It is for the perusal of the acquisition of this immense Language by Civil Servants of the Colony.
I have, &c.
No. 86.
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Wong Kong
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
THE Contract
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1855.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
List - Notice is hereby given, that the HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, this day established, will be hereafter the only Official Organ of Proclamations, Notifications, and all Public Papers of this Government.
By Order,
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
Victoria, Hongkong, 24th September, 1853.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. His Excellency Sir John Bowring, Knight, LL.D., has this day returned to the Colony and resumed his duties as Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 12th May, 1855.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Lieutenant-Colonel Hope Graham of Her Majesty's 59th Regiment having, on the departure of Colonel Griffin, R.A., assumed the Command of the Garrison, has been appointed by His Excellency The Governor to a provisional seat in the Executive Council of this Colony.
The Honorable Lieutenant-Colonel Graham has been this day sworn in as a member of the Executive Council accordingly.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 12th May, 1855.
Diplomatic Department.
Sir John Bowring, Her Britannic Majesty's Chief Superintendent of Trade, &c. &c., has received from His Excellency the Governor General of the Philippine Islands, the Official Announcement that the Ports of Iloilo and Sual in the Province of Pangasinan and the Port of Zamboanga in dependence of Manila, were by a Decree dated 31st March, 1855, declared open to Trade, and Custom-Houses formally established therein.
Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 12th May, 1855.
By Order,
W. WOODGATE.