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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 20TH APRIL,, 1889.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 186.

The following Notice is published for general information.

By Command,

FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th April, 1889.

NOTICE.

A Special Sessions of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace will be held at the Justices Room, at the Magistracy, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of Thursday, the second day of May, A.D. 1889, for the purpose of considering an application from the widow of CARL BERCOVITZ for permission to transfer the business as a licensed publican formerly carried on by her late husband in house No. 308, Queen's Road Central, under the sign of Rose, Shamrock and Thistle Hotel, to her father ISRAEL WEINBERG.

H. E. WODEHOUSE, Police Magistrate.

Magistracy, Hongkong, 18th April, 1889.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--Nɔ. 187.

Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Friday, the 26th instant :—

1. For turfing slope and forming side channels of lower portion of Bowen Road..

2. For the construction of house-drains and other works at the Government Pavilion, Mount

Kellett Road.

For forms of tender apply at this Office.

For specifications and further particulars apply at the Surveyor General's Office. The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th April, 1889.

FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 188.

The following Hydrographic Notice is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th April, 1889.

Government of China.

NOTICE TO MARINERS,

No. 228.

CHINA SEA.

WÊNCHOW DISTRICT.

Rock off Low Chik-Kok.

FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.

Notice is hereby given that Captain FARROW, commanding the Chinese Revenue Steamer Ling Fêng, reports the existence of a rock awash at low water spring tides, about 2 miles N.N.W. of Low Chik-kok, and about 2 miles distant from the southern extreme of Kinsing Island, off Shoal Bay.

The position is generally marked by a red buoy placed there by junkmen frequenting these waters. The rock is not marked on the latest edition of the British Admiralty Chart No. 1,759.

By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,

Imperial Maritime Customs,

Coast Inspector's Office,

Shanghai, 9th April, 1889.

E. V. BRENAN, Acting Coast Inspector.