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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH APRIL, 1892.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 167.
The following Circular Despatch, with its enclosure, is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th April, 1892.
CIRCULAR. (1)
G. T. M. O'Brien, Colonial Secretary.
DOWNING STREET,
20th February, 1892.
SIR.-With reference to my circular despatch of the 12th of August last, transmitting a copy of the "Mail Ships Act, 1891," I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Government, a sealed copy of an Order of the Queen in Council, dated the 6th of February, 1892, applying to the Colony under your Government the Act in the case of the Postal Convention with France of 30th August, 1890, of which a copy accompanied my circular despatch of the 9th of May last.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
KNUTSFORD.
AT THE COURT AT OSBORNE HOUSE, ISLE OF WIGHT,
The 6th day of February, 1892.
PRESENT,
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY
LORD PRESIDENT
MR. RITCHIE
MR. JACKSON.
HEREAS by "The Mail Ships Act, 1891," it is provided that where Her Majesty the Queen
has made a Convention with a foreign State respecting the postal service between such foreign State and the United Kingdom, or respecting the privileges of mail ships, that is to say, ships engaged in any postal service of such foreign State, or of any part of Her Majesty's dominions, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council to order that the said Act shall, subject to any conditions, exceptions, and qualifications contained in the Order, apply during the continuance of the Order as regards such Convention and foreign State and the postal service and mail ships described in the Convention;
And whereas by section 8 of the said Act it is also provided that an Order in Council may for the purpose of a Convention with a foreign State apply the said Act, subject to any exceptions or modifications not inconsistent with the provisions of the said Act, to any British possession, and that the said Act when so applied should, subject to those exceptions and modifications, and subject as therein-after mentioned, have effect as if it were re-enacted, with the substitution of such British possession for the United Kingdom, provided that, before it should be applied to any British possession named in the Schedule to the said Act, the Government of such possession should have adhered to the Convention;