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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH AUGUST, 1877.
hundred and twenty in number: And that the Third Class or Companions shall not exceed two hundred in number: It being competent to Her Majesty, Her Heirs, and Successors, to appoint any Princes of the Blood Royal, being decendants of Ilis late Majesty King George the First, as Extra Knights Grand Cross; and such Members of the Royal Family as have already been appointed Knights Grand Cross shall be considered, and are declared, to be Extra Knights Grand Cross of the said Most Distinguished Order.
And to ordain that the Honorary Members of the said Most Distinguished Order shall consist of Foreign Princes and persons upon whom Her Majesty has conferred, or Her Majesty, Her Heirs, and Successors, may think fit to confer the honour of being admitted into the said Most Distinguished Order; and every such Honorary Member shall be additional and not included within the numbers of Ordinary Members prescribed for the several Classes.
And to ordain that the persons to be admitted as Ordinary Members of the said Most Distinguished Order shall be such subjects of Iler Majesty, whether natural born or naturalized in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in any Her Majesty's Colonies or Dependencies as may have held or shall hereafter hold high and confide..tial offices, or may have rendered or shall hereafter render extraordinary and important services to Her Majesty as Sovereign of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, within or in relation to any of Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions, or who may become eminently distinguished therein by their talents, merits, virtues, loyalty, or services, or who now are or hereafter may be appointed Officers of the said Most Distinguished Order.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to ordain that the following Officers shall, as formerly, be appointed to the said Most Distinguished Order, namely:-a Prelate, a Chancellor, a Secretary, a King of Arins, a Registrar, and Officers of Arms Attendant upon the Order.
The Queen in order to mark the high sense and esteem to which Her Majesty holds the said Order, and to give an additional proof of Her affectionate regard for Field-Marshall His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, K.G., has been pleased to nominate and appoint His Royal Highness to be an Extra Member of the First Class, or Knights Grand Cross of the said Most Distin- guished Order.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to re-appoint Field-Marshall His Royal Highness George William Frederick Charles, Duke of Cambridge, K.G., G.C.M.G., Commanding-in-Chief the Forces, to be Grand Master and First or Principal Knight Grand Cross of the said Most Distinguished Order.
Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint the following Officers to the said Most Distin- guished Order:
The Right Reverend Father in God George Augustus, Doctor of Divinity, Bishop of Lic hfield, and
formerly Bishop Metropolitan of the Colony of New Zealand to be the Prelate of the said Order. Charles Cox, Esq., Chief Clerk in the Colonial Department, and up to the present time Secretary and
Registrar of the said Order, to be the Chancellor of the said Order.
Robert George Wyndham Herbert, Esq., Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Colonies, to be
the Secretary of the said Order.
The Honourable Robert Henry Meade, Assistant Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, to be the
Registrar of the said Order.
No. 181.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies has been pleased to confirm the following appointments, namely:-
Post Office Department.
Mr. DANIEL A. DA COSTA to be second Marine Sorter, vice BARRADAS, deceased.
Mr. A. J. RODRIGUES,)
Mr. Z. M. BARRADAS, to be Sorters.
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Mr. A. M. DA Silva,
Harbour Master's Department.
Mr. M. CHAGAS to be 2nd Assistant Inspector of Junks.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th August, 1877.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.