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THE FRIEND
OF CHINA
AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND SATURDAY.
VOL. IIJ. No. 107
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, FebruarỶ 17TH, 1844.
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PRICE12 per ianun.
NOTIFICATION The publication of the Hongkong Gazette under the authority of Government, will be discontinued from this date: but all pable 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 oficial.
Hongkong, March, 23rd 1842.
J. ROBT: MORRISON, Acting Secretary and Treasurer,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, The 23rd day of August, 1843,
FRESENT
By order,
Possessions abroad", it was enacted that there should His Excellency the Governor in Council,is plea-several Duties of Customs, as the same are respecti. lea- be raised, levied, collected and pad to Her Majesty, the sed to direct the publication of the following Order,vely set forth in figures in the Table of Duties therein made by Her Majesty in Crunch granting to after contained; upon Goods, Wares, and Merchandi. Citizens of the Republic of Hayti, the privilege of
ze not being the growth, production, or 1 trading directly, with Her Majesty's Colonial Pos of the United Kingdom, or of any of the British Pos- sessions, in Ships built,Navigated and owned,as re- sessions in America, or of the Mauritius, or of any of quired by the laws of Navigation of England. the British Possessions within the limits of the East
RICHARD WOOSNAM.
India Company's Charter, or the produce of any of Government House, Victoria,
the British Fisheries imported or brought into any of Hongkong, 15th Feburary, 1844,
the British Possessions in America, or the Mauritius by Sea or Inland Carriage or Navigation; And whe of Duties, and certain Dutes therein mentioned are reas divers Articles are enumerated in the said Table
therein made payable upon such Articles respectively: and the duty of 4 per centum ad valorem is made pay- The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. able on Articles not enumerated, except such as are comprized or referred to in the Table of Exemptions WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Par subjoined to the said Table of Duties. And whereas it liament held in the 3rd and 4th Years of the Reign of is also enacted by the said Act now in recital that it His late Majesty KING WILLIAM the Fourth, intituled shall and may be lawful for Her Majesty, by and with "An Act to regulate the Trade of the British Posses the advice of Her Privy Council by any Order or Or. sions Abroad," after reciting that by the law of Navi- ders in Council to be issued from time to time, to di- gation, Foreign Ships are permitted to import into any of the British Possessions Abroad, from the Countries an Article chargeable under this Act as an unenume- rect that any article described in such Ordet, being to which they belong, goods, the produce of those Co-rated Article with a Dut of 4 per centum ad valorem untries, and to export goods from such Possessions, to shall be added to the list of Exemptions thereinbefore be carried to any Foreign Country whatever, and that set forth, and shall be free from such Duty, and from it is expedient that such permission should be subject and after the time mentioned in such Orders for the to certain condition; it is Enacted, that the privileges commencment of such Exemptions, not being less than thereby granted to Foreign Ships, shall be limited to
six months from the date thereof, such Exemption shall Ships of those Countries, which having Colonial Postake effect, and such Article shall thenceforth, while sessions, shall graut the like privileges of trading with such Order shall continue in force, be free from such those Possessions to British Ships; or which, not ha. Duty accordingly; and any such Order may at any ving Colonial Possessions, shall place the Commerce time be suspended or revoked by Her Majesty, with and Navigation of this Country and of its Possessions the advice of Her Privy Council, by any other Order Abroad, upon the footing of the most favored Nation, in Council, unless His Majesty, hy His Order in Council, shall in any case deem it expedient to grant the whole or any part of such privileges to the Ships of any Foreign Country, although the conditions afore- said shall not in all respects be fulfilled by such Foreign Country.
And whereas Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, doth deem it expedient to grant the aforesaid privileges of trading with the British Possessions Abroad to the Ships of the Republic of Hayti.
Now therefore Her Majesty doth by the advice afo- resaid, and in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in Her respectively vested by the said recited Act, Order, declare and grant that from the date here of and in the mean time until Her Majesty in Coun- cil shall be pleased to revoke or determine this Order by any other Order in Council, it shall be lawful for Vessels to import from the Territories of the Republic of Hayti into any of the British Possessions Abroad, goods, the produce of the said Territories of the Repu. blic of Hayti, and to export goods from auch Possessions to be carried into any Foreign Country whatever.
Provided always that nothing herein
contained shall be construed to prevent the Vessels of the Republic of Hayti from trading with any of the British Possessions in Europe, to such extent and in such manner as they lawfully may under the Laws of Navigation now in farce.
Provided further that nothing herein before contained shall extend or apply to the Possessions of the East India Company.
Provided always that the privileges hereby granted shall be confined to Vessels of the Republic of Hayti, built, owned, and naviented as required by the British Laws of Navigation for the time being in force.
And the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and the Right Honorable Lord Stanley, one of fler Majesty's Principal Secreta ries of State, are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.
C GREVILLE
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. His Excellency the Covernor in Council is ple ased to direct the publication of the following Order made by Her Majesty in Council Exemp ting from Duty Specimens illustrative of natural History on their importation into Her Majesty'
RICHARD WOOSNAM.
Colonial Fossessions.
Government House, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th February, 1844.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE
The 23rd day of August, 1843,
PRESENT
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council,
WHEREAS by an
Hament held in th
the Session of Pur Years of the Reign of An Act to amend the Laws for the Regulations of the Trade of the British
Her present
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And whereas specimens illustrative of Natural His tory, are not enumerated in the said Table of Duties, neither are they comprized or referred to in the said Table of Exemptions; and whereas Her Majesty, with the advice. of Her Privy Council, hath thought fit, for the encouragement of the study of Natural History: that specimens illustrative of Natural History should be exempted from the Duties imposed by the said recit. ed Act.
on the
TENDERS will be received at this Offee until by Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in China, Monday the 19th Instantat Noon, for Bills to be drawn Right Honorable the Governor General of India, in Council, for two Lacks of Com10,000 pay able
(Cos. Rs. 200,000) in sets of Cos. Rs.
at Fort William, Thirty days after sight, in Exchange for Spanish Dollars (broken coin) pay able into this Treasury a 717 Taels per $1000 agreeable to the Government Standard.
