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States Minister which followed the terms of the Home Office certificate, were accepted in this case as sufficient by the United States Courts. The same forms of certificate have been employed in all subsequent cases, and, so far as the Home Office is aware, no successful objection has been raised to them. The following is an extract from a letter from Messrs. Marbury, counsel to Her Majesty's Consulate-General at New York, concerning the particulars required by the United States Courts when a request for extradition for the crime of forgery is transmitted by telegraph: " 1. It is of prime importance, where a person is apprehended upon a telegraphic despatch, to have as far as possible complete particulars of the character of the offence committed, to secure his detention until the depositions and documentary evidence shall be received. In cases of forgery the despatch should contain a description of the instrument claimed to be forged, date, amount, if draft or bill upon whom drawn, name of payee, place of utterance, name forged or character of forgery, and the person defrauded, or as much of these as can be furnished, and more to be supplied as soon as obtained. Where adequate particulars are contained in the despatch which is the foundation for the complaint, there will be no difficulty in having the accused remanded until the arrival of the papers."

No. 67. (Circular.) Sir, — Downing Street, 31st December, 1887. I have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of your Government, an extract from the London Gazette containing copies of the procesverbaux of the meetings of the International Conference on the Sugar Industries, which met in London on the 24th ultimo, together with a cojjy of the protocol signed by the members of the Conference, and the draft Convention annexed thereto. You 'will observe that the Conference has adjourned until the sth April next, in order to give the different foreign States which took part in it the necessary time to formulate laws and regulations for the purpose of carrying out the Convention. Her Majesty's Government attach importance to the adhesion of the colonies to the Convention ; and I trust, therefore, that before that date I shall receive from your Government a notification of its readiness to enter into the Convention, either by abolishing all taxes on sugar, or by binding itself not to allow on any exported sugar,.either raw or refined, any drawback, repayment of duty, or allowance in respect of duties paid or loss of bulk. I have, &c, H. T. HOLLAND. The Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand.

Enclosure. [Extract from the London Gazette of Friday, 23rd December, 1887.] Foreign Office, 22nd December, 1887. The Marquis of Salisbury has received the following documents relative to the proceedings of the International Conference on the Sugar Question : — The Bbittsh Delegates to the Marquis of Salisbury. My Lokd,— London, 19th December, 1887. We have the honour to transmit to your Lordship the protocol signed to-day by the delegates of the Powers represented at the Conference which met in London on the 24th of last month, to which is annexed the draft of a proposed Convention for the complete suppression of bounties on the exportation of raw and refined sugar. We have also the honour to submit to your Lordship the proces-verbaux of the sittings of the Conference. We have, &c, Heney de Woems. C. M. Kennedy. Onslow. F. G. Walpole.

Pbotocol. The undersigned, delegates of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, France, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Eussia, and Sweden, met at London on the 24th November, 1887, to consider the bases of an agreement relative to the suppression of bounties on the exportation of sugar. In the course of the deliberations set forth in the minutes of the sittings, an agreement was come to on the principles laid down in the report of the Committee. In order to give to this agreement a practical application, the President of the Conference placed before them a draft Convention, which they have examined, and which they engage to submit to the consideration of their respective Governments, together with a request that those Governments will make known to the 7—A. 2.