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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST JUNE, 1889.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 251.
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His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointments to the Sanitary Board under The Public Health Ordinance, 1887, viz.:-
SAMUEL BROWN, Esquire, Surveyor General, to be President.
Major-General ALEXANDER HERMAN ADAM GORDON, Acting Captain Superintendent of Police,
to be Vice-President.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st June, 1889.
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 252.
Notice is hereby given that LAURENCE POESNECKER, Esquire, Consul for Austria-Hungary, has reported his resumption of the duties of the Consulate at this Port.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st June, 1889.
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. —No. 253.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to recognise, provisionally, ANTOINE VIZZAVONA, Esquire, as Acting Consul for France during the temporary absence from the Colony of Vicomte GEORGES GASTON SERVAN DE BEZAURE.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st June, 1889.
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 254.
The Public are hereby informed that the Pokfulam water may be readily clarified by adding a small quantity of. alum and allowing the water so treated to stand from 8 to 12 hours, the clear water being then drawn off from the sediment which will have formed.
The quantities of alum which should be added to given quantities of water are 40 grains of powdered alum, or as much as can be lifted at twice on a cent piece, to an ordinary bucketful of water; or half an ounce of alum to an ordinary Shanghai bath-tubful of water.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong. 1st June, 1889.
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 255.
The Rating Ordinance, 1888.
Notice is hereby given that, in virtue of the powers conferred upon him by Section 7 of The Rating Ordinance, No. 15 of 1888, the Governor in Council has adopted the existing Valuation of tenements in Victoria as the Valuation for the year beginning 1st July, 1889.
The Valuation List will be open to inspection at the Treasury during Office hours for Twenty-one days from the 4th June, 1889.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st June, 1889..
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary,