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No. 49.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 2ND NOVEMBER, 1889.

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VOL. XXXV.

簿五十三第

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 445.

Notice is hereby given that EMILE HELGA MELBYE, Esquire, Consul for Denmark, has reported his resumption of the duties of the Consulate at this Port..

By Command,

A. LISTER,

Acting Colonial Secretary,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 29th October, 1889.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 446.

Notice is hereby given that the Governor in Council, under and in pursuance of Ordinance No. 14 of 1862, entitled An Ordinance for granting Patents for Inventions within this Colony, has granted Letters Patentoring date the 15th October, 1889, to GEORGE FREDERICK STRAWSON, of Newbury, in the Count of Bershire, England, Chemical Manure Manufacturer, for securing to the said George FREDERICK STRAWSON the exclusive right of using within the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, a lavention for which Her Majesty's Letters l'atent have been obtained in England by the said GEORGE FREDERICK STRAWSON, for a Pneumatic Machine for distributing seeds, manures and other solid or liquid stances over land under cultivation, for the term of Fourteen Years from the 3rd February, 1888**

A. LISTER,

By Command,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial retary's Office, Hongkong, 30th October, 1889.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 447.

COLONY OF HONGKONG.

Removal of Old Cemetery.

The old Colonial Cemetery, at Wan-tsai, in the above Colony, having become surrounded by a dense population of Chinese of the poorer classes, it is found difficult to keep it in a condition of decency and cleanliness; IT IS THEREFORE NOTIFIED that it is proposed reverently and decently to remove all monuments and tombstones in such Cemetery, as well as all remains which may be found there, to the exting Colonial Cemetery in the Happy Valley, where such remains will be re-interred.

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