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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH JANUARY, 1899.
Objects and Reasons.
The first twenty sections of this Bill, as will be seen from the marginal notes to them, correspond with the provisions of certain Acts of Parliament, relating to solici- tor's costs, which are now in foree in England but have not hitherto been extended to Hongkong.
Section 21 of the Bill is borrowed from a similar provision contained in the Straits Settlements Ordinances, and in the Statutes of some of the Australian Colonies, and its object is to prevent a solicitor, who has only newly arrived in the Colony and about whose antecedents and character nothing is known, from setting up in practice on his own account.
Section 22 provides for the payment by solicitors of a moderate fee on admission.
HENRY E. POLLOCK,
Acting Attorney General
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 36.
The following Coroner's Returns for 1898, which were laid before the Legislative Council this day, are published.
By Command,
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th January, 1899.
No. 1.
MAGISTRACY,
HONGKONG, 10th January, 1899.
SIR, I have the honour to forward herewith the usual Annual Returns for the year 1898 in connection with all cases of death brought to the notice of the Police Magistrate acting as Coroner during the year.
The Honourable
THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
WM. C. H. HASTINGS,
Acting Police Magistrate.
TABLE 4.-RETURN OF ALL DEATHS REPORTED DURING THE YEAR 1898.
FORMAL ENQUIRIES HELD.
BURIED WITHOUT FORMAL ENQUIRIES.
NATIONALITY.
Men.
Women. Boys. | Girls. Total. Men, Women. Boys. Girls.
Sex not ascertainable.
Total.
Europeans and Americans,...
Indians and Malays,
......
Japanese,
Chinese,
Total,...
17
N
N
3
1
23
4
:
:
1
:
...
20
3
1
1
25
412
171
378 850
25
1,336
27
1
32
433
175
379 353
25
1,365
Total for 1897,...
43
16
6
69 135
30
213
208
16
602
Magistracy, Hongkong, 10th January, 1899.
WM. C. H. HASTINGS,
Acting Palier Magistrate,