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THE
Hongkong
Government
GAZETTE.
NEW SERIES.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 3D OCTOBER, 1857.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. III. No. 118.
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 PAPERS, of this Government.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.
r OTTO
ur Firm,
& Co.
No. 140.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
between JAMES es Public, 1. by the 28th day
KELL.
ice of the
TOMRY con of the exceeding
ARRI,
The following Return of Notes in Circulation and Specie in Reserve at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, is published for general information.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d October, 1857.
W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Account of the average Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, for the Month
ending 30th September, 1857, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.
NOTES ISSUED,..... SPECIE IN reserve,
$362,665.
200,000.
P. CAMPBELL, Manager.
> of Chili,
ICHARD
n the said
articulars
ll Persons
to pay the 7. HYATT.
ecutors.
I JAMES BRIME-
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ard parti MELOW;
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recutors,
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ms against nd them in
ted to the
ediate pay
Arrculura
Hongkong.. im Thirty-ris
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| Cents-On-
JB.
Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 1st October, 1857.
I inspected this day the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and hereby certify that the Amount of Specie
shown is in accordance with the Terms of the Charter.
J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.
Victoria, Hongkong, 2d October, 1857.
THE
POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer “NORNA," will close on SUNDAY, the 4th October, at 6 o'clock P.M.
The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAIL will be made up es the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M.; for a late fee of 6d.; and from 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 1s.
Letters posted between the hours of 11 and Half- past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.
WM. CHAPMAN,
Post-Master.
Hongkong, 28th September, 1857.
NOTICE.
THE
HIE Interest and Responsibility of Mr OTTO HEINRICH FRAMHEIN, in our Firm, wased on the 30th April last.
China, 20th August, 1857.
MR
•
NOTICE.
REISS & Co.
R THOMAS DEAS BOYD was admitted a
Partner in our Firm, on 1st ultimo.
MA FRANCIS DARBY SYME, on same date,
wired from our Firm.
F. D. SYME & Co.
Amoy, 26th August, 1837.
POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
T is hereby notified for Public information, that on and after the 1st October next, the Book Postage will be extended to Malta and Gibraltar, at the following revised rates, viz :-
Rates of Postage on Book Packets between Hongkong, and the United Kingdom, Malta, and Gibraltar.
For a Packet not exceeding 4 oz., *** For a Packet exceeding 4 oz. and not)
exceeding it,
&, d. 0 4
0 8
Do., exceeding ib, and not exceeding lib, Do, exceeding lib, and not exceeding 1, Do., exceeding 1b, and not exceeding 2lb, 28 and so on increasing 8d. for each additional Half Pound, or fraction of a Half Pound.
War. CHAPMAN, Post-Muster,
1 4
20
Post-Office, Hongkong,
29th September, 1857.
MR MORESBY, Notary Public and Solicitor, FFICES removed to the first door West of the Oriental Bank, late the Offices of Mr H. J. TARRANT, Solicitor, &c.
Hongkong, 3d August, 1857.
WE
FRED. FORTH, Colonial Treasurer.
NOTICE.
E have this day established at Shanghae, under the same Style, a Branch of our Firm
in China.
MR GEORGE BLAKEWAY is authorized to sign our name per procuration from same date.
VAUCHER FRÈRES. Hongkong, 16th August, 1857.
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.
BOTTOMRY. ENDERS will be received at the Office of the undersigned, for an advance on BOTTOMRY on the Chilian Ship “ BLOISA," until Noon of the Tenth of October proximo, for a sum not exceeding TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS, ($12,000.)
TORIBIO LAMBARRI, Consul for the Republic of Chili. Hongkong, 4th September, 1857.