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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH AUGUST, 1885.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 343.
Separate tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Friday, the 4th September, for :---
1. Planting 380,000 more or less, Trees of Pinus sinensis.
2. Supplying 4 piculs more or less, Seeds of Pinus sinensis.
For form of tender, specification, and further particulars, apply at the Office of the Botanical a Afforestation Department.
No tender will be received unless the person tendering produces a receipt to the effect that !. has deposited in the Colonial Treasury the sum of $100, as a pledge of the bona fides of his offer, planting Trees, and $25 for supplying Seeds, which sums shall be forfeited to the Crown if s person shall refuse to carry out his tender, should the tender be accepted.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 29th August, 1885.
FREDERICK STEwart,
Acting Colonial Secretar
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 344.
Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Thursday, the 1st October, 1885, for th removal of excretal matters from the City of Victoria, until 31st December, 1886.
For form of tender, specification, and full particulars, apply at the Office of the Sanitary Board.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 29th August, 1885.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 225.
The following Notice from the Government Astronomer is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th May, 1885.
NOTICE.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
Meteorological Signals will be hoisted on the mast in front of the Police Barracks at Tsimshatsui :- A red drum indicates the existence of a typhoon in the China Sea to the East of the Colony. A red cone pointing upwards indicates, that a typhoon exists in a latitude more Norther
than the Colony, or, that it is progressing towards North. ▾
A red cone pointing downwards indicates, that a typhoon exists in a latitude, more Southern
than the Colony, or, that it is progressing towards South.
A red ball indicates the existence of a typhoon somewhere to the West of the Colony.
2. The shipping community is supposed to be guided not solely by these signals, but to consul:
The China Coast Meteorological lixgister issued daily from here.
3. The Meteorological signals do not imply that a typhoon is approaching the Colony. Loo Storm-warnings are given by firing the gun placed at the foot of the mast. It will be fire one round, whenever a strong gale of wind is expected here. It will be fired two round. whenever the wind is expected to blow with storm or typhoon force, and it will be fir again, if possible, when the wind is likely to shift round suddenly,-such shifting beit.: frequently accompanied by great disasters to the shipping.
4. In cases where special information is urgently required, enquiries at the Observatory should, possible, be made between 1 p. and 4 p., as I am particularly engaged at other times.
Hongkong Observatory, 25th May, 1885.
W. DOBERCK, Government Astronomer.