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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

EXTRAORDINARY

Published by Authority.

No. 42.

VICTORIA, THURSDAY, 15TH OCTOBER, 1874.

VOL. XX.

No. 163.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency Governor SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B., having this day departed for England on leave of absence, it is hereby notified that in accordance with Instructions received from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, and under the Provision made by the Royal Charter of Hongkong, this Government will be administered by the Undersigned until further order.

Government Offices, Hongkong, 15th October, 1874.

No. 164.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to make the following Appointments from this date, provisionally and until further notice; namely:-

The Honorable CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH, to be Acting Colonial Secretary and Auditor General. CHARLES MAY, Esquire, to be Acting Treasurer.

JAMES RUSSELL, Esquire, to be Acting Registrar General.

F. W. MITCHELL, Esquire, to be Acting Police Magistrate, vice RUSSELL.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th October, 1874.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Printed and Published by NORONHA & SONS, Government Printers, OswALD'S TERRACE, WELLINGTON STREET, Hongkong.