THE
POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
The Hongkong Government Gazette.
IE Next GENERAL MAILS, per Steamer “SHANGHAE,” will close for BOMBAY, EUROPE, &c, on Saturday, He 25th Insternt, at 6 o'clock T.M. A SUPPLEMENtary Mail will be | made up the following morning from 7 to half-past 7. LETTERS received for a late fee of 6d.
WM. CHAPMAN,
Post-Master.
Hongkong, 24th July, 1857.
Steam for
NOTICE.
THE next CRIMINAL SESSIONS of the SUPREME
Couture will be held, on FRIDAY, the 31st, instead of Saturday, the 5th) day of July, A.D. 1857, at 12 o'clock at Noon.
By Order of the Court,
NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON,
Acting Registrar.
NOTICE.
HE business hitherto carried on by the under-
THE bed, an die the style of TRAUTMANN SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, | & Co., is hereby declared closed.
ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES,
& SOUTHAMPTON;
Also,
BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA- tion Company's Steam-ship “SHANGHAE,” Captain ROSKELL, with Her Majesty's Muils, Pas- sengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on SUNDAY, the 26th Instant, at 9 A.M.
CARGO will be received on board until Noon on the 24th; SPECIE until Noon on the 25th; and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 25th Instant.
For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PassagE, apply at the Peninsular & Öriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.
CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE
REQUIRED,
A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.
ROBT, S. WALKER, Superintendent.
Peninsular & Oriental
Steam Navigation Company's Office,
Hongkong, 24th July, 1857.
THE
NOTICE.
THE Interest and Responsibility of MR JAMES SMITH in our Firm, ceased by his death on the 2d of July.
SMITH & BRIMELOW.
Hongkong, 22d July, 1857.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
TESSRS SMITH & BRIMELOW have re-
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All Outstanding Business will be taken charge of by Messrs HARKORT & Co.
J. F. II. TRAUTMANN. Shanghae, 30th June, 1857.
WE
NOTICE.
E have removed our Establishment from Canton to Shanghar, and have admitted Mr J. F. H. TRAUTMANN a Partner in our Firm from this day.
HARKORT & Co.
Shanghae, 1st July, 1857.
NOTICE.
[JULY 25, 1857.
NOTICE.
Orrick or SuPERINTENDENT OF POLICY.
CENTRAL POLICE STATION, 15th July, 1857.
MAENDERS will be received by the undersigned, on and before the 27th instant, for TRIMMING, LIGHTING, and KEEPING CLEAN, Two Hius. DRED AND FIFTY, or more, PUBLIC OIL LAMPS, " in the Districts of TARPINGShan, Cheung-WAN, SHRONG-WAN, &c., for Six Months, commencing on the 1st August ensning. The Person tendering will: be required to furnish OIL, WICK, and the necessary LABOUR for Lighting and Keeping alight the said Lamps during the night. The Lamps and Burners will be furnished by Her Majesty's Government.
Further particulars as regards Size of Lamps and LOCALITY OF District will be given on application at the above Office.
The Persons tendering to send in Samples of On and WICK.
A. GRAND-PRE, Acting-Superintendent of Follow
In the matter of the Estate of the late Mr JAMES SMITH, of the Firm of SMITH & BRIME LOW, of Victoria, deceased.
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OTICE—All Persons having Claims on the said Estate, are requested to forward parti culars of the same to Mr JAMES W. BRIMELOW; HE undersigned being about to close their Busi-
ness, request that all Outstanding Accounts and all Persons indebted to the said Estate, are re- may be sent in for Liquidation within Fourteenquested to pay the respective amounts thereof, to the
Baid JAMES W. BRIMELOW. Days from this date.
THE
EDULJEE FURDONJEE & Co. Hongkong, 13th July, 1857.
NOTICE.
THE Interest and Responsibility of Mr HENRY DAVIS in our Firm, ceased by his death on the 22d Instant.
DAVIS & LAWRENCE. Hongkong, 28th February, 1857.
THE
NOTICE.
THE Partnership heretofore subsisting between WILLIAM GASKELL and JAMES BROWN, as Attorneys, Solicitors, Notaries Public, and Proctors, at Hongkong, was dissolved, by the decease of the said JAMES BROWN, on the 28th day of April, 1857.
WILLIAM GASKELL. Dated this 29th day of April, 1857.
NOTICE.
D. LAPRAIK, Į
Executors. A. S. DIXSON, ƒ
Hongkong, 11th July, 1857.
FOR SALE.
YOMMERCIAL
GUIDE,
4TH
COM
EDITION
William's DICTIONARY in the CANTUN
DIALECT; also
William's MAP OF CHINA, in ENGLISH and in
CHINESE
Apply at the Rev. J. W. JOHNSON's, Gouyh
Street, Hongkong.
Hongkong, 20th May, 1857.
FOR SALE.
At the Office of the “China Mail." LANK Forms of--POWERS OF ATTOR
BLAN
NEY. WILLS, CHARTERPARTIES, BILLS OF EXCHANGE, BILLS OF LADING, SHIPPING ORDERS, COMPRADOR'S CHECK form of SHIP'S BILL OF SALE
Mceived instructions to sell, an MONDAY, '[HE Partnership of the undersigned, under the | BOOKS, SHIPPING ARTICLES, and the newes
the 27th day of July, 1857, by Order of the MORTGAGES, under a Power of Sale,-
All that PIECE or PARCEL of ground, situate at Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, con- taining in the whole Six Thousand and Four Hundred Square Feet (6,400 sq. ft.), Registered in the LAND OFFICE as ÎNLAND LÓT No. 481, in the name of YEONG Assow, with the BUILDINGS thereon erected.
TITLE direct from the Crown. Annual Ground Bant £20, 6s. Ad..
For further particulars apply to
WM, GASKELL, Queen's Road,
Solicitor for the Mortgages..
Hongkong, 21st July, 1867..
Firm of A. LUBECK & Co., was dissolved by mutual consent on the 2d of June, 1855. Any unsettled affairs will be settled by either partner.
Victoria, Hongkong,
25th June, 1857.
L. A. LÜBECK. FRANS KNOOP.
In the Estate of HENRY DAVIS, of Victoria, Hongkong, Merchant, deceased.
A
LL Persons having Claims against, or being in- debted to, the above Estate, are requested, to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned forth with.
HENRY RUTTER, Administrator.
Hongkong, 17th March, “1857,
Also,
SAILING DIRECTIONS for the Rivan Mın; And,
A Table, shewing the COST OF TEA, with a CHARGES-Tea, as bought by the Picul, and sold i the Pound Avoirdupois.
19th March, 1857.
Printed at the Office of the Ching Mail, Hongkong. PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty-s Cents. TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,—Five Lines and under, O Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Centa-On half of these charges for snoh Repetition.