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1081 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH DECEMBER, 1885.

SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

IECourt will sit in Summary Jurisdiction,

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every Friday, until further notice.

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HECourt will sit in Original Jurisdiction, on every Monday and Thursday, until further notice.

By Order of the Court,

A. G. WISE, Acting Registrar.

NOW ON SALE,

A

CHINESE

DICTIONARY

IN THE

CANTONESE DIALECT,

BY

DR. E. J. EITEL.

CROWN OCTAVO, PP. 1018.

Part I.

HONGKONG, 1877-1883.

A-K,

Part II.K-M,

Part III. M-T,

Part IV.

T-Y,

$2.50

$2.50

.$3.00 .$3.00

This Standard Work on the Chinese Language, constructed on the basis of Kanghi's Imperial Dictionary, contains all Chinese characters in practical use, and while alphabetically arranged according to the sounds of the oldest dialect of China, the Cantonese, it gives also the Mandarin pronunciation of all characters explained in the book, so that its usefulness is by no means con- fined to the Cantonese Dialect, but the work is a practically complete Thesaurus of the whole Written Language of China, ancient and modern, as used all over the Empire, whilst its intro- ductory chapters serve the purposes of a philolo gical guide to the student.

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A Supplement, arranged for being bound an used by itself, and containing a List of the Radicals, an Index, and a List of Surnames,

will be published and sold separately.

LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.

Hongkong, January 15, 1883.

FOR SALE.

COPIES in Pamphlet Form of instructions

for making Meteorologic al Observations, prepared for use in China, by Dr. DOBERCK, Government Astronomer.

Apply to

Price-50 Cents,

Messrs. NORONHA & Co.,

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KELLY & WALSH, Hongkong and Shanghai,

Hongkong, 17th November, 1883.

FOR SALE.

HE CITIES AND TOWNS OF CHINA,

THE

A Dictionary of Reference,

By

G. M. H. PLAYFAIR.

Price-$3.00 per Copy, bound,

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MESSRS. NORONHA & Co.

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LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.

KELLY & WALSH.

Hongkong, 27th January, 1880,

THE LATEST AMERICAN INVENTION.

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