GREAT BRITAIN AND TONGA.
The text of a treaty of friendship between Great Britain and the Kiug of Tonga is published in tho " Gazette." It is stipulated that "if any subject of her Britannic Majesty in Touga is charged with a criminal offence cognisable by British law, such charge niay be tried by her Britannic Majesty's High Commissioner for the Western Pacific Islands, or other British officer duly authorised by her Britannic Majesty in that behalf. If any subject of her Britannic Majesty in Touga is charged with an offence against the municipal law of Tonga, not cognisable as such under British law, he shall be ameuable to the jurisdiction of the Tonga Courts, the proceedings of which shall be conducted in public aud accessable. If any subject of her Britannic Majesty in Tonga, is charged with a criminal offence cognisable as such both by British law and the laws of Tonga, the party charged may elect whether he will be tried by a Tongan Court or by the Court of her Britannic Majesty's High Commissioner." Great Britain agrees to surrender any subject of the King of Tonga, found within her dominions, who may be accused or convicted of murder, or attempt to murder, embezzlement, or larceny, fraudulent bankruptcy, or forgery.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1037, 27 January 1880, Page 2
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211GREAT BRITAIN AND TONGA. Kumara Times, Issue 1037, 27 January 1880, Page 2
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