THE FRIEND OF CHINA.
AND
WONGBONG
GAZETTE
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
VOL.
NORILLIA
Tue publication zette under the au will be discontinu public orders and
"The Friend of Chi
the Hongkong Ga
zette,” with the rignature
this date
rized Functionarion of the ( still to be considered an official,
ernment are
By order.
J Rob Morrison,
Acting Secreth and Treasurer.
Hongkong, March, 23rd. 1842.
the Constel toed in a recent
gerated stories at River having f. t on the 3rd instant. was sounding and Ford shot were ely to the Fri- to the Governor, special orders to
o repeat much an act Batisfactory expla- here the Chinese were have been all in notice to the boat by to leave firing
THE CANTON RANSOM,
(from the
Foar William ș
of India)
THE appointments of Land Officer, Surveyor, and Acting Colonial Surgeon at Hongkong, are, under Instruction from Her Right Hon'ble Majesty's Government, to cease from 31st of the current month.
the
cil has great mation of the they have been forble the Court
The arrangements to be continued the discharge of the duties hitherto per- formed by the Land Officer will be notified in due time.
By order
Chas. E. Stewart.
Assistant Secretary and
Government House.
Hongkong, 17th May, 1812.
PUBLIC NOTICE.
reasure
THE Sale of two Boats (ordered confiscated and sold as having be
ically employed) of which notice
given that it would take.
the 14th Inst. is deferred till Saturday the
21th Inst.
WILLIAM PEDDER
letter to the
Para,
ing you that as
Majesty entertain ful exertions of and of our Service China, the Queen that a grant be made of money received. Canton under the Co
We now, enclose
54 of 1942-The ral of India in Coun. shing for the infor,||
igraphe, “hich to the Honor
Military ncil.
nity of appriz:
Price 11 monthl
Or
the engines, of 400 horse power, were constructed, by Messra Maudslay, Sons, and Field, with copper boilers and cliungo water apparatus, which keeps the salt wa ter below a certain point, and by that means prevents any deposit taking place, so that a vessel migla procesi on a yoyage to India without inscrustation to the extent of the thickness of a sixpenny piece. The cylinders are double,on the expansion principle, and the consump tion of fuel can be adinirably regulated to suit any aircumstance of slow or quick sailing, she has also disconnecting gear to work one wheel without the other if found necessary
Whilchall, Feb. 14th Tue Quean has been pleased: to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto Jamsetjen Jeajeobhoy, of Bombay, in the East Indies, Esq.
the
GENERAL HOME INTELLIGENCE.
Urwards of sixty firms in Manchester, who trace distress of the cotton trade to the high price of pro- visons, trace that to the sliding scale, and recommend an early struggle for a fixed duty, Their proofs aro eertainly demoustrative.
a
IRELAND.
THE Lord Mayor of Dublin says that the last ticket (for a teetotaller) he saw signed by Father Mathew was marked PIVE MILLIONS, TWO THOUSAND, SEVEN HUNDRED AND Two. At least 10,000 more have taken Majesty's the pledge since,
tions an
ed to direct ortion of the sum Thorties at.
concluded by
one only
Minute by the
shall consist of the
SHIPS LOADING AT
Priva
LONDON.
Elizabeth, for Madras and China. Raymond, and Judith Allan, for Hongkong, Pink for Singapore and China. Anna Maria for Chins.
Orrier. The personnel of the
Lord Aberdeen, including the ide by the resignation of Mr. Un. Backhouse is as follows:
es, Viscount Canning and Mr. If, Precis Writer, W. B. Stohpford, Esq, Secretary to Lord Aberdeen, C. G. Dawkins Esq Collector and Transmitter of State Papers, Arch- deacon Goddard. In consequence of the press of busi ness relating to the slave trade, four clerks have been attached to that departmen
BY ORDER
Harbor Master,
Harbor Master's Office
Hongkong 12th May 1842.
lowen been
of an sum which may have 3 gratuity to any portion of the
son of Viscount Duncan
FROM THE PREN
DEFENCES OF THANTUNG PROVIN
Shan tung
nes the
ncamp
or the Mea
Tò Kwan foo (li
Province) kneeling
of ablet
troops are
still
office
mard,
The Hon. S Ponsonby, on, and the Hon, C. Spring
Rice, son of Lord Monteagle, are to retain their ap pointments as junior clerks
King of the French has conferred two gold ins Shape and Ward masters of the merch vessels, in testimony of ed by them to the French frigate ked in the China Seas in November,
that it is the intention of can
tax pr
of 3 per sintention to maka duties, The
gow railway was opened
requiring neither a damp soil Just been introduced from
Bolia Into
at the
for a