The Hongkong Government Gazette. [No. 85.-FEBRUARY 14, 1857.
POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION,
E next GENERAL MAILS for BOMBAY,
EUROPE, &c., per Steamer "CADIZ” will close on SATURDAY, the VAth instant, at 6 o'clock, r.m. The usual SuPPLEMENTARY Maut, will be made up the following morning from 8 to 10 o'clock a.M., for a late fee 6d,; and from 10 till noon, for a late fee of is. After which hour no Letters can be received.
WM. CHAPMAN, Acting Post-Master,
Post-Office, Victoria, Hongkong,
4th February, 1857.
Steam for SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;
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BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM Naviga- TION COMPANY's Steam-ship CADIZ, Captain ALDAM, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on SUNDAY, the 15th instant, at 2 r.at.
CARGO will be received on board until 5 F.M. on the 13th SPECIE until Noon on the 14th; and PARCELS until 2 r.. on the 14th.
For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental 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 decluation.
ROBT. S. WALKER,
Superintendent.
Peninsular & Oriental
Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 2d February, 1857.
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NOTICE.
is hereby notified, that Applications to fill the OFFICE OF DANISH CONSUL at Foo-chou foo, by Resident Merchants of that place, will be received by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Copenhagen, until the end of April Next.
By Order,
FRED. H BLOCK,
H. S. M. Consul.
Danish Consulate, Hongkong, 7th February, 1857.
NOTICE.
WE
́E have this day entered into Partnership as GENERAL MERCHANTS and COMMISSION AGENTS under the Firm of DAVIS & LAWRENCE, 1 into which will merge the Affairs of Messrs F. W.
LAWRENCE & Co.
HENRY DAVIS.
F. W. LAWRENCE,
Hongkong, 7th February, 1857.
NOTICE.
Cory of the JURY LIST for 1857 is posted
WE
NOTICE.
E have established a Branch of our Firm at Fuhchau, and Mr ROBERT N, WESTALL is authorized to sign our Firm at that Port by procuration.
SMITH, KENNEDY & Co. Shanghae, 19th January, 1857.
NOTICE.
PARTIES office, in
of the intimation of HER MAJESTY'S PLENI 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 informed by the undersigned that these Statements should be furnished them in Duplicate.
HARRY S. PARKES, Consul Offy. Office of the British Consulate for Canton, Hongkong, 6th February, 1857.
NOTICE.
ENRY EUSTACE TALBOT is authorized to
A up at the SUPREME COURT House for inspec-Hign our Firm per procuration, and transact
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- dinunce No. 4 of 1851.
WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER, Registrar.
NOTICE. HE Interest and Responsibility of Mr EDMUND NEWMAN SNÓW in our Firm, ccused on 31st December last.
THE
FORRESTER THORBURN.
Our Firm now consists of WILLIAM WALKINSHAW, WILLIAM HUTCHISON, JOHN SCARTH, and ROBERT
TURNER & 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, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent. The Accounts of the late Firm will be liquidated by F. W. LAWRENCE.
J. M. ARMSTRONG. F. W. LAWRENCE. Hongkong, 31st December, 1856.
NOTICE.
a strictly AGENCY & COMMISSION BUSINESS will be conducted by them as Partners at the PORT OF SINGA- PORK under the Style of WILLIAMS, ANTHON & Co.
SURVEYOR General's Office, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 5th February, 1857.
THE PARTNERSHIP heretofore existing at this TO BUILDERS AND OTHERS.
Port, between the undersigned, under the Style OTICE is hereby given, that Persons willing of WILLIAMS, ANTHON & Co., expires this day to CONTRACT for the EXECUTION or by lapse of time and mutual consent. The outstand- THE SEVERAL WORKS-in constructing a Nawing Accounts will be settled by either Partner; and SEA WALL, from Marine Lot No. 104 Eastward, to join the Coast Road along the Parade, and Westward, from Marine Lot No. 101 to join the Sea Wall of Pedder's Wharf; in forming the NEW STRAND ROAD; in Filling in the Gronud between such New Road and the present Sea-front of the Several Marine Lots; and in continuing the several Culverts and Drains, &C., &c., inay inspect the DRAWINGS, SPECIFICATIONS, and CONDITIONS of ContracT at this Office, on and after Monday, the 16th instant, between the hours of 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.
THOS. S. WALKER, Acting Surveyor General.
C. D. WILLIAMS, H. ANTHON, JR, G. L. HASKELL.
Hongkong, 1st September, 1856.
NOTICE. 'R ALFRED JAMES HOW is a Partner in
our Firm.
MR
W. H. WARDLEY & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1856.
any Business connected therewith.
SMITH & BRIMELOW. Hongkong, 5th January, 1857.
NOTICE.
AN Assignment of the Property Real and Personal,
of the Firm of WETMORE & Co. of 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.
OLIVER H. PERRY,
Canton, 7th August, 1855.
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 late firm of MURROW, STEPHENSON AND COMPANY, be paid to JOSEPH FROST EDGER, Esq., (or his Deputy,) he having been lawfully appointed Receiver in the said suit, by virtue of an Order of this Honour- able Court; the receipts of the said JOSEPH FROST EDGER being alone good discharges for such monios,
Dated the 13th day of November, 1856.
GASKELL & BROWN, Complainants' Solicitors.
FOR SALE.
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