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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD JUNE, 1894.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 253.

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The temporary wharf erected opposite Ice House Street will be open to traffic on Wednesday, the 27th instant, and the wharf known as Peddar's Wharf will be closed to traffic on that date.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd June, 1894.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Acting Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 254.

The following Circular Despatch with its enclosure is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th June, 1894.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Acting Colonial Secretary.

CIRCULAR (2)

DOWNING STREET,

21st April, 1894.

SIR,-I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Govern- ment, a copy of a Convention between Great Britain and Roumania, relating to the suppression of false indications of origin on goods, which was signed at Bucharest on the 1st of April, 1893, and of which the ratifications were exchanged on the 13th ultimo.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble Servant,

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

RIPON.

CONVENTION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND ROUMANIA RESPECTING FALSE INDICATIONS OF ORIGIN ON GOODS.

Signed at Bucharest,

March 20 April 1

1893.

[Ratifications exchanged at Bucharest, March 3, 1894.]

HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India and His Majesty the King of Roumania, being mutually desirous of concluding a Convention relating to the suppression of false indications of origin on goods, have named as their respective Plenipoten- tiaries, that is to say:

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, the Honourable Charles Hardinge, Her Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Bucharest, &c., &c., &c.; And His Majesty the King of Roumania, M. Alexandre N. Lahovari, Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the Crown of Roumania, &c., &c., &c., his Minister Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs;

Who, having communicated to each other their Full Powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles :-

ARTICLE I.

All goods bearing a false indication of origin, in which one of the Contracting States or a place situated in one of them shall be directly or indirectly indicated as being the country or place of origin, shall be seized on importation into either of the two States.

The seizure may also be effected in the State where the false indication of origin has been applie:l, or in that into which the goods bearing the false indication may have been imported.