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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH OCTOBER, 1897.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 435.

The following Correspondence is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th October, 1897.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.

(Commodore to Governor.)

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SIR,

TAMAR" AT HONGKONG,

11th October, 1897.

I have the honour to submit that I am prepared to give the figure head of the old Princess Charlotte, which is now in a somewhat lonely and unfrequented place by the signal gun at Victoria Peak, a home in the Royal Naval Yard, if it should meet the views of Your Excellency that she should be transferred to a more frequented locality.

I expect that before very long the figure head of the Victor Emanuel will be placed in a prominent position in this establishment, and it would seem fit that a Royal Consort should be provided for him. Provision is made in the yearly Naval Estimates for keeping these interesting relics of the past in a state of preservation.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your Excellency's obedient Servant,

His Excellency

Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON, G.C.M.G.,

Governor of Hongkong.

(Governor to Commodore.)

SWINTON C. HOLLAND,

Commodore.

No. 142/G.

SIR,

GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 14th October, 1897.

In reply to your letter of the 11th instant, I have the honour to state that I have no objection to the union in the Naval Yard of the figure heads of the Princess Charlotte and Victor Emanuel, but I trust that no objection will be raised on behalf of His Majesty to his proposed Royal Consort on account of Her somewhat mature age.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient Servant,

Commo-lore SWINTON HOLLAND, R.N., A.D.C.

WILLIAM ROBINSON.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 436.

The following is published.

By Command,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th October, 1897.

No. 699,-NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Advices from British North Borneo state that an earthquake was felt at Kudat on the 21st instant. About the same time, a new island was thrown up from the sea between Mempakul and Lam- beidan, fifty yards from the mainland, opposite Labuan. The island is of clay and rocks, and measures 200 yards long by 150 yards broad, and 60 feet high. The island appears to be increasing in size.

Singapore, 29th September, 1897.