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But as we showed in our former Report, the English blockade is sought to be enforced as against a friendly, if not a national territory.

The Right Hon.. the Earl of Kimberley.

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&c.

&c.

We have, &c.

(Signed)

J. D. COLERIDGE. HENRY JAMES. J. P. DEANE.

10928.

MY LORD,

No. 866.

(NEW ZEALAND.)

LAW OFFICERS to COLONIAL OFFICE.

Temple, October 20, 1873. We are honoured with your Lordship's commands, signified in Mr. Herbert's letter of the 13th October instant, stating that he was directed by your Lordship to transmit

to us a copy of a Despatch from the Governor of New Zealand, enclosing with other No. 60, 23 papers copy of a letter from Mr. John W. Beale, and requesting your Lordship to July 1873. recommend Her Majesty to be pleased to make an Order Council extending to New Zealand the provisions of the "Colonial Attorneys Relief Act," 20 & 21 Vict. c. 39.

Mr. Herbert further stated that your Lordship desired him to refer us to the 10 section of the Local Act, 24 & 25 Vict., No. 11, to section 3 of the Local Act, 29 Vict., No. 35, and to section 2 of the Local Act, 30 Vict., No. 77, copies of which were annexed for reference, and to the report made by the Law Officers of the Crown, of which a copy was enclosed, in reference to a similar application from the Government of Queensland 15 April

in 1871, and to request that we would take these papers into consideration and favour 1871, your Lordship with our opinion whether Her Majesty can be properly advised to issue an Order in Council as requested.

In obedience to your Lordship's commands, we have the honour to

Report

That we concur in the principles which guided the Law Officers in their report to your Lordship upon the case of Queensland, on the 15th April 1871.* The qualifica- tions for attornies or solicitors in New Zealand do not appear to be subject to the very same conditions as those which are enacted in respect of such persons in Queensland.

But the local laws in New Zealand, especially the 24 & 25 Vict., No. 11, s. 16, give rise to the same objection in principle, which the Law Officers held fatal in the Queens- land case, and we are accordingly of opinion that it would not be proper to advise Her Majesty to issue the Order in Council requested by Sir James Ferguson in his Despatch of 23rd July 1873.

The Right Hon. Earl Kimberley,

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We have, &c. (Signed) J. D. COLERIDGE.

HENRY JAMES.

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