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Queen Makia of Earotonga expressing her deep sympathy in the sad bereavement sustained by the Royal Family through the death of His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence and Avon dale. I have laid this address before Her Majesty, who has commanded me, on her own behalf and on behalf of the Royal Family, to request you to convey to Queen Makia an expression of their grateful thanks for the sympathy which has been expressed towards them in the great loss they have sustained, together with a further expression of the warm interest which they feel in all that concerns the well-being of Queen Makia and the people of Rarotonga. I have, &c, The Officer Administering the Government KNUTSFORD. of New Zealand.

No. 12. (Circular I.) My Lord, — Downing Street, Bth July, 1892. I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the colony under your government, a copy of a Convention between Great Britain and Roumania relative to trade-marks signed at Bucharest on the 14th May, 1892, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Bucharest on the 3rd ultimo. I have to call your attention to Article 11. of the Convention, from which you will observe that, if it is desired that the stipulations of the Convention should be made applicable to the colony under your government, notice to that effect shall be given to the King of Roumania within one year from the date of the exchange of the ratifications. I have therefore to request that you will be good enough to acquaint me as soon as possible of the wishes of your Government in the matter. I have, &c, The Officer Administering the Government KNUTSFORD. of New Zealand.

Enclosure. Convention between Geeat Britain and Eoumania relative to Trade-marks. (Signed at Bucharest, 4th May, 1892. —Eatifications exchanged at Bucharest, 3rd June, 1892.) Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and His Majesty the King of Eoumania, desiring to conclude a Convention for the reciprocal protection of trade-marks and designs, have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say,— Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India— Arthur George Vansittart, Esq., Her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Bucharest, &c; and His Majesty the King of Eoumania —M. Alexandre N. Lahovary, Grand Cross of his Order of the Crown of Eoumania, &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. The subjects of each of the contracting parties shall have in the dominions and possessions of the other the same rights as are now granted, or may hereafter be granted, to native subjects, or to subjects of the most favoured nation, in all that relates to trade-marks, industrial designs, and patterns. In order that such rights may be obtained, the formalities required by the laws of the respective countries must be fulfilled. Article 11. The stipulatiohs of the present Convention shall be applicable to all the colonies and foreign possessions of Her Britannic Majesty excepting those hereinafter named, that is to say, except to India, the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland, the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia, New Zealand : Provided always that the stipulations of the present Convention shall be made applicable to any of the above-named colonies or foreign possessions on whose behalf notice to that effect shall have been given by Her Britannic Majesty's representative to the King of Eoumania within one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of the present Convention. Article 111. The present Convention shall be ratified and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Bucharest as soon as possible.