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No. 113;

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH MAY, 1879.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, for general information,

that His Excellency the Governor has bestowed a reward of Fifteen Dollars on the Master of the Ts'ü-tì-on junk, in reward of services rendered

to eighteen shipwrecked people, he having picked them, up, on the 19th ultimo, at sea, near Tái- shing Island, treated them kindly on board and brought them to Hongkong on the 21st instant,

when they were taken charge of by the Tung- Wá Hospital Committee.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 6th May, 1879.

W. II. MARSH,

Colonial Secretary.

己卯年 閏三月 十六 日示

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督憲賞銀十五大員與該漁戶蓋嘉

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事邀 法則該委員無論三位或二位或獨自一位均可起立遵行且因此 士出身漢務參贊歐協同查辦但凡有緊要事務理合查察此事之

欽命總督香港等處地方兼理水陸軍務佩帶三等寶星蘸 來訊察應將所有供詞及該委員意見一幷伸陳本部堂

印蓋闆防派委副臬司法監獄司兼署庫務司湯署巡理府 賜進 輔國利民按此察訊情事藉派委員極爲委便故本部堂親繕文憑 札委飭知事照得現須察訊所有查賭暗差及設嚴禁章程庶幾

閏三月初九日示

No. 108.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Commission under the Hand

and Seal of His Excellency the Governor is

published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office,

W. H. MARSH,

尸 gkong, 29th April, 1879.

[L.S. J. POPE HENNESSY.

Colonial Secretary.

Whereas it is expe" nt and for the furtherance of public interests, at certain enquiries and investigations 'should be made touching the re- gulations and the machinery in force for the

detection and suppression of public gaming in the Colony of Hongkong, and whereas such enquiry and investigation will be most conveniently pro- secuted by means of a Commission :

I, JOHN POPE, HENNESSY, Companion of the most distinguished Order of Saint MICHAEL and Saint GEORGE, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, do hereby under my Hand and the Seal of the said Colony, appoint you JOHN JOSEPH FRANCIS, Esquire, Acting Puisne Judge, the Honourable MALCOLM STRUAN TONNOCHY, Acting Colonial Treasurer, and Super- intendent of Victoria Gaol, CHARLES VANDELEUR CREAGH, Esquire, Acting Police Magistrate, and the Reverend ERNEST JOHN EITEL, Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, and Inspector of Schools, or any three of you, to be a Commission for instituting and prosecuting all needful or proper enquiries in that behalf, and to take evidence in the premises, and to report to me all evidence so taken by you, and also your opinions thereon. And I do hereby require you to com- mence your enquiries forthwith, and to proceed therein continuously, and to make your report to me as aforesaid with all reasonable despatch.