THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND MAY, 1886.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 184.
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The following copy of an Order of the Queen in Council, extending the provisions of the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts, 1843 to 1878, to Corea, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd May, 1886.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
At the Court at Windsor, the 3rd day of April, 1886.
PRESENT.
The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty.
Lord President.
Lord Chamberlain. Mr. Stansfeld.
WHEREAS by Treaty and otherwise, Her Majesty the Queen has power and jurisdiction within China and Japan and the dominions of the King of Corea.
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in this behalf by the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts 1843 to 1878 and otherwise in her vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-
1. This Order may be cited as the China, Japan, and Corea Order in Council 1886.
2. The 4th Article of the China, Japan, and Corea Order in Council 1884 shall, for all purposes, e construed as if for the sub-section thereof numbered (3) there were substituted the following sub- ection:
こ (3.) All powers and jurisdiction, whether original, appellate, or auxiliary, which can, under the said Orders, be exercised in relation to any Provincial Court in Japan, or in, or in relation to, the district of any such Court by the Court for Japan, or by the Supreme Court for China and Japan, may be exercised in relation to Corea or any Provincial Court therein, or in, or in relation to, the district of any such Court by the Supreme Court for China and Japan.
Provided, that nothing in this Order shall render invalid anything done before the commencement
of this Order, or before the publication of this Order in China or Corea.
3. This Order shall come into operation forthwith, and shall be published in China and Corea,
and printed copies thereof shall be kept for sale at the Consular Courts in Corea.
And the Right Honourable the Earl of Rosebery, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.
C. L. PEEL.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.---No. 185.
The following Notice is published for general information.
By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd May, 1886.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
Parcels not exceeding 7 lb. in weight can now be received for transmission to Holland, Norway, Switzerland, St. Helena, and Barbados, all viâ London.
An error was committed in the Table of Parcel Rates issued on April 24th, in notifying the limit of weight for Parcels to all destinations as 11fb. This extended limit applies only to Parcels for the United Kingdom and a few other countries, as will be seen from the Table below.
Parcels for Germany, Holland, Norway, and Switzerland must be sealed, and are subject to certain
special regulations.
All the above alterations are embodied in the following Table, copies of which can be obtained at the Post Office.
A. LISTER, Postmaster General.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 15th May, 1886.
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