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Aytie, Miss

Letters. Papers.

Lettors.Papers.

Letters. Papers,

Adam, James 1

Cheong, Sun

Mr.

Fenwick, J. M. 1

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4TH JANUARY, 1868.

POST OFFICE NOTICE.

List of unclaimed LETTERS and PAPERS lying in the Hongkong Post Office for Parties not known, 3rd January, 1868.

Flores, Victorinol

Letters. Papers.

Lets. Paps. Scott, Charles J.1 Stewart, C. Mrs. 1

Kennedy, W. Kyle, David

Amoo, Mr.

Curramy, R. 1.1

Fernandes,

Ahong, Mr.

Canellas, M. ?

Fernstudio C. }

Kck, R.

Powers, Hy. 1

(Engineer) Priener, A. J.

Staples, Capt. 1

Kelung, Mrs.

Padwick, Geo.

Souza, Joaquim 1

Anderson, Peter l

Sor. Dn.

Anderson,

Corvinous, G. S.1

Glennie, Peter 1

James

Athaide, A.

Compagn,

ompitique F. }

Gemma, Miss

Lec ionsr,

Esperan?a

Portaria, }

Steggensen, C. 1

Garred, M., Mr. 1

Caetano

Ahsoo, Charley 1

Bowley, G.

Cooper, Wm.

Campbell,

Duncan

Crabb,Geo.,Capt. 1

Garcia, Franco. 1

-is, T. A.

Lamprey, Jones 1

Landisbergh, G.1 registd.

Proand, A.

Gr, Hugh

Lary, W.

Petitjean, Jules. 1 Paterson, R.

Low John B. 1

Parravicino,

Gonsalves. V,

Low K. A.

Yppolito

Clarke, W.

Green, Mel-

Lee, Rosa, Miss 1

Phillips, R.

Blossom, Jerry 1

Bois, P. du

Crimes, Thomas1

vina, Mrs.

Leques, Monsr. 1

Prior, Chas.

Burns, W. Mr. 1

Capon, N. H.

Gilchrist, James1

Leesen, A. von ?

(Engineer)

Palmer, Mr.,

Boardman, Esq. 1

Barker, E. Mrs. 1

Brown, Edwd.' 1'

Carvalho,

Granger,W.P.

Manoel L.

formerly of

Millett, F. G.

ter, 8th N.

the 20th

Bagehot, Barnes 1

Bizley, F. B.

Bliss, Thos. H. 1

Brown, Win.

Brinckmeyer, S. 1

Dilbert, A. H. 1 Dalrymple Fred.1 Davis, John H.

Daley, Richard 1

Dewar, A. M.

Regiment

Moore, F. Wm. 1 Martin, W..

Radeny, B.

Gottschalk, F. 2

Mello, Pedro de 1

Roberts, Henry 1

Gubiez, Victor

McLoor, A. & Z

Rutter James 5

Monsr.

Co., Messrs.

Rudolf

Band-Mas-2 & 1 bk.

Torres, S?r.

Dn..Tenien- te de Cabal- leria

Terry L. F.

Zegers

1 registd.

Von Wevels

Fleth Molir. Heinrich Johann Vidaurre, Luis 1

Smith, John

(Asst, Engr.)}

Single, H.

Grant, Geo.

McCurne, Mr. 1

Ricardo

Voigt, Georg.

Bronsmiche, 2

Capt.

G. Sfr Dn. S

Delury, Daniel 1

Gattinoni,

Manning, Mr. 1

Roberts, Wm. ?

cenzo, Sig.

Mills, F. M.

(Engineer)

Ward, Emely

Daniell, F.

(M D.)

Barton, G. K. }

Gale, A.

Damioli,

Marshall, H.

McNeil, Richard 1 1

Bird, G. W.

Diego Sigr.

Hine, Nelson M. 1

Bondom, Monsr.1

Daina, J.

Hill, James Mr. 1

Babey, Henry,

Monsr.

Darborough,

Baynes, John

Berchan, A.

Capt.

Burlingham,

S. J.

Brahu, C. F. F. 1

Capt.

}

Fran.co Sigr.

J. J. Demee, F. C.

Descremedes,}

Captain Eaglesham,

Harrison, W.

Hojoljom, D. A. 1

Halpern, J.

? Miller, W.

Capt.

Mollin, Capt.

Hackrof,

Bernado

Miranda,

Dn.

Blakiston,

Ellison, Wm.,

Marr & Co.,

Capt.

