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THE HONGKONG

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No. 49.

號九十四第

VICTORIA, FRIDAY, 20TH OCTOBER, 1905.

日二十二月九年巳乙 日十二月十年五零百九千一

VOL. LI.

簿一十五第

CONTENTS.

Notifi

zation

Votin-

Subject Matter.

Pagation

Subject Matter.

Page.

No.

No.

Proclamation No. 5,

1571

708

Notice to mariners,

1578

Legislative Council-Minutes No. 10 of 1905.

1572

695

Ordinance passed and assented to :—*

Railways Loan,

1574

Notifications repeated.

696

Appointment of D. Wood to act as Assessor,

1575

697

Appointment of C. A. D. Melbourne to act as Second

Police Magistrate,

686 Land-Auction sale of, Deep Water Bay.

1579

698

699

Appointment of P. Jacks to be Assistant Land Officer,.. Land-Auction sale of, Deep Bay,

1575 || 687 | Land--Letting by public auction of the right to 1575

quarry,

1579

1575 688

700

Addition to Register of Medical Practitioners,

1576

Land-Description and terms of proposed lease of, Deep

Water Bay.

1530

701

702

Tenders for the purchase of Waste Food-- Victoria Gaol, 1576 Tenders for supply of dry earth-Victoria Gaol,

689

1576

Land-Objections to the granting of certain lease of,

Deep Water Bay.

1582

703

Ordinances not disallowed-Nos. 1 and 4 of 1903,

1577

704

Withdrawal of Quarantine restrictions at Shanghai

against arrivals from Hongkong,

Miscellaneous.

18772

705

Sanitary measures- -Statement of....

1577

Unclaimed Telegrams.

......

1582

706

Torpedo running,

1578

707

Gun practice,

1578

Unclaimed Letters, &c.,....... Advertisements, ...

1583

1592

No. 5.

PROCLAMATION.

[L.S.]

MATTHEW NATHAN,

Governor.

By His Excellency Sir MATTHEW NATHAN, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.

Whereas by Section 3 of the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor of Hongkong by Proclamation, for the purposes of the said Act, among other things to declare what shall be deemed to be the duration of the voyage of any Chinese Passenger Ship:

Now, therefore, I, the said Sir MATTHEW NATHAN, under and by virtue of the powers conferred on me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that, for the purpose of the said Act, the voyage of any Chinese Passenger Ship from Hongkong or any port of China to Réunion shall be deemed to be a voyage of thirty-four days' duration.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, at Victoria, Hongkong, this 20th day of October, 1905.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

By Command,

T. SERCOMBE SMITH,

Colonial Secretary.