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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH JANUARY. 1898.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 4.
The following Notice is published.
By Command,
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th January, 1898.
NOTICE.
A Special Sessions of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace will be held in the Justices' Room, at the Magistracy, on Tuesday, the Fifth day of April, A.D. 1898, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of considering applications for granting and transferring Publicans' licences to sell and retail intoxicating liquors under Ordinance No. 21 of 1886.
All applications should be made on or before the 19th day of March, 1898.
Magistracy, Hongkong, 7th January, 1898.
H. E. WODEHOUSE,
Police Magistrate.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-- No. 5.
It is hereby notified that Artillery Practice will be carried out on Friday and Saturday, the 14th and 15th instant, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. from a knoll 100 yards west of Pokefulum Road and about of a mile on the Victoria side of that village.
Particulars as follows:-
Direction............ Sandy Bay.
Range......800 to 1,500 yards.
Nature of gun......7 pr. R.M.L
No. of rounds......66.
Targets...... ....2 Standing Barrel Targets and 2 Hongkong Targets towed by a launch.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th January, 1898.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 6.
The following are published.
By Command,
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th January, 1898.
Government of China.
KIUNGCHOW DISTRICT.
LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS,
No. 14.
BUOYAGE OF HAINAN STRAIT.
Notice is hereby given that the HAINAN HEAD BANK BUOY has been shifted about two cables to the SOUTH-WESTWARD of its former position on account of the extension of the bauk in that direction and that it is now moored in 35 feet at low water of spring tidos with the summit of HAINAN BLUFF bearing about S. 65° W, and distant about 17 cables.