No. 26.
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Hongkong
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 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 HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, this day established, will be hereafter the only Official Organ of Proclamations, Notifications, and all Public Papers of this Government.
By Order,
Victoria, Hongkong, 24th September, 1853.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
In pursuance of Ordinances No. 2 of 1845 and No. 3 of 1851, it has been determined by His Ex- cellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council of Hongkong, that a rate of Five per cent be paid, for the year commencing from the 1st January, 1854, on the Valuation of Property liable to Police Assessment. The amount of the First Quarter will be payable from that date.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong,
17th March, 1854.
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
Police Rate Office, Central Police Station,
17th March, 1854.
It is hereby Notified that the Police Rate for the current year, being five per cent upon the assessed annual rental of property, is required to be paid in dollars; excepting, only, in cases where the rent is payable in Sterling monies, when, upon reasonable proof thereof being given to the undersigned, the Police Rate will be received in Sterling.
C. MAY,
D. R. CALDWELL, Assessors and Collectors of Police Rate.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The Subjoined Notice, relative to a Lighthouse recently erected on Gabo Island, off Cape Howe, on the Coast between Sydney and Melbourne, is published for general information.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 13th March, 1854.
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, Sydney, 29th December, 1853.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
IS Excellency the GOVERNOR GENERAL directs the publication, for general information, of the subjoined notice, containing a description of the Light which has been established at Gabo Island, and which he has been pleased to designate the "Flinders Light," in honor of the late Captain Matthew Flinders, Royal Navy, and in testimony of the eminent services rendered by him to the Australian Colonies by the numerous hydrographical surveys which he made of the Coast and Harbours.
By His Excellency's Command,
E. DEAS THOMSON.