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Jongkong

Bauernment

NEW SERIES.

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 17TH NOVEMBER, 1855.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. I. No. 20.

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.

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By Order,

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

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Return of Notes in Circulation and ecie in Reserve at the Bank of the Oriental Bank orporation in Hongkong, is published for general in- :mation.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

lonial Secretary's Office, Victoria,

Hongkong, 15th November, 1855.

H. M. S. "WINCHESTER.” HE GUNROOM OFFICERS of this Ship hereby give notice, that EDWIN BLANDFORD is arged from their Service as Gunroom Steward. are therefore not responsible for any Debts he - contract from this date.

th November, 1855.

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W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary,

Account of the Average amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong for the Month ending 31st October, 1855, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

NOTES ISSUED...................................$170,535,

exclusive of the Notes of the Oriental Bank still outstanding. Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong,

1st November, 1855.

WM. LAMOND, Acting Sub-Manager.

I inspected this day the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and hereby certify that I found the necessary Amount of Specie as required by the Charter,

R. RIENAECKER, Colonial Treasurer.

9th November, 1855.

SMITH & BRIMELOW, SHIP CHANDLERS,

Wholesale and Retail Wine and Spirit Merchants, Auctioneers, and Commission Agents, Nos. 1 & 2 Woosnam's Buildings,

HAHANDLERY STORES of

AVE always on hand an Assortment of SHIP

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

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

Hongkong, 7th July, 1855. 今事

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IAS RUSSELL, Police Constable, de- 1.

R ALLI, Police Constable, deceased.

ONDI DE SOUZA, Police Constable, sed.

-All Claims against the above Estates e proved before the OFFICIAL ADMINIS- re the Tenth day of May, 1856, other- ill not be included in the Scheme of 1 persons indebted to the said Estates to make immediate payment to LIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER, ng Registrar-Official Administrator. NCE MARINE INSURANCE

OFFICE.

LISITED IN CALCUTTA, IN 1942. APITAL, Co.'s B6,00,000. NTO SIXTY SHARES OF COMPANY'S

R10,000 EACH.

ed under ACT XLIII of 1850.

S RUPEES 173,000 INVESTED IN

R & FIVE PXR CENT LOANS, IN

:NAME OF THE DIRECTORS.

CAR & Co., Secretaries in Culcutta.

Agents.

GIBB & Co., St Helen's Place, London.

ENS & JOAQUIM, Singapore,

IN & Co., Rangoon.

RICHMOND, Esq., Bombay. ANTHONY, Esq., Penang.

on Goods, Fedor, and Taxaxure, by the undersign all parts of the

Y. J. MURROW. Agent in China,

CARD.

CHARLES MARKWICK,

Government and Supreme Court Auctioneer and Appraiser,

and

GENERAL STOREKEEPER, Queen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong.

Established 1843.

NOTICE.

TIE Creditors of, and DebGESSON, Master of the Barque Countess of Winton," are requested to send their respective Claims and Payments to this Consulate, on or before the 31st December, 1855.

W. H. MEDHURST,

Consul.

IE Creditors of, and Debtors to, the Estate of

British Consulate, Fon-chow-foo, 10th September. 1855.

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NOTICE.

R JAMES CRAMPTON has this day been admitted a Partner in our Firm, the business will henceforth be conducted under the name of CRAMPTONS, HANBURY & Co.

HANBURY & Co.

Shanghae, 1st October, 1855,

THE

NOTICE.

HE Interest and Responsibility of MR MUN- CHERJEE HORMUSIEE CAMAJEE has ceased,, and Messrs RUSTOMJEE DADA- BHOY CAMAJEE · nnd ARDARSEER NUS- SERWANJEE MODY are admitted. Partners, in our Firm from lit November, 1855.

DADABHOY NUSSERWANJEE MODY & Co. Canton, 2d November, 1855.

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Mr JAMES BROWN, Notary Public,

MESSRS GASKELL & BROWN, Solicitors, Notaries Public, &c., Queen's Road, Victoria.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT (HE Partnership lately subsisting between MAC- KERTOOM GALOOST MACKERTOOм and CARR LUCAS, heretofore carrying on business under the firm of MACKERTOOM & Co., at Canton, was, on the 20th day March, 1855, dissolved by mutual con-

sent.

All Debts due to the said late Copartnership Firm are to be received by the said CARR LUCAS; and all persons to whom the said Partnership standa indebted, are requested to send their respective Ac- counts for liquidation to the said CARI LUCAS, who has assumed the Responsibilities of the said late Firm, and fully discharged the said MACKERTOOM GALOOST MACKERTOOM from all Liabilities in respect thereto.

M. G. MACKERTOOM. Singapore, 20th August, 1855.

NOTICE.

NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY. (Established 1836.)

Incorporated by Act of Parliament,

FOR FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE AȚ HOME AND ABROAD. CAPITAL £1,259,760 STERLING. HE undersigned have been appointed AGENTS

at Hongkong, Canton, and Shanghae.

TURNER & Co.

Medical Advisers. For Hongkong, W. A. HARLAND, M.D. For Canton,WALT. GEO. DICKSON, M.D. Hongkong, 9th August, 1855.

JUST RECEIVED AND FOR SALE.

500 BARRELS Fresh No. 1 Gallego FLOUR.

11th August, 1855.

THE

THOS. HUNT & Co., Whampoa.

NOTICE TO SHIPMASTERS.

HE undersigned hereby give Notice, that the PILOTS of the RIVER MIN require the Signa- ture of the AMERICAN CONSUL at that Port to their Certificates, before being qualified to pilot Ships to or from Foochow, on whose Cargoes we note Risks.

RUSSELL & Co.,

Agents of the China Mutual Insurance.

Company of Boston, U.S.A.

Canton, 3d November, 1855.

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