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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST FEBRUARY, 1896.

And whereas by another Order in Council dated the 20th day of April, 1883, Her Majesty was further pleased to direct that in the event of the net registered tonnage of merchant ships belonging to the said Kingdom of Denmark, which are propelled by steam or any other power requiring engine-room estimated under the British rules, being denoted in the said certificates of Danish nationality and registry issued on or after the 1st day of September, 1882, such ships should be deemed to be of the tonnage so denoted in the said certificates:

And whereas by Section 84 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, it is enacted that whenever it appears to Her Majesty the Queen in Council that the tonnage regulations of that Act have been adopted by any foreign country and are in force there, Her Majesty in Council may order that the ships of that country shall, without being remeasured in Her Majesty's dominions, be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry or other national papers in the same manner, to the same extent, and for the same purposes as the tonnage denoted in the certificate of registry of a British ship is deemed to be the tonnage of that ship:

And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that the tonnage regulations of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, have been adopted by the Government of His Majesty the King of Denmark, and that such regulations are now in force in that country, having come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1895:

And whereas there still are or may be ships belonging to the Kingdom of Denmark to which the herein-before recited Orders of the 29th February, 1868, the 30th December, 1878, and the 20th April, 1883, may respectively apply, and it is expedient not to revoke the same, but to let the said recited Orders remain in force so long as there are any ships to which the same may so respectively apply:

And whereas the provisions of Section one of the Rules Publication Act, 1893, have been complied with:

NOW, THEREFORE, Her Majesty (in pursuance and exercise of the powers herein-before mentioned) is hereby pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to decree that the merchant ships of the Kingdom of Denmark the measurement whereof shall on or after the 1st day of April, 1895, have been ascertained and denoted in the certificates of registry or other national papers of such ships, shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry or other national papers in the same manner, to the same extent, and for the same purposes as the tonnage denoted in the certificate of registry of a British ship is deemed to be the tonnage of that ship.

C. L. PEEL.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 30.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to recognise S. SHIMIZU, Esquire, as temporarily in charge of the Japanese Consulate in Hongkong.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 31st January, 1896.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.No. 31.

It is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following Police Officers to be Inspectors of Nuisances under section 9 of The Public Health Ordinance, No. 24

of 1887-

Inspector Donald Bremner.

Acting Inspector DAN HALL.

Temporary Sergeant No. 76 PETER MCNAB. By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st February, 1896.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.