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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 19TH MARCH, 1870.
VOL. XVI.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Despatch from The Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, is
for general information.
By Command,
donial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th March, 1870.
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 liate 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 te 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.
aye to instruct you to take such steps as will put an end to any misapprehension which may n this subject.--I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant,
SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B.,
&c., HONGKONG.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
GRANVILLE.
The following Annual Report of the Honorable the Registrar General for the Year 1869, is
and for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th March, 1870.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 8th 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 matters of interest and worthy of note.
laps the most important point to which I should call attention is the manifest desire shown by e substantial and intelligent members of the Native Community to take a part in public matters render some assistance to the Government in Chinese affairs.
Els feeling took an active form, when in 1867, the inhabitants of the several Districts of this g on the provisions of certain Sections in the Registration Ordinance, recommended a body 5 District Watelinen to be paid for by themselves, whose duties should be connected with the
portion of the City.
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