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$4.—FEBRUARY 7, 1857.) The Hongkong Government Gazette.
POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. or next GENERAL MAILS for BOMBAY, it ROPE, &c., per Steamer "CADIZ" will SATURDAY, the 14th instant, at 6 o'clock, isual SUPPLEMENTARY MAIL will be made
wing morning from 8 to 10 o'clock A.M., to G.; and from 10 till noon, for a late fee After which hour no Letters can be received.
WM. CHAPMAN, Acting Post-Master.
Past Offer, Victoria, Hongkong,
4th February, 1857.
POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. eflowing Instructions having been received by His Grace The Post-Master General, are
published for general information :—
NOTICE.
Office of DANISH CONSUL at Foo-chow Foo. by Resident Merchants of that place, will be received by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Copenhagen,
is hereby notified, that Applications to fill the
until the end of April Next
By Order,
FRED. H BLOCK, H. S. M. Consul.
Danish Consulate, Hongkong,
7th February, 1857.
NOTICE. ARTIES forwarding to this Office, in pursuance
POTENTIARY to the BRITISH COMMUNITY of Canton, under date the 8th ultimo, particulars of CLAIMS for LOSSES recently sustained by them at that Port, are A New Postal Convention having just been con-
with FRANCE, the provisions of this convention informed by the undersigned that these Statements
HARRY S. PARKES, to operation on 1st January, 1857. A re-should be furnished them in Duplicate.
Consul Offg. to Three-pence per quarter ounce, instead of
Office of the British Consulate for Canton, nce per quarter ounce, will be chargeable after este above mentioned, in addition to the uniform
Hongkong, 6th February, 1857. A rate of Gd, per half-ounce, upon all Letters d between the United Kingdom and nging, making the total charge for a letter-
if not exceeding ounce.
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De Convention also reduces the charges upon a conveyed directly between France and Hong- ing; and it has been agreed that, upon all Letters weled between France and Hongkong, the entire Brush Sea Postage shall be collected in France.
Under this arrangement, the Red Sea rate of One Sare the half ounce, hitherto levied in Hongkong
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letters contained in the Mails to or from ? weer, wili no longer be chargeable; and no Postage converance shall hereafter be collected in ng, either on the despatch of letters to France,
e ma the delievery of letters from France.
By Order.
WM. CHAPMAN, Acting Post-Muster.
Poe Office, Victoria, Hongkong,
4th February, 1857.
SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, Vitoria, HongRONG, 5th February, 1857. TO BUILDERS AND OTHERS. "TICE is hereby given,-that Persons willing 10 CONTRACT for the EXECUTION OF PLA SCURBAL WORKS-in constructing a New 144 Wall, from Marine Lot No. 104 Eastward, to be the Coast Road along the Parade, and Westward. Marine Lot No. 101 to join the Sea Wall of beline's Wharf; in forming the New Strand Road; in Fang in the Groned between such New Road and sent Sea-front of the Several Marine Lots; wip continuing the several Culverts and Drains, &C 4-ear inspect the DRAWINGS, SPECIFICATIONS, *NG CONDITIONS OF CONTRACT at this Office, on and
he Monday, the 16th instant, between the hours
* a.m. and 4 P.M.
THOS. S. WALKER, Acting Surveyor General.
NOTICE.
E have this day entered into Partnership as GENERAL MERCHANTS and COMMISSION hers under the Firm of DAVIS & LAWRENCE, ** which will merge the Affairs of Messrs F. W. LAWRENCE & Co.
HENRY DAVIS.
F. W. LAWRENCE.
Fgkong, 7th February, 1857.
NOTICE.
E have established a Branch of our Firm
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al Fukchaw, and Mr ROBERT N. VESTALL is authorized to sign our Firm at that dues by procuration.
SMITH, KENNEDY, & Co. Kionghoa, 19th January, 1857.
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NOTICE.
Cory of the JURY LIST for 1857 is posted up at the SUPREME COURT HOUSR for in pec- tion. Notice of any Inaccuracies, Omissions, &c., must be given IN WRITING to the Registrar on or before the Twenty-first day of February instant, in accordance with the Provisions of Section 3 of Or- dinance No. 4 of 1851.
WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER, Registrar. NOTICE.
