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Article XIV. Every article found in the possession of the individual claimed at the time of his arrest shall, if the competent authority so decide, be seized, in order to be delivered up with his person at the time when the surrender shall be made. Such delivery shall not be limited to the property or articles obtained by stealing or by fraudulent bankruptcy, but shall extend to everything that may serve as proof of the crime, and shall take place even when the surrender, after having been ordered, shall be prevented from taking place by reason of the escape or death of the individual claimed. The rights of third parties with regard to the said property or articles are nevertheless reserved. Article XV. Each of the high contracting parties shall defray the expenses occasioned by the arrest within its territories, the detention, and the conveyance to its frontier, of the persons whom it may have consented to surrender in pursuance of the present treaty. Article XVI. In the colonies and foreign possessions of the two high contracting parties the manner of proceeding shall be as follows : — The requisition for the surrender of a fugitive criminal Avho has taken refuge in a colony or foreign possession of either party shall be made to the Governor or chief authority of such colony or possession by the Chief Consular Officer of the other in such colony or possession ; or, if the fugitive has escaped from a colony or foreign possession of the party on whose behalf the requisition is made, by the Governor or chief authority of such colony or possession. Such requisitions may be disposed of, subject always, as nearly as may be, to the provisions of this treaty, by the respective Governors or chief authorities, who, however, shall be at liberty either to grant the surrender or to refer the matter to their Government. The foregoing stipulations shall not in any way affect the arrangements established in the East Indian Possessions of the two countries by the IXth Article of the treaty of the 7th March, 1815. Article XVII. The present treaty shall be ratified and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Paris as soon as possible. It shall come into operation ten days after its publication, in conformity with the laws of the respective countries. Either party may at any time terminate the treaty on giving to the other six months' notice of its intention. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seats of their arms. Done at Paris, this fourteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six. (1.5.) Lyons, (1.5.) Deoazes. And whereas the ratifications of the said treaty were exchanged at Paris on the eighth day of April last: Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, and in virtue of the authority committed to her by the said recited Acts, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that, from and after the thirty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, the said Acts shall apply in the case of the said treaty with the President of the French Republic. C. L. Peel.

No. 29. Copy of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. Sir M. E. Hicks Beach to Governor the Most Hon. the Marquis of Normanby. (No. 21.) My Lord, — Downing Street, 20th June, 1878. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 16, of the 30th April, enclosing a memorandum from Sir George Grey, with one from the Minister of Lands in reference to the large amount of grain produced in Canterbury and Otago last year, and available for exportation to this country in the event of war. I request that you will express to Sir George Grey my thanks for his having brought this information to the knowledge of Her Majesty's Government. I have, &c, M. E. HICKS BEACH. Governor the Most Hon. the Marquis of Normanby, . .. G.C.M.G., &c, &c, 4—A. 2.