a British Subject, quits or goes on board any Ship
with a view of quitting Her Majesty's Dominions, with
intent to accept any Commission or Engagement in the
Military or Naval Service of any Foreign State at War
with a friendly State, or, whether a British Subject or
not, within Her Majesty's Dominions, induces any other
Person to quit or to go on board any Ship with a view
of quitting Her Majesty's Dominions with the like
intent,—

" He shall be guilty of an Offence against this Act,
and shall be punishable by Fine and Imprison-
ment, or either of such punishments, at the dis-
cretion of the Court before which the Offender
is convicted ; and Imprisonment, if awarded, may
be either with or without Hard Labour.

" If any Person induces any other Person to quit Her
Majesty's Dominions or to embark on any Ship within
Her Majesty's Dominions under a Misrepresentation or
false Representation of the Service in which such Person
is to be engaged, with the intent or in order that such
Person may accept or agree to accept any Commission or
Engagement in the Military or Naval Service of any
Foreign State at War with a friendly State,—

" He shall be guilty of an Offence against this Act,
and shall be punishable by Fine and Imprison-
ment, or either of such punishments, at the dis-
cretion of the Court before which the Offender
is convicted ; and Imprisonment, if awarded, may
be with or without Hard Labour.

" If the Master or Owner of any Ship, without the
License of Her Majesty, knowingly either takes on board,
or engages to take on board, or has on board such Ship
within Her Majesty's Dominions any of the following
Persons, in this Act referred to as illegally enlisted
Persons, that is to say,—

" (1) Any Person who, being a British Subject within
or without the Dominions of Her Majesty, has,
without the License of Her Majesty, accepted or
agreed to accept any Commission or Engagement
in the Military or Naval Service of any Foreign
State at War with any friendly State :

" (2) Any Person, being a British Subject, who, with-
out the License of Her Majesty, is about to quit
Her Majesty's Dominions with intent to accept
any Commission or Engagement in the Military or
Naval Service of any Foreign State at War with
a friendly State :

" (3) Any Person who has been induced to embark
under a Misrepresentation or false Representation
of the service in which such Person is to be
engaged, with the intent or in order that such
Person may accept or agree to accept any Com-
mission or Engagement in the Military or Naval
Service of any Foreign State at War with a
friendly State :

" Such Master or Owner shall be guilty of an Offence
against this Act, and the following Consequences shall
ensue ; that is to say,—

" (1) The Offender shall be punishable by Fine and
Imprisonment, or either of such punishments, at
the Discretion of the Court before which the
Offender is convicted ; and Imprisonment, if
awarded, may be either with or without Hard
Labour : and

" (2) Such Ship shall be detained until the Trial and
Conviction or Acquittal of the Master or Owner,
and until all Penalties inflicted on the Master or
Owner have been paid, or the Master or Owner
has given Security for the Payment of such
Penalties to the Satisfaction of Two Justices of
the Peace, or other Magistrate or Magistrates
having the Authority of Two Justices of the
Peace : and

" (3) All illegally enlisted Persons shall immediately on
the Discovery of the Offence be taken on Shore,
and shall not be allowed to return to the Ship."