THE
Hongkong
Government
GAZETTE.
NEW SERIES.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 13TH NOVEMBER, 1858.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. IV. No. 182.
The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that
“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE" will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, Notifications, and Public Parkas, of this Government.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
No. 105.
PROCLAMATION.
JOHN BOWRING.
By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.
Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, Baronet, M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinance, namely,--
No. 9 of 1858, entitled-
"The Markets' Ordinance, 1858 :”
Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed as aforesaid.
By His Excellency's Command,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 9th Day of November, 1858.
No. 106.
PROCLAMATION.
FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
JOHN BOWRING.
By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China:
Her Majesty's Pardon is hereby granted unto GEORGE WISE, at present confined in the Common Gaol at Victoria, under Sentence of Transportation,-on condition that he do not return to this Island or the Waters thereof.
By His Excellency's Command,
GOD SAVE THE Queen.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 10th Day of November, 1858.
No. 107.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
His Excellency The Governor having received Instructions from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to dispatch a party of Sixty Chinese Convicts to Labuan: Notice is hereby given, that Sealed Tenders for the conveyance of such Convicts to that Colony, will be received at this Office, up to Saturday, the 27th instant.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 13th November, 1858,
FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.