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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
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Published by Authority.
No. 30.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 26TH JUNE, 1897.
VOL. XLIII.
號十三第 日七十二月五年酉丁 日六十二月六年七十九百八千一 簿三十四第
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 257.
The following telegrams are published.
By Command,
J. H. STEWART Lockhart,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office. Hongkong, 24th June, 1897.
(Governor to Her Majesty the Queen.)
COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG, 22nd June, 1897.
"We, the Governor, Executive Council, and Legislative Council of Hongkong, in Council assembled, on this auspicious occasion of national rejoicing and thanksgiving, desire, on behalf of ourselves and all your other loving subjects in this Colony, to give expression to our feelings of loyalty and devotion to Your Majesty's throne and person. We pray that, by the Grace of God, Your Glorious Reign may be long continued over a peaceful and prosperous Empire."
• GOVERNOR,
"Hongkong.
"To
(Her Majesty the Queen to Governor, )
“BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
LONDON, 22nd June, 1897.
From my heart I thank my beloved people. May God bless them.
(Governor to Her Majesty the Queen.)
VICTORIA, R. and 1."
"HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN,
"Buckingham Palace.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY,
"I have had the honour to receive Your Majesty's most gracious message and shall at once publish it for the information of this loyal community of Hongkong. I can assure Your Majesty that the greatest respect and veneration for Your Majesty is entertained by the people of this Colony, and that the commemoration of the Completion of the Sixtieth Year of Your Majesty's Glorious Reign is being celebrated here most worthily and with universal enthusiasın.
"Hongkong, 22nd June, 1897."
"ROBINSON,
Governor.
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