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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 20, 1914.

APPOINTMENTS, &c.

No. 51.-His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. JAMES FRANCIS WRIGHT to be a Visiting Justice to the Po Leung Kok vice the late Mr. BERNARD BROTHERTON HARKER.

17th February, 1914.

No. 52. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased, under instructions from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to provisionally appoint Mr. DONALD BURLINGHAM to be Assistant Superintendent of Police for the New Territories, with effect from the 1st February, 1914.

16th February, 1914.

NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEpartment.

No. 53. It is hereby notified that, on the coming into operation of the Foreign Silver and Nickel Coin Ordinance, 1913, on the 1st March, 1914, the Governor-in-Council proposes to suspend until further order throughout the Colony the provisions of Sections 4 and 6 of that Ordinance, under the powers conferred upon him by the Foreign Silver and Nickel Coin (Amendment) Ordinance, 1914.

20th February, 1914.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

POLICE DEPARTMENT.

No. 54.-Owners of dogs in Kowloon and New, Kowloon are hereby warned that Rabies having made its appearance in Kowloon any dog which shall be found straying or wandering about during the daytime without any owner and not wearing a collar with the licence number attached thereto may forthwith be destroyed and further that any dog may be destroyed which shall be found straying or wandering about between the hours of 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. (Ordinance No. 1 of 1845 § 17.)

Owners of dogs are hereby reminded of the provisions of Sub-section (2) of Section 16 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1845, which is as follows:-

"(2.) The Owner of any such dog or animal who permits the same to go at large, after having information or reasonable ground for believing it to be in a rabid state, or to have been bitten by a dog or other animal in a rabid state, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars."

C. McI. MESSER, Captain Superintendent of Police.

20th February, 1914.

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