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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

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Published by Authority.

No. 3.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 19TH JANUARY, 1884.

VOL. XXX.

號三第

日二十二月二十年未癸

日九十月正年四十八百八千一

簿十三

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 12.

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 Patent, bearing date the 16th Day of January, 1881, to THE BLACKMAN AIR PROPELLER VENTILATING COMPANY, LIMITED, of Austin Friars, in the City of London, England, Assignee of EDWIN POWLEY ALEXANDER, of Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, England, for securing to him the exclusive right of using within the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies an Invention, for which Her Majesty's Letters Patent have been obtained in England, by the said EDWIN POWLEY ALEXANDER for Improvements in Ventilating and Exhaust Fans, for the residue of the term of Fourteen Years from the 19th Day of March, 1883.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th January, 1881.

W. H. MARSH,

Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 13.

The following Post Office Notice is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th January, 1884.

W. H. MARSH,

Colonial Secretary.

POST OFFICE NOTICE.

Chinese Merchants and others who carry on correspondence with California are warned not to send letters on board the steamers for San Francisco without bringing them to the Post Office and paying the postage.

The Officers of the San Francisco Custom House search cach steamer very strictly. All letters that they find are charged double postage as well as being delayed.

There is a risk also that the Merchandise in which such letters are concealed may be confiscated.

General Post Office, Hongkong, January 16, 1881.

A. LISTER, Postmuster General,