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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH MAY, 1890.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.---No. 211.

The following Circular Despatch with its enclosure is published for general information.

By Command,

W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th May, 1890.

CIRCULAR (2).

DOWNING STREET,

20th March, 1890.

SIR.I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Government, a copy of a commercial Convention between Great Britain and Egypt, signed at Cairo on the 29th of October, 1889.

The Officer Administering the Government of

My Lord,

I have the honour to be,

HONGKONG.

Sir,

Your most obedient humble Servant,

KNUTSFORD.

Correspondence respecting a New Commercial Convention with Egypt.

No. 1.

Sir E. Baring to the Marquis of Salisbury.--(Received November 11.)

Cairo, November 2, 1889.

I HAVE the honour to inclose herewith the Commercial Convention signed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Government of the Khedive and myself on the 29th October last.

Your Lordship will see from the inclosed copy of Zoulfikar Pasha's note, that the Egyptian Government consent to a reduction of £ E. 40,000 in the light dues as soon as the new Tariff is applied to all the other Powers.

I have, &c. (Signed)

E. BARING.

M. le Ministre,

Inclosure 1 in No. 1. Zoulfikar Pasha to Sir E. Baring. (Translation.)

Cairo, October 29, 1889.

I TRANSMIT to you one of the two copies of the Commercial Convention which I have had the honour to sign with you on this day, and I hasten to state to you that the Government of His Highness agrees to reduce the light dues by £ E. 40,000 as soon as the Tariff provided by the Convention in question is applied to all the Powers,

I have, &c.

(Signed)

ZOULFIKAR.

Inclosure 2 in No. 1.

Commercial Convention between Great Britain and Egypt.--Signed at Cairo, October 29, 1889. THE Undersigned, Sir Evelyn Baring, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.C.S.I.. C.I.E.. Minister Plenipoten- tiary, Agent and Consul-General of Her Britannic Majesty in Egypt, and his Excellency Zoulfikar Pasha, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Government of His Highness the Khedive of Egypt ;

Duly authorized by their respective Governments, and so far as Egypt is concerned within the limits of the powers conferred by the Imperial Firmans, have agreed to the following:-

ARTICLE I.

There shall be reciprocal freedom of commerce and navigation between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Egypt. British subjects in Egypt, and Egyptians in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, shall have liberty freely to come, with their ships and cargoes, to all places and ports in the other country to which natives are or may be permitted to come, and shall enjoy respectively the same rights, privileges, liberties, favours, immunities and exemptions in matters of commerce and navigation as are or may be enjoyed by natives, without having to pay any tax or impost greater than those paid by the same.