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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,

號九十六百一報憲

各十示

各銀行放假之期

憲 十七日卽禮拜一日乃 示期放假事照得六月 署理輔政使司史 爲

現奉

香港巡理

乃月篇

府自已卯

年六月初

護理督憲恩准是日本

已卯年

務爲此示俾衆週知 港各衙署一體停辦公

所判案情

初七日止

選錄於後

六月

初八示

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong. 26th July, 1879.

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-tséung, of house No. 106, Jervois Street: Mung A-ts'éung, of house No. 9, Mercer Street; Lan I-ngan, of house No. 192, Queen's Road Central: Chan 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 Yau- má-tí, the property of one Kwok Tái-hi.

5. Léung Tâi-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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二堂案私號樂成

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乍畏街一百零六

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匠張

梁帶喜水

手也於本

月初四日

在油蔴地

船上偷去

大員被拿到案官

官判監禁三 禁六個月首尾

銕錨兩門

竊物件也

一號娼察亦犯偷 其在西街一百零

竊 斷監禁六個月並 再行監禁半載蓋 作若工另期滿日

工緣該犯前

個月並操苦

被拿解案

牢餘則-

作苦

官斷監禁

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工另監期滿日

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苦半官被 船在

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