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No. 34. New Zealand, No. 220. My Lord,— Downing Street, 13th June, 1913. With reference to my despatch, No. 186, of the 16th ultimo, I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, for the information of your Ministers, a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office relative to the deposit on the 2nd June of the King's ratification of the International Radio-telegraphic Convention signed at London, sth July, 1912. 2. Your Ministers will observe from the memorandum accompanying the Foreign Office letter that the Dominion of New Zealand is included in the list of His Majesty's possessions in respect of which the ratification has been deposited. 3. I take this opportunity of requesting you to inform your Ministers that Siam has ratified the Convention. I have, &c, L. HARCOURT. Governor His Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, K.C.M.G., M.V.0., &c.

Enclosure. SIR — Foreign Office, 6th June, 1913. With reference to your letter of the |20th ultimo (12710), I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to state, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that the King's ratification of the International Radio-telegraph Convention, signed at London, sth July, 1912, has been duly deposited at this office on the 2nd instant, and that a notification to this effect will shortly be made to the States parties to the Convention in the terms set forth in the accompanying memorandum. I am, &c, The Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office. Eyre A. Crowe. Memorandum.—lnternational Radio-telegraph Convention.—Deposit of Ratification. Great Britain* .. .. .. .. .. .. 2nd June, 1913. * The ratification of His Britannic Majesty is in respect of the United Kingdom, the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa and India, as well as of the following British colonies and protectorates on whose behalf the Convention was signed:— Bahamas. Malta. Barbados. Mauritius. Basutoland. North Borneo. Bechuanaland Protectorate. Northern Nigeria. Bermuda. Northern Rhodesia. British Guiana. Nyassaland Protectorate. British Honduras. St. Helena. Ceylon. Seychelles. Cyprus. Sierra Leone. East Africa Protectorate. Somaliland Protectorate. Falkland Islands. Southern Nigeria. Fiji. Southern Rhodesia. Gambia. Straits Settlements, including Labuan and Gibraltar. Cocos Islands. Gold Coast, including Ashanti. Swaziland. Hong Kong. Trinidad and Tobago. Jamaica, including Turks and Caicos Islands, Uganda Protectorate. Cayman Islands. Weihaiwei. Leeward Islands—Antigua, Montserrat, St. Chris- Western Pacific possessions and protectorates, topher-Nevis, Dominica, Virgin Islands. including Fanning Island, Gilbert and Ellice Malay States—Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, Islands, British Solomon Islands. Pahang. Windward Islands—Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Gibraltar. Vincent. Accessions. Newfoundland \ Papua [2nd , June, 1913. J

Memorandum.—lnternational Radio-telegraph Convention.—Deposit of Ratification. Great Britain* .. .. .. .. .. .. 2nd June, 1913. * The ratification of His Britannic Majesty is in respect of the United Kingdom, the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa and India, as well as of the following British colonies and protectorates on whose behalf the Convention was signed: — Bahamas. Malta. Barbados. Mauritius. Basutoland. North Borneo. Bechuanaland Protectorate. Northern Nigeria. Bermuda. Northern Rhodesia. British Guiana. Nyassaland Protectorate. British Honduras. St. Helena. Ceylon. Seychelles. Cyprus. Sierra Leone. East Africa Protectorate. Somaliland Protectorate. Falkland Islands. Southern Nigeria. Fiji. Southern Rhodesia. Gambia. Straits Settlements, including Labuan and Gibraltar. Cocos Islands. Gold Coast, including Ashanti. Swaziland. Hong Kong. Trinidad and Tobago. Jamaica, including Turks and Caicos Islands, Uganda Protectorate. Cayman Islands. Weihaiwei. Leeward Islands—Antigua, Montserrat, St. Chris- Western Pacific possessions and protectorates, topher-Nevis, Dominica, Virgin Islands. including Fanning Island, Gilbert and Ellice Malay States—Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, Islands, British Solomon Islands. Pahang. Windward Islands—Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Gibraltar. Vincent. Accessions. Newfoundland \ Papua [2nd' June, 1913. J