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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 14.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 6TH APRIL, 1878.
VOL. XXIV.
No. 62.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to grant Two months vacation leave and Five months leave on half-salary to the Honourable J. GARDINER AUSTIN, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary, and Auditor General.
His Excellency has made the following temporary appointments:-
The Honourable J. M. PRICE, to be Acting Colonial Secretary. The Honourable C. MAY, to be Acting Auditor General. EDWARD BOWDLER, Esquire, to be Acting Surveyor General.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th April, 1878.
J. M. PRICE, Acting Colonial Secretary.
No. 63.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. M. DEANE, Esquire, Captain Superintendent of Police, having reported his return to the Colony, has resumed his duties from this date.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th April, 1878.
No. 64.
J. M. PRICE,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Notice is hereby given, that His Excellency the Governor in Council, under and in pursuance of Ordinance No. 14 of 1862, entitled An Ordinance for granting Patents for Inventions within this Colony, has granted Letters Patent bearing date the 25th Day of March, 1878, unto the Honourable WM. KESWICK, of Victoria in this Colony, as Assignee of ABRAM LYLE, for and on behalf of the partners for the time being in the China Sugar Refinery of Hongkong, for securing to him as such Trustee as aforesaid, the exclusive right of using within the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, an Inven- tion, for which Her Majesty's Letters Patent have been obtained in England for "Improvements in Apparatus for shaping Sugar," for the residue of the term of Fourteen Years from the 29th Day of July, 1876, subject to certain conditions in the said Patent specified.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th April, 1878.
J. M. PRICE, Acting Colonial Secretary.
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