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Subject.

20,138 Extension of the Explosives Act of 1883. 20,964❘ Protest by Guatemala against the continued occupation by Great Britain of a certain portion of British Honduras which is claimed by Guatemala. (See No. 21.)

21,136 Manner of acquiring legal jurisdiction over

the Natives within the protected territory.

22,342 Observance of neutrality by Great Britain during the hostilities between France and China.

22,026 Mode of establishing civil and criminal juris-

diction in Bechuanaland. (See No. 28.)

Serial No.

Colony.

Date.

Begistry No.

Subject.

Berial No.

Colony.

Date.

Registry No.

15

St. Helena

June 27, 1884

10,823 Liability of the sureties of Mr. W. H. Smyth, dismissed for defalcations, in respect of any default made by him when acting in any other capacity than that for which his sureties were bond.

80

General

31

British Honduras

Nov. 1884

Nov. 25, 1884

16

Queensland

July 17, 1884

12,195

Extradition from the jurisdiction of the Colony to that of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific.

32

New Guinea

Dec. 11, 1884

17

Straits -

Aug. 6, 1884

13,367 Order in Council for the extradition of fugitive

criminals.

33

Hong Kong -

Dec. 22, 1884

18

Malta

Aug. 7, 1884

13,452 Amendment of the constitution of the Council

of Government.

34

South Africa

Dec. 28, 1884

19

South Australia

Ang. 12, 1884

13,772 Question whether it is within the power of a Colonial Legislature which is empowered to regulate the sale and disposal of waste lands of the Crown to dispense with the Gover- nor's signature of instruments disposing of Buch lands.

35

New South Wales

1885. Jan. 7, 1885.

413

36

20

Queensland

-

Aug. 12, 1884

21

British Honduras

Aug. 12, 1884

22

General

23

Hong Kong •

Sept. 1884

Sept. 18, 1884

13,800 Question whether British subjects who, being seamen on board vessels belonging to sub- jects of foreign states, desert from such vessels could legally be surrendered to such foreign states. (See No. 14.)

20,964 Protest of Guatemala against the continued occupation by Great Britain of a certain portion of British Honduras which is claimed by Guatemala.

15,764 Provision and equipment of armed vessels by colonies possessing Responsible Government.

16,750 Rendition to the Chinese Government of certain fugitives from justice whose ex- tradition is claimed under Article 21 of the Treaty of Tien-tsin.

Hong Kong

Jan. 28, 1885

Ceylon.

Straits.

37

Hong Kong -

Feb. 7, 1885

2212

Feb. 16, 1885

Surrender to the French authorities of C. M.

H. Marcelin, accused of embezzlement,

1947 Instructions to the Governors for their guid

ance in enforcing the provisions of the Foreign Enlistment Act during the hostilities between France and China.

Question whether Australian coal in British ships, consigned to other than Chinese merchants, would be jeopardised on a voyage to a Chinese treaty port in view of the decision of the French Government to exercise the right of search on the high

Beag.

2869 Question whether vessels of the Messageries Maritimes and Chinese revenue cruisers touching at Hong Kong were sidered as

to be con-

"public vessels” within the meaning of the telegraphic instructions sent to the Governors of the Eastern Colonies.

4066 Competency of the Colonial Legislature to pass an Ordinance providing for the de- tention in the gaols of the Colony of certain prisoners convicted in the Courts of the Protected States.

"An Act to make valid the marriage of a man

with the sister of a deceased wife."

7185 Treatment of the

Messageries Maritimes steamers under the Foreign Enlistment Act. (See No. 38.)

Whether Her Majesty might proceed to prepare an Order in Council directing that the Colonial Attorneys Relief Act might come into operation in the Colony.

"An Act to make valid the marriage of a man with the sister of a deceased wife." (See No. 40.)

11,076 Right of the mail steamers of the Messageries Maritimes to exemption from search by the Customs Officers of the Colony.

11,077 Extradition of fugitive offenders from the territory of the British North Borneo Company.

Proposed abolition in certain West Indian Colonies of the jurisdiction of the Com- missioners for the Sale of Encumbered Estates.

24

General

Sept. 27, 1884

25

Hong Kong

Sept. 27, 1884

16,714 Proposed insertion in the Colonial Courts of Admiralty Bill of a provision for vesting in the Colonial Courts of Admiralty juris- diction under the Foreign Enlistment Act.

16,962 Observance of neutrality by Great Britain during the hostilities betweep France and China.

39

Straits

Mar. 7, 1885

40

Barbados

Mar. 7, 1885

4067

258 Queensland

Ont 98 1904

10 254

Hong Kong -

Apr. 21, 1885

26

Baha

2

New Zealand

·

May 22, 1885

9141

out or the Colony with intent to explosions in the Colony as crimes punish- able in the Colony.

cause

43

Barbados

June 17, 1885

10,761

27

Gibraltar

Nov. 12, 1884

20,057 Action of the Governor in handing over to the Spanish authorities certain Spaniards who were arrested while endeavouring to smuggle tobacco Spain.

41

New South Wales

June 23, 1885

into

45

Straits

28

28

South Africa

Nov. 15, 1884

19,495 Trial of the supposed murderers of Mr.

Bethell,

June 23, 1885

29

Malta

Nov. 18, 1884

19,735 Petition from George Jackson, a prisoner in Malta gaol, praying for a remission of the sentence passed upon him by Her Majesty's Consular Court at Tunis.

46

Jamaica

July 20, 1885

12,775

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Serial

No.

Colony.

Date.

Registry No.

47

New Guinea

July 20, 1885

48

Queensland

July 29, 1885

49

Bahamas

July 31, 1885

13,654

50 South Africa

Aug. 4, 1885

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