THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 2,
1914.
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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK AMENDMENT BILL.Mr. LANDALE moved the First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Ordi- nance, 1866.
Mr. POLLOCK seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a first time.
Mr. LANDALE moved the suspension of the Standing Orders, so that the Bill might be read a second and third time.
Mr. POLLOCK Seconded, and the motion was agreed to.
Mr. LANDALE then addressed the Council and moved the Second reading of the Bill. Mr. POLLOCK seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a second time.
Council in Committee on the Bill.
On Council resuming, Mr. LANDALE reported that the Bill had passed through Com- mittee without amendment and moved that it be read a third time.
Mr. POLLOCK seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a third time and passed.
ADJOURNMENT.—The Council then adjourned sine die.
Read and confirmed this 1st day of October, 1914.
M. J. BREEN,
Clerk of Councils.
F. H. MAY, Governor.
APPOINTMENTS, &c.
No. 375.-His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. J. L. MCPHERSON to be a Member of the Committee for the Wong-nei-chong and Queen's Recrea- tion Grounds, as representative of the Hongkong Amateur Athletic Federation.
2nd October, 1914.
No. 376.-His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint, under Section 25 of the Sale of Food and Drugs Ordinance, 1896, (Ordinance No. 8 of 1896), Mr. Harry ALAN TAYLOR to be an Analyst for the purposes of the Ordinance.
2nd October, 1914.
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S Department.
No. 377.-It is hereby notified that a telegram has been received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the effect that a notification was inserted in the London Gazette of the 25th September which announces that British owners of cargo now lying in a neutral port in a ship owned by an enemy may for purposes of obtaining possession of such cargo pay freight and other necessary charges to the agent of the shipowner at such port.