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And the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the Secretary of State for India in Council, are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. C. L. Peel.

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 or 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 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 are given for recovering and apprehending seamen who desert from British merchant ships in the territories of the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay : Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers vested in her by the said " Foreign Deserters Act, 1852," and by and with the advice of the 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 Oriental Eepublic of the Uruguay, shall be 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 until he has been tried by a competent Court, and until his sentence, if any, has been fully carried into effect. And the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the Secretary of State for India in Council, are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. C. L. Peel.

No. 101. (New Zealand—General.) Sin,— Downing Street, 9th October, 1886. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 73, of the 14th of August, enclosing a copy of a letter from Dr. J. Hector, Chancellor of the University of New Zealand, forwarding a petition relating to the disabilities under which students labour to whom degrees in medicine and surgery have been granted by that University, and urging that, as the Medical Act Amendment Bill, then before the House of Lords, provided what the petitioners desire, Her Majesty's Government should use every means to pass the Bill into law as early as possible. 2. In reply, 1 have to refer you to my predecessor's circular despatch of the 22nd of July last, enclosing a copy of the Medical Act of 1886, to which I request you will call Dr. Hector's attention. 3. It will now rest with your Government to consider the expediency of applying for an Order of the Queen in Council, under section 17 of the Act, for extending Part 11. of the Act to New Zealand. If your Ministers should decide to apply for the application of Part 11. of the Act to the colony, it will be necessary for you to furnish me at the same time with evidence of the information required by section 17, as to privileges afforded in the colony to the registered medical practitioners of the United Kingdom. I have, &c, EDWAKD STANHOPE. Governor Sir W. F. D. Jervois, G.C.M.G., C.8., &c.

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No. 102. (New Zealand, No. 81.) Sir, — Downing Street, 13tli October, 1886. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 77, of the 18th of August, reporting that on that day you prorogued by Commission the Third Session of the Ninth Parliament of New Zealand. I have, <fee,, EDWAED STANHOPE. Governor Sir W. F. D. Jervois, G.C.M.G., C.8., &c.

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