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THE

Hongkong Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 25TH JULY, 1857.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 108.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby Firen, 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 before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMAtions, Notifications, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

V. 114.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to appoint The Reverend ARTHUR TAYLOR Acting Marriage Eegistrar, during the absence on leave to England of J. C. POWER, Esquire.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES,

Acting Colonial Secretary,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 21st July, 1857.

INA. 112.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

With reference to `Government Notification No. 103 of 4th instant, calling for Tenders for the conveyance of Chinese Convicts to Labuan,-it is hereby made known, that a communication has been received from the Governor s that Colony, to the effect that Ships arriving there can be supplied with Coals from the Mine at Moarra.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 16th July, 1857.

103.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES, · Acting Colonial Secretary,

Wanted, a Passage to Labuan for Fifty Chinese Convicts. Scaled Tenders will be received at this Office.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th July, 1857.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary,

Diplomatic Department.

Dr WILLIAM KANE baving tendered his resignation of the appointment of Acting British Consular Agent Macao, His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade has been pleased to kept the same.

By Order,

Euperintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th July, 1857.

W. WOODGATE.