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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 7TH MAY, 1870.
VOL. XVI.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Despatch from the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Cobai -hed for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th May, 1870.
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J. GARDINER AUSTIN. Colonial Suntinga
DOWNING STREET, 14th M
SIR,I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No Hot d mary, enclosing a pamphlet compiled by the Reverend Mr. BEACH and illustrated by
bing the principal events cornected with the visit to Hongkong of His Royal H
AT OF EDINBURGH.
I have caused Messrs. SMITH ELDER & Co. to be instructed to bind 2 copies of th presentation to the QUEEN and the PRINCE OF WALES, and I shall have much pleasure.
to Her Majesty and His Royal Highness in the name of yourself and of the Reception so energetically laboured to promote the success of the DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S
I shall also forward to the QUEEN a copy of your despatch, and I am sure that it etory to Her Majesty to learn that the entire Community is animated by feelings ment to herself, and that the residents both Foreign and Native were so unanim Son a hearty welcome on the occasion of his visit to Hongkong.-I have the h most obedient, humble Servant,
ernor
SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B.,
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Additional Pension Minute.
Under Instructions from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonia, it i that Pensions will hereafter be granted to Civil Servants of the Government of He nity with the Provisions of the following Rules, which are published for general intu
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th April, 1870.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN. Colonial Secretary,
1. The Pension of every Public Officer, on his ultimate retirement from the Service of any le calculated (if payable at all) upon the whole period of his continuous service in in gents under the Imperial, or under any other Colonial Government.
The Governinent from whose Service he retires, will pay him the rate of Pension due to the of service by the Law or practice of the Colony, subject to a deduction equal to the reting which, on the principle of the Imperial Superannuation Act, (qualified by Section 6), would e to him from the Government by which he was last previously employed, if he had retired from health at the period of his promotion.