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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

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No. 39.

號九十三第

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 21sr JULY, 1894. 日九十月六年午甲 日一十二月七年四十九百八千一

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.- No. 280.

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VOL. XL.

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His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointments with effect from the 16th instant until the return to the Colony of ARTHUR KENNEDY TRAVERS or until further notice :-

THOMAS SERCOMBE SMITH, B.A., LL.B. (Lond.), Barrister-at-Law, to be Acting Postmaster

General.

FRANCIS JOSEPH BADELEY to be Acting Assistant Registrar General.

By Command,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHAM,

Acting Colonial Secretary,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th July, 1894.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 281.

The following Minutes are published.

By Command,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Acting Colonial Secretary,

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

No. 17.

Minutes of the proceedings of the SANITARY BOARD, at a meeting held on Thursday, the 5th day of July, 1894.

PRESENT:

The Registrar General, (The Honourable JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART), President.

The Captain Superintendent of Police, (FRANCIS HENRY MAY, Esquire), Vice-President.

The Acting Director of Public Works, (HUGH POLLOCK TOOKER, Esquire).

The Colonial Surgeon, (Dr. PHILIP BERNARD CHENERY AYRES, C.M.G.).

Surgeon-Major JAMES, A.M.S.

The Honourable Dr. Ho KAL

JOHN JOSEPH FRANCIS, Esquire, Q.C.

ROBERT KENNAWAY LEIGH, Esquire. Dr. WILLIAM HARTIGAN.

LAU WAI CHUN, Esquire.

Minutes.-The minutes of a meeting held on the 21st day of June, 1894, were read and confirmed.

Minute.-The Secretary read the following minute by His Excellency the Governor which had been communicated to the President :---

At the last meeting of the Legislative Council when stating that the measures the Government proposed to adopt in reference to the existing Plague and its possible recurrence I said (see the local newspapers) "since I have "been in this Colony, which is more than two years, I have never until the other day received from the Sanitary "Board, or any other Board, any notice that there was a single insanitary dwelling in Chinatown or elsewhere in "the Colony."