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And whereas the ratifications of the said Protocol were exchanged at Monte Video on the seventeenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one : Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and. with the advice of Her Privy Council, and in virtue of the authority committed to her by the said Acts, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, the said Acts shall apply in the case of the said Protocol of the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, as fully to all intents and purposes as in the case of the said recited treaty of the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four. Provided always, and it is hereby further ordered, that the operation of the said Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1873, shall be suspended within the Dominion of Canada so far as relates to the Oriental Eepublic of the Uruguay, and to the said Treaty and Protocol, so long as the provisions of the Canadian Act aforesaid of 1886 continue in force, and no longer. C. L. Peel. (Extract from the London Gazette of Friday, November 27th, 1891.)

No. 3. Downing Street, 13th January, 1892. Intimating that Her Majesty will not be advised to exercise her power of disallowance of the Acts of the New Zealand Parliament, session of 1891.

[For list of Acts, see New Zealand Gazette No. 22, 10th March, 1892.]

No. 4. My Lord,— Downing Street, 14th January, 1892, It is with the deepest regret that I have to communicate to you the melancholy intelligence of the death of His Royal Highness Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, E.G., eldest son of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and grandson of Her Majesty the Queen. His Royal Highness expired at Sandringham, at 9.15 a.m. to-day, to the inexpressible grief of Her Majesty, the Royal Family, and nation. I have, &c, ENUTSFORD. The Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand.

No. 5. My Lord, — Downing Street, 22nd January, 1892. I have laid before the Queen your telegram of the 16th instant, expressing the sympathy which, in common with the whole of the people of New Zealand, you feel upon the sad occasion of the death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale. I am commanded by Her Majesty to request that you will let it be known that Her Majesty and the Royal Family find much consolation in this and the numerous messages of condolence which have reached them from the colonies. I have, &c, The Right Hon. the Earl of Onslow. ENUTSFORD.

No. 6. My Lord, — Downing Street, Ist February, 1892. I have the honour to transmit to you a copy of a letter from the Queen expressing Her Majesty's deep sense of the loyalty and affectionate sympathy evinced by her subjects in every part of her Empire on the sad occasion of the death of her grandson, His Royal Highness Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, E.G., eldest son of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. I have also the honour to enclose a copy of a telegram dated Windsor Castle, the 20th of January, in which their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales express to Her Majesty's subjects, whether in the United Eingdom, in the colonies, or in India, the sense of their deep gratitude for the universal feeling of sympathy manifested towards them on the sad occasion of the loss of their beloved eldest son,