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MACAO

Portuguese Poet Camoens, are worth seeing, as also the noble facade of the ancient Jesuit church of San Paulo, burnt in 1835. Pleasant excursions can be made to the Hot Springs of Yo-mak, about sixteen miles from Macao, easily reached in about three and a-half hs by steam launch. In winter snipe are plentiful in the neighbouring paddy helds and afford good sport.

The Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Company runs a daily steamer (Sundays excepted) between Macao and Hongkong, leaving the former port at 8 o'clock a.m. and Hongkong at 2 p.m. To Canton there is a steamer on every alternate day, Sundays excepted. The distance from Macao to Hongkong is 40) miles, and to Canton 88 miles. Macao is now connected with Hongkong by telegraph, the cable being opened for traffic on the 9th July, 1884. The population of Macao, according to returns made in 1879, was--Chinese, 63,2; Portuguese, 4,476; other nationalities, 78; or a total of 68,086.

Colonial Government.

DIRECTORY.

Plenipotentiary in China, Japan, and Siam, and Governor of the Province-His Excel- lency Thomas de Souza Roza Secretary General and Secretary of Lega-

tion-Dr. M. P. de Sande e Castro Aide-de-camp to B. E. the Governor-Igna

cio C. da Coala Pessoa

Adjutant to H. E. the Governor—Ensign

A. V. Scarnichia

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE. Colonial Secretary-General-M. P. de Sande

e Castro

Chief Clerk-Tercio da Silva let Clerk F. F. Leitao

Acting 2nd do.-J. J. dos P. Carvalho Cadel-F. X. Gutierrez Messenger-J. P. Monteiro

MILITARY DEPARTMENT. Major A. M. R da Fonseca Clerk-S. J. d'Encarnaçao Temporary Clerk-P. A. Pereira Cadet―J. M. T. B. Gutierrez

COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT. President The Governor Secretary M. P. de Sande e Castro Members-The Judge, the Commandant

of Policial Guard, the Commandant of i Forts, the Attorney-General, the Chief i clerk of the Exchequer, the President of the Municipal Chamber, the Colo. nial Surgeon

COUNCIL OF THE PROVINCE, President-The Governor

Members-The Colonial Secretary, the At-

torney-General, and two citizens

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MUNICIPAL CHAMBER. Members-F. A. da Cruz, L. J. Pereira, L. J. Baptist, V. S. Pereira, J. E. d'Almeida, V. J. Grucias Secretary-S. A. Tavares Treasurer F. P. Marques Clerks-T. M. Marques, F. Victal Messenger-Luiz Maria do Rozario

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. Members A. M. da Roza, F. P. de Noro- nha, F. de P. Cortells, F. A. Volong

ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL.

Administrator-L. Ferreira Substitute-A. A. Pacheco lat clerk-E. Vianna

2nd do.-M. P. Simoës

Bailif-S. Rodrigues

SUPREME COURT. MILITARY SECTION.

President The Governor T. de S. Roza Members The Judge, the Commandant Policial Guard, the Commandant of the Line Regiment, the Senior Naval Officer, the Second Naval Officer.

CIVIL SECTION. President-The Governor T. de S. Roza

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bera-The Judge, the two elective cubers of the Provincial Council, the I'resident of the Municipal Chamber, the Procurador dos Negocios Sinicos

REVENUE DEPARTMENT.

Committee.

President-The Governor T. de S. Roza Members-The chief clerk of the Exche- quer, the Treasurer, the Attorney- General