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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 1, 1913.

RESOLUTION. The Colonial Secretary addressed the Council and moved the following Resolution:

Whereas by the provisions of Section 3 of the Opium Ordinance, 1909, as amended by Section 2

of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1911, it was provided inter alia as follows

No person shall import, or aid or abet the importation of any Raw Opium into the Colony or into the waters thereof, if such importation shall have been notified in the Government Gazette in pursuance of any Resolution of the Legislative

Council as being illegal.

And whereas by a Resolution dated the 31st August, 1911, and made by the Legislative Council in' pursuance of the provisions of Section 3 of the Opium Ordinance, 1909, as amended by Section 2 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1911, it was inter alia resolved that a Notification should be made in the next issue of the Government Gazette that the importa- tion of any kind of Raw Indian Opium, except Opium covered by Export Permits from the Government of India to the effect that such Opium had been declared for shipment to or consumption in China should be illegal :

And whereas the said Notification was duly published in the Government Gazette of the 1st

September, 1911, under Government Notification No. 259 :

And whereas it is desirable to amend the same in certain respects:

Now it is hereby resolved that a Notification shall be made in the next issue of the Government Gazette that the above recited Resolution and Notification shall not apply to the tranship- ment in Hongkong of Raw Indian Opium exported and coming from India and consigned to Macao for the use of the Macao Opium Farmer within the limits and conditions indicated in the Agreement between His Majesty's Government and the Government of the Portu- guese Republic dated at London 14th June, 1913.

The Attorney General seconded.

Question--put and agreed to.

EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES BILL.-The Attorney General moved the First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Explosive Substances.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a first time.

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS AMENDMENT BILL.-The Attorney General addressed the Council and moved the Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, 1871.

The Colonial Secretary seconded. Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a second time.

Council in Committee on the Bill.

On the motion of the Attorney General the following amendments were agreed to:- In section 6, the figures "22" were substituted for the figures "39" in the fourth line; the words "resident practitioners of at least five years' standing in such Court" in the fourth and fifth last lines of sub-section (b) were deleted and the following words were substituted therefor:- practising attorneys, solicitors or writers of at least five years' standing in one of the Courts at London, Dublin or Edinburgh"; and the following words were added at the end of the section:- "But no such exemption shall be granted in the case of an attorney, solicitor, writer or proctor unless notice of intention to apply therefor has been previously given by the applicant to the Secretary of the Hongkong Law Society." On Council resuming, the Attorney General reported that the Bill had passed through Committee with amendments and moved that it be read a third time.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a third time and passed.

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY BILL.-The Attorney General addressed the Council and moved the Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to provide for the regulation of Wireless Telegraphy.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a second time.

Council in Committee on the Bill.