A telegram was received here a few days ago to the effect that the Governor, Sir H. A. Blake, would leave England on July 15th for Hongkong. This quite does away with a report which had been current that Sir H. A. Blake would not reswne his office of Governor of Hongkong. It is not known yet whether Lady Blake is accompanying' the Governor.
The New Attorney General, The Hon. Sir Henry Berkeley, K.B., made his first official appearance in the Supreme Court on the 2nd inst., when the Chief Justice (His Honour W. Meigh Goodman) welcomed him in the name of the Court. The Chief Justice, in the course of his remarks, commented on the wretched accommodation provided in the existing building, and expressed the hope thai the Government would push on with the erection of the new Law Courts, the foundations of which had taken two years to Jay.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.