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THE FRIEND OF CHINA,

AND WONG B

HONGBONG

NOTIFICATION.

GAZETTE.

PUBLISHED EVERY. THURSDAY MORNING.

VICTORIA, THURSDAY OCTOBER 6TH, 1843.

THE publication of the Hongkong Ga- zette under the authority of Government, will be discontinued from this date: but all public orders and notifications appearing in "The Friend of China and Hongkong

Gazette,” with the signatures of duly au- Gorized Functionaries of the Government are still to be considered as official.

By order.

J. ROBT: MORRISON, Acting Secretary and Treasurer. Hongkong, Ma.ch, 23re. 1842.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION:

His Excellency the Governor and Commander-in- Chief being about to proceed for a short time to Macao, on the Public Service, is pleased to announce that he will continue to carry on all his duties as Governor, &c., during his absence,

All Letters and Reports to be sent as usual to the vernment House whence they will be forwarded

By order

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

In the goods of James Prestoe, William Smith,

J. B. Kent, and Daniel Bates,

Late of Hong-Kong, and deceased intestate. the Estate and effects of the above named intestates NOTICE is hereby given, that administration of has been granted to the undersigned, and all parties concerned therein, are hereby apprized thereof.

(Signed) CHAS. E. STEWART,

By Order,

CHAS. E. STEWART. Treasurer and Financial Secretary. Government House, Victoria, Hong-Kong, 26th Sept., 1843.

Chief Magistrate's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, July 14, 1843. The following is again published by au- Go-thority, for general information :*

RICHARD WOOSNAM. Government House, ictoria Hong-Kong, 24th August 1843.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION

TENDERS will be received at this Office, for Sycee Silver, in large and small Ingots, deliverable at Canton, Whampoa, Macao, or Victoria, at the option of the purchasers, to be paid for by Mexican, or other Repub lican dollars of equal weight and standard, into Her Majesty's Treasury at Victoria.

Each Tender to state the number of the above described Dollars, that will be given for Seven Hundred and Ten Taeis (710) weight of Sycee Silver, agreeable to the Canton Standard; as well as the total number of Taels of Sycee Silver required.

By Order,

CHAS. E. STEWART. Treasurer and Financial Secretary.

Government House, Victoria, Hong-Kong, 27th Sept., 1843.

eased intestate.

It has been lately Notified by PROCLA- MATION of the CHIEF MAGISTRATE, to the Chinese Inhabitants of Hongkong, that be- tween the hours of eight and ten P. M., they are prohibited from being out of their houses without lanthorns, and that after ten o'clock

following morning, no Chinese will, in future ck P. M., and until daylight on the be permitted to go out, under any consider ation, unless he can produce a pass in Eng- lish, specifying his object in being out at so late an hour.

A PROCLAMATION has also been issued, prohibiting, under penalty of severe punish- ment, all Chinese Boats or Vessels, from nine o'clock P. M., and until Gun-fire at daylight on the following morning.

W. CAINE, CHIEF MAGISTRATE.

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. (To the Editor of the Friend of China.) Sir,

it, albeit

Price: $} & monthly

$12 ururly.

You complain of the Queen's government, for not allowing grog-shops to be opened, to such as you are, on the Sabbath days. This complaint it becomes a British Seaman and a Christian. You pronounce the order absurd. Do you not know that laws are made for the lawless? Do you not know, when grog-shops are opened on Sundays, that Such men as you, Buch

that scores of instances of this kind have actually o as you confess yourself to be-men who " will purchase infamous and poisonous grag"-will get drunk and do all manner of lawless deeds? Do you not know cureed in Hong-Kong? Many a Sailor have I seen made drunk at the grog-shops; and then, in that state of intoxication, staggering through the streets; muny have I seen dead drunk, lying down in the streets or Hanes, and many, not so thoroughly, intoxicated. E have seen led like brutes to the jail or to the police stations. Now to prevent these evils the government wish to have all grog-shops closed on Sundays. Were all the public houses in good hands there would be.... no need of any orders from the government, because the owners of such houses would keep them closed and prevent all drunkenness and lawless conduct. I tell you, friend, the absurdity is not in the government; but there is absurduy in another quarter. absurd and wicked, for such men at you are, to debase It is both yourselves by purchasing and drinking infamous and

