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DROIT

THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette

報

特

EXTRAORDINARY.

Py 韓 港 香

Dublished by Suthority.

No. 8.

號八第

VICTORIA, WEDNESDAY, 4TH FEBRUARY, 1885. 日十二月二十年申甲 日四初月二年五十八百八千

VOL. XXXI.

簿一十三第

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 52.

His Excellency the Governor has been directed to issue an Official Notification to the effect that

the French Government is about to instruct its Naval Officers to enforce belligerent rights including

right of search of Neutral Ships at sea for contraband of war.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th February, 1885.

W. H. MARSH,

Colonial Secretary.

Printed and Published by NORONIA & Co., Printers to the Hongkong Government, Nos. 5, 7, and 9, Zetland Street.