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No. 20.

THE

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Hongkong

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1854.

THE

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

HE Contract hitherto in force for the publication of GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATIONS having ceased on the 21st instant, --Notice is hereby given, that the HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, this day established, will be hereafter the only Official Organ of Proclamations, Notifications, and all Public Papers of this Government.

By Order,

W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.

Victoria, Hongkong, 24th September, 1853.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

James Keenan, Esq., duly appointed by the PRESIDENT of the United States of America to be Consul at Hongkong, and Her Majesty The QUEEN having been pleased, on the 11th July, 1853, to ap- prove of the appointment, the same is hereby notified for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong,

1st February, 1854.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The Subjoined Notices are published for general information.

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W. CAINE, Colonial Secretury.

By Order,

W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong,

1st February, 1854.

NOTICE is hereby given that the LIGHT VESSEL stationed off the COAST OF PEGU, near the entrance of the RANGOON RIVER, was moved on the 2nd of this month, to the position noted by the following Compass bearings:-

CHINA BUCKEER,

ELEPHANT POINT,

PILOTS BUSH,

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400

N. 89° W.

N. 1 E.

N. 15 E.

The Vessel is anchored in 31⁄2 fathoms at low water spring tides, distant from Elephant Point

about ten miles.

By order of the Superintendent of Marine,

FORT WILLIAM, The 12th December 1853.

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H. HOWE, Secretary.