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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

No. 48.

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Published by Authority.

VOL. XXVIII.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 28TH OCTOBER, 1882. 號八十四第 日七十月九年午壬日八十二月十年二十八百八千一 簿八十二第

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 417.

The Honourable JOHN MACNEILE PRICE, having reported his return to the Colony on the 21st instant, has resumed his duties as Surveyor General.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th October, 1882.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 418.

Whereas by Ordinance 2 of 1862, it is enacted among other things that such and so many of the inhabitants of Hongkong as shall volunteer and offer themselves, and the Governor shall approve of, shall be permitted to form themselves into a Corps for the protection of the Colony of Hongkong, and such Corps shall be called the "Hongkong Volunteers," and shall continue so formed during the pleasure of the Governor:

And whereas it is deemed expedient that the Corps which was formed in the year 1878 in virtue of the Ordinance above referred to should be disbanded;

It is hereby notified that the Officer Administering the Government has declared his pleasure to be that the said Corps should no longer continue so formed.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th October, 1882.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION--No. 419.

The Officer Administering the Government invites Residents of Hongkong who may be desirous of forming themselves into a new Corps of Hongkong Volunteers to send in their names to the Acting Colonial Secretary.

It is proposed that a Corps of Volunteer Artillery should be formed to be commanded by an Officer of the Royal Artillery whose services will, by permission of His Excellency the Major General Com- manding, be available for this purpose in the event of a sufficient number of names being enrolled.

Information respecting the assistance which Government is prepared to offer with the view of encouraging the formation of a new Corps will be obtained on application to the Acting Colonial Secretary.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th October, 1882.

FREDERICK STtewart,

Acting Colonial Secretary.