Collins, W. H.

Revd., Pekin 1 registd.

Compton, J. S. 1

Chock, Along 2

Mr.

Fries, de Joseph 1 registd.

Frald, Jamin

Field, James B. 1

Rhodes, Mrs.

Fernandez,

Louren?o

Hayert, Philip 1 Holbek, N.

List of LETTERS and PAPERS lying at the Hongkong Post Office for Merchant Vessels, 3rd January, 1868.

}

Souza, Cordiano1

Keena, I, H. 1

Norris, Thomas Nash, Geo.

Smith, Louisa

Miss

Keerlin, Ma- 1

Shields, Robt.

King, John

danre

formerly Chief-Officer Trebolgan

Shaw, Robt.

Spatsacchi, A. 1

Marques, A. G. 1 Mackie, W. L. 1 McClelland, D. 1

Morello, Capt. 1

MacMahon, W. 1

Maria Clara} 1

Olibeiro, Manoel1 O'Connor, John 1 Omalon, Anais

Madme.

}

Ro Felis-

bina, Sra.

Rair, A.

Robertson, Geo. 2 Ringer, J. M. Robertson, C. ? (Asst. Engr.)}

Richards, Wm. 1 Robert, Fillo-

mena

Reeves, T.

Simpson, James 1 Stevens, John L. 1 Simpson, Geo. 1

Wilta, Wm. Wakefield, F. Williams, J.

Edwd. Webb, James Walker, Al-

bert, Capt. Weaver, W. Wightman, L. Weatherhead, Thomas

Wigton,

* Robert H.

Wilkinson, G. 1

Xavier, Hilario 1

Zynen, Wel. Ed. Heer, Doctor

} 2

3 bks.

Letters. Papors,

Letters. Papers.

Lettors. Papex.

Letters. Papers.

Letters, Papers.

Argonaut 2 Alhambra Arima

Corea Cymbeline

Eliza

John Fraser-

1 2

Jem of the Ocean2

Allendale

Alexandrina 1

Cedars

City of Ham-

Free Trade

Japan

Nothumbria Norwood Napoleon

Ruby

Lets. Paps.

