UI-MAL
ROIT.
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
No. 51.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 10TH DECEMBER, 1870.
VOL. XVI.
No. 158.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Under Instructions from The Right Honorable The EARL OF KIMBERLEY, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, His Excellency Major-General WHITFEILD, Commanding Her Majesty's Troops in China and Japan, and Lieutenant-Governor of Hongkong and its Dependencies, is pleased to recognize HIPPOLYTE NICAISE, Esquire, as Belgian Vice-Consul at Hongkong.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th December, 1870.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
No. 159.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notice to Mariners, received from the Superintendent of Light Houses, Rangoon, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th December, 1870.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
J. CARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
On or about the 1st March 1871, the character of the light now exhibited on the Great Savage island light house off the entrance of the Port of Akyab will be changed from a fixed catoptric light to a Revolving dioptric light of the 3rd Order, which will attain its greatest brilliancy once a minute.
A further notice will be issued when the precise date on which the new light will be exhibited is known.
Rangoon, 19th September, 1870.
W. P. ARNOT,
Superintendent of Light Houses, B. B.
No. 160.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified that His Excellency Major-General WHITFEILD, Commanding Her Majesty's Troops in China and Japan, and Lieutenant-Governor, of Hongkong and its Dependencies, has been pleased to recognize DAVID H. BAILEY, Esquire, provisionally in the capacity of United States' Commercial Agent at this Port, pending the arrival of Her Majesty's Exequatur confirming him in the appointment of United States' Consul, in succession to Lieutenant-Colonel GOULDING, who is about to return to America.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th December, 1870.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.