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a party, or unless the Land Officer shall certify that the capital value of the land affected exceeds $5,000 or that the annual value thereof exceeds $500. There is one exception to this provision, ¿e., when the land in question has been exempted from the Ordinance under section 13 (2). It would appear that the issue of a distress warrant is a proceeding relating to land, within the meaning of the above Ordinance, and that the issue of a distress warrant is a proceeding in the Supreme Court. It would there- fore appear to be impossible to issue a distress warrant for any part of New Territories except in cases falling under 13 (2), or under the exceptious in section 24 of the New Territories Regulation Ordinance. This is inconvenient in the case of Now Kowloon, where in many cases the conditions are more similar to those of the old Colony than to those of the New Territories. Accordingly, section 4 of this Ordinance provides that the provisions of the Dis- tress for Rent Ordinance, 1883, shall extend to New Kowloon.

29th February, 1928.

J. H. KEMP,

Attorney General.

NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. S. 145.-It is hereby notified that information has been received from H.B.M. Consul-General, Netherlands East Indies to the effect that Hong Kong has been declared an infected port on account of plague.

No. S. 146.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hong Kong.

Place or Port.

Nature of Measures.

Date.

Reference to Government Notification.

Manila.

All ports in the United States of America, including the Hawaiian Is- lands.

Bangkok.

Netherlands East Indies.

Inspections outside Manila harbour from 20th April. Third class passengers and new crew must comply with the vaccination requirements,

Inspections outside the ports from 1st April. Steerage passengers must comply with the vaccination require- ments. Cabin passengers must produce a vaccina- tion certificate or he vaccinated by ships doctor or quarantine authorities,

Vessels detained at river mouth and passengers and crew vaccinated unless they can produce evidence of successful recent vaccination.

Hong Kong declared an infected port on account of

plague.

16th April, 1924.

30th April, 1926.

29th October, 1926.

No. S. 301.

11th May,

1928.

No. S. 145.