No. 17.
THE
DIEU
ET MON
ROIT.
Hongkong
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1854.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
THE
HE Contract hitherto in force for the publication of GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATIONS having ceased on the 21st instant, -Notice is hereby given, that the TONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, this day established, will be hereafter the only 'Official Organ of Proclamations, Notifications, and all Public Papers of this Government.
By Order,
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
Victoria, Hongkong, 24th September, 1853.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified, that the Government Rents due for the Current Half year will be payable on the 25th instant, and for Twenty one days following.
Colonial Treasury, Victoria, Hongkong,
20th December 1853.
NOTICE, is Dispatch of the Criminal Business of
OTICE is hereby given that the December Session of
the SUPREME COURT, will be held on Monday the 16th day of January, 1854; at 12 o'clock, Noon.
By Order of the Court,
WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER,
Acting Registrar. Supreme Court, 9th December 1853.
A
NOTICE.
Copy of the JURY LIST for 1854 is posted up at the COURT HOUSE for inspection. Notice of any inaccuracies &c., must be given in Writing to the ACTING REGISTRAR on or before the 22nd day of January instant, in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1851.
WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER,
Acting Registrar,
OTICE is hereby given, that the Copartnership here- tofore subsisting between YORICK JONES MURROW and JAMES STEPHENSON under the Style or Firm of MURROW, STEPHENSON & Co, has been this day dissolved. The undersigned, assuming the responsibili- tics of the said Firm. will in future conduct the business on his own account and in his own name.
Hongkong, January 2d, 1854.
Y. J. MURROW.
THE
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Treasurer.
PUBLIC AUCTION. SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG,
W. T. Mercer, v. R. N. Beauvais.
THE undersigned has received instructions from the
Bailiff of the SUPREME COURT to sell by PUB LIC AUCTION on Tuesday next, the 17th January, 1854,all that piece and parcel of LAND, known and regis- tered in the LAND OFFICE as Inland Lot No. 9, situa- ted on the QUEEN'S ROAD EAST, and containing 3,520 Square feet, at annual Ground Rent of £ 12.17.0.
TERMS OF SALE Cash.
C. MARKWICK,
Auctioneer.
Hongkong, 14th January, 1854.
N'g Tuck Hung, v. Rawle, Drinker & Co.
is that under the writ furniture, Office furniture, Merchandise, or Goods and Chattels whatsoever in the house or godowns of the Defendants will be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION on Saturday, the 21st day of January instant. Particulars will be given in handbitis
issued in the above action, all the Household
CHARLES MAY, Acting Sheriff of Hongkong. Sheriff's Office, Victoria, 13th January, 1851.
Diplomatic Department.
His Excellency Her Majesty's Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, is pleased to direct that the annexed Returns of British Trade at the Port of Ningpo, during the Year ending 31st December 1852, be published for general information.
W. H. MEDHURST, Officiating Secretary to H. B. M.'s Plevqeindinry, &., &.
By Order,
Superintendency of Trade, Hongkong.
10th January, 1854.