727470-1854-NOTICE — Page 1

No. 27.

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Hongkong

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1854.

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,

Victoria, Hongkong, 24th September, 1853.

W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.

The Chilian barque Libertad, Lundborg Master, on her passage from San Francisco to this port discovered a very dangerous reef between the Island Sariquam and Tores rock off the Ladrones. On the 7th of January, while observing the Sun's Meridian Altitude, heavy breakers were suddenly seen within two or three Cables' length of the ship, and several rocks were visible even with the water's edge. The reef seemed to extend in a northerly direction for half a mile. The latitude of the reef by very accurate observation is 16° 53′ 35" North, and longitude 146° 3' 30" East, bearing from the centre of Sariquam island N. 11° 30' E. There were fresh trades blowing at the time, and some sea running, otherwise it is very probable it would have been passed without notice.

E. R. MICHELL, Acting Harbour-Master.

Victoria, Hongkong, 3d March, 1854.

Diplomatic Department.

Her Majesty's Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, is pleased to direct the publication, for general information, of the subjoined list of Fees receivable by Her Majesty's Consuls for the granting of Probates or Letters of Administration, established in conformity with the Provi- sions of Article XXXVII of Her Majesty's order in Council of the 13th day of June, 1853.

By order,

W. H. MEDHURST,

Officiating Secretary to H. B. M.'s Plenipotentiary, &c., &c.

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th March, 1854,

FEES IN MATTERS ECCLESIASTICAL.

For filing and entering Petition for Probate or Letters of Administration, &c.,

$ 1,00

Swearing Petitioner to truth of Petition,

1,00

For Every Citation,

1,00

For every Caveat filed,

1,00

For every Commission of Appraisement,

1,00

For granting Probate or Letters of Administration,

5,00

For filing and entering Bond by Administrator,

2,00

For every Certificate by the Consul or other Officer of Accounts and Inventories being filed

when the sum realized shall amount to 8 200,

2,00

For every subsequent & 100 or fractional part thereof,

1,00

Swearing party to the truth of Account or Inventory, Every exemplification of will per folio, For every Order of Court or Consul,

1,00

1,00

1,00

NOTE.-No Fees payable where the Estate is sworn to be under $200.