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No. 43.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH FEBRUARY, 1881.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
HONGKONG CIVIL SERVICE.
1
號 三 十四 第報憲
文港 香
員文
漢 曉
通
Knowledge of the Chinese language.
With reference to applications for increase of
salary or for promotion, the following documents.
are published for general information.
By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART,
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Hongkong, 4th February, 1881.
Extract from Despatch No. 8 of 28th April, 1855, from the Right Honourable Sir George Grey,
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, to Governor Sir John Bowring.
"I consider the knowledge of the Chinese language as essential generally for the Civil Service at Hongkong, and have to lay it down for your guidance as a rule, subject only to such very special exceptions as you may deem neces- sary, that no application for increase of salary in
that Service is to be made for any person who has not learnt Chinese.'
"
斷
不何事 得缺
禀
求未須
增學遵
俸漢此欵
No. 4.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
爲示知禀求陞補
署輔政使司史
增俸事照得現奉
載一節抄錄於後
藩政大臣祁寄
四月二十八日 香港總督包客文第八號内
茲將一千八百五十五年
八八
日百
+
憲報第四號
藩政大臣咨着念 督憲曉驗事照得現在承准 香港輔政使司馬沙 爲奉
督憲札餘將以下
乃
大香
按載
本
朝廷以爲香港官員學習漢人言語是爲最
公文抄印俾衆週
本大臣要立定章請 乃香港各文自所必需者故 按本大臣意以爲通曉漢文
知
外所有平常事欸必須遵此 貴部堂除見以爲要欸特欸
缺藩
一千八百八十」
要之至意並奉
國家准苴所求爲此特示俾衆週知 千八百五十五
缺如識漢文者則當保舉致 藩政大臣着諭港衆凡有官員禀求陞
初 二
年二月初四日示
初五
His Excellency the Governor has received a Despatch from the Principal Secretary of State
七千
月八
for the Colonies, calling his attention to the great importance which Her Majesty's Government attaches to the acquirement of the Chinese lan- by all Functionaries in the Public Service guage in this Colony; and His Excellency is instructed to state, that in claims for promotion a knowledge of Chinese will be considered as a recommenda- tion to the favourable consideration of the Au- thorities.
By order,
(Signed) W. T. MERCER,
Hongkong, 2nd July, 1855.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
No. 44.
Colonial Secretary. 日五
示年
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Subject to the approval of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following provisional appointments, from the
1st instant :-
Mr. ARATHOON SETH, late First Clerk, Magistracy, to be First Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office; and, during Mr. WODEHOUSE's absence, to be Acting Chief Clerk and Clerk of Councils, vice J. M. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, deceased.
Mr. JAMES PARKER, late Second Clerk, Magistracy, to be First Clerk, Magistracy, vice Mr. SETH,
promoted.
Mr. LI HoNG-MI, late Third Clerk, Magistracy, to be Second Clerk, Magistracy, vice Mr. PARKER,
promoted.
Mr. NG KWAI-SHANG, late 4th Clerk, Magistracy, and Temporary Clerk, Colonial Secretary's
Office, to be Third Clerk, Magistracy, vice Mr. LI-HONG-MI, promoted.
Mr. Louis G. D'ALMADA E CASTRo to be Temporary Clerk, Colonial Secretary's Office, vice Mr.
NG KWAI-SHANG, promoted.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th February, 1881.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary,