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No. 98. (New Zealand, No. 78.) Sir, — Downing Street, 29th September, 1886. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 76, of the 14th ultimo, with its enclosures, relative to the recent Native disturbances on the west coast of the North Island. I have, &c, EDWARD STANHOPE. Governor Sir W. F. D. Jervois, G.C.M.G., C.8., &c.

A.-l, 1887, No, 37.

No. 99. (New Zealand, No. 79.) Sib, — Downing Street, 29th September, 1886. With reference to your Despatch No. 46, of the 12th of July last, relating to the regulations affecting the importation of cattle into this country from New Zealand, I have the honour to transmit to you, for communication to your Government, a copy of a letter from the Council Office enclosing a copy of "The Animals Order, 1886." It will be seen that this order takes effect on the Ist of November next, and that New Zealand has been added to the list of free countries enumerated in Part I. of the Fifth Schedule to the order. I enclose for your information, and for that of your Ministers, a copy of a correspondence which took place in August last with the Agent-General for New Zealand on this subject. I have, &c, EDWARD STANHOPE. Governor Sir W. F. D. Jervois, G.C.M.G., C.8., &c.

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No. 100. (Circular.) Sir, — Downing Street, 4th October, 1886. I have the honour to transmit, for publication in the colony under your government, copies of two Orders by Her Majesty in Council, extending the provisions of" The Foreign Deserters Act, 1852," to the Republic of the Equator and the Oriental Republic of Uruguay. I have, &c, EDWARD STANHOPE. The Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand.

Enclosures. [Extracts from the London Gazette, 28th September, 1886.] At the Court at Balmoral, the 24th day of September, 1886. Present: The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Whereas by "The Foreign Deserters Act, 1852," it is provided that, whenever it is made to appear to Her Majesty that due facilities are or will be given for recovering and apprehending seamen who desert from British merchant ships in the territories of any foreign Power, Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, stating that such facilities are or will be given, declare that seamen, not being slaves, who desert from merchant ships belonging to a subject of such Power, when within Her Majesty's dominions, shall be liable to be apprehended, and carried on board their respective ships, and may limit the operation of such order, and may render the operation thereof subject to such conditions and qualifications, if any, as may be deemed expedient : And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that due facilities will be given for recovering and apprehending seamen who desert from British merchant ships in the dominions and possessions of the Republic of the Equator: Now T, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the power vested in her by the said " Foreign Deserters Act, 1852," and by and with the advice of her Privy Council, is pleased to order and declare, and it is hereby ordered and declared, that, from and after the publication hereof in the London Gazette, seamen, not being slaves, and not being British subjects, who, within Her Majesty's dominions, desert from merchant ships belonging to the Republic of the Equator, shall bo liable to be apprehended and carried on board their respective ships : Provided always that, if any such deserter has committed any crime in Her Majesty's dominions, he may be detained till he has been tried by a competent Court, and until his sentence, if any, has been carried into effect.