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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH APRIL, 1870.
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Fourth-The Master was in charge of the Watch during which the Vessel was lost, and that he was asleep, and did not exert himself to ascertain whether a dark looking place, which was reported to him half an hour before she struck, as being ahead, was land or not.
The Court, therefore, adjudges that the Certificate of Competency No. 16,040 held by GEORGE EDWARD ADAMS, late Master of the Renown, be suspended for six months. The Court cannot separate without expressing its opinion that it would be wiser if those connected with Insurance Companies discountenanced insuring Cargoes or Vessels circumstanced as the Renown was as to her Officers.
Given under our Hands at Hongkong, this 21st day of April, 1870.
Approved,
C. MAY, 1st Police Magistrate.
H. G. THOMSETT, R.N., Harbor Master, &c. T. G. LINSTEAD, Justice of the Peace.
H. W. WHITFeild,
W. M. GILLSON, Masters Mercantile Marine.
E. G. STEAD,
Major-General and Lieutenant-Governor.
Hongkong, 23rd April, 1870.
No. 48.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Under Instructions from the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Howing Copy of an Advertisement of the Indian Government, offering prizes for the best machine and the best process for the preparation of the Fibre derived from the Rheca or China Grass,-is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th April, 1870.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
RHLEA OR CHINA GRASS FIBRE.
India Office, Revenue Department, February 10th, 1870.
The Secretary of State for Inilia in Council has been requested by His Excellency the Governor General of India in Council to give publicity to the following Notification which he has issued in India.
HERMAN MERIVALE.
No. 145.
FORT WILLIAM. HOME DEPARTMENT.
Public. January 11th, 1870.
NOTIFICATION.
The Governor General in Council is pleased to direct the publication of the following Advertisement :---
Advertisement.
1. The Government of India, after communication with various Agricultural and Horticultural Societies in India, and persons interested in the subject, has arrived at the conclusion that the only real obstacle to the development of an ensive trade in the fibre of Rheen, or China-grass, is the want of suitable machinery for separating the fibre and bark from
*tem, and the fibre from the bark, the cost of effecting such separation by manual labour being great.
The demand for the fibre is now large, and no doubt might be extended with reduced prices, and there is a practically samited extent of country in India where the plant could be grown.
The
3. The requirements of the case appear to be some machinery or process capable of producing, with the aid of animal, or steam power, a ton of fibre of a quality which shall average in value not less than 501. per ton in the English market,
cost, all processes of manufacture and allowance for wear and tear included, of not more than 157. per ton. esses are to be understood to include all the operations performed, after the cutting and transport of the plant to the of manufacture, to the completion of the manufacture of fibre of the quality above described. The machinery must be strong, durable, and cheap; and should be suited for erection at, or near, the plantations, as the refuse is very useful *ture for continued cultivation.
To stimulate the invention, or adaptation, of such machinery or process, the Government of India hereby offers a of 5,0007. for the machine and process, that best fulfils all the requirements named above.
5. Rewards of moderate amount will be given for really meritorious inventions, even though failing to meet entirely all
the conditions named.
6 Arrangements will be made by the Government of India for the supply of carefully dried stems, and specimens of parated from the bark, but subjected to no other process, to mechanical firms and others desirous of competing, on ucation to the Secretary to the Government of India in the Home Department.