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VOL. III. No. 100,
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NOTIFICATION The publication of the Hongkong Gazette under the authority of Government, wil be discontinued from this date : but all påblic orders and notifications appearing in "The Friend of China and Hongkong Gazette," with the signatures of duly authorized Functionaries of the Government are still to be considered as offelal.
Hongkong, March, 23rd 1842.
J. ROBT: MORRISON, Acting Secretary and Treasurer.
Government."
By order,
The other point much relied on by Sir Robert that they would not be answerable for losses incurred Peel was the fact that Government had given warning in prosecuting a contraband trade.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATIONS.
old plan of construction of having a rough head and Instances having come to the knowledge
rough sea. a fine run-aft to be best adapted for encountering a One great object to be accomplished was of Government of Individuals in the Public
to avail the formation of a head-wave, whichį, resists the Service quitting this Colony without previ These two arguments would be sufficient but for progress of a vessel as effectually as if it were so much ously obtaining leave, His Excellency the themselves into the scrape, and volunteered the respon. be best effected by increasing the length of the ship, one fact that Government by their officer, thrust deeper immersed in water. This, it was found, would Governor in Council is pleased to positively sibility which they had previously repudiated. Had for length seems to be an essential requisite. The prohibit the practice in future, and to an-they let the opium trade alone, Lot Palmerstons ca- shortest length for a boat required to move through the nounce, that any person doing so will be eat would have stood good to this day; although the water with a velocity of 17 miles an hour was found Indian Government, like some pious procuress, vend- immediately removed from the employ of ed the wares whilto it deprecated the sin. But they that part of the ship which floats on the surface of the to be 205 feet, and the shape of the water-line, or of meddled; first to get the tade legalised, then to get water, is thus calculated-The fore-part of such a The Heads of all Departments will be some kind of regulations agreed to; and finally, Capt.véssel, from the widest midship section, must be one held personally responsible for reporting to Elliot, their accredited officer, whose acts are cordially hundred and twenty feet, and be tapered off to a fine the most sweeping rousi lies to both sides; the repre- 85 feet, and the form more rounded, though still termi adopted the existing Government, chose to
e to incur point, like a Thames wherry. The afterpart must be sentative of a Government one branch of which acnating in a sharp point. Mr. Russell said that when tually dealt in opium, he undertook to the Chinese that old seamen and shipbuilders saw this plan they were all the stock of the drug would be surrendered; and positive that such a vessel could not live in a rough sex, as the representative of the Government at home, he as it was directly opposed to all their notions of ship- obliged the holders of the opium, then beyond the building, the cod's-head and mackerel tail form being reach of the Chinese, to deliver it up to him. Of the one they had always preferred. Experiments, course, Lord Palmerston, whem he said that any loss however, were made on a large as well as on a small to be suffered in consequence of the more effectual scale, with a view to test the qualities of the differently- execution of the Chinese laws, did not contemplate shaped vessels, some of the the execution of those laws by the intervention of a ships of 2000 tons burden, The results proved that experiments being made on
Government any infringement of this Not fication by those acting immediately under
them.
By order of His Excellency the Gover- nor in Council.
RICHARD WOOSNAM.
Government House, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th February, 1844.
Owing to the continued pressure of pu- blic business His Excellency the Governor regrets that he cannot devote more than one day in the week for the reception of Visitors that day will for the future be Thursday________—ang
By order
RICHARD WOOSN Government House, Victoria. Hongkong, 12th February 1
Tenders will be received at the drawn by HM. Plenipotentiary Hon'ble. the Governor Generd
for two Lacs of Company's Rupe
of Co. R. 10,000 payable at Fort Willia
after Sight, in exchange for Metion
blican dollars of equal Standard
Y
sury. The Bills will be delivered on re dollars.
CHAS. E. STEWART Treasurer and Financial Secretary. Treasurers Office, Government House, Victoria, 9th January, 1814.
BUILDING MATERIALS FOR SALE. NOTICE is hereby given, that on Thursday the 15th Instant the whole of the Materials of the Bar racks and other Military buildings at West Point will be sold by Public Auction, in the undermen tioned Lots, viz.
Lot 1 Guard Room
2 East Soldiers lower Barrack.
3 West do... do. 7 do.
South Soldiers' Barrack.
5 East Officers' Quarters.
6 West do. do
7 Outbuildings marked 7.
do. do.
The lots to be removed at the purchaser's ex- pense within one month from the day of Sale. Farther conditions of sale, and other particulars, to be known at this Office, or at that of the Com- manding Royal and Superintending Engineer, and the Buildings for be viewed en application to the Chinese Compradore in charge of them.
The Sale to take place at West Point, and to commence at noon.
EDWARD PINE COFFIN C. G.
Commissamat
Victoria 6th February, 1844.
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themselves, he did not mean that it must be born by
British officer: and when he said that the loss" must the plan now recommended is far superior to the best be borne by those parties rho have brought the loss on of the old forms of ships, and that, as compared with the cod's-head and mackerel tail construction, the ad- those parties when it was brought upon them by his vantage, when moving at the rate of seven miles an own vicegerent. Captair Elliot's demand for the sur-hour, was more than double, or, in other words, the render of the opiun to himself for the service of Govern.
resistance to the motion through the water was 62 to 129% and the advantage of the new form was found to
where
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onstruc- to bo the experiments is that
ure at this time twenty frst-clamzateamers cons.
A fine steam
as would in probability indemnify the owners for the loss of that particular stock of opium, They did not tructed of the sharppointed form, which surpass in undertake to pay what i jury would award, but to speed, and in the other requisites of a sea-boat, all those return the equivalent of the thing seized by their previously constructed on other models. agent. the price of Captain Elliot's scrip, the very vessel, the Vanguard, built on these principles, entered existence of which must have had a depressing effect
Cork Harbour from Dublin, on the first day of the me- on its own value, is not the value of the opium: Sireting of the British Association, having made the pas Henry Pottinger's opinion is not the value, nor is sage in three hours less time than had been over pro-- Captain Elliot's. In respect part of the drug, that
viously accomplished. - Ibid. sold by the Indian Government, the refusal to pay the invoice-cost is inconsistent with that common kind of
honesty in trade, which the pettifogging retail dealer
who has false weights would not venture to commit: it is, as we have before sild, precisely the case of the vendor who having sold some goods and sent them home to the purchaser by the carrier, insists upon having them back again, and then refuses to returii. the money or pay the carnage.
No one would desire Government to insure oplum smugglers against loss na contraband and perilous trade, or to pay a fixed price for all opium that might be seized by the Chinese Government; but the opium was seized by Captain Eliot, and surrendered to him on the faith of certain promises, Government adopt those promises in terms, but refuse performance. The receipt in full
- which they have extorted from the owners for half the money under pain of setting Their claim at defanco with a the power of the English Government, ko, réjé890 in justice and hondur excheque
the dấy mấy come, should the national er again bd solvent, when an Unglis may be ashamed to avail itself of a false receipt extorted by intimidation,
Russell
The following passage in the last Report of the Co- long! Land and Emigration Commissioners will be
read with interest ;
EMIGRATION FROM CHINA TO THE WEST IN DIES. — Another resource to which the West Indian commitect have directed attention consists of the Chinese emi- grants who are understood to frequent the straits of Malacca in search of employment. It is proposed that nene should be taken except from the British settle- ments in the Straits, and that any agreements formed with them should be witnessed by the proper magiste rial authorities there. The details are still under dis- cussion at your Lordship's office, with the gentlemen who have interested themselves in the scheme, If the labourers could have been landed free to engage with whom they pleased, and is public bounty have been at once paid upon them, this probably would have been deemed the simplest and best course of all; but it is expected that the Chinese, who are described as very ns, and fully alive to the protection of their can old probably refuse going to such distant the security of one certain engage- istances, it is conteinplated iter into contriots which shall
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