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Songkong

THE

Governmeui

SERIES.

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 29TH DECEMBER, 1855.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. I. No. 26.

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

before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMAtions, NotifiCATIONS, and PUBLIC Parers, of this Government.

By Order,

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

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Commanding the Forces, to be Members of a Commission. to discharge the Office of Chief Justice at the Criminal Sessions now next ensuing, and no longer; and His Ex- cellency has been further pleased to appoint HENRY KINGSMILL, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, to perform the duties of Attorney General at the Sessions aforesaid.

By Order,

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. hereby notified, that His Excellency The Governor nmander-in-Chief, in consequence of the continued ition of The Honorable The Chief Justice, has, is Hand and Seal of the Colony, appointed The ble WILLIAM THOMAS BRIDGES, Esq., Attorney 1, to be President, and the Honorable WILLIAM S MERCER, Esq., Colonial Secretary, and The Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, ble Lieutenant-Colonel HENRY HOPE GRAHAM, Hongkong, 26th December, 1855.

NOTICE.

Text CRIMINAL SESSIONS of the REME COURT, will be held ou S4- Y, the 29th day of December instant, at

A.M.

W, H. ALEXANDER, Acting Registrar.

¡OTICE TO SHIPMASTERS. idersigned hereby give Notice, that the OTS of the RIVER MIN require the Signa- AMERICAN CONSUL at that Port to their before being qualified to pilot Ships to or low, on whose Cargoes we note Risks.

RUSSELL & Co.,

Agents of the China Mutual Insurance

Company of Boston, U.S.A,

3d November, 1855.

NOTICE.

IÈRN ASSURANCE COMPANY.

(Established 1836.)

Corporated by Act of Parliament,

RE AND LIFE ASSURANCE AT

HOME AND ABROAD.

APITAL £1,259,760 Sterling.

Lorsigned have been appointed AGENTS ongkong, Canton, and Shanghae.

TURNEK & Co.

Medical Advisers. ́ongkong,—W. A. Harland, M.D. inton, WALT. GEO. DICKSON, M.D. 1g, 9th August, 1855.

NOTICE.

editors of, and Debtors to, the Estate of ate JAMES FURGESSON, Master of Countess of Winton," are requested to respective Claims and Payments to this on or before the 31st December, 1855.

W. H. MEDHURST,

Consul.

Const, Foo-chow-foo, 1 September. 1855.-

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NOTICE.

THE SESSIONS of the SUPREME COURT under its Summary Jurisdict:ON, will be held on FRIDAY, the Fourth day of January, 1856, at 10 o'clock A.M.

W. H. ALEXANDER, Acting Registrar.

CARD.

CHARLES MARKWICK, Government and Supreme Court Auctioneer and Appraiser,

and

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

Established 1843.

RELIANCE MARINE INSURANCE OFFICE.

ESTABLISHED IN CALCUTTA, IN 1942. CAPITAL, Co.'s B6,00,000. DIVIDED INTO SIXTY SHARES OF COMPANY'S R10,000 BACH.

Registered under ACT XLIII of 1850.

COMPANY'S RUPEES 173,000 INVESTED IN THE FOUR & Five per Cent Loans, in THE NAME of the DirectTORS,

MESSRS APCAR & Co., Secretaries in Culcutta.

Agents.

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

STEPHENS & JOAQUIM, Singapore, JORDAN & Co., Rungoon.

T. R. RICHMOND, Esq., Bombay. A. A. ANTHONY, Esq., Penang.

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POLICIES

World

on Goops, FREIGHT, and TREASURE, granted by the undersigned to all parts of the

Y. J. MURROW. Agent in China.

W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary,

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 Afonthly for domestic

purposes. Hongkong, 7th July, 1855.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT

THE Partnership lately subsisting between Mace

KERTOOM 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 stands indebted, are requested to send their respective Ae- counts for liquidation to the said Cann Lucas, who has assumed the Responsibilities of the said late Firm, and fully discharged the said Mackerroom GalooST MACKERTOOм from all Liabilities in respect thereto.

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

Mr JAMES BROWN, Notary Public,

MESSRS GASKELL & BROWN, Solicitors, Nolgries Public, Sc., Queen's Road, Victoria?

Printed at the Office of these Mo", Hongkong.

PRICE, 63 per Annum Single Cupios, Twenhu-firm Cents.

TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,—Five Lines and under, One Dollar: each additi-Line. Tiranty Cents—Que half of these charges for each Repetition.

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