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–August 16, 1856.]

The Hongkong

Government Gazette.

The Upset Price, calculated from the Tenders already received, will be intimated at the time of Sale. Pyments in Dollars, to be made into the ColonialTreasury, Quarterly in advance.

By Order,

L.D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

for the Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th August, 1856.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Tenders will be received at this office for the conveyance of Two Military convicts to England.

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By Order,

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 10th April, 1856.

NOTICE.

THE SUPREME COURT will hold Extra

NISI PRIUS SITTINGS on TUESDAY, the retreat, and SATURDAY, the Twenty-third, 20nf Angust instant, at 12 o'clock at Noon.

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By order of the Court, WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER,

Registrar.

NOTICE.

GE SUPREME COURT will sit in its Four-

TABLE JURISDICTION, on WEDNESDAY,| Teenlith day of August instant, at 12 o'clock at

By order of the Court, WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER, Registrar.

NOTICE.

N Assignment of the Property, Real and Per- arnal, of the Firm of WETMORE & Co. of ANTON, Fooctow, and SHANGHAE, CHINA, having ive duis made on the 12th July, 1856, to the eigned, in trust for the benefit of their Creditors, and recorded in the United States Consulate at en : 1 hereby give notice to all concerned to parment to me of all Sums due to, and to *~at to me any Claims against, the said Firm.

OLIVER H. PERRY.

Conton, 7th August, 1856.

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NOTICE.

THE Interest and Responsibility of the late Mr IZIDORO A. D'ALMEIDA in our Firm ceased on the 28th ultimo, and Mr FRANCISCO HAUJAS has this day been admitted a Partner in our Fiam,

Macao. 3d July, 1856.

JOZE JORGE & Co.

SMITH & BRIMELOW,

SHIP CHANDLERS,

Wholesale and Retail Wine and Spirit Merchants, Auctioneers, and Commission Agents,

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Nos. 1 & 2 Woosnam's Buildings, AVE always on hand an Assortment of SHIP CHANDLERY STORES of every kind.

Also,

An extensive and well-selected supply of WINES, BEER, and SPIRITS, LIQUEURS, CORDIALS, &c., of a superior description.

OILMAN'S STORES from the well known house

purposes.

of Copland, Barnes & Co.; also, STORES per Over- land Mail Steamers Monthly for domestic

Hongkong, 7th July, 1855.

FOR SALE.

At the Office of the “ China Mail.w TABLE, shewing the COST OF TEA, with all CHARGES-Tea, as bought by the Picul, and sold by the Pound Avoirdupois.

NOTICE.

HEREAS the Firm of NYE BROTHERS

& Co. of Canton, China, did, on the 11th day of Murch, 1856, at the Office of the UNITED STATES CONSULATE in Canton, execute an Assign- ment of all their Property, real and personal, in trust for the benefit of their Creditors, to the undersigned: We hereby give notice to all concerned to make payment to us of all sunis due to, and to present to us any claims against, the said Firm.

RUSSELL & Co. JAMES PURDON & Co.

Canton, 18tharch, 1356.

NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY. CAPITAL £1,259,760. THE undersigned are authorized to grant POLICIES covering Risks from FIRE, on BUILDINGS in this Colony owned by Europeans, though the Pre- mises may be in the occupation of Chinese. They are further authorized to grant POLICIES Upon LIVES of EUROPEANS resident in China.

TURNER & Co., Agents in China for the uNorthern Assurance Company.”

Hongkong, 10th April, 1856.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.- PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty-siz Cents.

TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS, Five Lines and under, One

Dollar; each Additional Liuo, Twenty Cents-One- half of those charges for each Repotition.

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