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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH SEPTEMBER, 1894. 815

No. 87. Commercial.

ST. PETERSBURG, 11th July, 1894.

MY LORD,--With reference to my despatch No. 62 of this series of the 24th of May last, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship, that in amplification of the Rules of the 26th April, 1893, for preventing the spread of epidemic diseases along the maritime frontiers of the Empire, the Committee of Ministers have decided, with the approval of His Imperial Majesty, that all foreign vessels arriving in Russian Ports shall present Bills of Health visé by Russian Consuls at the port of their departure; at the same time it has been decreed that no Bills of Health issued by authorities of intermediate ports at which vessels may have touched, need be presented.

THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY, K.G.,

&c.,

&C.,

&c.

I have, etc.,

(Signed)

HENRY HOWARD.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 350.

The following Circular Despatch and its enclosure are published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th September, 1894.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Acting Colonial Secretary.

CIRCULAR.

DOWNING STREET,

25th July, 1894.

SIR,With reference to my Circular despatch of the 16th January last, I have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of the Colony under your Government, a copy of a notice issued by the Foreign Office respecting the treatment to be accorded in Spain and the Spanish Colonies to goods arriving from the United Kingdom and the British Colonies.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble Servant,

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

RIPON.

The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has received the following communication from Her Majesty's Ambassador at Madrid :-

"Under the provisions of an Act recently passed by the Spanish Cortes, goods arriving in Spain "and her Colonies from the United Kingdom and the British Colonies will continue to receive the same treatment as heretofore, namely, in the Peninsula and the adjacent Islands the Minimun Tariff, together with the advantages conceded by Treaty to Switzerland, Sweden and Norway, and the Netherlands, or other European States, except Portugal.

"In the Spanish Colonies, such goods will continue to be treated under the Minimum Column of "the Colonial Tariff.

"This treatment will be maintained until a permanent Commercial Treaty is concluded between "the United Kingdom and Spain, or until the negotiations now pending for the conclusion of such a

Treaty are formally broken off."

Foreign Office, 13th July, 1894.