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received from my Prime Minister, requesting mc to convey to His Majesty the King, through you, the thanks of the Government and people of New Zealand for the high honour His Majesty has been so graciously pleased to confer by becoming Colonel-in-Chief of the 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles and of the Ist (Canterbury) Regiment of Infantry. I have, &c, ISLINGTON, The Right Hon. Lewis V. Harcourt, P.C., &c, Governor. Secretary of State for the Colonies.

No. 13. New Zealand, No. 80. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, 6th June, 1912. With reference to your despatch, No. 75, of the Bth March, I have the honour' to transmit to you the accompanying copy of a memorandum from my Prime Minister, requesting mc to convey, through you, to His Majesty the King, the thanks of the Government and people of New Zealand for His Majesty's gracious approval of the 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles being designated as " Queen Alexandra's 2nd Mounted Rifles." I have, &c, ISLINGTON, The Right Hon. Lewis V. Harcourt, P.C., &c, Governor. Secretary of State for the Colonies.

No. 14. New Zealand, No. 82. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, 7th June, 1912. With reference to your despatch, No. 90, of the 25th March, on the subject of the alteration, of the form of declaration of ownership required by section 9 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, to be made on application for registry of a vessel owned by a body corporate, I have the honour to inform you, in reply to the second paragraph of your despatch, that my Ministers report as follows : — " The Imperial forms which are prescribed for use in the case of the declaration of ownership of ships are used in New Zealand, and the new form will therefore be also used in the Dominion. A supply will be procured from England through the High Commissioner." I have, &c, ISLINGTON, The Right Hon. Lewis V. Harcourt, P.C., &c, Governor. Secretary of State for the Colonies.

No. 15. New Zealand No. 89. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, 13th June, 1912. With reference to your despatch, No. 55, of the 16th February, relative to the Conference held at Washington for the revision of the International Convention for the protection of industrial property and the arrangement for the prevention of false indications of origin on goods, I have the honour to state, by request of my Prime Minister, that New Zealand wishes to adhere to the revised Convention, with the reservations made by the British delegates, as well as to the arrangement of Madrid, as revised at Washington in June of last year. 2. With regard to the concluding paragraph of the despatch, the Prime Minister recommends that His Majesty's Government be advised that separate representation at the Conferences is not at present desired by this country. I have, &c, ISLINGTON, The Right Hon. Lewis V. Harcourt, P.C., &c, Governor. Secretary of State for the Colonies.