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961

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1893.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1893.

Convention between Great Britain and Ecuador relative to
Trade-marks.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 22nd June, 1893.

THE following despatch, received from Her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is
published for general information.

A. J. CADMAN.

Downing Street, 13th April, 1893.

SIR,—With reference to my circular despatch of the 24th
October, 1892, enclosing a copy of a Convention between
Great Britain and Ecuador relative to trade-marks, I have
now the honour to state, for the information of your Govern-
ment, that the ratifications of that Convention were ex-
changed at Quito on the 3rd February last, and I enclose,
for publication in the colony under your government, a copy
of the Convention as ratified and presented to Parliament.
I have, &c.,
RIPON.

The Officer administering the
Government of New Zealand.

CONVENTION between GREAT BRITAIN and ECUADOR relative
to Trade-marks: signed at Quito, 26th August, 1892;
Ratification exchanged at Quito, 3rd February, 1893.—
(English text.)

HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and His Excellency
the President of Ecuador, 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, William Henry
Doveton Haggard, Esq., Her Britannic Majesty's Minister
Resident and Consul-General at Quito, &c., &c.; and
His Excellency the President of Ecuador, Señor Don
Pedro Jose Cevallos, his Minister, Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, &c., &c.,—
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 nations,
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 II.
The stipulations of the present Convention shall be ap-
plicable to all the colonies and foreign possessions of Her
Britannic Majesty, excepting to 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, and New Zealand—provided always that
the stipulations of the present Convention shall be made
applicable to any of the above-mentioned colonies or foreign
possessions on whose behalf notice to that effect shall have
been given to Her Britannic Majesty's representative to the
President of Ecuador within one year from the date of the
exchange of the ratifications of the present Convention.

ARTICLE III.
The present Convention shall be ratified and the rati-
fications shall be exchanged at Quito as soon as possible.
It shall come into operation one month after the exchange
of the ratifications, and shall remain in force until the ex-
piration of one year from the day on which either party may
give notice of its intention to terminate it.
In witness whereof the undersigned have signed the same,
and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.
Done in duplicate, at Quito, this twenty-sixth day of
August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

W. H. D. HAGGARD.
PEDRO JOSE CEVALLOS.