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Enclosure. . Nobel Peace Prize. All proposals of candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is to be distributed 10th December, 1911. must, in order to be taken into consideration, be laid before the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament by a duly qualified person before the first of February of the same year. Any one of the following persons is held to be duly qualified : (a) Members and late members of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, as well as the advisers appointed at the Norwegian Nobel Institute ; (b) members of Parliament and members of Government of the different States, as well as members of the Interparliamentary Union ; (c) members of the International Arbitration Court at the Hague ; (d) members of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau; (c) members and associates of the Institute of International Law ; (/) University professors of political science and of law, of history, and of philosophy ; and (g) persons who have received the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Peace Prize may also be accorded to institutions or associations. According to the Code of Statutes, section 8, the grounds upon which any proposal is made must be stated, and handed in along with such papers and other documents as may therein be referred to. According to section 3, every written work, to qualify for a prize, must have appeared in print. For particulars, qualified persons are requested to apply to the office of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, Drammensvei 19, Kristiania.

No. 79. New Zealand, No. 230. My Lord, — Downing Street, 7th October, 1910. With reference to my despatch, No. 118, of the 3rd July, 1908, in which your predecessor was informed that the Orange River Colony had not adhered to the Radiotelegraphic Convention, I have the honour to request you to inform your Ministers that the Government of the Union of South Africa have now decided to adhere as a whole to that convention. I have, &c, CREWE. Governor the Right Hon. Lord Islington, D.5.0., &c.

No. 80. New Zealand, No. 241. My Lord, — Downing Street, 19th October, 1910. With reference to Mr. Lyttelton's circular despatches of the 9th November, 1903, and the 3rd December, 1994, copies of which are enclosed for convenience of reference, I have the honour to request you to inform your Ministers that the Army Council have had occasion to reconsider the rates of contribution payable by the Dominion Governments towards the pensions of. non-commissioned officers who may be employed by them, and find that in one particular these rates should be modified. 2. When the rates were calculated it was assumed that all the non-commis-sioned officers lent to dominion Governments would be men of some service who had re-engaged, or who had at least extended their service to complete twelve years. But as a matter of fact some of these men are on short-service engagements, and have not yet extended their service for so much as twelve years. The Army Council recognize that the pension liability for such men is appreciably less than for a man who is on a twelve-years engagement, and they have decided therefore to reduce, with effect from the Ist April, 1910, the contribution in respect of such men from £12 to £6 a year. I have, &c, CREWE. Governor the Right Hon. Lord Islington, D.5.0., &c.

No. 81. New Zealand, No. 242. My Lord,— Downing Street, 20th October, 1910. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 119. of the 9th September, forwarding addresses from the Arikis of the Federal Council, Cook Islands, passed on the occasion of the death of His late Majesty King Edward VII and the accession of Hts Majesty King George V.