THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH SEPTEMBER, 1883. 749
12. No person placed in the Quarantine Station shall leave the same, or hold communication with any vessel or boat, or take or send any person or thing whatever out of the Quarantine Station, without having first received the express written permission of the Health Officer, and observing such precautions as the Health Officer may require.
13. No person other than the Health Officer, or persons expressly deputed by him, shall enter the Quarantine Station or approach within 30 yards of the boundaries thereof, or hold communication with the Quarantine Station, or with any person in it, or receive or take anything whatever directly or indirectly from the Station, or from any person in it without having first received the express written permission of the Health Officer, and observing such precautions as the Health Officer may require.
14. The Captain Superintendent of Police, and any officers that he may appoint for the purpose of enforcing quarantine, may order any person leaving or coming from any vessel that is in quarantine or from a Quarantine Station, or taking or sending any person or thing whatever from any such vessel or Quarantine Station to remain in or return to, and to return such persons or things to such vessel or Quarantine Station, and may by such necessary force as the case requires compel any person neglecting or refusing to observe such order to obey the same.
15. The above regulations shall not in any way interfere with the internal management of any of Her Majesty's Ships, or with their freedom to proceed to sea whenever the Officer in command may deem such course requisite.
16. Where any breach of any of the above regulations is committed, all the persons assisting in any way in the commission of such breach and the master or other person having the control of any vessel or boat on board of which such breach has been committed, or which has been in any way engaged in the commission of such breach shall be severally answerable for such breach, and shall be deemed guilty of the same.
Council Chamber, Hongkong, 14th September, 1883.
J. H. STEWART-LOCKHART, Acting Clerk of Councils.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 305.
The following letter is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th September, 1883.
No. 177.
J. H. STEWART-LOCKHART, for the Colonial Secretary.
BRITISH CONSULATE, BATAVIA, 1st September, 1883. SIR,I have the honour to hand you enclosed a copy of my telegram of 30th ultimo, reporting the recent volcanic outbreak on the island of Krakatau, Sunda Straits.
From reports that are now to hand it appears that the passage between the islands of Krakatau and Sibesie, which is the channel usually traversed by steamers passing through the Straits, is now closed for navigation, a reef having been formed between the two islands.
Dwars in den Weg (Athwart the Way) island is said to have split into five pieces, while Poeloe Temposa and other small islands have totally disappeared, and several new ones have been formed.
These reports still require verification, and a Government surveying vessel has already started to make a new survey of the Straits and define the supposed changes in their conformation.
With a view to warn vessels passing through the Straits to proceed with caution, one man-of-war has been stationed by the Dutch Admiral at the Northern and another at the Southern entrance of the Straits.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
A. P. CAMERON,
H. B. M. Consul
His Excellency
THE GOVERNOR of Hongkong,
HONGKONG.
GOVERNOR,
Copy of telegram despatched to His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong by the British Consul, Batavia.
HONGKONG.
30th August, 1883, 10.10 A.M.
In consequence volcanic action configuration Sunda Straits and southern entrance thereto changed some islands disappeared upheavals suspected Anjer with lighthouse destroyed probably other light- houses in neighbourhood damaged survey proceeding recommend mariners exercise extreme caution please inform admiral also treaty ports and Japan Manila.
CAMERON, Consul