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Enclosure in No. 14. Draet Article applying Commercial Treaties to British anb Foreign Colonies. Article. The stipulations of the present treaty shall he applicable to the colonies and foreign possessions of the two high contracting parties named in this article. [Here insert names of those colonies, &c, to be included in the treaty.] The stipulations of the present treaty shall be also applicable to any colony or foreign possession of either of the two high contracting parties not included in this article, upon the conclusion by the two high contracting parties of a supplementary convention to that effect. In the latter case, the stipulations of the present treaty shall, subject to such modifications as may he agreed upon by the high contracting parties, from and after a date to be agreed upon, not later than six months from the date of the ratification of such supplementary convention, become as fully applicable to such colony or foreign possession as if it had been mentioned by name in the present article.

No. 15. Copy of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. Sir M. E. Hicks Beach to Governor the Most Hon. the Marquis of Normanby. My Lord, — Downing Street, 14th February, 1878. I have not failed to notice with the greatest satisfaction the accounts which have reached me, chiefly from unofficial sources, of the munificence which has been displayed in so many of Her Majesty's colonial possessions, in the contributions which have been made towards the funds for the relief of the sufferers by famine in India. The liberality which has been shown in the colonies has, I believe, far exceeded even that evinced on previous occasions, when calls of humanity have made themselves heard throughout the most distant portions of the British Empire, and has been peculiarly gratifying as an act springing from the spontaneous generosity of all classes of Her Majesty's subjects ; and I shall be obliged if you will be so good as to inform me what have been the actual amounts contributed by the colony under your government, and to supply me at the same time with any information on the subject which you may consider to be of interest. I have, &c, M. E. HICKS BEACH. Governor the Most Hon. the Marquis of Normanby, G.C.M.G., &c, &c.

No. IG. Copy of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. Sir M. E. Hicks Beach to His Excellency the Most Hon. the Marquis of Normanby. (No. 7.) My Lord,— Downing Street, 14th February, 1878. I have the honor to transmit to you, for your information and for that of your Ministers, a copy of a letter addressed to this department by Sir P. G. Julyan with respect to the request made to him by your Government that he would act in conjunction with Sir Julius Vogel and Captain Ommanney, as Agents for the colony in this country for raising and managing the loans of £1,000,000 and £2,500,000 authorized by the New Zealand Loan Acts of 1876 and 1877. I also enclose a copy of the reply which I caused to be sent to Sir P. G. Julyan's letter, and I have to add that a copy of the letter to the Crown Agents of the 30th January, 1877, to which reference is made, was sent to you in my predecessor's despatch of the same date. I have, &c., M. E. HICKS BEACH. Governor the Most Hon. the Marquis of Normanby, G.C.M.G., &c, &c.