THE
Bongkong
* SERIES.
Government
GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 1ST MARCH, 1856.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. I. No. 35.
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”
*, 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.
Diplomatic Department. GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Excellency the Chief Superintendent of Trade, Ac., is officially advised, that the Earl of Clarendon pointed DON JOZE DE BOSCH, to be Her Majesty's -Consul at the Port of Sual in Pangasinan (Philippine Bouads)..
By Order,
G. W. CAINE, In the absence of the Off Secretary to H. B. M. Plenipotentiary,
perintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th February, 1856.
Diplomatic Department. GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. These are to notify unto all whom it may concern, that IAM PUSTAU AND COMPANY, of Hongkong, Mer- hare lodged at this Office, on the 26th instant, Affidavits and Papers, from which it appears that ve Thousand Sovereigns were shipped in Melbourne, in seginning of October 1855, on board of a British re- pered Barque called the Amigos, whereof WILLIAM J. British-born subject, was and is Master, and, as he , also Owner; that the destination of the said Trea- Hongkong; that the said WILLIAM PUSTAU AND WPANY were the Consignees and have received Bills of g thereof; that no part of the said Treasure has ever wied the hands of the said firm or their Agents; that d Barque has never visited Hongkong, although she been seen at Shanghae and Swatow; that she sailed
• a cargo of Sugar from Swatow, on the 19th instant, g South, and has not been since heard of; and that Firm verily believe that the said WILLIAM JLEE feloniously and piratically run away with the said rure to South America or elsewhere (as appears in rear by the Affidavit of WILLIAM PUSTAU, Esquire, Senior Member of the said firm, sworn on the 25th (LTL)
No. 23.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified, that His Excellency The Governor and Commander-in-Chief has, under his hand and Seal of the Colony, appointed The Honorable T. C. ANSTEY, Esquire, Attorney-General; Captain CowPER, R.E., Acting Surveyor-General; and J.Č. POWER, Esquire,-to be Members of a Commission for investigating and report- ing in what manner the Construction of the projected Praya along the Sea Face of the City of Victoria, to be called the " Bowring Praya," shall be commenced and
By Order,
carried out.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th February, 1856.
No. 24.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. In accordance with instructions conveyed in Circular Despatch from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, His Excellency The Governor directs the publication of the Conditions fixed by the India Board India will be examined in July 1856. as those upon which Candidates for the Civil Service of
By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th February, 1856.
CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.
1. In July, 1856, an examination will take place of candidates for appointments to the Civil Service of India. Notice will be hereafter given of the days and place of examination.
2. Any natural-boru subject of Her Majesty, who shall be desirous of entering the Civil Service of India, will be entitled to be exa- Ey Command of His Excellency Her Majesty's Pleni-mined at such examination, provided he shall, before the 1st of May, potentiary and Chief Superintendent of British 1856, have transmitted to the India Board, Cannon Row, West- Trade in China.
G. W. CAINE, In the absence of the Offis. Sécrétary to H. B. M.'s Plenipotentiary.
perintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 27th February, 1856.
minster,-
(a) A certificate of his birth, showing that his age, on the 1st of May, 1856, will be above eighteen years and under twenty- three years.
(b) A certificate, signed by a physician or surgeon, of his having no disease, consitutional affection, or bodily infirmity, unfitting him for the Civil Service of India,
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