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No. 57.

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Hongkong

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

THE

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, HONgkong; SaturDAY, OCTOBER 21, 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 GAZETTĚ, 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.

Wanted, a passage to Perth, Western Australia, for three European Convicts.

W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.

Sealed Tenders will be received addressed to the Colonial Secretary, and particulars may be learnt on application at the Harbour Master's Office.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 17th August, 1854.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

STEAM FOR

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

OTICE is hereby given, that a SPECIAL SESSION OF MAGISTRATES will be held at the CHIEF MAGISTRATE'S OFFICE, Victoria, on Wednesday, the Twenty second day of November next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of granting LICENSES for the sale of SPIRITUOUS and FERMENTED LIQUORS, during the year commencing on the First of December | THE PENINSULAR & Oriental Steam NavIGATION COM-

next.

Applications for LICENSES must be lodged at this OFFICE, Ten Days before the Session, in the form pre- scribed by Ordinance No. 11 of 1844.

Chief Magistrate's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 17th October, 1854.

THE

J. COLLINS, Chief Clerk.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

ERIN, HE next GENERAL MAILS by the

will be closed at 6 o'clock P.M., on Thursday, the 26th October, 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,

12th October, 1854.

NOTICE.

THE Hours of Divine Service in the CATHEDRAL CHURCH

TH

OF ST. JOHN are, on Sundays at 11 a.. and 4 P.M.,

and on Thursdays at 6 P.M.

Hongkong, 17th October, 1854.

ALSO,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, AND CALCUTTA.

PANY'S Steam-ship ERIN, Captain ROGERS, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie. and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on FRIDAY, the 27th October, at 2 P. M.

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- pany's Office, Hongkong.

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. Y. Company's Office, Hongkong, 12th October, 1854.

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

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