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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH AUGUST, 1882.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 313.

His Excellency the Administrator has been pleased to grant Mr. JOHN S. BREWER, Government Marine Surveyor, one month's vacation leave from this date.

During Mr. BREWER's absence, Captain EDWARD BURNIE, Lloyd's Surveyor, will undertake the inspection of hulls and equipments, and Mr. T. E. WILLIAMS, R.N., Inspector of Machinery, Her Majesty's Naval Yard, will, by kind permission of the Commodore, undertake the Survey of Boilers and Machinery of vessels arriving in this Port.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th August, 1882.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 314.

The following Circular Despatch with enclosures is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th August, 1882.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Circular.

DOWNING STREET,

8th June, 1882.

SIR,-I have the honour to transmit to you, for information and publication in the Colony under your Government, copies of two Orders of the Queen in Council of the 3rd of May, exempting from remeasurement in this country ships of the Kingdom of Sweden and of Hayti, the measurement whereof has, after the 1st of April, 1882, and the 26th of January, 1882, been ascertained and denoted in the Registers and other National Papers of such ships.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble Servant,

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

KIMBERLEY.

AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR,

The 3rd day of May 1882. PRESENT,

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

Whereas by "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862," it is enacted that, whenever it is made to appear to Her Majesty that the Rules concerning the measurement of tonnage of merchant ships for the time being in force under the principal Act have been adopted by the Government of any Foreign Country, and are in force in that country, it shall be lawful for Iler Majesty by Order in Council to direct that the ships of such foreign country shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry or other national papers, and thereupon it shall no longer be necessary for such ships to be remeasured in any port or place in Her Majesty's dominions, but such ships shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry or other papers, in the same manner, to the same extent, and for the same purposes, in, to, and for which the tonnage denoted in the certificates of registry of British ships is to be deemed the tonnage of such ships.

And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that the rules concerning the measure- ment of tonnage of merchant ships now in force under "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," have been adopted in Hayti by the Haitian Government.