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The Hongkong Government Gazetię.

STEWART ALEXANDER

MERCHANT, deccased. Parties having Claims against the te, are requested to notify the same en or before the 1st day of May,

A TURNER & HAZELAND,

to the Administrator, May, 1859.

Steam for

PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, HZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, A SOUTHAMPTON; ALSO,

¡Y, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA,

An & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA MANY's Steam-ship “GANGES," -s, with Her Majesty's Mails, Pas- and Cargo, will leave this for the SUNDAY, the 22d May, at 9

be received on board until 5 F.M, SPECIE until Noon on the 21st, and

10A.M. on the 21st May.

rs regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, salar & Oriental Steam Navigation ce, Hongkong.

SAND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

Pedaration of the Contents and Value for the Overland Route is required Government, and must be delivered

to the Company's Agents with the

TH

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

THE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer “GANGES,” will close on SATURDAY, the 21st instant, at 6 o'clock r.ð.

A SUPPLEMENTARY MAIL will be made up on the following morning. LETTES received from Six to half-past Seven o'clock A.M. for a late fee of Gd., and NEWSPAPERS 1d. each.

Post-office, Hongkong, 7th May, 1859.

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master.

NOTICE. THE undersigned will receive Tenders, until Noon, on SATURDAY, the 21st May, for the SUPPLYING OF PROVISIONS, &c., for the use of the PRISONERS Confined in HER MAJESTY'S GAOLS, in this Colony, from the 26th day of May, 1859, to the 25th day of May, 1860, inclusive.

The PROVISIONS, &c., to be of good quality, and to be supplied daily on requisition, as per following Schedules, viz.,—

SCHEDULE No. 1. Daily Ration for cach European Prisoner, viz.,

BREAD.....

12 Taels

BEEF, or PORK, without Bone, VEGETABLES, of the Season,.. ТБА,... SUGAR,...

6

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12

FIREWOOD,......................................

SOAP,

24

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39

at Cents

for each Ration.

with Parcels; and the Company do Daily Ration for each Chinese and Indian Prisoner.

ves responsible for any Detention or

may happen from incorrectness ou

MAXN. FISCHER,

Superintendent.

ir & Oriental

Company's Office,

7th May, 1859.

NOTICE

CRIMINAL SESSIONS of the SUPREME .. will be held on WEDNESDAY, May, instead of Monday the 18th

at 12 o'Clock at Noon.

Order of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON,

Acting Registrar.

VEGETABLES, I day in each week, 16

RICE,

SALT FISH, 5

FRESH FISH, 1

19

22 Taels,)

29

2.

99

"

4

1

with CAYENNE CHUTNEY,

TEA,....

SALT,....

FIREWOOD,

SCHEDULE No. 2.

EXTRA BREAD,

LAMP OIL,

COTTON WICK,.....

24

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picul.

at Cents

for each Ration.

», catty. Full particulars and Conditions of Contract, may be ascertained on application at this Office.

JOSEPH SCOTT, Governor of Victoria Gaol.

Gaol Office, 6th May, 1859.

NOTICE

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S hereby given, that the Co-partnership under which THOMAS SAMUEL RAWSON, WILLIAM WEMYSS KER, WILLIAM PATERSON and MINCHIN SIMONS, have heretofore carried on business as MER- CHANTS & COMMISSION AGENTS in Singapore, under the style of KER, RAWSON & Co., expires on the 30th instant.

Singapore, 4th April, 1859.

NOTICE.

WILLIAMSONALYSS KERY MINCIAN

PATERSON, and HENRY MINCHIN SIMONS, will carry on business as MERCHANTS & COMMISSION AGENTS, from and after the 1st May next, as Co-partners, under the style of

PATERSON, SIMONS, & Co. Singapore, 4th April, 1859.

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NOTICE. DISSOLUTION of the partnership hitherto exist- ing between the former Members of the Firm ADAM & Co., Batavia and Sourabaya, having taken place on the 31st ultimo, the undersigned begs to intimate, that he will continue the Business, as heretofore, at both places, and under the same style as formerly.

Notice is at the same time given, that, from this date, Mr D. T. BRYCE has been admitted a Partner at Batavia and Sourabaya; and that Mr W. W. COOK has been admitted as partner of the Sourabaya Firm,

Batavia, 1st January, 1859.

NOTICE.

J. H. ADAM.

LL Persons having any Claims against, or in- debted to, the Estate of the late WALTER TOMS, deceased, are requested to settle the same on or before the 31st December, 1859.

RICHARD TOMS,

Hongkong, 6th April, 1859.

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Executor.

COPPER-PLATE PRINTING.

ERSONS having ENGRAVED PLATES may have VISITING CARDS (Enamelled or Plain) printed from them at the Office of the "China Mail."

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.-

PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Coples, Thirty-six

Cents,

TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,-Five Lines and under, One Dollar; onch Additional Line, Twenty Cents-One- half of these charges for cach Ropotition.

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