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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
No. 35.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 4TH AUGUST, 1877.
VOL. XXIII.
No. 166.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Letter from the Board of Trade containing the Instructions issued to Pilots in rege to the existing state of war between Russia and Turkey, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th August, 1877.
(COPY.) Immediate.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
SIR,
BOARD OF TRADE
(HARBOUR DEPARTME ),
WHITEHALL GARDENS, S.W., 24th May, 1877.
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I AM directed by the Board of Trade to acquaint you for the information of the Pilotage authority, that Her Majesty's Government, having regard to the existing state of war between Russia and Turkey, are of opinion that the following instructions should be at once issued to the Pilots in your district:-
British Pilots are not to pilot Ships of War for either Belligerent, cept in British Waters, within three miles of the shore, or to do more than pilot such ships into or out of British ports or roadsteads when they are not at the time engaged in any hostile operations, but Ships of War in distres may always be piloted out of immediate danger, other than the danger of immediate or immi- nent capture."
I am accordingly to request that you will immediately take the necessary steps for making these Instructions known to the Pilots.
The Clerk to the
Pilotage Authority of
No. 167.
I am, &c.,
(Signed)
EDWARD STANHOPE,
Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies has been pleased to confirm the appointment of C. F. A. Sangster, Esquire, to be Acting Sheriff, in the absence of Mr. TONNOCHY.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th August, 1877.
No. 168.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
It is hereby notified, that the QUEEN's Exequatur, empowering Baron VoN SODEN to be Consul for His Imperial Germanic Majesty at this Port, received Her Majesty's Signature on the 13th June, 1877.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th August, 1877.
CECIL C. SMI H, Acting Colonial Secretary.