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762 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH SEPTEMBER, 1882.

caution.

The available channel, which is between these dangers, is only 40 yards wide, and must be used with the greatest The Admiralty Directory, Vol. II., page 284,--from information supplied by Captain Moresby, R.N., of H.M.S. Basilisk,"-states that the least depth of water in the channel is 28 feet, and that its width is barely 200 yards.

G. P. HEATH, Commmander R.N.,

Portmaster.

Department of Ports and Harbours, Brisbane, 25th July, 1882.

Government of Western Australia.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,

PenTH, 28th July, 1882.

His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified, for general information, that from and after the 1st November, 1882, the two Red Leading Lights hitherto exhibited at Champion Bay will be discontinued, and two White Lights substi- tuted, in lieu thereof.

By His Excellency's Command,

GIFFORD,

Colonial Secretary.

署督部堂馬

曉諭事照得現 署理輔政使司史

憲札准

辦理港內華民事務而設嗣後所有華民

藩政大臣咨查香港華民政務司係專爲

小事件有須稟

應憑

發核稟

【呈遞以憑核定轉詳辦理倘有逕遞

輔政司署

遵諭

歸倘櫃所司

應有係

逕由華專

等遞該比爲

號四十七百

第報憲

家按蒙銀司取期些

棄銀批五署投收利知

一千八百八十二年 九月 十六日示

合卽曉示爾華民等一體凜遵毋違特示 七 因理合札行輔政司出示曉諭等因奉此

回該衙門以歸畫一等

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 373.

號三十七百三第報憲

輔

衙

辦

藩

署

曉署

署輔政使司史

些利巷尾木步頭所有票投均在本署收截限

論知招投承接事照得現要招人投接重修金

詳五

貯者 午

庫赴止收 收重

作工如截修

務欲限金爲

期收至九月二十二日卽禮拜五正午止如欲

銀五十大圓之收單呈驗方准落倘該票經

可署請示可也凡投票之人必要有財庫作按

而列

一千八百八十二年

十 國家乗取或總棄而不取爲此特示 按銀入官各票價低昂任由 蒙批准而其人推諉不肯承造則將其財庫作 九月

十六日示

It is hereby notified by direction of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colo- nies, that in all ordinary cases, petitions from Chinese to the Government should be addressed

in the first instance to the Registrar General as the official organ of communication between the Government and the Chinese community, although they are still at liberty, if they prefer to do so, to address their communications direct to the Colonial Secretary, whose duty it will be to refer such documents to the Registrar General,

who will make his report on them to the

Governor.

By Command,

FREDERICK STEWART,

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Acting Colonial Scretary,

Hongkong, 16th September, 1882.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

No.374.

Tenders will be received at this Office until noon of Friday, the 22nd September, 1882, for recon-

structing the Timber Wharf, at the bottom of Commissariat Lane,

For form of tender, specification, and further particulars, apply at the Surveyor General's Office. 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 $50 as a pledge of the bona files of his offer, which sum shall be forfeited to the Crown if such person refuses 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,

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 16th September, 1882.