THE FRIEND OF CHINA,
EDUNGKONG
NOTIFICATION.
GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
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The publication of the Hongkong Ga-
fer the authority of Governm discontined from this date but all orders and notifications appearing The Friend of China and Hongkong cazette,” with the signatures of duly au- horized Functionaries of the Government
still to be considered as official.
By order,
J ROBT MORRISON, Acting Secretary and Treasurer. Hongkong, March, 23rd. 1842..
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATIONS. THE annexed General Memorandum is- subd finder date the 7th Instant by His Ex- cellency Vice-Admiral Parker, G. C. B., Naval Commander-in-Chief &c. &c. is pub- Hished for the information and guidance of all Her Britannic Majesty's subjects and others whom it may concern.
By Order of His Excellency Her Brittan nic Majesty's Plenipotentiary, Chief Sup- erintendant of Trade &c. in China,
RICHARD WOOSNAM.
Victoria, Hongkong, November 9th 1843.
GENERAL ME
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Cornwallis at Hongkong.
7th November, 1843.
THURSDAY NOVI
9TH, 1843.
except the five Ports before mentioned, will render themselves liable to seizure, and they pay a line of one thousand dollars each detention by the Chinese Authorities, tintil Person. And it is therefore to be hoped and expected that Linguists, or other Sub- jects of China will not be sent on there as the medium of communication, except at the five Ports aforesaid. •
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(Signed) W. PARKER,
Vice Admiral,
The Respective Captains, Commanders, and Commanding Officers of Her Majesty's Ships and Vessels, and those of the Indian Navy employed, and to ...... be employed in the CHINA SEAS. (True Copy) RICHARD WOOSNAM.
MAILS for Singapore, the several Resi- dencies of India &c. and for England, will be closed at the Post Office, Victoria, at 5 P. M. on the 14th instant, and will be des- patched on the following day, by Her Maj esty's Steamer "SPITEFUL,"
[By order]
RICHARD WOOSNAM. Govertitient House, Victoria, November 3d, 1843.
NOTICE — With reference to the Govern- ment Notification under date 18th Septem-
all Personk having
against he later on ble Fr ISON, he same known ANDERSON, Victoria, to whom all debt due are to
eers aforementioned memorialized the Emperor, beg- Since that time our great Ministers, and high Off.
and to draw up regulations, entirely new from the ging that he would authorize them to frame mearupes for the furtherance of justice, and the common good, commencement to the close; and whatever they found incompatible with the general good, to abolish and re-
tention to meddle in any conceivable way. As all the peal it altogether. But with respect to the Warehouses of the old and the new merchants, it was not their in- aforesaid Merchant's warehouses are things which work men have need of, and as the packhouses, and such like places, they cannot but be indispensable Old expe. rienced merchants who have travelled much, and un erstand clearly the nature of the principle, have already plainly expressed it in words, and have said, that it alike respects the interests of both parties (the buyer' and the seller): So that it is no longer necessary to ask the Magistrate any questions about it. And the prin ciple is this, namely; that the Warehouses
of every na. involve the owners in trouble,but in the conduct of bus- tion ought to be really profitable things, and should not iness, pre destined to have a great many advantages. quiries concerning the old as well as the new merchants We the high Commissioner &c., made many in- Warehouses. But there is no occasion for looking backwards or forwards, as we are viewing each other with a hope that the merchants ships of every nation than this is neither necessary, nor convenient. Ità will soon open their holds and land their cargoes. Mare
appeared, that the wish of the hong, merchants is to thrust aside and to mislead, and that the question of letting the new Warehouses is encumbered with many doubts aud anxieties. Hence we halt and stumble, and make no advances. To accelerate the progrew of this Proclamation is issued, and it is published with special reference to the old and the new Warohoo that all men may know and understand, that ever This there shall be no difference between the old and the new Warehouse. And that agreeably to the tenor and spirit of the Tarif, merchants of every nation shall trade on the same footing, always saving and those wbb are leagued together with the object frauding the revenue, and persons who deal which or get gain by sindling and knavish nces are several
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kwade 23d year 7th instant mouth. (A true translation) G. TRADESCANT LAY,
Officiating British Consol, Gaston. (True copy) RICHARD WOOSNAM,
His Excellency Sir HENRY POTTINGER, Bart., for the information
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Government House, Victoria,
Hongkong, 27th October, 1843.
[Copy] No. 121.
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