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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH SEPTEMBER, 1869.

Appendix B.

RETURN of CONVICTIONS of Foreigners for Serious and Minor Crimes and Offences, during 1868, in Hongkong.

3 64

2

255

0

444

15

154

9

59

Estimate of 'Foreign' Population, including Soldiers and Seamen, Ratio of Convictions for Serious Crimes,.....

.7,199

1.0 per cent

"

Assaults and Disturbances on board ship, · Minor Offences,

3.2

}

4.2 per cent.

9.0

13.2

"

461

TOTAL.

14

6

1,039

W. M. DEANE, Captain Superintendent of Police.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Owners of Tenements assessed to the Police, Lighting, Water and Fire Brigade Rates, are informed that the Rates are payable in advance during and within the month of October, for the Fourth Quarter of the year 1869.

1869.

After the 31st October, Rates not paid are recoverable under Section 2 of Ordinance No. 9 of

Colonial Treasury, Hongkong, 25th September, 1869.

FRED. FORTH, Colonial Treasurer.

POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified for general information that under the Provisions of a Treasury Warrant which will come into operation on the 1st October next, correspondence addressed to Constantinople will be forwarded at the following reduced Rates of Postage, which must be paid in advance, viz. :-

:

For LETTERS:

20 cents each half-an-ounce weight.

For NEWSPAPERS, PACKETS OF PATTERNS, AND Books:

2 cents each two ounces up to half-pound, and 8 cents for every additional half-pound.

General Post Office, Hongkong, 23rd September, 1869.

No. 112.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.

It is hereby notified that under the Provisions of Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, Thursday, the 28th Day of October next, is fixed for a Special Sessions of the Justices of the Peace, to be held at the Police Magistrates' Office, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon of that day, for the purpose of considering Applications for Licenses for the sale of Spirituous and Ferimented Liquors during the year commenc ing on 1st December next.

Applications for such Licenses must be lodged at the Police Magistrates' Office at least Ten Days before the Sessions, in the form prescribed in the said Ordinance, and no Application will, after that period, be received for submission to the Sessions.

Printed Forms of Applications may be obtained. by intending Applicants at the Police Magis- trates' Office between the hours of 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.

By Command,

18၊

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th September, 1869,

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.