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Article 17. All expenses connected with extradition shalUbe borne by the demanding State. Article 18. The stipulations of the present treaty shall be applicable to the colonies and possessions of His Britannic Majesty, so far as their local laws permit, for which purpose His Majesty's Government shall be at liberty to make special arrangements with them for the surrender of criminals to Paraguay in accordance with the terms of the treaty. The requisition for the extradition of a criminal who has taken refuge in one of the British colonies or possessions shall be addressed to the Governor or chief authority of the same by the senior local Paraguayan Consular officer, or failing him, by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The Governor, or authority referred to, will deal with the demand in accordance with the provisions of the present treaty, and to the extent permitted by the local laws ; but he will be at liberty either to surrender the criminal or to refer the case to the British Government. As regards demands for the surrender of criminals fugitives from British colonies and possessions, they will be governed by the rules laid down in the present treaty. Article 19. If in any criminal matter pending in any Court or tribunal of one of the two countries it is thought desirable to take the evidence of any witness in the other, such evidence may be taken by the judicial authorities in accordance with the laws in force on this subject in the country where the witness may be. Article 20. The present treaty shall come into force ten days after its publication, in conformity with the forms prescribed by the laws of the high contracting parties. It may be terminated by either of the high contracting parties by a notice not exceeding one year and not less than six months. It shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Asuncion as soon as possible. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and affixed thereto their respective seals. Done in duplicate, at Asuncion, the 12th day of September, 1908. Cecil Gosling. Eusebio Ayala. And whereas the ratifications of the said treaty were exchanged at Asuncion on the thirtieth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eleven : Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, and in virtue of the authority committed to him by the said recited Acts, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the seventeenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, the said Acts shall apply in the case of Paraguay, and of the said treaty with the President of the Republic of Paraguay : Provided always that the operation of the said Acts shall be and remain suspended within the Dominion of Canada so long as an Act of the Parliament of Canada, being Part I of chapter 155 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1096, and entitled " An Act respecting the Extradition of Fugitive Criminals," shall continue in force there, and no longer. Almeric Fitzßoy.

No. 79. New Zealand, No. 290. My Lord, — Downing Street, 17th August, 1911. With reference to my predecessor's despatch, No. 186, of the 31st August, 1910, I have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of your Ministers, the accompanying copies of the ninth annual report of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. I have, &c, L. HARCOURT. Governor the Right Hon. Lord Islington, K.C.M.G., D.5.0., &c. Enclosure. Imperial Cancer Research Fund.—Ninth Annual Report (being the Report for the Year 1910-11). ***** * REPORT OF THE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT. The preparation of an annual report on the progress of investigations directed consistently to the solution of major problems necessitates a resurvey of much ground already traversed, with the addition here and there of new facts or modifications affecting the interpretation of old ones. The reports come to be really an annual review of the position of knowledge, dependent on investigations conducted in the laboratory, but also influenced by those conducted elsewhere, either at home or abroad. The scope of the investigations carried out during the past year has been very similar to that recorded in the eighth annual report; the main work carried out during the year has been the maturing and preparing for publication some of the investigations outlined in the last report. This has involved much repetition of experiments for checking and supplementing results already arrived at, in order that they might be presented in the form of the fourth scientific report, which is now in the press. A feature of this year's work is the extension of experimental investigation to rabbits, in which animal a carcinoma of the mamma and a sarcoma of the subcutaneous tissue have been discovered, the latter being capable of propagation.

Enclosure. Imperial Cancer Research Fund. —Ninth Annual Report (being the Report for the Year 1910-11). ***** * REPORT OF THE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT. The preparation of an annual report on the progress of investigations directed consistently to the solution of major problems necessitates a resurvey of much ground already traversed, with the addition here and there of new facts or modifications affecting the interpretation of old ones. The reports come to be really an annual review of the position of knowledge, dependent on investigations conducted in the laboratory, but also influenced by those conducted elsewhere, either at home or abroad. The scope of the investigations carried out during the past year has been very similar to that recorded in the eighth annual report; the main work carried out during the year has been the maturing and preparing for publication some of the investigations outlined in the last report. This has involved much repetition of experiments for checking and supplementing results already arrived at, in order that they might be presented in the form of the fourth scientific report, which is now in the press. A feature of this year's work is the extension of experimental investigation to rabbits, in which animal a carcinoma of the mamma and a sarcoma of the subcutaneous tissue have been discovered, the latter being capable of propagation.