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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
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Published by Authority.
No. 30.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 30TH JUNE, 1883.
號十三第 日六十二月五年未癸 日十三月六年三十八百八千一
VOL. XXIX.
簿九十二
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 226.
The Governor has been pleased to grant two months' vacation leave and ten months' leave of absence on half salary, from this date, to WALTER MEREDITH DEANE, Esquire, Captain Superintendent
of Police.
Consequent on Mr. DEANE'S departure on leave, His Excellency has been pleased, with the consent. of the Major-General Commanding, to appoint, provisionally, Captain THOMAS CARROLL DEMPSTER, of the Army Pay Department, to be Acting Captain Superintendent of Police.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th June, 1883.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 227.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue the following Commission for the purpose of considering and reporting on the question of forming a local Naval Defence Force at Hongkong, with reference in particular to the Secretary of State's Circular Despatch of the 18th April, 1883.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th June, 1883.
[L.S.] G. F. BOWEN.
W. II. MARSH.
Colonial Secretary.
WHEREAS it is desirable to enquire whether a local Naval Defence Force can be formed at Hongkong with reference in particular to the Circular Despatch of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, bearing date the 18th day of April, 1883;--and whereas this question can be most conveniently considered by a Commission: Now, therefore, 1, Sir GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, do hereby appoint you HENRY GEORGE THOMSETT, Esquire, a retired Commissioned Officer of the Royal Navy, Harbour Master; THOMAS CARROLL DEMPSTER, Esquire, Captain in the Army Pay Department, Acting Captain Superintendent of Police; and ROBERT THOMAS WOOD, Esquire, a Commissioned Officer in the Royal Navy, to be a Commission to commider and to take evidence for the purpose, and to report to me the evidence and your opinion thereon; and I hereby charge all persons in the public service to assist you herein.
Given under my hand and the public seal of the Colony, this 28th day of June, 1883.
By Command,
W. H. MARSH.
Colonial Secretary-