THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD JUNE, 1877.
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1. The provisions of Article 25 of The China and Japan Order in Council, 1865, and all provisions. of that Order consequent thereon or relative thereto, shall extend and apply to every person (not holding a Consular Commission from Her Majesty) from me to time appointed by Her Majesty's Minister in China or Japan to be Acting Consul, and to be resident at a port in China or Japan, which is for the time being open to foreign trade, and at which no Commissioned Consular Officer of Her Majesty is resident.
2. For the purposes and within the meaning of the said Order, every person so appointed as an Acting Consul shall be deemed a Consular Officer, and the district for which he is appointed to act shall be deemed a Consular District, and the Court held by him shall be deemed a Provincial Court.
3. Words in this Order have the same meaning as in the said Order.
C. L. PEEL.
No. 146.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
A Competitive Examination for a vacant Clerkship in the Police Magistrates' Office, will be held at 11 A.M. on Tuesday, the 10th July, at the Justices' Room, Magistracy.
Any young man in the Colony can compete for this appointment. Each Candidate must satisfy the Board of Examiners:-
1st. That he is within the prescribed limits of age;
2nd. That he is free from any physical defect or disease which would be likely to interfere
with the proper discharge of his duties;
3rd. That his character is such as to qualify him for public employment; and
4th. That he possesses the requisite knowledge and ability to enter on the discharge of his
official duties.
The Salary of the vacant post is Eighty Dollars a month.
Candidates should send in their names, with any Certificates or Testimonials they may possess, to C. MAY, Esquire, 1st Police Magistrate, before Noon on Monday, the 9th July.
The limits of age for this appointment are 16 to 28.
The following Gentlemen have consented to act as a Board of Examiners on this occasion:---
The Right Reverend Bishop Burdon.
C. MAY, Esquire, 1st Police Magistrate.
NG ACHOY, Esquire, Barrister-at-Law.
For the existing vacancy, the examination will mainly consist of translations, oral and written, from Chinese into English, and English into Chinese. The Examiners will also set papers to test the Candidates' general knowledge and their capacity for official work.
The Examiners will lay before the Governor the names of the three Candidates whom they may determine to be the best, and from those three the Governor will select the person to be appointed.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th June, 1877.
No. 147.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
J. Gardiner AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary,
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to recognize provisionally and until further notice WILLIAM REIMERS, Esquire, as in charge of the Consulate-General of Austria-Hungary, during the absence of ADOLF ANDRÉ, Esquire.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th June, 1877.
NOTICE.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Notice is hereby given, that the Crown Rents for the half-year ending 24th June, 1877, should be paid into the Treasury on or before the 16th July, 1877.
CECIL C. SMITH,
Colonial Treasury, Hongkong, 19th June, 1877.
Colonial Treasurer,