be liable to a fine not exceeding 107., or, in default of payment, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one month. 12. Any publican or person in his employment giving, selling, or supplying liquor to, or procuring liquor for, any person in respect of whom a prohibition has been issued under the preceding section, shall on conviction thereof in a summary manner be liable to a fine not exceeding 507., and, in default of payment, to imprisonment for any period not exceeding six months. General Provisions. 13. The Governor may grant a certificate of exemption from the provisions of section 3 of this Ordinance, but every such exemption shall be subject to the conditions imposed in each case, and the Governor may at any time cancel any such certificate, and may notify such cancellation in any way he may think fit. 14. Any native or person against whom a prohibition has been issued under the provisions of section 11 hereof found under the influence of liquor in any public place may be arrested by the police, and shall, upon conviction thereof in a summary manner, be liable to a penalty not exceeding 40s., or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding fourteen days. 15. It shall be lawful for any constable to seize any liquor found in the possession of any native, unless such possession shall be satisfactorily accounted for, and for any officer of police to enter, without warrant and by force if necessary, any vessel, house, building, or place where any natives are drinking with, or are in possession of, liquor, or where there is reasonable cause to suspect that liquor is hidden for the purposes of consumption by natives, and all liquor found in the possession of such natives, or in any vessel, house, building, or place, shall be confiscated. 16. Any certificate of exemption found in the possession of any person other than the person to whom it was granted may be seized by any police constable, and such certificate or permit shall not be returned to the owner except upon the direction of a Magis trate. 17. Storekeepers and publicans shall keep the liquor in their bars and elsewhere on their premises in such a manner as to prevent easy access thereto by natives, and in default thereof shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance, and, on conviction thereof in a summary manner, shall be liable, for a first offence, to a fine not exceeding 57., and for a second or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding 104. 18. Where any person shall be charged with an offence under this Ordinance, and such offence shall have been prima facie estab lished against him by the prosecutor, he, unless he be a medical officer, shall be bound to prove that he is, and the prosecutor shall not be bound to prove that he is not, covered by any of the exceptions provided in this Ordinance. 19. In any case in which a conviction has been obtained under this Ordinance there may be awarded to such person who shall be certified by the Magistrate to be the informer such a sum as the Governor may deem reasonable not exceeding one-half of the money penalty recovered: Provided that at any time after the expiration of eight days from the date of conviction the Magistrate may order any sum not exceeding one-quarter of any money penalty recovered to be paid directly to the informer. 20. Any charge laid in respect of any offence against this Ordinance shall be laid within a period of three calendar months from the commission of such offence. Passed in Council this 14th day of November, in the Lord 1892. year of our ORDINANCE of the Government of Fiji, to amend “The Aliens Ordinance, 1875." [No. 13.] (L.S.) JOHN B. THURSTON. [Decemoer 20, 1893.] Be it enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council, as follows: 1. Subject to any regulations which may be made by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, every certificate of readmission to British nationality granted by the Governor under "The Naturalization Act, 1870,"* together with the oath of allegiance taken by the grantee, shall be recorded in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as a certificate of naturalization under "The Aliens Ordinance, 1875." 2. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Aliens Amendment Ordinance, 1893." Passed in Council this 4th day of December, in the year of our Lord 1893. ORDINANCE of the Government of Fiji, to amend "The Immigrants Emigration Ordinance, 1892."* [No. 14.] (L.S.) JOHN B. THURSTON. [December 20, 1893.] Be it enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council, as follows: 1. Notwithstanding anything contained in "The Immigrants Emigration Ordinance, 1892," or in any of the Ordinances heretofore passed relating to the immigration of Indians or Polynesians into this Colony, no Indian or Polynesian immigrant shall be entitled to leave this Colony for any of the places specified in the Schedule hereto without the consent of the Governor. 2. It shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to add to or omit from the said Schedule any place or places he may think fit by notifying the same in the " Royal Gazette." 3. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Immigrants Emigration Amendment Ordinance, 1893." Passed in Council this 4th day of December, in the year Lord 1893. SCHEDULE. The Australasian Colonies. The Pacific Islands. ACT of the Government of New Zealand, to amend the Acts relating to the Post Office by providing for the Carriage of Foreign Parcels by Post. [No. 18.] [August 28, 1888.] Be it enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. The short title of this Act is "The Post Office (Foreign Parcels) Act, 1888." 2. In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context "Foreign parcels" means any packages or parcels which may be or be intended to be conveyed by means of the Post Office under the Acts and regulations from time to time in force relating to the Post Office, and either posted in New Zealand and sent to a place * Page 259. out of New Zealand, or posted in a place out of New Zealand and sent to a place in New Zealand; "Postal authority " means the Postmaster-General of the United Kingdom or of any British Colony or possession, and includes any authority in any foreign country or place by or with whom any Convention, Agreement, or Arrangement may be made under this Act. 3. The Postmaster-General may from time to time enter into any Convention, Agreement, or Arrangement with any postal authority for the conveyance of foreign parcels under and subject to the terms of this Act, and any such Convention, Agreement, or Arrangement may alter, revoke, or renew, as occasion shall require. 4. The Postmaster-General shall have, and may exercise in respect of foreign parcels, and in relation to the carriage or conveyance of the same, all such powers, rights, and authorities, and shall be subject to all such duties and liabilities, which he now has, or could exercise, or is subject to, in respect of the conveyance or carriage of parcels under the provisions of "The Post Office Act Amendment Act, 1886." 5. Subject to any exceptions and modifications made under this Act, the provisions of the Acts for the time being in force relating to the Customs (in this Act referred to as "the Customs Acts") shall apply to goods contained in foreign parcels in like manner, so far as is consistent with the tenour thereof, as they apply to any other goods, and persons may be punished for offences against the said Acts, and goods may be examined, seized, and forfeited, and the officers examining them and seizing them shall be protected, and legal proceedings in relation to the matters aforesaid may be taken accordingly under the said Acts. 6. The Postmaster-General shall have the same right of recovering any sums payable in pursuance of the Customs Acts or this Act in respect of any foreign parcel as he would have if the sum so paid were a rate of postage. 7. A breach of the regulations hereinafter authorized to be made for the purposes of the Customs Acts shall be deemed to be a breach of the Customs Acts, and shall involve the like punishment of persons guilty thereof, and the like forfeiture of goods. 8. The Governor in Council may from time to time make, alter, and revoke regulations for the purpose of modifying or excepting the application of any of the Customs Acts to foreign parcels, and for the purpose of securing, in the case of such parcels, the observance of the Customs Acts, and for enabling the officers of the Post Office to perform for the purpose of those Acts all or any of the duties of the exporter and importer, or for carrying into effect any Convention, Agreement, or Arrangement with any postal authority with reference to foreign parcels, and for punishing any breach of the Customs Acts or of the regulations in this section provided for. 9. All the provisions of "The Post Office Act Amendment Act, 1886," shall, subject to the provisions herein contained, extend and apply to foreign parcels to the same extent and in the same manner as if the provisions of that Act had expressly applied to foreign parcels and the several persons, matters, and things that would be affected thereby; and this Act shall be read and construed with the said Act accordingly. 10. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to authorize the making of any Contract, Convention, Agreement, or Arrangement which would have the effect of imposing differential Customs duties, or interfering with the operation of the Act of the Imperial Parliament known as "The Australian Colonies Duties Act, 1873."* ACT of the Government of New Zealand, to amend " The Chinese Immigrants Act, 1881."+ [No. 34.] [August 30, 1888.] BE it enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. The short title of this Act is "The Chinese Immigrants Act Amendment Act, 1888." 2. The term "Chinese" in the said Act and in this Act does not include Chinese naturalized in New Zealand. 3. In this Act "The Chinese Immigrants Act, 1881," is referred to as "the said Act." 4. The 3rd section of the said Act is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof it is enacted : If any vessel shall arrive in any port or place in New Zealand having on board a greater number of Chinese passengers than in the proportion of one to every 100 tons of the tonnage of such Vessel, according to the registry thereof, if British, and if not, then according to the measurement prescribed by any Act for the time being in force regulating the measurement of British ships, the ower, charterer, or master of such vessel shall be liable, on conviction, to a penalty not exceeding 100l. for each Chinese passenger so carried in excess : Provided that this section shall not apply to any Chinese |