THE undersigned, being about to leave the Colony
by the February Mail for Europe, requests that all Claims against him may be sent in before the 10th February, and that all Debts due to him may be also paid before that date.
H. WINIBERG, Commercial Hotel
Hongkong, 20th January, 1857.
NOTICE.
THE Interest and the Firm, ceased on THE Interest and Responsibility of Mr EDMUND
31st December last.
Our Firm now consists of WILLIAM WALKINSHAW, WILLIAM HUTCHISON, JOHN SCARTH, and ROBERT FORRESTER THORBURN.
TURNEK & Co, Hongkong, 12th January, 1857.
NOTICE.
WE
E hereby give notice, that the Co-partnership heretofore 'existing between us under the firm of ARMSTRONG & LAWRENCE, hns been this day dissolved by mutual consent. The Accounts of the late Firm will be liquidated by F. W. LAWRENCE.
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J. M. ARMSTRONG. F. W. LAWRENCE.
Hongkong, 31st December, 1856.
NOTICE.
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LL Porsons having Claims against the ESTATE of the late THŪMAS B. GRAY, are re the Tenth day of February proximo; and all persuns quested to send them in to the undersigned before indebted to the said Estate are requested to make
immediate payment to
AND. S. DIXSON,
Execulor.
Ilongkong, 21st January, 1857.
NOTICE.
R ALFRED JAMES HOW is a Partner in
our Firm.
MR
W. H. WARDLEY & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1856.
NOTICE.
ENRY EUSTACE TALBOT is authorized to
HENRYour Firm per procuration, and transact
any Business connected therewith.
SMITH & BRIMELOW.
Hongkong, 5th January, 1857.
NOTICE.
of Firm of WETMORE &
CAN- TON, FOOCHOW, and Shanghae, China, having been duly made on the 12th July, 1856, to the under- signed, in trust for the benefit of their Creditors, and recorded in the United States Consulate at Canton: I hereby give notice to all concerned to make pay- men to me of all Sums due to, and to present to me any Claims against, the said Firm.
Assignment of the Property, Real and Personal,
OLIVER H. PERRY. Canton, 7th August, 1855.
NOTICE.
THE ARCHIVES of H. B. M. Consulate AT CANTON, are for the time transferred to the GOVERNMENT OFFICES, HONGKONG, where any Official Communications to H. M.'s Consul can, until further notice, be addressed.
By Order of Her Britannic Majesty's Consul,
CHARLES A. WINCHESTER,
Vice-Consul
Office of the British Consulate for Canton, Government Offices, Hongkong, 22d December, 1856.
In the Estate of ODIARNE TREMAYNE LANE, deceased.
LL Persons having Claims against, or being ALI
indebted to, the above Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned
without delay.
Hongkong, 7th January, 1857.
H. F. HANCE, Executor.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. In Equity,
STEPHENSON v. MURROW.
T IS HEREBY NOTIFIED,—that all Monies, now or henceforth to become payable to the THE PARTNERSHIP heretofore existing at this
late firm of MURROW, STEPHENSON AND COMPANY, Port, between the undersigned, under the Style
be paid to JOSEPH FROST EDGER, Esq., (or his of WILLIAMS, ANTHON & Co., expires this day by lapse of time and mutual consent. The outstand Deputy,) be having been lawfully appointed Receiver ing Accounts will be settled by either Partner; and in the said suit, by virtue of an Order of this Honour- a strictly AGENCY & COMMISSION BUSINESS will be able Court; the receipts of the said JOSEPH FROST conducted by them as Partners at the PORT OF SINGA-EDGER being alone good discharges for such monies.
Dated the 13th day of November, 1856. PORK under the Style of WILLIAMS, ANTHON & Co.
C. D. WILLIAMS, H. ANTHON, JR., G. L. HASKELL
Hongkong, 1st September, 1856.
In the Estate of ALEXANDER RYRIE, Master Mariner, deceased.
LL Persons having claims against or being in- debted to the above Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned
P. RYRIE, Administrator.
forthwith.
Dated 17th November, 1856.
GASKELL & BROWN, Complainants' Solicitors.
FOR SALE.
At the Office of the “ China Mail."
A TABLE, shewing the COST OF TEA, with
all CHARGES-Tea, as bought by the Pieul, and sold by the Pound Avoirdupois.
PRICE, $12 per Annum. Bingle Copies, Thirty-six Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong-
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