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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
No. 53.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 24TH DECEMBER, 1870.
VOL. XVI.
No. 167.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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 direct that the Holidays customary at the approaching Season shall be kept from Thursday, the 22nd, to Saturday, the 24th instant, both days inclusive.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th December, 1870.
No. 168.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
With reference to Government Notification No. 160 of the 9th instant, it is hereby made known that the QUEEN's Exequatur empowering DAVID H. BAILEY, Esquire, to act as Consul at Hongkong for the United States of America received Her Majesty's Signature on the 21st of October, 1870.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th December, 1870.
No. 169.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
An Index to the Government Gazette for 1870 will be published for binding with the Volume, with the first issue in 1871.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th December, 1870.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
No. 170.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following NOTICES, received from the Admiralty, are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th December, 1870.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
[The information contained in this notice is to be carefully considered, to be noted in the Sailing Directions, and compared with the chart when the ship
is navigating the parts to which it refers.]
HYDROGRAPHIC NOTICE. No. 29.
CHINA SEA DIRECTORY, VOL. 1.
Notice No. 7. Carimata Strait.
The following report of shoal water in the northern part of Carimata strait has been received from Commander Charles C. Rising, of II.M.S. "Midge.*
* See Admiralty Charts:-Carimata strait, No. 2160; Eastern Archipelago, No. 941a; Indian Ocean, Nos. 748 h and 2483; China Sea, No. 2660 a: also China Sea Directory, Vol. I., page 163.