THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 19, 1916.
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APPOINTMENTS, &c.
No. 212. His Excellency the Governor has, under instructions from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, been pleased to appoint Dr. WILFRID WILLIAM PEARSE to be Medical Officer of Health, vice Dr. FRANCIS WILLIAM CLARK retired on pension, with effect from the 29th November, 1915.
17th May, 1916.
No. 213. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. EDWARD DUDLEY CORSCADEN WOLFE, Postmaster General, to act as Colonial Treasurer in addition to his other duties during the absence on leave of the Honourable Mr. ALEXANDER MACDONALD THOMSON Or until further notice, with effect from the 7th April, 1916.
19th May, 1916.
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT,
No. 214. The following notice which appeared in the London Gazette of the 17th March, 1916, is published for general information.
FOREIGN OFFICE,
March 13, 1916.
The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has received from His Majesty's Ambas- sador at Petrograd the following memorandum, prepared by the Commercial Attaché to His Majesty's Embassy, in continuation of the memorandum which appeared in the London Gazette of June 25th, 1915:-
The Official Messenger of Petrograd, of to-day's date, publishes an Imperial Ukase of January 24th-February 6th, replacing the contraband lists given in the Imperial Decree of August 10th-23rd, 1915, and reported in Sir G. Buhanan'se despatch, No. 152 Commercial, of August 29th, 1915, by new revised lists of absolute and conditional contraband. The new Russian revised list of abso- lute contraband (Items Nos. 1-42) is identical with the list (Schedule I, Items 1-42), given in the King's Proclamation of October 14th, 1915, with the following slight differences:
In Item 8: At end, between the Russian equivalents for urea and cyana-
mide, the Russian list includes carbamide.
In Item 28: The English list has: "Mineral oils, including benzine and motor spirit." The Russian list has: "Mineral oils, including ben- zine and other liquid fuel for internal combustion,”
In Item 32: After the word Lubricants, the Russian text adds “inclu-
ding castor oil."
In Item 42: The following words in the English text, "on a scale of four miles to one inch or any larger scale," are thus converted in the Russian : on a scale of more than 250000.'
The new Russian conditional list, Items Nos. 1-14, is identical with the list (Schedule II, Items 1-14) given in the King's Proclamation of October 14th, 1915.
NOTE. --The King's Proclamation of October 14th, 1915, above referred to was published in the
Hongkong Gazette of the 22nd October, 1915.