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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPT. 14, 1906.
No. 795.
NOTICES TO MARINERS.
THE following information has been received from the Master of the British S.S. "Shantung“.
"Whilst on a voyage from Callao, Peru, to Sourabaya, Java, on the 6th August at 2.50 p.m. passed directly over the charted position of Matador Island (1° 30′ N. 157° 00′ E. Admiralty Chart No. 781), but saw no indication of its existence, or of any discoloured water.
When passing Maraki Island Gilbert Group by observations obtained, the chronometers were found correct."
L. BARNES-LAWRENCE, Captain, R.N., Harbour Master, &c.
HONGKONG, 11th September, 1906.
HARBOUR NOTIFICATION,
No. 3 of 1906.
REFERRING to Harbour Notification No. 1 of 1906. Notice is hereby given that the Superintendent of Customs, and the Consular Body have agreed that the Quarantine Regulations against vessels a riving from Hongkong may now be suspended.
Approved:
SMOLLETT CAMPBELL,
Commissioner of Customs.
CUSTOM HOUSE, CHEFOO, 4th September, 1996.
C. A. MEYER,
Harbour Master.
LAND REGISTRY OFFICE.
No. 703.-Terms of proposed Lease of Foreshores and Sea Bed, situate at Sha Tau Kok, New Territories.
Notice is hereby given under Section 3 of the Foreshores and Sea Bed Ordinance, 1901, that it is proposed by His Excellency the Governor to grant under the said Ordinance a Lease or Leases of the Foreshores and Sea Bed or land covered by the Sea situate at Sha Tau Kok, in the New Territories, in the Colony of Hongkong, the particulars and areas whereof are specified in the schedule hereto, and the limits and boundaries whereof are shewn on a plan which is deposited and may be seen at the District Land Office, Tai-po, such lease to be granted for the term of 75 years from the 1st day of July, 1898, with the option of renewal by the Lessees for the further term of 24 years less the last 3 days thereof at a re-assessed Crown Rent. The lease to be in the usual form of Lease of Agricultural Lands in the New Territories and to contain a special covenant that the said premises are to be used solely for the purposes of Agriculture.
SCHEDULE.
No.
Proposed Registry No.
Area in Acres.
Upset Price.
Annual Crown Rent.
Survey District 40, Lot No. 871.
20.00
$100
(more or less).
At the rate of $1 per acre or fraction of an acre for the first five years of the said term of 75 years, and during the remainder of the said term at such rate as shall be fixed by His Majesty's Sur- veyor as the proper rental value of the land at the expiration of the said five
years.
NOTICE.
And notice is hereby given that all persons having objections to the granting of such Lease must send their objections in writing to the Colonial Secretary before the 18th day of September, 1906, in order that the same may be duly considered by His Excellency the Governor-in-Council.
17th August, 1906.
G. H. WAKEMAN,
Land Officer.
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