orders transmitted by one Administration to the other be lost while in transit by mail, it is agreed that a certified copy of the lists shall, within a reasonable time, be accepted by the other Administration as a satisfactory voucher and evidence of payment of the orders described therein which have been lost or destroyed.

XI. A post office in either country which issues a money order payable in the other is required to transmit to the post office charged with its payment, by the first mail after the issue thereof, an advice corresponding in number, date, and amount to the money order of which it forms a part.

These advices must be enclosed in envelopes specially provided for the purpose, and are to be carried free from any charge. The address shall include the district if payable in British Guiana.

XII. The orders drawn by each country upon the other shall be subject as regards payment to the regulations which govern the payment of money orders in the country on which they are drawn.

XIII. Money orders lost or destroyed will be replaced by duplicates which may be issued by the Administration of the country of payment from the particulars furnished in the original advice. It is understood, however, that duplicate orders are not to be paid on the authority of corrected or second advices until the consent of the issuing Administration has been obtained.

XIV. At the request of the paying country, a lost advice will be replaced without delay by a duplicate which will be issued by the head office of the issuing country.

XV.-(a.) The money orders issued in pursuance of this Convention shall be valid until the expiration of twelve months from the last day of the month in which issued.

(b.) After the expiration of that period the advices of unpaid orders shall be returned to the Administration of the country of origin accompanied by a detailed statement.

XVI. Repayment of money orders to remitters shall not be made until the advices have been returned and an authorization for such repayment shall first have been obtained from the country of payment. In case of the loss of the original advice, a certificate that the amount has not been paid will be sufficient.

XVII. Should it appear that money orders are used by mercantile men in Surinam or British Guiana for the transmission of large sums of money, or in case of a great advance in the rate of exchange, or other circumstances creating abuses or acting injuriously to the postal revenue, either country shall be at liberty to increase the commission or suspend the issue of money orders for a time.

XVIII.-Section 1. Within six weeks after the close of each fiscal quarter, two copies of an account shall be prepared and transmitted by the Post Office Department of British Guiana to

the Post Office Department of Surinam, exhibiting the balance found due on the exchange of money orders during the quarter, one copy of which, after proper verification and acceptance, shall be returned to the Post Office Department of British Guiana.

(a.) If the account shows a balance in favour of Surinam, the Post Office Department of British Guiana shall transmit a bill of exchange on Amsterdam, Holland, for the amount of such balance at the same time that it forwards the account.

(b.) If, on the other hand, the account shows a balance in favour of British Guiana, the Surinam Department shall transmit a bill of exchange on London, England, for the amount immediately after the acceptance of the account.

Section 2. If, pending the settlement of an account, one of the two Postal Administrations shall ascertain that it owes the other a balance exceeding 3007., or 3,600 florins, the indebted Administration shall promptly remit the approximate amount of such balance.

Section 3. The expense attending the remittance of the balances shall invariably be borne by the debtor country.

XIX. If the Surinam Office should desire to send money orders to any of the colonies or countries with which the British Guiana Post Office has an exchange of money orders, it shall be at liberty to do so, provided that the following conditions are fulfilled::

(a.) The Surinam Post Office must advise the amounts on a list addressed to the Postmaster-General, Georgetown, who will readvise them to the exchange or other offices of the colonies or countries of payment.

(b.) The full name and address must be given of the remitter and of the payee; and in addition to the name of the office at which the order is payable, the name of the country must be clearly stated, as well as the State or county (if any).

(c.) The "through" orders so received at British Guiana will be treated as paid orders immediately on receipt, and their value charged against the Surinam Post Office. No allowance shall be made to British Guiana on the payment of such orders, but the British Guiana Office shall deduct from each order reissued, for the intermediary service, a sum equal to one-half of that charged to the public of British Guiana on money orders drawn on the respective countries.

(d.) When the amount of a through" order is repaid to the remitter, the commission charged for the intermediary service shall not be refunded.

In like manner, orders may be sent by the British Guiana Post Office to any of the colonies or countries with which the Surinam Post Office has an exchange of money orders.

XX. The present Convention shall take effect on the 1st October, 1910, and shall remain in force until the expiration of a period of one year after the date upon which one of the two

contracting Administrations shall have notified the other of its intention to terminate it.

Done in duplicate, and signed:

At Georgetown, British Guiana, on the 17th day of
August, 1910.

A. W. SWAIN, Postmaster-General.

At Paramaribo, Surinam, on the 30th day of
August, 1910.

L. A. Y. STRUYCKEN,

Acting Administrator of Finance.

[Forms not printed.]

CONVENTION concerning the Exchange of Post Office Money Orders between New Zealand and Norway-Signed at Christiania, June 14, and at Wellington, August 24, 1910.

