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SOIT
OROIT.
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette
報
EXTRAORDINARY.
特 門 轅港 香
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, FRIDAY, 4TH APRIL, 1884.
VOL. XXX.
No. 19.
號九十第
日九初月三年申甲 日四初月四年四十八百八千一
簿十三第
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 116.
The following Address to Her Majesty the QUEEN, unanimously adopted by the Legislative
Council, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd April, 1884.
W. H. MARSп,
Colonial Secretary,
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY,
We, Your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Governor and Legislative Council of Hongkong, in Council assembled, desire to offer the expression of our sincere sympathy with the affliction which Your Majesty has suffered through the death of His Royal Highness, Prince LEOPOLD, Duke of Albany.
We assure Your Majesty that the great distance of this Colony from the scat of the Imperial Government, so far from weakening, serves only to lend additional strength and grace to the feelings entertained by the entire coinmunity, without distinction of race or creed, of loyal and patriotic attachment to the Throne and to the Mother-country. In common with our fellow- subjects throughout the British Empire, the inhabitants of Hongkong, whom we represent, deplore the sudden and early loss to Your Majesty and to his country, of a Prince, whose personal tastes and character, and whose devotion to Science, Literature and Art, recalled the noble example and career of his Illustrious Father, the late Prince Consort.
Signed on behalf of the
Legislative Council of Hongkong,
G. F. BOWEN, Governor. (President of the Council.)
Legislative Council Chamber, 2nd April, 1881.
Prinsed and Published by NORONHA & Co., Printers to the Hongkong Governacut, Nos, 5, 7, and 9, Zetland Street.