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THE HONGKONG

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Government Gazette.

No. 56.

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Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 18TH DECEMBER, 1897.

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VOL. XLIII.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 555.

The following Notice is published.

By Command,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.

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

NOTICE.

The Orange Free State will enter the Universal Postal Union on the 1st January, 1898, from which date the rates of Postage on Letters, &c. will be the same as to other countries of the Union.

A, M. THOMSON,

Postmaster General.

General Post Office, Hongkong, 14th December, 1897.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 556.

It is hereby notified that Her Majesty has not been advised to exercise her power of disallowance with

respect to the following Ordinance:→→→

No. 17. of 1897, entitled-An Ordinance to prevent the Spread of Infectious Disease arising

from the consumption of contaminated or unwholesome milk.

By Command,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th December, 1897,

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 557.

The following is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th December, 1897,

REGULATION

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.

Made by the Governor in Council under section 2 of "The Holidays Ordinance, 1875,” this 17th day of December, 1897.

The Police Magistrate's Department shall be, and the same is hereby, excluded from the operation of the above recited Ordinance on the 27th December, 1897, (the 26th December being a Sunday).

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

HONGKONG.

J. G. T. BUCKLE, Clerk of Councils.