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No. 51.

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Hongkong

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1854.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

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THE 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.

The subjoined Notice to Chinese Boatmen is published for general information, and it is requested that boats irregularly plying for hire be reported at once to the Police. Regarding fares, attention is directed to Section 15 of Ordinance No. XI of 1845.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary.

Crocuses for

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th September, 1854.

HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE, Hongkong, 30th August, 1854.

It is hereby Notified that Licenses for Boats to ply for hire in the Harbour, between 9 o'clock at night and midnight, will be granted to Twenty Boatmen, who are already licensed, on their application at the Harbour Master's Office, between the hours of 10 o'clock in the morning and 4 o'clock in the afternoon, on Monday, the 4th of September next, and that after that date any Boat- men found plying for hire after 9 o'clock at night, without such License, will be apprehended and punished.

As the number of applicants may exceed the prescribed number, preference will be giyen to Boat- men of the longest standing with good characters.

THOS. V. WAT INS. Harbour Master, and Marine Magistrate.

(Signed)

(True Copy,)

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Wanted, a passage to Perth, Western Australia, for three European Convicts. Sealed Tenders will be received addressed to the Colonial Secretary, and particulars may be learnt ou application at the Harbour Master's Office.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria,

Hongkong, 17th August, 1854,

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