The Wongkong Government Gaiette.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Diplomatic Department.
With reference to the Notification dated 2d January, 1855, His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, &c., &c, is pleased to notify, that The Right Honorable t Earl of Clarendon, K.G., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has appointed WILLIAX WOODGATE, Esquire, to be Secretary and Registrar to Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and the Superintendency of British Trade in China.
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Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th March, 1856.
No, 33,
G. W. CAINE, In the absence of the Secretary H. B. M.'s Plenipotentiary,
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JOHN BOWRING.
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By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China:
Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honorabl Henry Labouchere, M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming Ordinance No. 4 of 1855, entitled "An Ordinance to establish a proper System of Registration for Colonial Vessels": Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and con- firmed as aforesaid.
By His Excellency's Command,
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W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE Queen.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 13th Day of March, 1856,
No. 34.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
In order to prevent difficulties arising on board Emigrant Ships at the moment of intended departure, through unfounded statements by the Passengers that their Contracts were not properly explained at the time of signature, Persons engaging Emigrants for labor in the Colonies are advised to convey each Laborer before the Einigration Officer, or before a Magistrate, who shall fill in the Contract with a full description of the intending Emigrant, and certify in the form following that its purport has been fully and intelligibly explained. charged for such attestation :-
At present no Fee will be
FORM.
Name and Surname of the Laborer contracting (to be written in the Chinese as well as in the English character.) Age,
Native Province, District, apd Place, Descriptive Marks,
day of
$
I CERTIFY, that ou this
(as I believe) explained to the above-named Laborer in a Dialect which be understood; 'that he expressed himself willing to be 185, in my presence, the within Contract was fully, distinctly, and intelligibly bound by its Teruis; and that he received into his own bauds, in my presence, the sum of Dollars, as advance Wages.
(Signed)
A. B.
The attention of Merchants and others interested in the Emigration Business is specially called to the above Justice of the Peace for Hongkong, intimation.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
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Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th March, 1856.
POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
́T has been found necessary to levy upon News- PAPERS Conveyed in the Mails uero & the 18th- mus of Panama, in addition to the Postage now chargeable, a transit rute of Two Pence upon every NEWSPAPER forwarded in the British Mails by that
route.
This Transit Rate, in addition to the Present Postage, must in future be collected upon all News- papers passing through the United Kingdom, address- ed to, or received from, the following places, viz:----
PERU. CHILL.
BOLIVIA.
ECUADOR.
THE SANDWICH Íslands. CALIFORNIA. ORIGON,
The same additional rate must also be collected at this Office upon each Newspaper addressed to ANY BRITISH COLONY viá the United Kingdom and L'anama.
By Order,
Post-Office, Hongkong, 12th March, 1856,
WM. CHAPMAN, ; Acting Post-Master.
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POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
THE following Instructions received from THE Post-Master GENERAL, dated 26th Decem-
NOTIFICATION. Bowring Praya Commission.
"EMBERS of the interested this
ver, 1855, are published for general information, M enquiry are informed, that the Commission
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"I am directed by The Post-Master General to acquaint you, that it has since been deemed ex- pedient to maintain the existing Mediterranean and ited Sea rates, of 10d. per Half Ounce, and la, per Half Ounce, respectively, upon all LETTERS passing between Hongkong and Gibraltar; and 1 am to request, therefore, that you will not apply the re- duced rate of 4d, laid down in my Letter of the 31st Uctober, to the correspondence in question.”
Post-office, Hongkong, 12th March, 1856.
NOTICE
WM. CHAPMAN, Acting Post-Muster.
RR. P. DE SILVER is this day admitted a
M Partner in our Firm, and will take charge of
tum NEW YORK Brauch katablishment.
DE SILVER & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1856,
Bis Daily at the COUNCIL Room, GovernMENT UFFICES, unless when specially adjourned to another time or place; that the Hour of Meeting is in general 1 P.M.; and that, except in cases where order is made to the contrary, its Sittings are open to the public.
By Order of the Commission,
T. CHISHOLM ANSTEY, 4.Gm
President of the Commission. Council Room, 5th March, 1856,
THE
NOTICE
THE Interest and Responsibility of Mr C. VICTOR BESSIERES in our Firm ceased on the 31s December last.
DIMIER BROTHERS & Co. Canton, 1st January, 1856.
MR
NOTICE
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our Firm in China per Procuration.
DIMIER BROTHERS & Co.
1856.
Canton, 1st January,
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