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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST OCTOBER, 1881.

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8th. As soon as he is declared by a Board of Examiners to have acquired a competent knowledge of Chinese, he will be employed in such Department as may require his services, at a salary $1,800 per annum, without other allowances, and will be considered eligible for promotion in the Civil Service of Hongkong on the occurrence of any vacancy which he may be deemed suitable to fill.

9th. The progress of the Cadet will be tested by half-yearly examinations, and he will be liable to be dismissed without further pay, if he does not pass his final examination (see Section 7) within such time as may be fixed, or if at any time his progress or conduct shall be considered by the Governor and Executive Council to be so unsatisfactory as to render such a course desirable. The Governor and Council will decide, having regard to the ground of dismissal, whether the Cadet shall be sent home at the public expense, or shall be left to find his own way home, or shall be, in addition, called upon to repay

the cost of his passage out.

10th. A bond must be entered into by the Cadet and two approved Sureties with the Crown Agents for the Colonies to secure the repayment of the cost of the passage out, in the event of his dismissal and of its being decided by the Governor and Executive Council that such repayment shall be enforced; and also in the event of the Cadet within four years from the date of his arrival in Hongkong either quitting the Colony without leave or relinquishing his appointment (except for ill health), together with a further sum of £50 for each year to repay the Colony the cost of his teaching, up to his leaving.

The dollar is at present reckoned by the Hongkong Government at 4s. 2d. for the purpose of the payment in England of half-salary or pension.

Colonial Office, July 1881.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 345.

The following Notice to Mariners is published for general information.

By His Excellency's Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st October, 1881.

W. M. DEANE,

Acting Colonial Secretary..

Government of India.

MARINE BRANCH. MILITARY DEPARTMENT.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

(No. 30.)

BAY OF BENGAL-COROMANDEL COAST.

MADRAS.

Revised Rules for Regulating the Entry and Departure of Vessels Using the Harbour.

In supersession of the Notification published in this Department Notice to Mariners, No. 2, dated 10th February 1881, the Government of Madras has issued the following :-

"Under the authority vested in him by Section 7 of the Indian Ports Act, 1875, the Honourable the Governor in Council is pleased to prescribe the following rules for regulating the entry and departure of vessels using the Madras Harbour

RULE 1. No vessel shall enter or leave the Madras Harbour at any time without having on board a Pilot or Harbour Master, unless authority in writing so to do has been obtained from the Conservator of the port. RULE 2. Vessels about to leave the Harbour shall hoist Flag N of the International (Commercial) Code at the

Fore.

RULE 3. Vessels about to enter the Harbour shall hoist Flag F of the International (Commercial) Code at the Fore. RULE 4. Not more than one vessel shall enter or leave the port at the same time.

Under Clause 2, Section 42, and Section 67 of the Act, Masters or other persons in charge of vessels disobeying any of the foregoing rules will, on conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees for every such offence, and also to the payment of the costs of such conviction.”

By Direction of the Government of India,

A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.),

Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.

MARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT. Calcutta, 22nd August, 1881.