727938-1854-POST-OFFICE-NOTIFICATION — Page 1

No. 53.

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Hongkong

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 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.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.

and sale

Notice is hereby given that a Sale by Public Auction of Crown Land on Leases will be held, on the ground to be sold, on Wednesday, the 27th September, at Noon.

Information regarding the Lots to be sold and the conditions of Sale may be obtained, and any Lots that are not included in the Sale Bill may be added thereto, on application at the Surveyor General's Office any day before Saturday the 23d September.

By Order,

CHARLES ST. GEO. CLEVERLY, Surveyor General.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th September, 1854.

NOTICE.

E next SITTING of the SUPREME COURT under its

FRIDAY, the 6th day of October, 1854, at 12 o'clock NOON.

By order of the Court,

WILLIAMS HASTINGS ALEXANDER,

Acting Registrar.

STEAM FOR

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, AND SOUTHAMPTON;

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ALSO,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, AND CALCUTTA, THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COM- PANY'S Steam-ship CHUSAN, Captain CURLING, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on Wednesday, the

In re THOMAS DELANY,-Police Constable, deceased 27th September, at 2 P. M.

JOHN KINGSMILL,

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CARGO will be received on board until 2 P. M. on the 25th, SPECIE until Noon on the 26th, and PARCELS

until 2 P. M. on the 26th

For particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Com-

NOTICE is hereby given to the Next of Kin and all other persons to produce any WILLS OF CONCILS of the above parties that may be in their possession, before the SUPREME COURT, on Saturday, the 5th day of Octo-pany's Office, Hongkong. ber, 1854; or if none, that the Next of Kin do accept or refuse Letters of Administration; failing which, Admi- nistration will be granted to the Acting Registrar of the said Court.

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By order of the Court,

WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER,

Acting Registrar.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

NHE next GENERAL MAILS by the CHUSAN, will be closed at 6 o'clock P.M., on Tuesday, the 26th instant, and the customary SUPPLEMENTARY MAIL will be made up on the following Morning between the Hours of 9 and 10 o'clock.

THOMAS HYLAND,

Post-Master.

Post-Office, Victoria, Hongkong,

14th September, 1854.

CONTENTS, AND VALUE OF PACKAGES, ARE REQUIRED.

A written declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Ship- per to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading, or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness in such declaration.

ROBERT S. WALKER, Superintendent.

P. & O. S. N. Company's Office, Hongkong, 14th September, 1854.

NOTICE.

HE Hours of Divine Service in the CATHEDRAL CHURCH

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OF ST. JOHN are, on Sundays at 11 A.M. and 5 P.M., and on Thursdays at 5 P.M.

Hongkong, 24th October, 1853.

Printed and Published by RoBT. STRACHAN, at the Hongkong Register Office, Queen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong.