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Bangkong

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NEW SERIES.

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 1ST DECEMBER, 1855.

LAMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. I. No. 22.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into ou 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.

No. 58.

By Order,

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

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified that, at a Meeting of the Execu- ive Council held this day at the Government Offices, ALEXANDER Campbell Maclean, Esquire, having taken the necessary Oaths, was declared a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies.

W. T. MERCER, By Order,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria,

Hongkong, 26th November, 1855.

B.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Order of Captain THOMAS WATKINS, Harbour Master, the undersigned will sell by AUCTION Early in December, the EFFECTS of the late JOHN NEW, Seaman, who died on board the ship Koh-i- or, consisting of, a SEA CHEST, WEARING AP- PAREL, HAMMOCK, and BEDDING,

CHARLES MARKWICK,

Government Auctioneer.

Hongkong, 1st December, 1855.

NOTICE.

T is requested that all Debts due to the UNION BREAD COMPANY, be paid to Mr G. ZUDDELL, and all Claims against the COMPANY be vut in to him for adjustment, before the End of the

rrent Year.

Hongkong, 1st November, 1855,

CARD.

CHARLES MARKWICK,

Government and Supreme Court Auctioneer

and Appraiser,

and

GENERAL STOREKEEPER,

Queen's

a's Road, Victoria, Hongkong.

Established 1843.

NOTICE.

Creditors of, and Debtors to, the Estate of

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e late TAMES FURGESSON, Master of Blue Countess of Winton,” are requested to d their respective Claims and Payments to this cinate, on or before the 31st December, 1855.

W. H. MEDHURST, Consul.

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

NOTICE TO SHIPMASTERS. III undersigned hereby give Notice, that the LILOTS of the RIVER MIN require the Signa- God the AMERICAN CONSUL at that Port to their ates, before being qualified to pilot Ships to or Foochow, on whose Cargoes we note Risks.

RUSSELL & Co.,

ton,

Agents of the " China Mutual Insurance

Company of Boston, U.S.A. 3d November, 1855.

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MR

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, that all Crown Rents due up to the 24th June last, which remain still unpaid, will be recovered by Summary Process from and after the 10th instant.

By Order,

R. RIENAECKER, Colonial Treasurer.

Colonial Treasury, Victoria, Hongkong, 1st December, 1855.

NOTICE.

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

HANBURY & Co. CRAMPTONS, HANBURY & Co.

Shanghae, 1st October, 1855. NOTICE.

NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY, Established 1836.)

Incorporated by Act of Parliament,

FOR FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE AT 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.

RELIANCE MARINE INSURANCE

OFFICE.

ESTABLISHED IN CALCUTTA, in 1942. CAPITAL, Co.'s 6,00,000.

DIVIDED INTO SIXTY SHARES OF COMPANY'S R10,000 BACH.

Registered under ACT XLIII of 1850,

SMITH & BRIMELOW, SHIP CHANDLERS,

Wholesale and Retail Wine and Spirit Merchants, Auctioneers, and Commission Agents, Nos. 1 & 2 Woosnam's Buildings, "AVE always on hand an Assortment of SHIP

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

Hongkong, 7th July, 1855.

THE

Mr JAMES BROWN, Notary Public,

MESSRS GASKELL & BROWN, Solicitors, Notaries Public, &c.,

Queen's Road, Victoria.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT IIE Partnership lately subsisting between MAC- KERTOOM GALQUST 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 Inte Copartnership Firm are to be received by the said CARR LUCAS; and all persons to whom the said Partnership stands

COMPANY'S RUPEES 173,000 INVESTED IN indebted, are requested to send their respective Ae-

THE FOUR & FIVE PER CENT LOANS, IN THE NAME OF THE DIRECTORS.

MESSES APCAR & Co., Secretarios in Culcuția.

Agents.

Messrs T. A. GIBB & Co., St Helen's Place, London.

STEPHENS & JOAQUIM, Singapore,

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JORDAN & Co., Rangoon.

T. R. RICHMOND, Esq., Bombay.

A. A. ANTHONY, Esq., Penang.

OLICIES on GOODS, FREIGHT, and TREASURE,

World.

undersigned to all parts of the

Y. J. MURROW. Agent in China.

JUST RECEIVED AND FOR SALE.

500 BARRELS Fresh No. 1 Gallego FLOUR.

THOS. HUNT & Co., Whampoa

11th August, 1855.

counts for liquidation to the said CARR LUCAS, who has assumed the Responsibilities of the said late Firm, and fully discharged the said MACKERTOON GALOOST MACKERTOOм from all Liabilities in respect thereto.

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

NOTICE. THE Interest and Responsibility of the late MR FRANCIS B. BIRLEY in our Firm, ceased on the 27th ultimo,

The Business, as heretofore, will be continued under the same Style. ❤

BIRLEY & Co..

Canton, 22d November, 1855,

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.—— PRICE, 6$ per Annum. Single Copies, Twenty-five- Cents. TERM OF ADVERTISEMENTS, Five Lines and under, One Dollar; each additional Line, Twenty Cents-One- half of these chargos for each Repetition.

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