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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
20.
20ublished by Flethority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 14TH MAY, 1870.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. XVI.
Is Excellency Major-General WHITFEILD, Commanding Her Majesty's Troops in China and and Lieutenant-Governor of Hongkong and its Dependencies, has been pleased to appoint in W. COOKE O'SHAUGHNESSY, of Her Majesty's 12th Regiment of Foot, to be Private Secretary the 7th instant inclusive.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th May, 1870.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Copy of a Convention of Commerce between Her Majesty and the Emperor of
a, signed at Vienna on the 30th December, 1869, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th May, 1870.
CONVENTION OF COMMERCE
BETWEEN
HER MAJESTY
AND THI
EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA,
Signed at Vienna, Devarber 30, 1809.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretago,
[Ratifications exchanged at Vienna, February 23, 1870.]
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on the one part, and His Majesty the Austria, King of Bohemia, &c., and Apostolic King of Hungary, on the other part, have resolved to conclude the Convention in lieu of the Supplementary Convention stipulated in Article V of the Treaty of Commerce of the 16th
1865, and have named for their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:
Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable John Arthur Baron Bloomfield of Oakliampton and Redwood, a Peer of Ireland, a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable eil, Kaight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary
tiny to His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty; and
Imperist and Royal Apostolie Majesty, Froderie Ferdinand, Count Benst, His Imperial Majesty's Privy Councillor, of the Empire, and Minister of the Imperial House and of Foreign Affairs, Grand Cross of the Orders of St. al Leopold;
after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found to be in due and proper form, have a nud concluded the following Articles :----
ARTICLE I.
continuance of the present Convention, British produce and manufactures shall be admitted upon importation dominions of His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, at the rates of duty enumerated in the Tarif annexed of Commerce between His Imperial and Royal Apostolie Majesty and His Majesty the King of Prussia repre- sonereign States and territories united to the Prussian system of Customs and Contributions, of the 9th of March,
ARTICLE II.
Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty further engages that on and after the 1st of January, 1870, the following Wish manufacture shall be aduitted upon importation into both the dominions of His Imperial and Royal Majesty, at the rates of duty hereinafter spécified :---