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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD APRIL, 1870.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The attention of Owners of Tenements assessed to the Police, Lighting, Water and Fire Brigade Rates, is requested to the Government Notification from this Department of the 7th instant.

Owners as aforesaid are reminded that the Names of Parties in arrear of the Payment of the Rates due on the 30th instant, have to be forwarded for recovery of the Arrears to the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, (in accordance with the Ordinance No. 9 of 1869), a Process subjecting Parties in Default to the Payment of Interest and Costs in addition to the assessed Rates.

FREDK. FORTH,

Colonial Treasury, Hongkong, 23rd April, 1870.

Colonial Treasurer,

POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified for general information that henceforward the fee for registering cach letter addressed to the undermentioned Foreign Countries, when forwarded in transit through the United Kingdom, will be 16 cents, instead of 24 cents as hitherto, viz:--

Austria.

Brunswick, (Germany.)

Birkenfeld.

Bremen.

Denmark.

Frankfort-on-the-Main.

Hamburg.

Hesse Darmstadt.

Hesse-Electoral. Hesse-Homburg. Hohenzollern.

Hanover. Heligoland. Lippé Detmold. Lubeck.

Lauenburg, (Prussia.) Mecklenburg. Norway.

Nassau, (Prussia.) Oldenburg.

Oregon. Prussia.

Reuss. Saxony,

Saxe Altenburg. Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Saxe Meiningen.

Saxe Weimar-Eisenach. Schamburg Lippe. Schwartzburg-Rudolstadt. Schwartzburg-Sonderhousen.

Sweden.

United States of America.

General Post Office, Hongkong, 22nd April, 1870.

No. 6.

[L.S.] H. W. WHITFEILD.

PROCLAMATION.

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.

By His Excellency HENRY WASE WHITFEILD, Major-General Commanding Her Majesty's Troops in China and Japan, and Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies.

Whereas under and by virtue of Section III of the "Chinese Passengers Act, 1855," His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B., Governor of the said Colony, did on the 2nd Day of April, 1870, under his Hand and Seal, Proclaim that certain Medicines and Medical Comforts in the said Proclamation mentioned should from and after the date thereof be added to and comprised within the Scale of Medicines and Medical Comforts contained in Schedule A of the said Act; And Whereas the said Proclamation was duly published in the Hongkong Government Gazette of the 2nd Day of April, 1870; And Whereas it is expedient to revoke and cancel the said Proclamation for the purpose of embodying hereafter certain Chinese Medicines in the Scale of Medicines to be carried by Chinese Passengers Ships:

Now therefore, I, the said HENRY WASE WHITFEILD, as such Lieutenant-Governor as aforesaid, by virtue of the Powers and Authorities in me vested in that behalf, do hereby Declare that the said Proclamation of the 2nd Day of April, 1870, is hereby revoked and cancelled.

Given under my Hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, at Victoria, Hongkong, this Sixteenth Day of April, 1870.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.