your attention until the ordinary meeting of Parliament in spring.

SPEECH of the Queen, on the Closing of the British Parli ment.-Westminster, December 15, 1900.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

I THANK you for the liberal provision which you have made the expenses incurred by the operations of my armies in Sou Africa and China.

3rd

17th

ADDITIONAL ARTICLES to the Money Order Conventi between Great Britain and Austria-Hungary of the 12th Jur 1885,* relative to the Exchange of Telegraph Money Orde with Austria. Signed at London, January 17, and Vienna, January 27, 1900.†

THE Postmaster-General of the United Kingdom of Gre Britain and Ireland and the Minister of Commerce of Austria ha agreed as follows:

ART. I. Telegraph money orders for sums not exceeding t maximum amount allowed in the case of ordinary money orde shall be exchanged between Austria and the United Kingdom Great Britain and Ireland.

II. The sender of a telegraph money order shall be required pay, in addition to the commission to be fixed and retained by tl country of origin, the cost of a telegram of advice from one countr to the other.

III. The telegram of advice shall be in the French languag and shall be forwarded from the office at which the order is issue to the office at which it is payable, the following form bein adopted :

Vol. LXXVI, page 68.

+ Sigued also in the German language.

Service Instructions (in words or according to the abbreviations admitted in the Telegraphic Service).

§Communication from the sender to the addressee.

IV. The telegraph money orders, or the corresponding advices of the same, shall be delivered to the payees in accordance with the provisions of Articles LXV and XLVII of the Service Regulations appended to the International Telegraph Convention (Revision of Budapest).

V. The apportionment of the amounts received for telegrams of advice (Article III) shall accord with the regulations respecting the apportionment of amounts received for ordinary telegrams.

VI. As in the case of ordinary money orders, the Administration of the country of issue shall account to the Administration of the ntry of payment for one-half of 1 per cent. on the amount of legraph money orders paid. To this end the telegraph money ders shall be entered separately by the respective Offices of Exchange at the end of the advice lists for ordinary money orders with the heading "Advised by telegraph."

VII. Telegraph money orders exchanged by one of the countries bove named over the wires of the other with a third country are bject to the provisions of Article LXVI of the Service Regulations above quoted.

VIII. In case of fictitious orders ostensibly issued in one of the ntracting countries and paid in the other, the responsibility for Any losses involved shall be shared equally by the Austrian and British Postal Administrations if it be found impossible to deterine in which of the two countries a fraud may have been comitted. The two Administrations shall in like manner share any

Name of the remitter or remitters in accordance with the regulations for rdinary money orders.

† Amount in figures and words in French currency (francs and centimes) so ng as the Administrations do not arrange for the amount to be indicated in The money of the country of payment.

Name and address in full of the payee or payees, in accordance with the gulations applying to ordinary money orders.

Text of message which the sender wishes to be communicated to the river of the order. This message may be written in plain or secret language accordance with the provisions of Articles VI, VII, VIII, and IX of the rvice Regulations appended to the International Telegraph Convention Revision of Budapest).

loss which may be incurred through a fraud or an error in cor nection with the transmission of a telegram of advice over th telegraph lines of an intermediate country or a cable company.

IX. In other respects telegraph money orders shall be subjec to the same general conditions as ordinary money orders.

X. The provisions of the above Additional Articles shall com into operation on the 1st day of February, 1900.

Done in duplicate and signed at London, on the 17th day c January, 1900; and at Vienna, on the 27th day of January, 1900.

(L.S.) NORFOLK. (L.S.) NEUBAUEF

ADDITIONAL ARTICLES to the Money Order Conventio between Great Britain and Austria-Hungary, dated the

*

17

June, 1885, relative to the Exchange of Telegraph Mone Orders with Hungary.-Signed at London, January 17, an at Budapest, January 24, 1900.†

THE Postmaster - General of the United Kingdom of Grea Britain and Ireland and the Minister of Commerce of Hungary hav agreed as follows:

ART. I. Telegraph money orders for sums not exceeding th maximum amount allowed in the case of ordinary money order shall be exchanged between Hungary and the United Kingdom Great Britain and Ireland.

II. The sender of a telegraph money order shall be required t pay, in addition to the commission to be fixed and retained by th country of origin, the cost of a telegram of advice from one countr to the other.

III. The telegram of advice shall be in the French language and shall be forwarded from the office at which the order is issue to the office at which it is payable, the following form bein adopted :

* Vol. LXXVI, page 68.

+ Signed also in the Hungarian language.

ence Instructions (in words or according to the abbreviations admitted in the Telegraph Service).

IV. The telegraph money orders or the corresponding advices the same shall be delivered to the payees in accordance with the visions of Articles LXV and XLVII of the Service Regulations Lore quoted.

V. The apportionment of the amounts received for telegrams of rice (Article III) shall accord with the regulations respecting the 1portionment of amounts received for ordinary telegrams.

VI. As in the case of ordinary money orders, the Administration the country of issue shall account to the Administration of the entry of payment for one-half of 1 per cent. on the amount of

graph money orders paid. To this end the telegraph money rders shall be entered separately by the respective Offices of Exchange at the end of the advice lists for ordinary money orders, th the heading " Advised by telegraph."

VIL Telegraph money orders exchanged by one of the countries ove named over the wires of the other with a third country are bject to the provisions of Article LXVI of the Service Regulaons above quoted.

VIII. In cases of fictitious orders ostensibly issued in one of contracting countries and paid in the other, the responsibility any losses involved shall be shared equally by the Hungarian Ed British Postal Administrations if it be found impossible to termine in which of the two countries a fraud may have been mmitted. The two Administrations shall in like manner share

Name of the remitter or remitters, in accordance with the regulations for mary money orders.

Amount in figures and words in French currency of francs and centimes, ong sa the Administrations do not arrange for the amount to be indicated in money of the country of payment.

: Name and address in full of the payee or payees, in accordance with the lations applying to ordinary money orders.

Text of message which the sender wishes to be communicated to the arer of the order. This message may be in plain or secret language, in dance with the provisions of Articles VI, VII, VIII, and IX of the Service relations appended to the International Telegraph Convention (Revision of dapest).

any loss which may be incurred through a fraud or an error in connection with the transmission of a telegram of advice over the telegraph lines of an intermediate country or a cable company.

IX. In other respects telegraph money orders shall be subject to the same general conditions as ordinary money orders.

X. The provisions of the above Additional Articles shall come into operation on the 1st day of February, 1900.

Done in duplicate and signed at London, on the 17th day of January, 1900; and at Budapest, on the 24th day of January, 1900

CONVENTION between Great Britain and France, regulating the Telegraphic Communication between the two Countries.Signed at Paris, February 17, 1900.

[Ratifications exchanged at Paris, April 2, 1900.]