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No. 99.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST APRIL, 1877.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Report from CHARLES MAY, Esquire, Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, for the quarter ending 31st March, 1877, is published for general information.
By Command,
H. E. WODEHOUSE, Acting Colonial Secretary.
FIRE BRIGADE DEPARTMENT,
HONGKONG, 17th April, 1877.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th April, 1877.
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SIR,-I have the honour to forward to you, for the information of His Excellency the Administrator, the Fire Brigade Report for the Quarter ending 31st March, 1877.
The regular Inspections and Parades were held on the 29th January, 3rd March, and 3rd April, at which were present the Government Steam and Manual Engines, and the Manual Engines of the Chinese Associations. They were examined and worked, and all found in order.
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The Fire Ladders, Extincteurs, Implements, Hose, general Equipment were also examined, and found to be clean and correct.
The Engineer made monthly reports of the state of the Engines.
A fire occurred on the 5th March last, in some huts at Garden Lane, West Point, which was duly reported.
The Manual Engines at Sháu-ki Wán, Yau-ma-ti, and Aberdeen have been examined, and found in order.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
The Honourable II. E. WODEHOUSE,
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Acting Coloinal Secretary.
Your most obedient Servant,
C. MAY,
Superintendent, Fire Brigade,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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The following Consular Notification declaring the Port of Pakhoi open to British Trade, together with the of the official authorization from Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in l'eking therein
copy referred to, is published for general information.
By Command,
II. E. WODEHOUSE, Acting Colonial Secretary,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th April, 1877.
CONSULAR NOTIFICATION.
The undersigned hereby notifies that he has been appointed to act temporarily as Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at this Port as by the terms of the annexed authorization from Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in China.
Ports.
The Port of Pakhoi is accordingly declared open to British Trade.
Customs business will be conducted under Regulations similar to those in force at other Treaty
Pakhoi, 7th April, 1877.
ALEX. S. HARVEY, Acting Consul.
Whereas the Port of Pakhoi, in the Province of Kwangtung, will be opened to foreign Trade upon the 1st of April, next, and whereas it is necessary to appoint a person to act temporarily as Her BritannuaMajesty's Consul at the said Port from and after the above date, the undersigned, by virtue of the atty vested in him as Her Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in China, hereby approves Mr. ALEXA ER S. HARVEY, to act as Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at the said Port, and authorizes him within the same to hold and form a Court, and to exercise all the power and authority which a person so acting temporarily may exercise under the 25th section of the China and Japan Order in Council, 1865.
Her Britanic Majesty's Legation, Peking, 7th March, 1877.
(Signed,)
HUGH FRASER.
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