THE FRIEND
OF CHINA
AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
VOL. III No. 98.
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND SATURDAY.
VICTORIA, TUESDAY JANUARY 16ra, 1844.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATIONS The following appointments upon the Staff the Honorable Major General D' Aguilar Commanding the Land Forces in China to take effect from the 1st of January 1844, are published for general information.
Captain Henry Torrens D' Aguilar of the Grenadier Guards to be Assistant Mili- tary Secretary.
CONFUCIOS-The Emperor in the 8th moon direct vey Imperial prevente to the great Confucian Temple ed the Lieut. Governor of Shangtung Province to con- situated at Confucius's birth place in the district Kuk- Band
fow, Shangtung Province. This is done twice every year, viz. in the second and, in the eighth moons, such was the value of the last presents that the professed vout gratitude at the feet of Elis Imperial Majesty descendants of the Sage lay the expressions of their de
PRICE $12 per annúm.
NOTIFICATION The publication of the Hongkong Gazette, under the authority of Government, will be diamontinued from this date; but all public orders and notifications appearing the Friend of China and Hongkong Gazette," with the signatures of duly authorized Functionaries of the Government are still to be considered as official.
Hongkong, March, 23rd 1849.0
By order, J“ROBT: MORRISON, Acting Secretary and Treasurer. FORTIFICATIONS.An official Report is made to the established with Manilla. The following facts indicate tion of various fortifications in the Provinces of Keang eastern colonies of the Australian group. The Semi- Emperor detailing the particulars of the recent comple-the trade already created between Manilla and our soo and Ganhwuy.
(printed in English)has the following passage:-"SucaH. nario Filippino of the 19th of February, in its trade-list reduction in the prices ought to be looked for." Eetween The demand for Sydney being now nearly supplied, a the 1st of January and the 1st of February, 1843, it appears that 586 tons of sugar were shipped for Sydney ceive contains notices of vessels sailing to or arriving at Manill. Every Van Diemen's Land journal we re several notices of vessels from New Zealand arriving from Manilla. The Friend of China, too, contains
are emigrant vessels seeking freights for home, but it at Manilla and Hongkong. Most of these, doubtless, is certain that the Osprey and Anita were sent from New Zealand to Manilla and Hongkong, with and for freights, by the house of Reways, Gurton and tain very litle of general interest, being mostly filled that trade by these gentlemen. The Friend of China with the promotions and disgraces of officers, operations points out to the New South Wales colonists a pro- EARP; and we learn from unquestionable authority that the vessels named will be employed regularly in touching the usual land revenue, troubles from banchtimising market for the inferior wools: By the last great deal of interest, and cause great anxiety to the market only worth 2d. to 4d per lb.; coarse and accounts inferior and black wools were in the English Imperial mind.
Lieut. Charles D' Aguilar of the Royal Artillery to be Aid-de-Camp.
RICHARD WOOSNAM.
דניש קבד!
Government House, Victoria, Hongkong, 13th January, 1844.
Owing to unavoidable circumstances the Leases of Crown Lands in this Colony will not be ready for delivery until Monday the 22rid Instant.
The Mails for the Northern Ports and Chusan to be despatched by H. M's. Steamer VIKEN, will be closed at the Post Office Vic- toria at 5 P. M. on Friday the 19th Instant.
By order,
RICHARD WOOSNAM. Government House, Victoria
Hongkong, 15th January, 1844.
Ir is hereby notified that A Public Auction of Lessna of Crown Lands will be held at the Land Office on Monday the 22nd day of Ja ary 1844–
The whole of the lots or
will be Town Lots,
areer to ho disposed of
on the South Side of the
Queen's Road, between the Harbour Master's Hill
and the centre Police:
The lots will be marked out on the
to the day of
proposed Streets, the pos
and
wing the lines of the he lots or parcels to be sold c. &c., may be seen at the Land Office on any day after Monday the 8th of January 1844.
