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No. 58.

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Hongkong

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 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.

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.

In re B. WHELEHAM,-Police Constable, deceased

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ISHMAEL,

MAHOMED,

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OTICE is hereby given to the Next of Kin and all other persons to produce any WILLS OF CODICILS of the above parties that may be in their possession, before the SUPREME COURT, on Saturday, the fourth day of November, 1854; or if none, that the Next of Kin do accept or refuse Letters of Administration; failing which, Administration will be granted to the Acting Registrar

of the said Court.

By order of the Court,

WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER,

Acting Registrar.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

NOTICE 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

next.

STEAM FOR

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

ALSO,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, AND CALCUTTA. THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COM- PANY'S Steam-ship MALTA, Captain PURCHASE, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on SATURDAY, the 11th November, at 2 P. M.

CARGO will be received on board until 2 P. M. on the 9th, SPECIE until Noon on the 10th, and PARCELS until 2 P. M. on the 10th.

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 Applications for LICENSES must be lodged at this with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves OFFICE, Ten Days before the Session, in the form pre-responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may scribed by Ordinance No. 11 of 1844.

happen from incorrectness in such declaration.

ROBERT S. WALKER, Superintendent.

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

THE

J. COLLINS, Chief Clerk.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

IE next GENERAL MAILS by the MALTA, will be closed at 6 o'clock P.M., on Friday, the 10th November, 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,

28th October, 1854.

P. & O. S. N. Company's Office, Hongkong, 28th October, 1854.

NOTICE.

HE Hours of Divine Service in the CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN arc, on Sundays at 11 A.M. and 4 P.M., and on Thursdays at 6 P.M.

Hongkong, 17th October, 1854.

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