THE Post Office of the Dominion of New Zealand and the Post Office of the Kingdom of Norway being desirous of facilitating the transmission of money between New Zealand and Norway by means of Post Office money orders, the undersigned duly authorized for the purpose have agreed upon the following Articles::

ART. I. Remittances of money may be made by means of Post Office money orders as well from New Zealand to Norway as from Norway to New Zealand.

No money orders shall exceed in amount the sum of 401., or the equivalent of that sum in Norwegian currency.

Nevertheless, the two Administrations have power subsequently to modify this maximum whenever they mutually recognize the necessity for doing so.

II. There shall be charged for each remittance of money effected in pursuance of the preceding Article a commission, which shall be fixed by the Administration of the country of issue, and shall be chargeable to the remitter of the money.

Official money orders relative to the Postal Service, and sent from one Postal Administration to another or between offices subordinate to those Administrations are exempt from all charges.

III. The Administration of the country of issue shall allow to the Administration of the country of payment per cent. of the total amount of money orders other than official money orders issued in the first-mentioned country and payable in the other.

IV. The amounts of money orders shall be deposited by the remitters, and paid to the payees in gold coin or in any other legal money of the same current value.

Nevertheless, in case there should be in circulation in either of the two countries a paper currency which is a legal tender, but which is inferior in market value to the gold currency, the Administration of such country shall have power to receive and employ such currency in its dealings with the public, due allowance being made for the difference in the rate of exchange.

V. Each of the two Administrations shall have the power to fix from time to time the rate of conversion applicable to money orders issued by it.

VI. The money orders issued by the Post Office of New Zealand or Norway in accordance with the term of the present Convention and the receipts given upon such money orders shall not under any pretext or on any ground whatever be subjected to any charge or commission other than that chargeable under Article II preceding, with the following exceptions:

(1.) A second commission may be charged to the payee for the issue of duplicates of money orders of which the originals have been lost, for the renewal of lapsed orders, or for any other special service performed at the request of the payee.

(2.) If the remitter of an order wishes to obtain an Advice of Payment of the Order he may do so by paying in advance, to the exclusive profit of the Administration of the country of issue, a fixed charge not exceeding the charge made in that country for advices of delivery of registered correspondence.

VII. The two Administrations shall prepare at such times as they may fix by common consent accounts of the sums which they may have to reimburse to each other; and those accounts, after having been checked and accepted, shall be liquidated by the Administration which shall be found to be indebted to the other, and within such period as the two Administrations may agree upon.

In case of non-payment of the balance of an account within the time agreed upon, the amount of such balance shall bear interest dating from the day of the expiration of the said period up to the day on which the sum due shall be remitted. This interest shall be calculated at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, and shall be carried to the debit of the Administration in arrear in the following account.

VIII. The sums received by each of the two Administrations for money orders, of which the amounts have not been paid to the persons entitled to receive them within the period fixed by the laws and regulations of the country of origin, shall ultimately belong to the Administration of that country.

IX. The two Administrations shall designate, each for itself, the offices authorized to issue and pay money orders by virtue of the present Convention. They shall determine by mutual agreement the form and the mode of transmission of the money orders referred to, the form of the accounts mentioned in

Article VII, and all other details and regulations necessary for the execution of the present Convention.

It is understood that the aforesaid measures may be modified by the two Administrations whenever they mutually recognize the necessity for doing so.

X. Each of the two Administrations shall be able, in extraordinary circumstances of a kind that would justify the measure, to suspend temporarily, either in whole or in part, the money order service to which the present Convention applies on condition of giving immediate notice thereof, by telegraph if necessary, to the other Administration.

XI. The present Convention shall come into operation on a day to be agreed upon by the two Administrations and shall remain binding from year to year until one of the two Contracting Parties shall have given notice to the other, a year in advance, of its intention to terminate it.

During such final year the Convention shall continue to be executed fully and entirely, without prejudice to the settlement and payment of the accounts after the expiration of the said

term.

Done in duplicate and signed at Wellington on the 24th day of August, in the year of our Lord 1910, and at Christiania on the 14th day of June, in the year of our Lord 1910.

Approved in Council:

J. F. ANDREWS,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

J. G. WARD.

THB. HEYERDAHL.

Signed by his Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion.

ISLINGTON.

ANNEX.

DETAILED REGULATIONS agreed upon between the Post Office of New Zealand and the Post Office of Norway for carrying into effect the Convention of June 14 (August 24), 1910, for the Exchange of Money Orders between New Zealand and Norway.

THE undersigned, duly authorized for the purpose, having regard to Articles VII and IX of the Convention of the 14th June (24th August), 1910, for the exchange of money orders between New Zealand and Norway have, in the name of their respective Administrations, drawn up the following Detailed Regulations for the execution of the said Convention.

ART. 1. The two Administrations shall notify to each other the scale of charges which they will collect as commission for