THE
Hongkong
Government
GAZETTE.
NEW SERIES.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 14TH AUGUST, 1858.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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VOL. IV. No. 169.
The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that
"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE will, as hefore, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMAtions, Notifications, and Public PAPERS, of this Government.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.
No. 69.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency The Governor in Council has been pleased temporarily to appoint JOHN DAY, Esquire, to- ficiate as Attorney General of Hongkong, in the place of The Honourable THOMAS CHISHOLM ANSTEY, Esquire, who is suspended from the exercise of his functions, until Her Majesty's pleasure be known.
By Order,
W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 7th August, 1858.
No. 70.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified, that His Excellency The Governor in Council has been this day pleased to accept the resignation of THOMAS CHISHOLM ANSTEY, Esquire, of the Commission of the Peace for this Colony, as tendered by him on the 13th of May last; and that his name is accordingly removed from the List of Justices.
By Order,
W. T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 7th August, 1858.
No. 71.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
With reference to Government Notification No. 69, of the 7th instant, it is hereby notified, that JOHN Day, Esquire, was this day, at a Meeting of the Executive Council, sworn in as Acting Attorney General of Hongkong, pending the pleasure of Her Majesty's Government.
By Order,
W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial, Secretary,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th August, 1858.
No. 72.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
With reference to Government Notification No. 61, of 8th July last, the following Notice, respecting the completion of the Light-house, designated the "Hornby Light," on the Inner South Head at the entrance of Port Jackson, is published for the information of Shipmasters.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 12th August, 1858.
THE HORNBY LIGHT.
W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.
THE TREASURY, New South Wales, 2d June, 1858. The Lighthouse on the edge of the cliff forming the Inner South Head, at the entrane of Port Jackson, being now completed, and the Eght exhibited, it is hereby notified, for general information, that the same shall be designat d the "Hornby Light.”
ROBERT CAMPBELL.
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