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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

No. 24.

No. 122.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 8TH JUNE, 1872.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. XVIII.

The following Regulation made by His Excellency The GOVERNOR in Council, in pursuance of Section IV of Ordinance No. 2 of 1872, is published for general information.

The Section referred to is as follows:-

"IV. Every Person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Ten Dollars who shall utter Shouts or Cries or make other Noises while playing the Game known as Chai-Mui, between the Hours of “11 P.M. and 6 A.M. within any District or Place not permitted by some Regulation of the Governor "in Council."

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th June, 1872.

REGULATION

Made by the GoVERNOR in Council, in pursuance of Section IV of Ordinance No. 2 of 1872, this 4th Day of June, 1872.

It is not permitted to utter Shouts as Chai-Mui, between the Hours of 11 Bonham Road, and the District to the

or Cries or make other Noises while playing the Game known P.M. and 6 A.M. in No. 5 District, Queen's Road, the Praya, South thereof.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

No 123.

Approved in Council,

A. E. KENNEDY, Governor.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Decision of the Marine Court of Inquiry into the loss of the British steamer Douglas, Official Number 53,246, is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th June, 1872.

FINDING OF THE COURT.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

1st. We find that the British Steamer Douglas, Official Number 53,246, of Aberdeen, whilst on her voyage from Swatow to Amoy, on the 29th ultimo, did, at about 8.15 P.M. of that day, run on the Dioyu Rocks situated about five miles E. N. E. of the North point of the Island of Namoa, and was there totally lost.

2nd. We find that from a position off Bay Island to a position determined by cross bearings of Difficult Island and Fort Head, a distance of about eight miles, the Douglas had been set one mile to the South of her course.

3rd. We find that from the last mentioned position, the vessel was steered a course to the Eastward, scarcely any allowance being made to counteract the effect of the current which had been expe- rienced during the previous three quarters of an hour, and to this oversight we ascribe the loss of the Douglas.