Bangkong
THE
Government
NEW SERIES.
GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 24TH NOVEMBER, 1855.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. I. No. 21.
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.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary,
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.
No. 55.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Whereas, by the verdict of a Coroner's Jury, a certain person or persons unknown, has or have been declared ailty of the Wilful Murder of PETer Cameron within the City of Victoria on the night of the 18th or morning of e 19th Ultimo: Notice is hereby given, that
A REWARD OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
ill be paid to any person or persons (the actual Perpetrators of the Murder excepted) who shall give such information
shall lead to the conviction of any one or more of the parties so declared guilty of the above Crime.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th November, 1855.
.56.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. T. MERCER, Culonial Secretary.
The subjoined Judgment of the Vice-Admiralty Prize Court, in the matter of the Brig Greta, is published for eneral information.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretay.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 21st November, 1855.
VICE-ADMIRALTY,
7. PRÍZE COURT OF HONGKONG. Wednesday, the Fourteenth day of November, 1855. Before the Honourable John Walter Hulme, Esq., Judge.
The Greta, Thaulow master, Prize-Transport in the Service of the Enemy.
Judgment:
Crimean
War
War having, on the 28th March, 1854, been declared by Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland against Emperor of All the Russias-the Bremen Brig Grela, having on board two hundred and seventy Russian enemies, was, together her cargo, on the 1st of August, 1855, seized by Her Majesty's Steam Sloop-of-war Barracouta in the Sea of Ochotsk, off the et of Saghalipu, in Latitude 51 North, Longitude 146 East, white on a voyage from the port of Simoda in Japan, to the Russian port Ayen, as being a Transport in the service of the Enemy, and consequently a lawful prize to Her Majesty, and brought into the Vice- iralty Prize Court of Hougkong to be ajudicated upon accordingly. The usual Monition having issued, a claim to the ship was pnt Lieutenant Thaulow, the master, on behalf of Captain_Laun, a Bremen subject, as owner; a claim to the cargo was also put in by au and Brodersen, natural born subjects of the King of Denmark. The Acting Queen's Advocate appeared on behalf of the Captors, t. Thaulow in support of the claim to the ship, and Mr Green as counsel on behalf of the claimants of the cargo.
The facts, as disclosed by the principal witness, Lieut. Thaulow, Master of the Greta, corroborated (with one or two exceptions, h will be pointed out in their proper places) by the First and Second Mates and a Seaman belonging to the Greta, coupled with the 7's log and other documentary evidence, appear to be as follows:-
That the Greta was originally a British ship, built at Aberdeen in 1840, and at that time she went by the name of the Jane Geary- in the year 1854 she was sold to Franz Knoop of Victoria, Melbourne-that in the same year, that is to say, on the 1st November, was resold by the said Franz Knoop in Hongkong, China, through his Attorney, Ludvig Auguste L beck, to one Engen Laun, a ten of Bremen, through his Agents, Messrs Pustau and Brodersen-that in March of 1855 she was chartered of Pustau & Co., the Arests of the ship, by Robert P. De Silver, United States' Naval Storekeeper, to take up a cargo of Naval Stores for the United States sdron at Hakodadi in Japan-that, the said vessel, then going by the name of the Greta, sailed from Hongkong on the 22d of April on her voyage to Hakodadi in Japan, having on board the said United States' Naval Stores, and also a cargo of merchandize nging to Pustau & Co.; who, it distinctly appears from the evidence of Lient. Thaulow, the Master, had the direction and manage- t with respect to the Greta's employment or trade, and with whom he, the Master, corresponded on the concerus of the vessel or her that she arrived at Hakodadi on the 18th May, and commenced discharging the American Stores on the 6th June, and completed discharge ca the 15th June,
A small portion of Messrs Pustau & Co.'s cargo was also discharged or bartered at this port. While at odadi, in consequence of some arrangement which took place, the nature of which does not appear, the Greta, instead of making the
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