The Tenders to be Sealed and marked, Tenders for Bills on India Excharge for Spanish Dollars.
By Order,
CHAS. .E. STEWART. Treasurer and Financial Secretary, Treasurers Office, Government House, Victoria, 10th Feby. 1844.
NOTICE.
A Mail for England via Bombay per Clipper Thrusday the 22 instant. "Antelope" will be closed at this Office at 4 P. M.
Post office,
Victoria, 16th February, 1844.
ENGINEER CONTRACT:
at this Office until the 17th February at Noon from "Notice is hereby given that Tenders will be received such persons as may be willing to contract "for taking down, removing and rebuilding the temporary Hospital and temporary lower Barrack at Chuckchoo agreeably manding Royal and Superintending Engineer. to specifications to be seen at the Office of the Com-
EDW. PINË COFFIN. Commissary General,
Victoria, 12th February, 1844. Commissariat, China;
following, from the Naval and Military Gazette, al. We offer no apology to our Readers, for copying the though to some of them it may not be new-
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ments, the public, appear entirely to overlook that of With all their avidity, for new Colonies and Settle- port Essington-Favorably situated for trade either to India, China, or Now South Wales.-Within a few days sail of Timor, Lombock, Bailli, and many other Islands, where labor can be hand cheap.-Capable, within itself, of growing nearly al. torpical productions; and possessed of an excellent harbour-yet with all these advantages we venture to assert, that one half of our countrymen are not aware, that such a place belongs to Great Britain,
Now, therefore, under and by virtue of the said Act of Parliament, and in exercise of the powers thereby in Her Majesty in Council in that behalf vested, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Coun- cil, doth Order, and it is hereby Ordered accordingly, that specimens illustrative of Natural History, being
THE settlement of the Chinese trade by the recent Articles chargeable under the said Act with a Duty tariff gives an opening for the employment of British of 1 per centum ad valorem, shall be, and the same capital, which may be made most beneficial to the coun- are hereby added to the list of Exemptions in the said recited Act set forth, and that, from and after the 1st try if proper means be taken to cause the Chinese also to participate in the advantages arising from an incred day of February, 1844, the said Articles shall be free
sed and more friendly intercourse.. It is our object to from such Duty as fully and effectually as if such Ar-introduce into China as many of our manufactures as ticles had been inserted and enumerated in the said posible, and take from them in return as much money Table at the time of passing the said Act.
and raw material as we can; but in supplying them with our cottons, woollen cloths, wrought iron goods, earthenware, glass. ., ., we must recollect that they also are a manufacturing people, and that they are well aware that the introdution of our clothes, &c, will throw
their artisans out of employment, We must, GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
therefore, devise some means of enlarging our trade The following Arrangements for the conveyance with them, without starving their manufacturing popu- of letters between the Military Stations of Check-lation, or we shall so distress that over peopled ompire Choo and Saiwan and the City Victoria are pu- blished for general information.
And the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and the Right Honorable Lord Stanley, are to give the necessary directions he rein accordingly.
C. GREVILLE.
At 11 o'clock a. M. on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays the Mail Bags for the above named Sta- tions will be closed and despatched to the addresses of the Adjutant of H. M's. 98th Regt, at Check-Choo and the Commanding Officer at Saiwan on appli- cation to whom the letters will be delivered. And at the same hour on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays the Mail Baga will be closed at Check Choo and Saiwan an
and despatched to the Post Office
Victoria.
By Order,
RICHARD WOOSNAM. overnment House, Victoria,
Hongkong, 15th February, 1844,
two Lac
in sets of Co.
days after Sig
publican dollars *ronsury dollars.
The Bills wil
By orderp
Fort William.
ican or
into tinis ed on receipt of the
CHAS E STOWART Treasurer and Financial, Secretary, Treasurers Office, Government House, Victoria, 10th February, 1844.
as to force them once more to try with us the chances
of war,
of rico.
Rice is an import which is always welcome in China, and could we become large dealers in that article of universal consumption, we should always find ourselves welcome in the markets of the Celestial Empire. Qu the northern coasts of New Holland are many tracts of country peculiarly favourable to the production Let the experiment be first tried at Port Essington, where we now have a small settlement. There, during six months in the year, the climate is both hot and wet, and a large plain of twenty miles long, by six or eight broad is frequently covered with eighteen inches or two feet of water; while, in the dry seasonpil throws out a luxuriant grass, growing generally four or five feet high. No place, we think, could be better adapted than this for the cultivation of rice; hut as the thermo- meter ranges during the year between eighty and ninety degreas of Fahrenheit, it would be too hot for European feld labourers. Port Essington is less than twenty days sail from Hongkong taking the monsoon with you; IS efore sufficiently near China to enable grain te be sent without an extraordinary expense of freight indeod, Bally from whence rice 18 yearly shipped for China, is only about four or five days mail from Port Essington. Hongkong is now overflowing willie Chine- se, who have settle
place, and Singapore and Penang count amongs the natives of thing.
Ir most valuable inhabitants. We think therefor
houlty would be experienced tu inducing any number of familes to settle at Port Essington, for the
but little further than Sincapere, and not so far off as Penang
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