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three and a-half hours by steam launch. In winter snipe are plentiful in the neighbouring paddy fields 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 403 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, 63,532; Portuguese, 4,476; other nationalities, 78; or a total of 68,086.

Colonial Government.

署督門澳

DIRECTORY.

Ou-mun-toc-ch'ü.

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

Acting Secretary General and Secretary of

Legation-Antonio Maria Cardoso Aide-de-camp to . E. the Governor-Igna-

B. cio C. da Costa Pessoa

Adjutant to II. E. the Governor—Ensign

A. A. de Souza Caldas

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE. 署司政輔 Fu--cheng-sz'-shü.

Acting Colonial Secretary-General-A. M.

Cardoso

Civil Department.

ER Man-mu-fóng.

Chief Clerk-Tercio da Silva

1st Clerk-F. F. Leitao

2nd do.-J. J. dos P. Carvalho Messenger-J. P. Monteiro

Military Department.

Kuan-mu-fóng.

Major-A. M. R. da Fonseca

Clerk-S. J. d'Encarnacao

Temporary Clerk-P. A. Pereira

COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT.

LỄ Chung-toc đúng-hui.

President-The Governor Secretary-A. M. Cardoso Members-The Bishop, the Judge, the Commandant of Police Guard, the Commandant of Forts, the Attorney- General, the Chief clerk of the Exche- quer, the President of the Municipal Chamber, the Colonial Surgeon

COUNCIL OF THE PROVINCE.

Ou-mun kúng-hui. President―The Governor

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Members-The Colonial Secretary, the At- torney-General, A. J. da Fonseca, M. A, dos Remedios

COUNCIL OF PUBLIC WORKs. AI Kung-cheng kúng-hui. President-The Governor T. de S. Roza. Members-The Director of Public Works, the Secretary of the Exchequer, the Attorney-General, I. A. I. Pereira

Secretary—B. de F. P. d'O. Salema

BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 會公學義

TA Ngui-hoc kúng-hui.

President-The Governor T. de S. Roza

Vice-President-The Bishop

Members-J. A. R. Cabral, L. Pereira

Leite, Dr. B. M. das N. A. Roza

SUPREME COURT,

Military Section.

TAX Man-hin kúng-hui.

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.

At Mou-hin kung-hui, President The Governor T. de S. Roza Members-The Judge, the two elective members of the Provincial Council, the President of the Municipal Chamber, the Procurador dos Negocios Sinicos

REVENUE DEPARTMENT.

Ôn thi là King-mat-hui.

Committee.

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