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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH JANUARY, 1899.

to take refuge on board ship, when he continued his flight, accompained by a small fleet. Coasting along from Foo- chow, past Amoy and Swatow, he passed (about_1278 A.D.) through the Ly-ee-moon into the waters of Hong- kong. After a short stay on Kowloon peninsula, he sailed westwards until he reached Ngaishan, at the mouth of the West River (south-west of Macao). But meanwhile the Mongols had taken possession of Canton and hastily or- ganized a fleet with which they hemmed in the Imperial flotilla on all sides. The Prime Minister (LUK SAU Fo), seeing all was lost, took the youthful Emperor on his back, jumped into the sea (A.D. 1279) and perished together

with him.

Within a few months previous to this event, the Impe- rial Court had rested for a while in the little bay of Kowloon, called Matauchung, Tradition says that Kow- loon city and the present hamlets of Matanchung and Matauwai were not in existence at the time, and that the Imperial troops were encamped for a time on the hill now marked by the inscription, whilst the Court were lodged in a roughly-constructed wooden palace erected at a short distance from the beach. on the other side of Matanchung creek, at a place now marked by a temple. There, it is said, the last Emperor of the Sung resided for a while, on ground now British and in sight of Hongkong, waiting for news from Canton concerning the movements of the Mongols, and hoping in vain to receive succour from that treacherous city.'

HENRY E. POLLOCK,

Acting Attorney General.

Short title.

Amendment of sec. 5 of Ord. 9 of 1893.

Amendment

of sec. 6 of

Ord. 9 of 1893.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend The Dogs

Ordinance, 1893.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as The Dogs Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1899.

2. Section 5 of Ordinance as follows:—

of 1893 is hereby amended

(1.) By striking out the words, "under penalties not

exceeding ten dollars."

(2.) By inserting between the words, "dogs may be," and the words, "kept in this Colony," the following words, namely, "imported into or ;" and also (3.) By substituting in place of the words, "kept or allowed to go abroad, otherwise," the following words, namely, "which may be imported, kept, or allowed to go abroad, otherwise."

3. Section 6 of Ordinance 9 of 1893 is hereby amended by substituting in place of the words "by a fine not exceed- ing ten dollars and with imprisonment in default of pay- ment," the following words, namely, "with a fine not exceed- ing one hundred dollars and in default of payment thereof with imprisonment for a term not exceeding six mouths, with or without hard labour."

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this Bill is to enlarge the power to make regulations, which was originally conferred upon the Govern- or-in-Council by section 5 of Ordinance 9 of 1893, in such a way as to authorize the Governor-in-Council to make regulations relating to the importation of dogs.

It seemed advisable at the same time to increase the maximum penalty which could be imposed under section 6 of that Ordinance from ten to one hundred dollars, which latter fine is the maximum laid down in the Singapore and Malacca Dog Regulations. It seemed also desirable to specify a maximum term of imprisonment in default of payment of the fine.

HENRY E. POLLOCK,

Acting Attorney General,