Feordres

Jenie

Norval

Foam

Japara

Naomi

Abotsford

Clair

Fortitude

John Milton

Navarino

Servantes

Sir William

Wallace

Sabastian Cah .4

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Antifer

Chalgrove

Fort Regent

Jason

Noranside

St. Mary

Albert Lawrencel

Coringa

Frederic

John & Mary

Nelson

Sandringh

Adeline

Channel Queen 1

Faders Minde

James Miller

Norham

Sea Mew

Sultan-

Ashburton

Condor

Agnes

Calabar

Golden Fleecc 4

Kim Soon Hong 1

Ocean Child

Speculation

Anevoca

Codabux

Guajara

Kelso

Ocean House

Amiral Charner 2

Craigelea

Gladiateur

Kester

Oriental

Amicus

Chelsea

Goethe

Aden

Countess of

Albert Victor 6

Andromeda

Elgin Chloris

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Gleam

Laurel

Orsa Ospray

Gungadhur

Lucerne

Ocean Spray

Golden Dragon 1

Libra

Carmarthenshire 6

Gustav Adolf

Lochnager

Confucius

Golden State

Lottie Maria

Bengal

Burdwan Blairmore Bosphorus Bara Noorfool

Bien Hoa Boanerges Belle of the

South

Broadwater

Catherine Eli-

zabeth

Chusan

Cosmos

Cotherstone

Carmeline

Gifford

Lobelia

Glenlee

Lady Elma

Colorado (Ship)2

Golden Dream 1

Bruce

} 11

Glenroy

Lady Love

Dunmail

Lorton

Deerfoot

Henriette

Dora

Harkaway

Devana

Helen

Eva

Englishman 16

Heroes of Alma 2

Henriette

Gerardina

4112

Lady Alice

Min

Maggie Lauder 1

Pembrokeshire President Palmerston Pride of the

Ganges Prudhoe Pieter

Princess of

Wales Passepartout 1 Pacific

Shooting Star 1

Star of England 1 Stirlingshire

Sardinia

Sunrise

Tyate Leong

Three Brothers 1

Vesta

Vigil

Vision

Ville de Grenade 2

Senator Webb

Wealth of

Midnight

Philip Nelson

Nations

Wild Gazelle

}

Marian

Water Lily

}

Emerald

Sussane

Maria Morton

Regent

Wild Rover

Ecliptic

Home

Mysore

Reindeer

White Swallow 1

Europa,

Henry Handley 2

Mary

Rome

Wm. Chandler 3

Elgin

Heather Bell

Monk Chester 4

Raphael

Capiolina

Eagle

Ho Hang Ho

Mary Lucie

Reconnaisance 1

City of Man-

Ettie

Medusa

Rapid

chester

Ellida

Clio

Conqueror

921

Eleutheria

Empress of India 1

Isabella Ridley Indomitable Isabella

Malvern

Ramsey

Mirage

Regina

Marmion

Red Deer

Yangtsze Yvonne Young Greek Yedo

List of Unpaid and Registered LETTERS and PAPERS lying at the Hongkong Post Office for Her Majesty's

Letter Papers.

Letters. Papesa

Algerine

Bocer

Ships of War, 3rd January, 1868.

Dove Drake

Letters. Papers

Melville

Letters. Papers.

P. Charlotte 16

Sal is

THE HONGKONG government GAZETTE, 4TH JANUARY, 1868.

DAY OF MONTH.

DAY OF WEEK.

DETACHED.

IN SUN.

IN WATER.

BAROMETER.

STANDARD. ANEROID.

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS

TAKE TAKEN AT THE GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER, 1867.

THERMOMETER (Fahrenheit.)

SELF REGIS- TERING IN

SHADE.

Max. Min.

ATTACHED

IN SHADE.

RAIN.

HYGROMETER.

DRY BULB IN WET BULB IN SHADE. SHADE.

HUMIDITY COMPUTED. COMPLETE SATURATION

1,000.

IN INCHES DEW POINT DURING THE COMPUTED. PREVIOUS 24|

STATE OF THE WEATHER.

HOURS.

Sun.

Mon.

Tues.

11 | W?dl.

0.37| 3v.27 | 30.39 | 30.32

* 15

21 Satur.

NAARANARCE

Sun.

Mon.

Tues.

Wed.

12 Thurs. 30:30 | 30.21|| 30.40 | 30.30 13 Friday 30.33 | 30.24 30.40 30.36 Satur. 30.32| 30.25| 30.42 | 30.34 66 Sun. 30.32 30.27 30.40 | 30.35 66 Mon. 30.35 30.28 30.44 30.34 65 Tues. 30.44 30.26|30.49 | 30.38 Wed. 30.30 30.20|30.40 | 30.29 62 19 Thurs. 30.26 | 30.14| 30.36| 30.20 66 20 Friday | 30.20| 30.12| 30.30 | 30.19 65 30.14 30.11 | 30.24 30.20 30.17 | 30.14| 30.28| 30.22 68 30.23 | 30.12 30.30 | 30.19 30.22 30.14 30.32| 30.21 66

30 25 30.17| 30.30 | 30.23 65 26 Thurs. 30.15 | 30.10 30.23| 30.20 27| Friday 30.14|30,08|30.20 | 30.15| Satur. 30.19 30.14 30.26 | 30.21

Sun.

30.22 30.17 30.30 | 30.26

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30.20 30.14

30.30 80.21 67

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30.19 30.14

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the month

(

DATE.

6 A.M.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4?H JANUARY, 1868.

WEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK.

6 A.M.

NOON.

0 P.M.

THERMOMETER.

1867-68

Baro-

Thermo-

Baro-

Thermo

Self Registering.

Baro-

meter.

me for

meter.

meter,

meter.

Thermo- meter.

Min.

Max.

December

888.

30.16

$0.10--

30.23

30.35

30.29

* 30 17

30.12

30.13

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30.12

30.18

30.10

30.08

30.23 *

30.26

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30.20

30.25

30.10

71°

90.12

30.12

30.20

30.29

9 A.M.

BAROMETER.

*NOON

3 P.M.

6 P.M.

6 A.M.

HYDOMETER.

DRY BULB.

WET BULB.

*NOON

6 P.M.

6 A.M.

Height above Sea Level 1,770 feet.

'NOON

6 P.M.

THERMO-

WINDS.

RAIN.

METER..

Self Registering.

Min. | Max.

NOON.

6 A.M.

Dirn.

Force, range from 0 to 12,

NOON. 6 P.M.

In inches during the

previous 24 hours.

REMARKS AS TO WEATHER,

9 A.M.

F. Dirn. F. Dirn.

}

1867-68.

