THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25тп MARCH, 1893.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. --No. 108.
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It is hereby notified that Her Majesty has not been advised to exercise her power of disallowance with respect to the following Ordinances :-
No. 12 of 1892, entitled —An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Two Millions Two hun- dred and Fifty-six thousand, Three hundred and Seventy-five Dollars to the Public Service of the Year 1893.
No. 14 of 1892, entitled—An Ordinance to provide for the recognition in the Colony of Probates
and Letters of Administration granted in the United Kingdom.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th March, 1893.
G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 109.
The following Finding of the Marine Court of Inquiry into the loss of the British Barque Penshaw, Official Number 68,930, is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th March, 1893.
FINDING.
G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
We find that the British Barque Penshaw, Official Number 68,930 of Hongkong, of which Jonn SPEECHLY Was Master, number of whose Certificate is 313, Hongkong, left the port of Kamagon, in the island of Alabat, in the Philippine Group, bound for Kalagua, and that she struck on a reef on the morning of the 19th February and that she was afterwards abandoned.
We find that the ship was properly found with the exception of not having any secondary anchors, these having been lost some time previous when the ship got on shore, and that she was supplied with proper charts which, however, were of little use on this occasion as the coast along which she was being navigated was unsurveyed and partly unexamined.
That after the ship struck, the Mate was sent away for assistance, but he did not succeed in getting any; the Captain and remainder of the crew also subsequently left the ship as it was feared she would break up, but that he afterwards returned with the Mate and four men leaving the others to seek for assistance and that these unaided were insufficient to make any effectual effort to save the ship.
We are of opinion that the better course for the Master to have pursued would have been to keep his boats and have laid out an anchor when first she went on shore, but we do not think he was guilty of a wrongful act or default in not doing so. He adopted what appeared to him at the time the best course to pursue in sending to get assistance from the shore, and his largest boat being away he was deprived of his only means of getting a serviceable anchor out.
We therefore find that the ship was lost through no wrongful act or default of the Master or any other of the officers or crew, and their certificates are returned to them.
Given under our hands at Hongkong, this 18th day of March, 1893.
R. MURRAY RUMSEY, Ret. Com., R.N.,
President of Court.
EDWD. P. ASHE, Commander, R.N.
F. D. GODDARD, Master, British S.S. Haitan. D'A. DE STE. CROIX, Master, S.S. Wingsang. GRIFFITH OWEN, Master, Celtic Chief.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 110.
With reference to Government Notification No. 495 of the 3rd December, 1892, His Excellency the Governor has been pleased, under instructions from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to appoint ALFRED GASCOYNE WISE, Esquire, to be Registrar of the Supreme Court, Official Trustee, Registrar of Companies, and Land Officer in the room of E. J. ACKROYD, Esquire.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th March, 1893.
G. T. M. O'BRIEN,
Colonial Secretary.
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