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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH JUNE, 1894.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 222.

The following Telegram from the Governor of Queensland is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th June, 1894.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Acting Colonial Secretary,

TELEGRAM.

(Governor of Queensland to Governor, Hongkong.)

MELBOURNE, 8th June, 1894.

Vessels arriving at any Queensland port from Hongkong are to be placed in quarantine until pratique is granted.

GOVERNOR OF Queensland, Brisbane.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 223.

The following letter with its enclosure is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th June, 1894.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

H. M. CONSULATE, CANTON, 7th June, 1894.

SIR,---I have the honour to inform you that upon hearing that libellous placards respecting the treatment of Chinese patients in Hongkong were being circulated in Tongkoon and Fatshan, and that the safety of foreigners residing there was threatened, I requested the Viceroy to have proclamations issued in these towns; and His Excellency has at once complied. I beg to enclose copy and trans- lation of the instructions which the Viceroy informs ine he has addressed to the two Magistrates.

I have the honour to be,

The Honourable

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY,

Hongkong.

Sir,

Your most obedient Servant,

BYRON BRENAN,

Consul.

In Viceroy's Despatch of 5th June, 1894.

Instructions from the Viceroy to the Sub-prefect of Fatshan, and the Magistrate of Tongkoon. The Viceroy has received communications from the British and from the U.S. Consuls on the subject of the false rumours which have arisen in consequence of the measures taken to arrest the plague in Hongkong.

In Hongkong other regulations have been put in force under which the Tung-Wa Hospital treat patients according to Chinese methods; and nothing in the nature of post mortem examination takes place. These are falsifications invented by story spreading, trouble creating scoundrels, and no one should on any account be misled by them.

The Officials addressed shall within two days issue a proclamation and take effective steps to keep people in order, to admonish them and to prevent any trouble arising.