THE mortality has been so great at Victoria since the commencement of June, that it appears to have attracted the notice of all. We are naturally prepos. sessed in favor of a possession acquired by the success GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

of our arms, and which it is imagined will prove a In the Goods of the Honorable JOHN convenient entrepot for our trade with China, but the ROBERTMORRISON Esq, lately Chinese Sec- general sickness that prevails has well nigh chased

away all the partiality that was felt for retary to Government, and Officiating Co- and the noble harbour can scarcely rede Island, lonial Secretary at Hong Kong, and dec-well fitted to contain a fleet, as numerous as that which sailed up the Yang jsze Kiang. The Corn wallis and Agincourt have each about 100 sick, there are 200 of the Sepoys of the Left-Wing 41st M, N. 1. in Hospital. The unfortunate Left-Wing of the 55th Regt. have lost upwards of 100 men the beginning of June. Sickness exists amongst the Chinese to a very great extent. Now this statement which I believe is correct, though I will not vouch for its accuracy, certainly proves that, sickness prevails almost universally at the present time in Victoria. Until a matter so vitally important as the healthiness ca is ascertained, all other matters connected with the statistics of the Island will be held of little It is highly interesting to discover value

of this season, are mortality and

nate vistations which occasionally climates, or whether we must this place. I have no expect them

out the mortality that took place 1802 but understand it was consider.

Authorities cause enquiries to

Notice is hereby given, that Administra- tion of the Estate and Effects of the above named intestate, will be forthwith granted to Alexander Matheson, Alexander Ander- son, and Charles Edward Stewart Esqs., and all next of kin, creditors, and others concerned therein, are duly apprized thereof

By Order

CHAS E. STEWART. Treasurer and Financial Secretary.

Government House, Victoria. Hong-Kong 29th Sept. 1849.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION

SRAGE Jesty's P

whet

hose who dies and let the

ished

poisonous grog.

Stuff. This is all nonsense.

You speak of being compelled to drink this villainous a little exercise and stretch your legs on Shore, except You wish, too, to blame your Captain, who will not allow you to take ou a Sunday. This I fear is a fib, Happily, a little relief you can get, by going on board some one of the Lorchas in the harbor-the Dodge for instance, where we have a Case in point. Go to such a place, and no absurd order will hinder your taking the poisonous stuff

to your heart's content. Go, and drink as too many have of lute, and taxe a Coroners Inquest as a bene. ft.

I suspect Ben Brace is not a sailor, and that the note over his signature is a forgery, written by some owner If err in this suspicion, I beg Ben Brace will give me or patron of grogshops-some sly friend of Jack's purse. his true name, in a note addressed to the Editor of the

Till then I subcribe myself.

LAW de stați have mine. AFRTED

Victoria, October, 2nd 1943.

It will be seen that there has been a very great increase, and to China alone the number of pieces of Plain Cottons up to this period of the present year, exceeds the whole amount of any of the pre- ceding seven years, with the exception of 1841 and 1842, and falling not very far short even of these.

In 1836 the number of pieces was.

1837

1838

1839

1840

1841.

1842

do.

du.

do.

do.

do.

do.

and in the first six months of 1843.

308,624

250,504

680,566

488,050

428,948

714,697

622,770

613,751

For this Printing Cloths the demand has continued steady, and prices are well maintained. The light fabr ics, suited to the East, have been taken pretty freely at a reduction of about 3d. per piece, Domestics aro exceedingly dull of sale, and the stocks are very heavy. The demand for Velvets, for printing, has continued extensive, and the manufacturers are all under contract at 2s per lb. for the same article which, in March and April, was freely offered at 21 d. In Velveteens, a con- siderable business has ben done during the present month, Our mills are in full work, and the owners are, we believe, with vere few exceptions, obtaining

remunerating prices. the reduction above alluded to. being compensated for by the decline which has taken place in the raw material.

Finding that considerable excitament has been produced by the statement given in our last circular of the shipment of Domestics from the United States to China, we think it well to give the cost. in America, and the prices at which these goods were selling at our last dates per Overland Mail

Coat 5 to 6 cents per yard, or 2 dollars 30 cents, to 2 dollars 40 cants, per piece of 40 yards-average, 2 dollars 35 cents. Exchange at 8 per cet premium

-9s. 9d.

Price quoted in China, 2 dollars 60 cents, to 2 dollars average, 2 dollars 62 cents-Exchange at 2s, 81d., leaving for charges and

e dolla

cent

lluded to cost 161 cents per

300 Bay averag

other Bills on the

25th September. 1843

(To the Bektor of the Friend of (a)

the