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THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 11TH OCTOBER, 1856.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. II. No. 67.

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 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.

No. 105.

JOHN BOWRING.

PROCLAMATION.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice Admiral of the same, Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, is pleased, in the name and on behalf of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, to grant a Free Pardon to LEE-ASOW, at present confined in the Gaol of this Colony.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this Sixth Day of October, 1856.

No. 106.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined Extract from the New South Wales Government Gazette, is re-published for the information of Shipmasters and others whom it may concern.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th October, 1856.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

COLONIAL SECRETARY's Office, Sydney, 4th July, 1856.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

At the instance of the Government of Western Australia, the following Notice is re-published, for general information.

I

STUART A. DONALDSON.

IMPORTANT TO MARINERS.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, PERTH, May 16, 1856.

The following report on Pollock Reef is published for general information.

By His Excellency's Command,

FRED. P. BARLEE, Colonial Secretary.

POLLOCK REef.

The above dangerous reef was seen by me whilst on a voyage from Adelaide to Swan River, in the brigantine Robert Clive, on 21st April, 1956, and, by favourable observations, was found to lie 14 miles in direction South East (magnetic) from the nearest part of the South East Isles of the Recherche Archipelago, ·