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1644 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPT. 21, 1906.

From

DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

No. 796.

SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES,

I am commanded by His Majesty the KING to express the deep regret with which His Majesty has learnt of the great calamity which has befallen the Colony of Hongkong. He is grieved to read of the immense loss of life among the Chinese population which your telegram records and I am to convey through you an expression of his sympathy with the immediate sufferers and with the whole community.

To

GOVERNOR, HONGKONG,

20th September, 1906.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

ELGIN.

No. 797.

RESOLUTION.

Resolved by His Excellency the Governor-in-Council this day, under Section 2 of the Water-works Ordinance, 1903, (No. 16 of 1903), that the district described below be defined as a district within which the water supply is to be controlled by means of rider mains and that the said district be known as "Rider Main District No. 7.”

RIDER MAIN DISTRICT No. 7.

This district is bounded as follows:-

By a line commencing at the junction of Cadogan Street and New Praya and proceeding thence along New Praya to its junction with Sands Street; thence along Sands Street to a point opposite the southern boundary of Inland Lot 953; thence along the southern boundaries of Inland Lots Nos. 953 & 954 until it intersects the centre line of Smithfield; thence along Smithfield to its junction with Forbes Street; thence along Forbes Street to its junction with Cadogan Street; thence along Cadogan Street to its point of commencement. The line follows in all cases the centre lines of the thoroughfares named.

A. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Councils.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

20th September, 1906