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THE HONGkong goveRNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH JUNE, 1893.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

563

HONGKONG, 15th June, 1893.

SIR,-I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 1431 of the 9th instant, and to thank you for so readily and effectively assisting in the work of erecting a monument to the of those who were lost with the Bokhara. The relatives of the deceased will no doubt be very grateful for your kind co-operation.

memory

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

Commodore

H. BURY PALLISER.

WILLIAM ROBINSON,

Governor.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG, 15th June, 1893.

SIR,—I have the honour to request Your Excellency to be so good as to state to the Tsung-1 Yamên that this Government is much obliged to the Chintai at the Pescadores for the further services he has rendered in connection with the erection on Sand Island of the monument to the memory of those who perished in the wreck of the Bokhara. Such friendly acts are calculated to increase the amicable relations subsisting between Great Britain and China.

I enclose for Your Excellency's information a copy of a letter from Capt. FAWKES, of H.M.S. Mercury, on the subject.

I have the honour to be,

Sir.

Your obedient Servant,

His Excellency N. R. O'CONOR, C.B., C.M.G.,

Her Majesty's Minister,

Peking.

WILLIAM ROBINSON,

Governor.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION, -No. 230.

It is hereby notified that Her Majesty has not been advised to exercise her power of disallowance with respect to Ordinance No. 6 of 1893, entitled-An Ordinance to provide for the establishment of a Volunteer Force and to empower the Governor to raise a special force of Coast Defence Volunteers in the event of anticipated war.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th June, 1893.

G. T. M. O'BRIEN,

Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 231.

The following Returns of Deaths are published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th June, 1893.

G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.