No. 64.
THE
DIEU
EI MON
Hongkong
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1854.
THE
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
THE 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,
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
Victoria, Hongkong, 24th September, 1853.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
N. R. Masson, Esquire, will officiate for the Acting Registrar of the Supreme Court, who has obtained leave of absence from the Colony till the 27th March next.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2nd December, 1854.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following particulars, connected with the discovery of a Coral Reef in the Straits of Lombock, have been received through the Harbour Master from the Master of the Ship Argonaut, and are now published for general information.
Tuesday, October 1st, at 2. 30 P.M. entered the Straits of "Lombock" between Banditti Island and "Lombock;" finding that Horsburgh's chart was very incorrect, endeavoured to keep in mid- channel which, at the entrance, is not more than a mile wide.
"At 7 P.M. very moderate, Ship going & of a knot, grounded on a Reef of Coral and stuck fast: when we struck we were heading N.E. by N. North point of Lombock N.E. † E. South point S.S. W. Banditti Island West, and Peak of Bally N. by W.
"In approaching the reef the water shoals from no bottom in 72 fathoms to next cast 23 and then to 7, and, before we could get another cast the Ship was ashore."
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Hongkong, 4th December, 1854.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The annexed amended Schedule of Burial and Monumental Fees is published for general inform- ation.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria,
Hongkong, 5th December, 1854.
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.