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JULY

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 23, 1909.

No. 463.

NOTICES TO MARINERS.

509

(Bombay Harbour Approach.)

PILOT Schooner lies sunk about S. W. & W. of Light Vessel, about 35 miles distant— Masts visible at Low Water.

The Pilot service will be maintained until further notice at the Middle Station, ¿.e., about 1 mile S. E. of the Sunk Rock Light House.

T. L. DE BERRY,

Commander, R.I.M., Offg. Port Officer, Bombay.

PORT OFFICE,

BOMBAY, 2nd July, 1909.

HARBOUR NOTIFICATION.

No. 1 of 1909.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Superintendent of Customs and the Consular Body have declared the ports of Canton, Hongkong, and Amoy to be infected.

All vessels arriving from these places on or after this date will abide by and be gov- erned by the Revised Sanitary Regulations for the Port of Chefoo of 1908.

Approved:

F. S. UNWIN,

Commissioner of Customs.

CUSTOM HOUSE, CHEFOO, 10th July, 1909.

No. 401.

C. A. MEYER,

Harbour Master.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

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HONGKONG OPIUM FARM.

Notice is hereby given that Sealed Tenders will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, till Noon on Tuesday, the 31st day of August, 1909, for the purchase of the privileges known as the Opium Farm established under "The Prepared Opium Ordinances, 1891-1909", that is to say, the sole privilege of preparing Opium and of Selling, within the Colony, (including the New Territories), Opium so prepared, inclusive of the privilege of collecting dross and of preparing and dealing in Dross Opium, for three years from the 1st of March, 1910.

Full information as to conditions of tendering, etc., can be obtained from the Colonial Treasurer, and the conditions of tendering and form of grant have been published in Govern- ment Gazette as Notification No. 401 of the 2nd July, 1909.

2nd July, 1909.

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A. M. THOMSON,

Colonial Secretary.