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8. No claim for compensation as aforesaid shall be entertained after six months from the date of the posting of the parcel.
9. No person shall be deemed entitled as of right to any compensation whatever and nothing contained in or done under or in pursuance of this notice shall render the Postmaster General liable either personally or in his official capacity to any action or other legal proceeding in respect of or in consequence of any loss or damage to any articles enclosed in or forming part of a parcel. And the decision of the Postmaster General on all questions arising between him and any person claiming payment in respect of the loss or damage of any article enclosed in or forming part of a parcel shall be final.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 81.
The following Notification is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th February, 1892.
W. M. GOODMAN,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
POLICE NOTIFICATION.
On the 18th, 19th, and 20th February, 1892, being the days fixed for the Races at Wongnai- ch'ung, the following Regulations, under Ordinance No. 10 of 1869, having received the approval of His Excellency the Governor will be in force :---
I. Between the Clock Tower and Praya East:
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(a.) All Horses and Vehicles going Eastward are to keep on the LEFT HAND, or
Northern side of the Road.
(b.) On returning Westward, Horses and Vehicles are to keep on the RIGHT HAND, or Northern side of the Road passing any Vehicles they may overtake according to the Common Rule of the Road.
(a.) All Horses and Vehicles going Eastward are to turn down to the Eastern Praya by Arsenal Street, and continue along the Praya or Wántsai Road East of No. 2 Station, and the Road West of the Bowrington Canal.
(b.) All Horses and Vehicles returning from the Race Course are to keep the route
authorised in the preceding Sub-section.
III. Every person who shall ride or drive in a furious manner, or so as to endanger the life or limb of any person, or to the common danger of the passengers in any public Road or thoroughfare is liable to a penalty.
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(a.) Bearers of Chairs are to proceed Eastward on the RIGHT HAND, (Southern) side
of the Road, and to continue on through Wántsai and the Morrison Hill Gap. (b.) Bearers of Chairs returning Westward are to keep on the LEFT HAND, or the Southern side of the Road, and are to pass over the same Roads as in going.
V. Persons carrying burdens are to walk only in that portion of the roadway allowed for chairs, as prescribed in the previous section.
All other foot passengers between the Clock Tower and Praya East are to walk only on the foot paths, and not on the roadway except for the purpose of crossing.
VI. No Chairs or Vehicles will be allowed to remain on the Road between the boundaries of the Cemeteries and the Stands; neither is any Vehicle to go at more than a slow pace at the same place.
VII. Chairs and Vehicles to be arranged in the neighbourhood of the Race Course as directed by the Police Constables on Duty.
VIII. Owners of Dogs are recommended not to allow their Dogs to go near the Race Course, as any Dog found straying without a Collar with the name and address thereon of his Owner, is liable to be destroyed (Ord. 14 of 1845, para. IV).
IX. Persons using Chairs are recommended to go and return by way of the Kennedy Road so as to avoid overcrowding the Queen's Road. No Horse or Vehicle will be allowed on the Kennedy
Road.
By Command,
Central Police Barracks, Hongkong, 1st February, 1892.
GEO. HORSPOOL, Act. Capt. Supt. of Police.