The class of Building which must be erected on cach lot, and all other particulats may be ascertained on ap- plication to the Land Officer fourteen days previous to the Sale, and the Lenses will be delivered to the Purchasers within one Month from the Day of Sale. By Order of His Excellency the Governor and Com: mander in Chief of Hon and its Dependencies,
RICHARD WOOSNAM.
Government House, Victoria, Hongkong, 12th December, 1843.
Tenders will be received at this Office for Bills be drawn by H M. Plenipotentiary in China, on the Hight, Hon'ble, the Governo India Council for two Lacs Rupees (2,00,000) in mots
General of Companys
paya
after Sight..
ble at Fort Willia Torty day
xchange for Mexican, or other Republi
Standard, payable into
before the 1st proximo. The Bill
on the 2ud, or on receipt of the dollars.
By order,
delivered
CHAS E. STEWART Treasurer and Financial Secretary,
Office. Government House, anuary 1844.
NINGPO AND CHINHAN BEROES-Many of the offi- cers who fought with the English at Chinhae and Ning: po have been rewarded for their meritorious exertions and bravey on the representations of His Excellency Lawyun-ko,Governor Generatof Fokeen and Chekeang Provinces,
The last Gazettes which have come to hand con-
&c. &c. The affairs of the Yellow River absorb a
eland
Hongkong MuditaTIONS.-A long file of the Friend of China has reached us.
re nobao recent as those we received by to hand alone,
bat coming leisure to peruse their mts and all, and of affairs in ions have
thus
Our You
sttlement.
Briti
路
had ap
the
of
do not seem to
nd at M
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Migar.
yellowish, 5d. to 6d. The former is the quality which tation may be sold in quantity at Ningpo and Shanghai, (if our reports be correct) there is a reasonable expes. when these ports are opened." A small, vessel, with an experimental venttire of an assorted cargo of candy, tea, &c., for New Zealand, was talked of at Hongkong and on the other hand, the arrival of the Omega, with a cargo of ice from Chusan, is announced in the
of China, on the 23rd of February. That energy and consequence will be given to this opening trade by the infer from the narrative in the same paper of an expe
presence of British enterprise, wo- rimental voyage by Mr. T. B. Surra, master of the
ood ship Wanderer, from Macao to Chusam,
strength of the north-eat m
ur to find room for this
in our next, mer
from Harlem's Bay to the Buffa thus proving # that bulky goods, depôt (Chun), at every period,
season.
ems of the
Enough has been said to show ‘now the settlement at Hongkong is working both for us, our colonies, and the natives, even before the four Chinese ports have bean opened. If there be (as we devoutly trust there ia) truth in the rumour that the cession to England of a district on the north coast of Borneo, obtained by MR. BROOKES, is to be sanctioned by Government, an honourable
and fucrative field of employment is open-
ough English ously at Canton, these
stirred the emulation of othe Singapor and Bataym But with
newspaper, has put both Spar on their mettle, and ac
Mamilla the Seminario Filippine the present year, the rora Macaense. Both journals, particular, are described as respectable journals, and
hat of Manilla well got up. The controversies between the Journaling for us in the eastern Archipelago and Chins; and of Hongkong, the British Government settlement, and the factory journals of Canton the mutual notices and controversies of the English, Portug journals-are a new intellectus Aud they are, by cre ducing fruits.
respondent of the tive necessity of refo
the port of Macao, clared a free port by
Aubmit to the
ympto
to
agencyin the far East.
the trade between these regions and our Australian colonies will enable the latter to become still better customers for ourselves ----Colonial Gazette.
hes been a discussion carried on relative le of the Petrel to discharge the cargo which ght last week from China: The Petrel was
American built schoo ner but was pur by British Firm at Canton on
on account of her She came to Bombay in the beginning year, when the question of her right to trade port was mooted. She then paid double duties allowed to depart, and having gone
Last week with
she came
Dou
By, order
WIL Harbo
DDER.
ŝonta will be sold two large
British
enjoya