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No. 7.

(No. 77.) My Lord, — Downing Street, 16th August, 1907. I have the honour to inform you that His Majesty will not be advised to exercise his powers of disallowance with respect to the Act No. 41 of 1906, of the Parliament of New Zealand, entitled " An Act to amend ' The Defence Act, 1886,'" a transcript of which accompanied your despatch (No. 102) of the 24th November last. I have, &c, ELGIN. The Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand.

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No. 8.

(Miscellaneous.) My Lord, — Downing Street, 28th August, 1907. I have the honour to inform you that the Danish Minister at this Court has intimated that, in accordance with a Resolution unanimously adopted by the last International Congress of Orientalists which was held in Algiers in 1905, the Fifteenth International Congress of Orientalists will be held at Copenhagen in August 1908, and has requested, on behalf of his Government, that the enclosed letters of invitation may be forwarded to the Government of New Zealand and the University of Otago. I have, &c, ELGIN. Governor the Right Hon. Lord Plunket, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O.

No. 9.

(Miscellaneous.) My Lord, — Downing Street, 4th September, 1907. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram of the 28th of July last informing me that your Lordship's Government desire to adhere to the International Agricultural Institute and to be classed in Group IV of the contributing States under Article 10 of the Convention. I requested the Foreign Office to cause an intimation of your Government's wishes to be notified to the Italian Government, and have now to state for the information of your Ministers that His Majesty's Representative at Rome has reported the receipt of a note from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs giving act of the accession of the Dominion of New Zealand as above, which has been communicated to the Governments of the other adhering States. I have, &c, ELGIN. Governor the Right Hon. Lord Plunket, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O.

No. 10.

(Circular.) Sir,— Downing Street, sth September, 1907. I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Government, a copy of an Order of the King in Council giving effect to a Treaty of Extradition between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Panama, which was signed at Panama on the 25th of August, 1906, and the ratifications of which were exchanged on the 25th of April, 1907. I have, &c, _. _ m ELGIN. The Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand. [For enclosure, see New Zealand Gazette, No. 92, of the 24th October, 1907, page 3136.]

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