727536-1854-GOVERNMENT-NOTIFICATION — Page 1

No. 30.

THE

DIEU

WET MON

ROIT

Hongkong

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1854.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

THE Contract hitherto in force for the publication of G

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.

The Honorable John Walter Hulme, Esq., Chief Justice of Hongkong, having proceeded to England for the benefit of his health, His Excellency Sir Samuel George Bonham, Baronet, K. C. B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, is pleased to make the following appointments, subject to Her Majesty's approval :-

The Honorable Paul Ivy Sterling, Esq., Her Majesty's Attorney-General at Hongkong, to be Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

William Thomas Bridges, Barrister- at Law, of the Middle Temple, to be Acting Attorney-General.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria,

Hongkong, 12th April, 1854.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.

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, having this day taken the usual Oaths in Council and assumed the duties of this Government, is pleased to direct that the following Commissions from Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN be published for general information.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria,

Hongkong, 13th April, 1854.

LETTERS PATENT under the Great Seal appointing SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL. D., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies. VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the faith, To Our trusty and well beloved JOHN BOWRING, Esquire, Chief Superintendent of the Trade of Our Subjects, trading to and from the Dominions of the Emperor of China, Greeting. Whereas, by certain Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the fifth day of April, One thousand eight hundred and forty three, in the sixth Year of Our Reign, We did make provision for the Government of Our Colony of Hongkong, and of its Dependencies, as upon reference being thereunto had, will more fully, and at large appear. And Whereas We did by certain other Letters Patent, under the Great