THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD MARCH, 1889.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 138.
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Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Thursday, the 28th instant, for turfing slopes and other work at Tytam Reservoir.
For form of tender apply at this Office.
For specification and further particulars apply at the Surveyor General's Office. The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd March, 1889.
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 89.
The following. Notice is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd March, 1889.
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.
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NOTICE.
The Court of Directors have been pleased to sanction the appointment of Mr. H. L. DALRYMPLE, of Messrs. BIRLEY, DALRYMPLE, & Co., as Agent for the British North Borneo Government in Hong- kong.
By Order,
L. B. VON DONOP,
Government Secretary.
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Sandakan, British North Borneo, 1st February, 1889.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 99.
The following Notice is published for general information.
· By Command,
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Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th March, 1889.
FREDERICK STtewart, Colonial Secretary.
TREASURY NOTICE.
The attention of owners of tenements, who may from time to time have occasion to apply for refund of rates, is drawn to the following require nents of the law; and the are requested to note that the Government has no power to grant a refund, where these requirements have not been fulfilled.
H. E. WODEHOUSE, Acting Colonial Treasurer.
Treasury, 4th March, 1889.
The Rating Ordinance No. 15 of 1888. ·
Section 35.-(1.) The owner of any tenement may give notice to the Treasurer that such tenement is vacant not later than
the fifteenth day of any month from the first day of which it is intended to claim such refund.
(2.) So long as such tenement shall remain continuously unoccupied, no further notice shall be required, but after the re-occupation of such tenement, notice of any subsequent vacancy shall again be required, as provided in the preceding sub-section.
Section 37.--The petitioner shall not recover if the notice required by Section 35 has not becn given, the burden of proof
whereof shall rest upon him.