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THE

Hongkong

NEW SERIES.

Government

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 24TH JANUARY, 1857.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. II. No. 82.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby 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. 14.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

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His Excellency The Governor, with the Advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to grant Months' leave of absence to Captain WATKINS, R.N., Harbour Master and Marine Magistrate, on Medical certificate.

:

E. R. MICHELL, Esquire, has assumed, from the 12th instant, the charge of the Department; and as a temporary measure, JoHN LONEY, Esquire, of H.M.S. Calcutta, will have the special Superintendence of the Shipping in the Harbour.

The duties of Marine Magistrate will be performed, as on previous occasions, by the Sitting Magistrate of the day.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 17th January, 1857.

No. 15.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary,

Notice is hereby given, that whereas information has been received of certain Treasonable Papers issued by the Authorities of the neighbouring Chinese Province, and to be found on the Persons of Parties suspected to be Emissaries of the Provincial Government, and pow! being within this Colony, His Excellency The Governor

sanctions the offer of -

A REWARD OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for the apprehension of each Person on whom such Paper shall be found.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 22d January, 1857.

No. 13.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary,

The subjoined Notification relative to the Pearl Fishery at Aripo, in the Island of Ceylon, is here published for general information, at the request of the Government of that Colony.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th January, 1857.

government advertisement.

PEÅRL FISHERY,

W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary.

Notice is hereby given, that a Pearl Fishery will take place at Aripo, in the Island of Ceylon, on or about the 1st of March, 1857; and that the Bank to be fished, is the North-west part of the Chivel Paar, estimated to contain Oysters sufficient to employ Seventy-five boats for Fifteen days.