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7. I much regret my inability at present to recommend any increase of the expenditure, believing as I conscientiously do that the circumstances and the financial position and prospects of the Colony are not such as to justify any addition thereto and as same has, in my opinion, largely outgrown the requirements of the Colony and is a far greater burden than the ratepayers ought to be called upon to bear.
T. H. WHITEHEAD.
Hongkong, 9th August, 1897.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 521.
It is hereby notified that the portion of Bonham Strand between the Harbour Office and Queen's. Road West will be closed to wheel traffic from Monday, November 29th, until further notice, while alterations to drains are in progress.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th November, 1897.
J. H. Stewart Lockhart,
Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 522.
It is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor having authorised the Cemeteries or Burial-grounds, hereafter mentioned, under the authority of section 3 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1890, the same are to be deemed "Authorised Cemeteries" within the meaning of the said Ordinance.
EURASIAN CEmetery.
Situated on the SE. slope of Mount Davis off the Pokfulum Road, bordered on the North side by Government ground and measuring 210 feet, on the South side closing on Mount Davis Cemetery and measuring 457 feet, on the East side by Government ground and a footpath to the Cattle Market and measuring 756 feet, and on the West side by Government ground, and ineasuring 500 feet.
The limits of the Cemetery have been defined by boundary stones.
THE INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL CEMETERY.
Situated about 300 yards West of the Kennedy Town Hospital and bordered on the North side by Government ground and the sea cliff, and measuring 750 feet, on the South side by Government ground and measuring 700 feet, on the East side by Government ground and a footpath from the Kennedy Town Hospital and measuring 530 feet, and on the West side by Government ground, and measuring 300 feet.
The limits of the Cemetery have been defined by wooden posts.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th November, 1897.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 523.
The following Notice is published.
By Command,
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th November, 1897.
NOTICE.
A Special Session of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace will be held in the Justices' Room, at the Magistracy, on Tuesday, the 7th day of December, A.D. 1897, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of considering an application from one M. STERNBERG, for the transfer of his Publican's licence to sell. and retail intoxicating liquors on the premises situate at No. 1, Jubilee Street, under the sign of The Colonial Hotel, to one J. H. DONNENBERG.
Magistracy, Hongkong, 26th November, 1897.
H. E. WODEHOUSE, Police Magistrate.