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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 20TH JANUARY, 1894.

really present. When the General had gone through his formalities, batches of nine, under mandarins, at a time presented themselves in line before him, knelt, and made their obeisance to him in the same manner, in recognition of the honour that has lately been shown the General. There were three or four lots that went through this ceremony. I was informed they consisted of Officers and Officials of the forts, &c. From the beginning to the end the effect was very striking. As darkness had come on the Hall in which we were was lit up with numerous large and curious coloured lamps, not the usual Chinese lanterns I have been accustomed to sec. The ceremony being over, the soldiers, Officials and people disappeared immediately, leaving only the General with his Staff with ourselves, a large table was brought in and placed in the middle of the room, already laid for dinner which was served as soon as chairs were placed. The dinner was half foreign and half Chinese style, and very well done. Speeches were exchanged and duly explained by the interpreters who were present for this purpose. At 9.30 P.M. the dinner being concluded we took our leave of the General and were taken to the landing place in the chairs, the troops were under arms by torchlight and three guns were fired as we passed the gates of the Yamên. The same escort attended us back as on our arriving; evidently the early hour of 4.00 P.M. named for dinner was to have time to enable us to witness the troops, &c. fallen in by daylight.

14. I have perhaps gone rather unnecessarily into details with reference to the whole ceremonies, which have been gone through on both sides, but the occasion being an exceptional one I considered it called for exceptional description.

15. There were two excellent interpreters, one furnished from the shore and ofre already on board the ship.

16. The letter for Brigadier-General WANG from the British Legation was duly delivered to him.

J. LESLIE BURR,

Commander.

H.M.S. Porpoise, 31st December, 1893.

(Signed),

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 26.

The following List of Copyright Works, which has been publicly exposed at the Court House, pursuant to Section 152 of the Act 39 and 40, Vic. Chapter 36, is published.

By Command,

G. T. M. OBRIEN,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th January, 1894.

LIST OF COPYRIGHT WORKS.

Issued by the Board of Customs, London.

Name of Work.

Name of Author.

Collected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Thomas de Quincey

The. New and Enlarged Edition, Edited by David Masson [Professor of English Literature in the University of Edin- burgh]. 14 vols.

Songs of the Common Day and Ave! An C. G. D. Roberts

Ode for the Shelley Centenary

Dictionary of Quotations

Elsie at Ion...............

Name of the Proprietor of the

Copyright.

Date when Copyright will expire.

Adam and Charles Black...... 1 Jan., 1931.

C. G. D. Roberts

23 Aug., 1935.

Rev. J. Wood

F. Warne & Co..........

15 Sept., 1935.

Martha Finley

George Routledge & Sons

5 Oct., 1935.

Natural History of Intellect, and other Ralph Waldo Emerson

Papers.

George Routledge & Sons, 8 Nov., 1935.

Limited.