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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH JULY, 1899.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 428.

It is hereby notified that Her Majesty has not been advisel to exercise her power of disallowance with respect to the following Ordinances :—

Ordinance No. 10 of 1899, entitled--An Ordinance to exempt the territories comprised in the recent extension of the Colony of Hongkong from the operation of certain laws, and for other purposes.

Ordinance No. 11 of 1899, entitled-An Ordinance relating to Local Communities and Tri-

bunals.

Ordinance No. 12 of 1899, entitled--An Ordinance to provide for the Better Regulation of

the New Territories.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th July, 1899.

J. II. STEWART Lockhart, Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.---No. 429.

Condition 6 of the Particulars and Conditions of Sale of Rural Building Lots Nos. 98 and 99 published under Government Notification No. 421 of the 22nd July, 1899, is hereby amended so as to read as follows :-

6. The Purchaser of each Lot shall build and finish, fit for occupation, before the expi- ration of eighteen calendar months from the day of sale, in a good, substantial and work- manlike manner, one good and permanent messuage or tenement upon some part of his Lot, with walls of stone or brick and lime-mortar and roof of tiles or such other materials as may be approved by the Director of Public Works, and in other respects in accordance with the conditions of the Building Ordinances, No. 25 of 1891, and No. 7 of 1895, and shall expend thereon a sum of not less than $12,500 in rateable improvements.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th July, 1899.

J. #1. STEWART Lockhart, Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 430.

The following Letter is published.

By Command,

J. H. STEWARt Lockhart,

·Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th July, 1899.

MARINE DEPARTMENT,

No. 1185 Marine,

From the Secretary to the Government of Bengal to the Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.

Dated CALCUTTA, the 29th June, 1899.

SIR,

I am directed to state, for your information, that intimation having been received of the outbreak of plague at Alexandria, the necessary instructions have been issued to the Officers concerned to strictly enforce the Venice Sanitary Convention Regulations in the ports of Calcutta and Chittagong against vessels arriving from Alexandria.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient Servant,

H. G. SWAYNE, Major, R.E.,

For Secretary.