NOTICE.
A
LL Claims against the Estate of the late WILLIAM ELLIS, must be sent in to the undersigned, on or before the 8th day of April, 1854, and all Parties indebted to the said Estate, are requested to make payment to
T. JONES GIBB, Administrator.
Hongkong, 10th October, 1853.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
By order of W. H. ALEXANDER, Esq., Acting Registrar
of the Supreme Court of Hongkong.
HE undersigned will sell by AUCTION, at his Sale
The undernamed deceased Persons' Estates,---
PEDRO D'SOUZA,
MUNNOO,
J. WASHBURN,
DEEN MAHOMED, CHINEAH,
Consisting of PICTURES, 1 CHEST OF DRAWERS, BOXES, and WEARING APPAREL.
CHARLES MARKWICK, Government Auctioneer.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Circulars, received from The Right Honourable The Secretary of State for the Colonies, having reference to the Universal Exhi- bition for Agricultural and Industrial Products to be held at Paris in the Month of May, 1855, are published for general information.
By Order,
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 3rd November, 1853.
(Copy.)
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET, 9th May, 1853. SIR,-At the request of the French Ambassador at this Court, I have to acquaint you, that a Uni- versal Exhibition for Agricultural and Industrial Products will be held at Paris in May. 1855; and that every facility will be afforded at the French
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ing to parties residing in the British Colonies who Custom-houses to the admission of Goods belong- may be desirous of forwarding Articles for Exhi- bition.
I shall have the honour of communicating to you further particulars on this subject so soon as the necessary arrangements shall have been com- pleted by the French Government.
I have, &c.,
(Signed,) NEWCASTLE. Governor Sir G. BONHAM, Bart, K.C.B.,
&C.,
&C.,
&c.
(Copy)
CIRCULAR.
Hongkong.
DOWNING STREET, 18th July, 1853. SIR,-With reference to my Circular Despatch of the 9th May, I have further to communicate to you the liberal intentions of the Government of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French, Goods to the Great Industrial Exhibition at Paris respecting the admission of Foreign Prohibited in May, 1855.
Foreign Prohibited Goods may be admitted for His Majesty's Government have decided that all Exhibition, and may be afterwards either re-ex- ported free of all duties, or may be sold in France upon the payment of an ad valorem duty at the rate of Thirty per Cent.
I have, &c.,
(Signed,) NEWCASTLE. Governor Sir G. BONHAM, Bart, K.C.B.,
&C.,
&C.,
(True Copies,)
&c. Hongkong.
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
Printed and Published by ROBERT STRACHAN, at the Hongkong Register Office, Queen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong,
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