THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11тп APRIL, 1885.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 154.
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His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to recognise provisionally, and until further notice, HARD BUSCHMANN, Esquire, as in charge of the Netherlands Consulate at this Port, during the nce of PETER JULIUS RUDOLPH BUSCHMANN, Esquire.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th April, 1885.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 155.
The following copy of an Order of the Queen in Council is published for general information. By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th April, 1885.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary-
AT THE COURT AT OSBORNE HOUSE, ISLE OF WIGHT.
The 27th day of January 1885.
PRESENT,
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by the Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862, it is enacted that, whenever it is made to appear to Her Majesty that the rules concerning the measurement of tonnage of merchant ships for the time being in force under the principal Act have been adopted by the Government of any foreign country and are in force in that country, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty by Order in Council to direct that the ships of such foreign country shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry or other national papers, and thereupon it shall no longer be necessary for such hips to be re-measured in any port or place in Her Majesty's dominions, but such ships shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry or other papers in the same manner, to the same extent, and for the same purposes in, to, and for which the tonnage denoted in the certificates of registry of British ships is deemed to be the tonnage of such ships:
And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that the rules concerning the measurement tonnage of merchant ships now in force under "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," have been lopted by the Government of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Japan and are in force in the Japanese dominions;
HER MAJESTY is hereby pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to direct that the ships of Japan, the certificates of Japanese registry or other national papers of which are dated on r after the first day of July, 1884, shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in the said certificates i registry or other national papers.
C. L. PEEL.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 156.
The following Return received from Mr. LEUNG SUN-PO, of the quantity of Spirits distilled at the Tiu Ün Sauce Factory, at Yaumáti, is published for general information.
Piculs.
Spirits manufactured during the quarter ended 28th February, 1885,....................... 70.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th April, 1885.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.