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No. 154.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD AUGUST, 1878.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION

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EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.

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The following Notification is issued in pursuance of Resolution No. 2 of the Education Conference.

1. Boys wishing to be newly admitted after the Summer Vacation to any of

the Government Central School are requested to forward their application. to the Acting Inspector of Schools, on or before the 12th August, after wu. application can be entertained for the present year.

2. Each application must contain the following particulars :-

(a.) Surname and name of applicant;

(b.) Year, month and day of his birth;

(c.) Surname, name and address of his parents, or guardians or referees, resident in

Hongkong;

(d.) Number of years he has been studying, and titles of books he has successively

read, stating for each year of study the principal reading book he used.

3. Each application should further be accompanied, if possible, by a certificate of character and attainments from the hand of the Master of the school which he last attended.

4. After having sent in his written application, as detailed above, each applicant is requested to present himself, in person, before the Acting Inspector of Schools, at the Government Central School, between the hours of 9 A.M. and 1 P.M. on Thursday, the 15th August, when each applicant, found qualified for admission in the sense of Resolution No. 2 of the Education Conference, will receive a ticket authorising him to present himself at the usual entrance examination at the Government Central School, which will be held on Tuesday, 20th August, at 9 A.M., by the Acting Head Master of the Central School, who wi self determine the order of merit and consequent actual admission into the Centi ǝl.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office. Hongkong, 1st August, 1878.

No. 155

OVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

J. M. PRICE, Acting Colonial Secretary.

STAMP REVENUE.

The following abstract of the returns of the information.

"etor of Stamps, is published or general

By Command,

J. M. PRICE, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd August, 1878.

Revenue from Stamps during the month of July, 1878,..

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1877,.

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Increase on the month,

$11,395.95

9,483.08

$1,912.87

Revenue from Stamps during the first half-year, 1878, 1877,

$74,497.73

66,424.33

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Increase on the half-year,

$8,073.40

No. 147.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency the Governor is pleased to direct that Monday, 5th August, being a Bank Holiday, is to be observed as a Holiday by the Governiner t Departments.

By Command,

J. M. PRICE, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th July, 1878.