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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30mm AUGUST, 1884.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.---No. 310.

Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Wednesday, the 1st October, for the construction of the first section of the Tytam Conduit extending from the tunnel outlet above Wong- nei-chung to the Want'sai Valley.

For form of tender, specification, and further particulars, apply at the Surveyor General's Office. The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th August, 1884.

W. H. MARSH,

Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.No. 311.

Separate tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Friday, the 5th September, 1884, for :-

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1. Rearing and supplying 400,000 Trees of Pinus Sinensis.

2. Sowing 200,000 Sites.

For form of tender, specification, and further particulars, apply at the Office of the Superintendent of the Botanical and Afforestation Department.

No tender will be received unless the person tendering produces a receipt to the effect that he has deposited in the Colonial Treasury the sum of $100 as a pledge of the bona fides of his offer for rearing and supplying Trees, and $25 for sowing Sites, which sums shall be forfeited to the Crown if such

person shall refuse to carry out his tender, should the tender be accepted. The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th August, 1884.

W, H. MARSH,

Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 312.

The following letter is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th August, 1884.

W. H. MARSII,

Colonial Secretary.

JAPANESE CONSULATE, HONGKONG, 30th August, 1884.

SIR, I have the honour to inform you that I have received a telegram from my Government instructing me to make public a notice as regards Cholera. It having been reported that the ports of Amoy and Newchwang are infected, my Government purposes to enforce from the 31st August, the inspection regulations established by the Notification No. 31 of 15th Meiji (1882) upon all Vessels arriving from the above mentioned ports at Nagasaki, Kobe and Yokohama.

I have accordingly the honour to request Ilis Excellency the Governor to notify the foregoing to the Community.

The Honourable W. H. MARSI, C.M.G..

Colonial Secretary.

I have the honour to be

Sir,

Your most obedient Servant,

S. MACHIDA, Acting Consul for Japan.