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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

No. 17.

No. 83.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 27TH APRIL, 1878.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. TORNADO AT CANTON.

The following correspondence is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th April, 1878.

VOL. XXIV.

J. M. PRICE, Acting Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 13th April, 1878.

SIR,-On behalf of this Government and of the inhabitants of Hongkong, I venture to ask you to convey to His Excellency the Viceroy the deep sympathy of the whole community here on the sudden blow that has befallen Canton.

I am making arrangements with Mr. PRICE for endeavouring to repair one small part of the disaster, that relating to the Gardens at Shameen. From the Gardens at Government House, the Public Gardens, and ink I may safely

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shall send you up young trees, shrubs and plants to fill, to some sugut extent, the place of those that have been destroyed.

To Dr. HANCE,

I am, &c.,

J. POPE HENNESSY.

British Consulate, Canton.

[No. 22.]

H. M. CONSULATE, CANTON, 18th April, 1878.

SIR,-As requested in your Despatch of the 13th instant, I conveyed to His Excellency the Viceroy the expression of the deep sympathy felt by Your Excellency and the whole of the inhabitants of Hongkong at the calamity with which this city has been visited; and I have now the honour to for- ward a copy of the communication just received from the Viceroy, expressing His Excellency's acknowledgment for the same.

I am also desired, both by the Shameen Municipal Council and the Trustees of the Garden Fund, to whom I made known Your Excellency's most generous offer to supply trees and other plants, to replace those destroyed by the whirlwind, to tender their sincere thanks, on behalf of the entire foreign community, for the kind sympathy shown, and the aid so promptly offered; and to state that they will most probably be glad to avail themselves of the proffered aid, when time has enabled them to clear away sufficiently to ascertain what is required.

With the expression of my own special thanks for Your Excellency's humanity and courtesy on this sad occasion,

I have, &c.,

H. F. HANCE,

His Excellency

JOHN POPE HENNESSY, C.M.G.,

Governor and Commander-in-Chief,

Hongkong

Acting Consul.