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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 29, 1911.

ARTICLE 19.

If in

any criminal matter pending in any Court or Tribunal of one of the two countries it is thought desirable to take the evidence of any witness in the other, such evidence may be taken by the judicial authorities in accordance with the laws in force on this subject in the country where the witness may be.

ARTICLE 20.

The present Treaty shall come into force ten days after its publication, in conformity with the forms prescribed by the laws of the High Contracting Parties. It may be ter- minated by either of the High Contracting Parties by a notice not exceeding one year and

not less than six months.

It shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Asuncion as soon as possible.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and affixed thereto their respective seals.

Done in duplicate at Asuncion, the twelfth day of September, nineteen hundred and eight.

(L.S.) (L.S.)

CECIL GOSLING.

EUSEBIO AYALA.

And whereas the ratifications of the said Treaty were exchanged at Asuncion on the thirtieth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eleven:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, and in virtue of the authority committed to Him by the said recited Acts, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the Seventeenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, the said Acts shall apply in the case of Paraguay, and of the said Treaty with the President of the Republic of Paraguay:

Provided always that the operation of the said Acts shall be and remain suspended within the Dominion of Canada so long as an Act of the Parliament of Canada, being Part I of chapter 155 of the Revised Statutes of Canada. 1906, and entitled "An Act respecting the Extradition of Fugitive Criminals," shall continue in force there, and no longer.

No. 291.

CIRCULAR.

ALMERIC FITZROY.

DOWNING STREET,

28th August, 1911.

SIR,- With reference to my Circular despatch of the 25th March last respecting the application of the penny postal rate to letters from the Commonwealth of Australia addressed to British Colonies and Protectorates, I have the honour to inform you that the Australian postal authorities have intimated that the new postal rate came into operation on the 1st May last.

The Officer Administering the Government of

I have, etc.,

L. HARCOURT.

HONGKONG.