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THE FRIEND OF CHINA,
ND DONGBONG GAZETTE
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 'MORNING.
NOTIFICATION.
THE publication of the Hongkong Gn. sette under the authority of Governi will be discontinued from this date. public orders and notifications în ❝ The Friend of China and Hon
dette? with the gnatures of duly
1 Functionaries of the Government are still to be considered as official.
By order,
JROBT: MORRISON, Acting Secretary and Treasurer. Hongkong, March, 23rd. 1842......
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATIONS. It is hereby notified that Leases for all Lots and Parcels of Crown Lands hitherto allotted in this Colony under the denomina- tions of Marine and Town Lots, with the exception of those that have been specially reser you already intimated to the hold ers of them-pending the receipt of an an- swer to a reference which has been made to Her Majesty's Government) will be ready for delivery to the Purchasers or pre- sent Incumbents, on, and after Monday the 15th day of January 1844, and all persons wishing for, or requiring, information re- garding such Lots and Parcels, as well as the terms and tenure on which they are to be confirmed, are requested to apply to Alexander T. Gordon Esq. Land Officer, on any day subsequent to the 1st of January 1844.
By order of His Excellency the Governor and t under in Chief of Hongkong and
me Tu Excember
RICHARD WOOSNAM.
It is hereby notified that a Public Auc- tion of Leases of Crown Lands will be held at the Land Office on Monday the 22nd day of January–1844.--
The whole of the lots or parcels to be disposed of will be Town Lots, situated on the South Side of the Queen's Road, be- tween the Harbour Master's Hill and the
Master's Hill centre Police Station.
The lots will be marked out
vious to the day of sale an
he lines of the prop
of the lots
on the
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50 Copies of the "Chart of £1
China Seat,
Dangers nder the ity of the late
Board, Bengal dency, 30th May 13.
have been re- and will be
of to Parties may require em on application at the Office of the Harbour Master and Ma- rine Magistrate
781,50 Cents each Copy.
By order,
CHAS E STEWART. Treasurer and Financial Secretary the Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China.
Government House, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th December, 1843.
to
SALE OF PUBLIC STORES. NOTICE is hereby given, that the Sale of Provisions &c., announced on the 5th. natant, will take place at the Commissariat Store on Thursday the 21st Instant at 10 o'Clock, and be continued on the succeed. ing days as long as may be necessary.
The articles to be sold, may be seen on the two days preceding the sale, between the hours of eleven and two.
EDWARD PINE COFFIN, C. G. Commissariat,
Victoria, 11th December, 1843. ►
NOTICE.
WITH reference to the Notification dated 5th September 1843, regarding the Estate of the late Alexander Scott Esqr, deceased intestate, Notice is hereby given that they undersigned has closed the accounts, and handed over the Papers to the Treasurer and Financial Secretary to the Chief Su- of perintendent of Trade, to whom all future
reference is to be made.
His Excellency The Chief Superintend. ent of British Trade in Chin is pleased to notify to those persons who, previous to the departure of Captain Balfour from Canton, failed to establish their right to receive the amounts claimed from the late Hongs o Hingtae, Kingqua, and Mowqua, that, in accordance with that Officers notice, dated Canton 23rd July 1843, the funds have been removed to this Colony, and will be paid on, or after the 10th day of J ry 1844, on Acreation by
Authorised to
re
ive and gra Persons clan
tanc
Attorney, will be produce hin one year
amounts. parties
amount the date
CHASE. STEWART. Treasurer and Financial Secretary to the Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China.
Government. House, Victoria, Hongkong, December, 11th, 1843.
Her Britannic Majesty's Government having secured by a Lease for Twenty-five
newable at the pleasur
tim
G. F. DAVIDSON.
Victoria, Hongkong, 13th December, 1843. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. (To the Editor of the Friend of China.)
Victoria, Hongkong, 15th December, 1843.
Sir, beg
inform you that the Schooner Rosa is now at Hongkong, (being the first British Ve ver one hundred -1'ons hailing from that under the name of the "Coxer " com
Commanded
Your, obedient Servant,
W. H. FRANKLYN.
EXTRACTS FROM PEKIN GAZETTES.
Tax Emperor of Chinx has been pleased to order," that the officer appointed at the Custom house of Shanghse should be first rais man, throughly conversant with the character of for.
dns runde arrangements, before leaving Canton, that of expenditure hitherto derived from the fess
should be drawn from other soury
1
Land Office
any day after Monday
the 8th o
The
ilding which
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