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Hongkong, 26th July, 1879.

454

No.169.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH JULY, 1879.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency the Administrator is pleased

to direct that Monday, 4th August, being a

Bank Holiday, is to be observed as a Holiday by

the Government Departments.

By Command,

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary,

Colonial Secretarry's Office,

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MAGISTRACY, HONGKONG,

28th July, 1879.

Summary of cases deserving notice decided at

the Magistracy of Hongkong, from 19th to 25th

July, 1879, both days inclusive.

Breach of "The Public Gambling Amendment Ordinance, 1876."

1. Ng A-ts'éung, of house No. 106, Jervois Street; Mung A-ts'éung, of house No. 9, Mercer Street; Lau I-ngan, of house No. 192, Queen's Road Central; Ch'an On-chi, of house No. 96, Jervois Street; Ch'an Lok-shang, of house No. 91, Bonham Strand; Wong A-shik, of house No. 80, Jervois Street; were each convicted, on the 19th instant, of keeping an agency for dealing in Wai-sing lotteries, and respectively fined $200.

Larcenies.

2. Li A-wong, a shroff unemployed, was, on the 21st instant, convicted of stealing jewellery and clothing to the value of $30, in licensed brothel No. 54. Chéung-hing Lane, the property: of one Leung Ngan-kwai, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour.

He was further convicted of having committed

a similar offence in licensed brothel No. 101 in West Street, and sentenced to a further term of six months' imprisonment with hard labour, to take effect from the expiration of the first

sentence.

3. Chéung A-yung, a bricklayer, was, on the 25th instant, convicted and sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour for lar- ceny of a pair of shoes, the property of one Ching A-kam. The defendant was identified as having been in gaol once before for larceny.

4. Chong Kwok tái, a seaman unemployed, was, on the 21st instant, convicted and sentenced to six months' imprisonment, the first and last fourteen days to be in solitary confinement and the rest with hard labour, and on the day pre- vious to his release from gaol to be publicly ex- posed in the stocks for six hours for stealing ten pieces of clothing, from a fishing junk at Yan- má-ti, the property of one Kwok Tái-hi.

5. Léung Tái-hi, a seaman, was, on the 22nd instant, convicted of stealing two anchors from a junk at Yau-má-tí, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour.

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