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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH JANUARY, 1873.

NOTICE,

A Public Examination of the Scholars at the Government Central School will be held on Tuesday next, the 21st instant, at 10 o'clock A.M.

His Excellency the Governor will distribute the Prizes at Noon.

Central School, 16th January, 1873.

NOTICE.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Head Master.

The Superintendent of the Fire Brigade will be glad to receive the Names of such English and Foreign Residents as are willing to be enrolled as Volunteers in the Brigade.

A Badge will be given to each Volunteer, and he will be expected to attend all Inspections and Fires.

The Days on which Inspections will be held will be previously advertised in the local Papers.

C. MAY, Superintendent Fire Brigade.

Hongkong, 17th January, 1873.

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No. 221.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Notice is hereby given, that the Privilege of preparing and selling Prepared Opium within this Colony for the term of Three Years, from the 1st March, 1873, under the Provisions of Ordinance No. 2 of 1858, will be put up to Public Auction at the Government Offices, at Noon, on Monday, the 3rd February, 1873.

The conditions under which the Auction will be held are hereunto annexed; but the Government does not bind itself to accept the highest offer.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd November, 1872.

1.-No Person to bid unless he shall, prior to the time of sale, have deposited in the Colonial Treasury the sum of $5,000 as a pledge of the bona fides of his offer. The bid of every Person who, shall have failed to make such Deposit shall be deemed void. The deposit will be returned on demand to the Owner thereof, in case he should not be the successful Bidder.

2. In case the highest Bidder shall have failed to deposit the sum of $5,000 in the Treasury before the Auction, in pursuance of the First Condition, or shall be otherwise disqualified to bid, or in case any dispute shall arise between two or more bidders,--so often as the same shall happen, the bidding shall be re-opened and shall continue until the highest qualified bidder shall be ascertained.

NOTICE.

Registration of Births and Deaths among Persons other than Chinese.

Register Books for the Registration of Births and Deaths amongst Persous other than Chinese, will be kept only at the Registrar General's Office, in the Supreme Court House, where all reports of Births and Deaths, which may occur on and after the 1st January, 1873, must be inade.

The Registers of Births or Baptisms, Deaths and Burials, which may occur in the Colony of Hongkong, on and after the First day of January, 1873, will be kept in the Registrar General's Office. Every person is entitled to search such Registers and relative Inventories or Indexes in the Custody of the Registrar, upon every week day, except Saturday, from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M., and every Saturday between 10 A.M. and 1 P.M. For every search of a Register extending over a period not less than One Year, the sum of Fifty Cents will be charged, and Twenty-five Cents for every additional Year, and for every Certified Extract of any single Entry in the said Registers the suin of One Dollar.

For every particular search of an Index, the charge is Fifty Cents, and for every general search Two Dollars. In the case of a particular search, the Applicant must indicate a particular Name or Entry, while in the case of a general search, he does not require to specify the object of such search. Inventories are kept and Certificates of Entries can be obtained only at the Registrar General's Office.