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advantage might accrue to your Government from adherence to the Rome agreement. 5. The publications of the Bureau will be placed on sale to the public at 10 francs a year, or I franc for each number of the monthly bulletin. Governments which do not adhere to the agreement will therefore still be able to obtain copies of the papers published. I have, &c, CREWE. Governor, the Right Hon. Lord Plunket, K.C.M.G., X.C.V.0., &c.

No. 22. New Zealand, No. 98. My Lord,— Downing Street, 12th May, 1909. With reference to my despatch No. 80, of the 15th April, 1 have the honour to transmit to you, to be laid before your Ministers, the accompanying amended copy of the Bill which is being introduced into the Imperial Parliament to effect the legislation which is desirable before the conventions (other tjian the conventions for the establishment of an International Prize Court) drawn up at the Second Peace Conference at The Hague in 1907 are ratified by His Majesty's Government. 2. The amendments which have been made in the Bill are as follows : — Clause 2 (2) provides that any offences against the Order in Council to be made under the Bill shall be treated as an infraction of Section 10 of the Foreign Enlistment Act, 1.870. Section 2 (3) provides for offences committed or legal proceedings commenced whilst the Order in Council made under the Bill was still in force, after the Order in Council has ceased to be so in force. Clause 3 (2) prohibits the use of the Geneva flag by any British ship or boat other than a hospital ship or boat. I have, &c, CREWE. Governor, the Right Hon. Lord Plunket, K.C.M.G., X.C.V.0., &c.

No. 23. New Zealand, No. 100. My Lord, — Downing Street, 14th May, 1909. I have the honour to request that you will inform your Ministers that His Majesty's Government are anxious to compile a complete list of any enactments in His Majesty's dominions beyond the seas dealing with patents, designs, trade-marks, and the marking of merchandise, and of regulations issued under such enactments. 2. Inquiries on these topics are frequently made in this country of the Colonial Office and of the Patent Office, and it has not been found possible, wit 1 : the material at the disposal of this office, to produce a complete list of enactments and regulations on the question. I enclose a copy of a provisional list of such legislation in New Zealand, and I have to request that your Ministers will be so good as to indicate any respect in which it may be defective. It will at the same time be convenient if three copies of all the enactments and regulations on the matters in question which exist in New Zealand could be forwarded to this office. I have, &c, CRT, WE. Governor, the Right Hod. Lord Plunket, K.C.M.G., X.C.V.0., &c.

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