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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD DECEMBER, 1893. 1235
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 470.
It is hereby notified that the Queen's Exequatur has been issued, empowering Mr. WILLIAM E. HUNT, to act as Consul for the United States of America at Hongkong.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th December, 1893.
G. T. M. OBRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 471.
The following Notice is published.
By Command,
G. T. M. OBRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st December, 1893.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that a Meeting of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace will be held in St. Andrew's Hall, at the City Hall, on Monday, the 8th day of January, A.D. 1894, at 3 P.M., for the purpose of nominating a Justice as an Un-official Member of the Legislative Council, in the place of the Honourable C. P. CHATER, whose term of office expires on the 13th proximo.
Magistracy, Hongkong, 21st December, 1893.
H. E. WODEHouse, Police Magistrate.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 472.
Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Wednesday, December 27th, for the purchase of wood and branches of Pine Trees, &c., growing in various parts of Hongkong and Kowloon.
For form of tender apply at this Office."
For specification and further particulars apply at the Office of the Botanical and Afforestation Department.
No tender will be received unless the person tendering produces a receipt to the effect that he has deposited in the Colonial Treasury the sum of $20 as a pledge of the bona fides of his offer, which sum shall be forfeited to the Crown, if such person shall refuse to carry out his tender should the tender be accepted.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the highest or any tender.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd December, 1893.
G. T. M. OBRIEN,
Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 473.
Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon on Friday, the 29th instant, for the repairs of certain defects to the boiler, engines and hull of No. 3 Police Launch, and to place her on the slip for examination of bottom, and also to provide a suitable Launch for Police duty during the time the repairs are being executed.
The above work to be in accordance with specifications which can be obtained at the Office of the Government Marine Surveyor, to whose satisfaction the work will have to be executed.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd December, 1893.
G. T. M. OBRIEN,
Colonial Secretary.