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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 16, 1912. 161

No. 79.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

Regulation made by the Governor-in-Cou cil under Section 6 of The Theatres and Public Performances Regulation Ordinance. 1908, (Ordinance No. 18 of 1908), as amended by the Theatres and Public Performances Regulation Amendment Ordinance, 1910, (Ordinance No. 17 of 1910), on the 12th day of March, 1912.

The fee payable in respect of the licence for the public performance of stage plays in the Buildings of the Hongkong University shall be $1 per annum and not $120 as provided by the Table of Fees published in the sette on the 20th August, 1909, and on page 580 of the Regulations of Hongkong, 1910.

No. 80.

Order made by the Governor-in-Council under Section 9 of the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908, (Ordinance No. 12 of 1908), as amended by the Pharmacy Amendment Ordinance, 1910, (Ordinance No. 9 of 1910), this 12th day of March, 1912.

The following is hereby declared to be a poison within the meaning of the above Ordi- nance and is added to Part 1 of Schedule A thereto :-

Japanese Star-Anise Fruits-Illicium religiosum (Siebold).

12th March, 1912.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils.

No. 81. It is hereby notified that, His Excellency Sir FREDERICK JOHN DEALTRY LUGARD, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Companion of the Distin- guished Service Order, having left the Colony this day, the prescribed Oaths of Office were administered by His Honour the Chief Justice in the presence of the Executive Council to the Honourable Mr. CLAUD SEVERN, Colonial Secretary of the Colony, and that Mr. CLAUD SEVERN thereupon assumed the Administration of the Government in virtue of His Majesty's Commission given at the Court at St. James's on the fourteenth day of October, 1903,

R. H. CROFTON,

Clerk of Councils.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

16th March, 1912.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. 82.-It is hereby notified that Sub-section 3 of Section 8 of the Holidays Ordi- nance, 1912, (Ordinance No. 5 of 1912), as passed by the Legislative Council on the 7th instant and assented to by His Excellency the Governor on the 8th instant reads as follows and not as published on page 149 of the Government Gazette of the 8th instant:——

(3.) The Supreme Court (Vacations) Ordinance, 1898, is hereby amended as follows:-

(a.) by the repeal of section 2 thereof and by the substitution

therefor of the following section:--

"2. In this Ordinance:-

'Publie Holiday' and 'General Holiday' have the meanings respectively assigned to such expressious by the Holidays Ordinance, 1912.”

(2.) in section 4 (1) by the insertion at the end thereof of the

following proviso :—

“Provided that, if the Chinese hereafter adopt the Gre- gorian Calendar, the Chinese New Year vacation shall be abolished and the Christmas vacation shall be extended and terminate on the third week-day in January."

(c.) in section 5 and also in section 10 thereof by the insertion in each case of the words "General Holidays and" after the words "except on”,

Definition.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils.