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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13TH OCTOBER, 1894.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.- No. 384.

The following Circular Despatch and its enclosure are published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th October, 1894.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

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CIRCULAR.

DOWNING STREET,

15th August, 1894.

SIR,With reference to my Circular despatch of the 25th July last, I have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of the Colony under your Government, a translation of a Spanish law granting to Great Britain and the British Colonies the Tariff advantages granted to Switzerland, Sweden and Norway, and the Netherlands.

I have the honour to be.

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble Servant,

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

RIPON.

(Translation.)

Law.

DON ALFONSO XIII., by the grace of God and of the Constitution King of Spain, and in his . name, and during his minority, the Queen-Regent of the Realm.

To all those whom these presents may come, know that the Cortes have decreed and we sanction what follows:-

Sole Article. From the date of the publication of this Law, and whilst other Treaties are not put in force, the more reduced duties, and the Tariff advantages resulting from the Commercial Agreements agreed upon with Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, and the Low Countries shall be applied to the products of the soil and of the industry of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Denmark, France, Great Britain and its Colonies, and Italy.

In order that these benefits shall be understood as subsisting, it will be indispensable for the nations to which they have been granted to apply to the products of the soil and of the industry of Spain their lowest Tariffs.

Therefore, we command all the Tribunals, Justices, Chiefs, Governors, and other authorities, civil, military, and ecclesiastical, of whatever class or dignity, to observe it and cause it to be observed, to fulfil and execute it in all its parts.

(Signed)

(Signed)

THE QUEEN-REGENT.

SEGISMUNDO MORET,

Minister of State.

Royal Palace, July 10, 1894.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. —No. 385.

The following Returns of Deaths are published.

By Command.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th October, 1894.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Acting Colonial Secretary.