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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

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Published by Authority.

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No. 37.

號七十三第

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 14TH AUGUST, 1897.

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VOL. XLIII.

日四十月八年七十九百八千一簿三十四第

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 318.

The following Despatch is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th August, 1897.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.

Secretary of State to Governor.

HONGKONG.

No. 129.

21st June.

22nd June.

22nd June. 22nd June.

SIR,

DOWNING STREET,

7th July, 1897.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your telegrams noted in the margin Congratulating Her Majesty the QUEEN on the completion of the sixtieth anniversary of Her accession to the Throne from yourself and the Executive and Legislative Councils of Hong- kong, from the inhabitants of the Colony, from the Masonic Brotherhood of Hongkong and South China, and from the St. Andrew's Society of Hongkong.

The telegrams have been laid before the QUEEN, and Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to command me to convey to the senders through you Her cordial thanks for their loyal and sympathetic messages of congratulation.

Governor

Sir W. ROBINSON, G.C.M.G.,

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I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient,

humble Servant,

J. CHAMBERLAIN.