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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH MAY, 1885.

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BILL TO AMEND THE POST OFFICE ORDINANCE. On the motion of the Attorney General, the neil went into Committee on this Bill.

The Bill was reported without amendment.

On the motion of the Attorney General, seconded by the Colonial Secretary, the Bill was read a al time.

Question put-that this Bill do pass.

Bill passed.

BILL ENTITLED THE MARRIED WOMEN'S DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY Ordinance, 1885.-On the tion of the Attorney General, seconded by the Colonial Secretary, this Bill was read a third time.

Question put-that this Bill do pass.

Bill passed.

BILL TO AMEND ORDINANCE 16 OF 1873, (TRADE MARKS).--On the motion of the Attorney neral, seconded by the Colonial Secretary, this Bill was read a third time.

Question put-that this Bill do pass.

Bill passed.

BILL FOR THE PREVENTION of abuses cONNECTED WITH CHILD ADOPTION AND DOMESTIC SERVICE. On the motion of the Attorney General, the order for the second reading of this Bill was discharged. BILL ENTITLED THE FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS ORDINANCE CONTINUATION ORDINANCE, 1885. The Attorney General moved the first reading of this Bill.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and passed.

Bill read a first time.

The Council adjourned until Friday, the 15th instant, at 4 P.M.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

Read and confirmed, this 15th day of May, 1885.

ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 198.

The following letter is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th May, 1885.

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W. H. MARSH,

Colonial Secretary.

HONGKONG, 16th May, 1885.

SIR-My very best thanks are due to your Excellency and the Colonial Authorities for the l support afforded me on all sides in carrying out at Kowloon on the 14th instant the practice Field Firing which is, perhaps, the most important of all exercises in our Military training.

I am aware of the many difficulties in setting aside and clearing for the occasion so large an at of country with the many habitations on it, and I cannot express too strongly my indebtedness Civil Authorities without whose cordial assistance it would have been quite impossible to have the field firing.

The Police arrangements, personally superintended by Captain DEANE, and Captain DEMPSTER, almirable; resulting, as reported to me, in a total absence of all accidents, and attended, I believe,

little inconvenience as possible to the public.

Excellency

Sir G. F. BOWEN, G.C.M.G.,

&c.,

&c.,

&c., HONGKONG.

I have, &c.,

W. G. CAMERON, Major-General,

Commanding in China and Straits Settlements.

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