AMA
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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 19TH MARCH, 1870.
VOL. XVI.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
following Despatch from The Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, is- al for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th March, 1870.
Long.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
DOWNING STREET, 15th January, 1870.
I transmit to you. for your information Copies of a Correspondence which has passed this Department and the Post Office, on the subject of the Contract Mail Packets leaving late Ports of call before the time set down in the Time Tables.
om this correspondence you will learn that in the case of intermediate Ports the dates specified Tables must not be considered as absolute, but simply as approximate dates; and that the As will not be precluded from leaving the Island, if they can, before the dates set down.
I have to instruct you to take such steps as will put an end to any misapprehension which may
n this subject.--Ï have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant,
SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B.,
&c.,
&c., HONGKONG.
&c.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
GRANVILLE.
The following Annual Report of the Honorable the Registrar General for the Year 1869, is
ed for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th March, 1870.
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J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, Sth March, 1870.
I have the honour to transinit herewith the Blue Book Returns for last year which are ted with this Department.
to my having so lately resumed the duties of my post, I am unable to furnish a general the doings of the past year, and will, therefore, only refer to one or two subjects, connected Chinese Community, which are niatters of interest and worthy of note.
haps the most important point to which I should call attention is the manifest desire shown by substantial and intelligent members of the Native Community to take a part in public matters roader some assistance to the Government in Chinese affairs.
This feeling took an active form, when in 1867, the inhabitants of the several Districts of this Hag on the provisions of certain Sections in the Registration Ordinance, recommended a body District Watchmen to be paid for by themselves, whose duties should be connected with the portion of the City.