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THE FRIEND OF CHINA,

AND HONGBONG

NOTIFICATION.

GAZETTE

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING,

VICTORIA, THURSDAY OUTOBHA 19TH, 1843.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

SEALED Tenders for Bills, drawn by Her Ma- este potentiary on the Right, Honorable the of Company's ral of India, in Council for a Lac of Co's, Rs. 2,500, a Cos, Rs. 10,000, payable (Co's., Rs. 100,000) in sets

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 at Fort William.

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

By order ROBT

ROBT: MORRISON, Acting Secretary and Treasurer. Hongkong, March, 23rd. 1812.

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 Go- vernment House whence they will be forwarded.

By order,

RICHARD WOOSNAM.

Government House, Victoria, Hong Kong, 24th August 1843.

GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS.

His Excellency the Governor and Com- mander-in-Chief of Hongkong &c., is pleas. ed to make the following Appointments.

Major ELDRED Pottinger C. B. of the Bombay Artillery to be an Extra Aid-de Camp on His Excellency's personal Staff from the 1st of September 1843.

Alexander Anderson Esquire, to be Colo- nial Surgeon of Hong-Kong from the 1st of October 1813.

Doctor Winchester will continue to act as Assistant to the Colonial Surgeon until further orders.

These Appointments are subject to the approbation and confirmation of Her Ma- jesty's Government.

By order,

RICHARD WOOSNAM. Macao, 2nd October, 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 Mex 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 Taels (710) weight of Sycee Silver agreeable to the Canton Standard as well as the total number of Tacle of Sycee Silver required.

By Order

Government Hong Kouga

In the ROBERTA

STEWART Financial Secretary

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

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at thirty days sight, will be receiv- || ed at this office, on or before Monday, the 16th proximo, at noon.

The Tenders to be computed in Mexican, or other republican dollars, and marked "Tenders for Bills on the Governor General of India."

CHAS. E. STEWART, Treasurer and Financial Secretary.

Treasures ofice, Government House, Victoria, 20th September, 1843.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

In the goo James Pre William Snh,

J. B. Kent, d Daniel Bates,

and deceased intestate.

Late

g-Kong NOTICE is hereby given, that administration of the Estate and effects of the above named intestates 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- thority, for general information:

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 P. M., and until daylight on the following morning, no Chinese will, in future 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.

also been issued,

A PROCLAMATION has al prohibiting, under penalty of severe punish- ment, all Chinese Boats or Vessels, from

moving

about the harbour after Gun-fire at inne

Mand until Gun-fre at daylight on the following morning. __________®

W. CAINE, CHIEF MAGISTRATE.

812 veurly,

referring to their books. These records interesting army and navy can readily furnish this record by other quarters of the British Empire, and surely the to all right thinking men, are frequently published in terrific mortality that has lately cut off so many of calculated to invest the and register of their fate

our countrymen and native fellow-subjects, is well

with a deep though painful interest, I trust this appeal to the public spirit of the medical Profession here lingly afford room in yo ir columns for their communi« will not be disregarded, and I doubt not you will wil- cations.

As Hongkong belongs to us, any information on this subject in respect to it, is of paramount impor tance, at the same time the intelligent portions of the community, here and at home, wil be anxious to learn the salublity or unhealthfulness of many of the places in other parts of China. Our trade with Amoy pro mises to be considerable, and the medical statistics of Kolongsoo would be valuable.

OBSERVER.

Lard Oil and Stearine Candles.-The Cincinnati Gazette contains a statement which shows the increa-

shows t sing importance of these articles to commerce and to the West. During the first week in April upwards of ten thousand gallons of lard oil was shipped from that port, and it had acquired sufficient consequence in England to be regularly quoted in the London Prices Current, being now quoted at £44 per ton, which is equal to about 71 cents per gallon. The best lard oil retails at Cincinnati at 75 per censt gallon, and 8 infe. rior qualities at 45 and 50. There are nine oil facto- ries in that city, five of which produce about 150,000 gallons per annum. The value of the whole quantity manufactured last year is estimated at 165,000. The quantity of stearine manufactured at one of these establishments amounted in eleven months to 123,966 lbs., some of it of the very finest quality for culinary purposes, and a part of it suitable only for candles. Stearine is generally passed at New Orleans as tallow, and the New Orleans Price Current shows that there was an increase in tallow" received from blishment has manufactured 150,000 lbs. of Stearine the West last year amounting to 1,825 lbs. One esta candles the past year. They are said to emit as bril- lant a light, burn longer, and waste less than candles made from sperin.

It requires from 16 to 19 degrees more of heat to melt them than sperm. and there is, in consequence

less accumulation of melted grease, which makes the candle much more cleanly in being used. These can- dies are sold at 25 cents per pound; they are superse ding sperm. in the West, and are regularly shipped to New Orleans, Mobile, Havana &c. where they are in as good repute as sperm.-New-York Enquirer,

Another very remarkable view is presented as to the-- prodigious Capablities of the China market, when thrown open to a free exchange of trade. By the latest returns, it appeared that the consumption of pounds of COTTON YARN per thousand of the population, in five markets, was as follows;—

Consumption per thousand Population. inhabitants.

German States,

including Austria 116,000 2915 The German Custom's

League Russia Hindostan

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. China

(To the Editor of the Friend of China.)

Ced

Honorable JOHN hine:

27,142,000 1821

59.673,000 276

131,751,000 +86 300,000,000 16

Thus the imports of cotton yarn into China, under the restrictions of the old system, were less than one fifth of those into Hindostan, and less almost beyond comparison than those into the German states. Should the China imports only come up to the Hindostan, the imports, instead of 4,159,000 lbs, would become be

happy that you agree with me in the necessity urring into the extent of the mortality and thar ave prevailed here within the last few is of too serious importance to

and we obtat once to com-ly 26 millions.

It is justly remarked, that in order to give full dev elopment to the

of the China ports, in their with Great Britain, it was incum.

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