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No.85.

day.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH APRIL, 1879.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Notice to Mariners is published

for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office,

W. H. MARSH,

Hongkong, 8th April, 1879.

Government of China.

NOTICE TO MARINERS,

[ No. 100.]

CHINA SEA.

Colonial Secretary.

SHANGHAI DISTRICT WOOSUNG RIVER.

Woosung Inner Bar Signals.

NOTICE is hereby given that, on the 31st March 1879,

Geometrical Signals were substituted for the Flags formerly

used for shewing the depth of water on the Bar during the

For particulars see “Notice to Mariners No. 98" of the

31st January last, which was published in the Hongkong

and Shanghai Papers up to this date.

By order of the Inspector General of Customs,

GERALD E. WELLESLEY,

Acting Engineer-in-Chief.

IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS,

ENGINEERS' OFFICE,

SHANGHAI, 31st March 1879.

虞爲內標水

其深左

日日

第旗

處止

於左

月

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以

開

旗務

初

前

187

水標杆

通行曉諭事照得本總營造司前奉 稅務營造處署總營造司魏 司查江海關稅務司所屬界内長江吳淞口內欄江沙所設量 明出示通曉各處偉行江海船隻周知偏除等因兹本總營造 總稅務司赫 憲執行以沿海沿江建造燈塔浮椿等事或係創 設或宜改移或有增添或須裁撤營造既有變更務卽隨時彰

虞勿忘勿忽切切特示 光緒五年三月初九日第一百號示 爲此合卽遵行出示通曉各處船隻其務宜留心詳記以免陳 内自出示之時起至近日爲止每天業已開列明示者也 標其情勢於正月初十日第九十八號示在香港上海新聞 水深尺數之標杆前以懸旗爲號已於今日改用方圓各式等 計開 一長江吳淞口欄江沙内所有指明白晝 亦以旗爲號兹經改用各式標記合將其情勢開列

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等晝列量

長隻

MAGISTRACY, HONGKONG,

7th April, 1879.

Summary of cases deserving notice decided at

the Magistracy of Hongkong, from the 29th March

to the 4th April, 1879, both days.nclusive.

Larceny from the person.

1. Wong A-i and Wong A-sz, farmers, were each convicted and sentenced to six months' and four months' imprisonment respectively with hard labour, in addition to each being exposed

for six hours in the stocks near the Harbour Master's Office, for stealing a passage ticket from the person of one Wong A-hing on the 3rd instant.

2. Chung Chi-yan, a coolie, was convicted and sentenced to four months' imprisonment with hard labour on the 2nd instant for stealing a dollar and some broken silver from the person of

one Fong A-wai at the Queen's Road Central.

Breach of the "Victoria Registration Ordinance," No. 7 of 1866.

3. Lo A-hoi, a carpenter, was on the 31st March convicted of attempting to use a certificate of registration belonging to another person, whilst offering himself as security for a prisoner at the Magistracy, and fined $10 or twenty-one days' imprisonment in default.

Exposing a dead child.

4. Ho A-wan, a widow, was convicted on the 1st April of exposing the dead body of a female

child at a timber shed in Second Street. The

Magistrate fined her $20 or seven days' impri- sonment with hard labour.

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於情所四四日月九百一府 後選判日月起廿年七

案奪搶

號往工四個

號六點鐘示做·工四個月

往船政廳前椥 案斷作苦

儆

船另個月黃

發苦

洋

日本

判黃二監禁六 去方亞章

黃亞興船位紙 二日在皇

初三日爲搶奪 英本月初

張被拿到案 后中約槍 違 赴巡理府欲

理府自

香港巡

黃二黃四俱 鍾志恩肩

夫也於英本月 桃者也於

英挑鍾

在月也

月苦到少員韋 搶皇初於肩

案册報違

·則罰羅查担赴別十 天監銀海出

出保巡

禁士的册

册犯

員故紙人

紙人府册為

+ 斷非後欲紙用

也

羅海木匠

何允斄婦

於英三月三

也於英本

月初一日

屍於第二

街杉廠被

孩嬰死露暴

工天則十斷拿街屍爲

爲月 並 前監

作禁員

苦七否

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