Dec. 28 28.33 28.40 28.43| 28.36 28.26′ 60.00 62.00 58.00 56.00154.0058.00) 58.00) 64.00 EbS

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29 28.28 28.36 28.55 28.48 28.35′ 55.00 62.00| 60.00 54.005AC-

55.00] 64.00 E

30 28.30 28.36 28.46 28.47 28.32 55.00 59.00 57.00| 54.00 50,00| 55.00 ? 55.00! 64.00 EDS

31 28.31 28.39 28.50 28.41 28.36 57.00 63.05 61.05| 57,00 61.05 68.00 57.00 64.00 EBS

Jan. 1 28.26 28.32 28.44 28.40 28.31 59.05 63.05| 62.00 59.00| 62.00| 61.00 59.00| 64.00|SSE

7 EbN

6 NDE

6 EbN

4 SbE

7 E

0.00

Fine but cloudy; from noon hazy;

from 10 P.M. passing fog.

1 NNE

0.00

Dense fog; from 8 A.?. fine but very

hazy.

5 ELS

0,00

Dense fog and wet dew; from 9 A.M.

cloudy and very hazy.

2 WbS

0.00

1 SSW

1 SSE

0.00

228.29 28.32 28.35 28.27 28.30 62.00] 64.00| 60.05 61.05| 62.00| 63,00 ? 60.00) 64.00 SSE

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6 WbN

2 NbE

2 NW

0.10

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0.90

IN THE SUPREME COURT

OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY.

OTICE is hereby given that a meeting of the Creditors of George Lyall, Charles Frederick Still, and George Francis Maclean, Bankrupts, will be held, pursuant to the 151st Section of the Bankruptcy Ordinance 1864, in the Supreme Court, on Wednesday the 15th day of January, 1868, at 3 o'clock in the afternoou, before William Hastings Alexander, Esquire, Registrar of the Supreme Court, being the Officer appointed by the Supreme Courting in Bankrupting

At the said Meeting the Official Assignee, in pursuance of the 151st Section of the said Ordinance submit a Statement of the Bankrupts” Estates recovered and outstanding, and of all receipts and all payments made or to be made thereout, and the Creditors at the said Meeting will, in pursuance of the said Section, declare whether any and what part of the nett produce of the Estates of the said Bankrupts, jointly and severally, after making andible deduction for future contingencies

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　avided amongst the Creditors, and whether ay and what allow- ance shall be paid to the said Bankrupts res- pectively. Procks of Debts will be received, and Creditors who have not proved, or who shall not then prove, will be excluded from the benefit of the dividend, and all claims not proved will be disallowed.

F. S. HUFFAM, Official Assignee.

THE BANKRUPTCY ACT 1861.

A. ELLISSEN & Co.

NOTICE

Firm of "A. Ellissen & Co." and at Coventry aforesaid as a Cotton Spin- ner alone in his own name and the wald Adolf Ellissen and Gust Ellis- sen carrying on business in Co-part- nership at Hongkong and Shanghai in China under the name style or firm of "A. Ellissen & Co." and which said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen were thereinafter designated as the Debtors of the first part Roger Swire Tomlin of No. 1 Bank Build- ings in the City of London Gentle- man William Burrows of Great St. Helen's in the same City Merchant and William Moales of 19 King's Arms Yard Moorgate Street in the City of London Accountant therein after designated "The Inspectors of the second part and The several Per- sons Companies and Co-partnership Firms who at the date thereof were respectively Creditors of the Debtors or either of them thereinafter desig- nated "the Creditors" of the third part Registered in the Court of Bankruptcy pursuant to the Bank- ruptcy Act 1861 the Twenty-eight】) day of July 1865 whereby the said Debtors assigned all their joint and separate estates and effects as well in Great Britan and China as elsewhere to be Inspectors for the benefit of their Creditors.

NOTICE is hereby given that such of the Creditors of the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen erther jointly or separately as have not yet sent in and proved their debts claims or demands to the satisfaction of the said Ins- pectors and have not yet executed or assented in writing to the said Deed of Arrangement (which now lies at the Offices of us the undersigned B Fux Argles and Rawlins No. 1 East Todsa Avelge Leadenhall Street in the City of London Solicitors) are hereby required to do so on or before the Tenth day of March One thousand Eight hundred and Sixty-eight other- wise they will be excluded fro benefit thereof

NOTICE is hereby fur

Tenth day of

given that after och One thousand

Dense fog; from 8 A.M. passing thick

fog; from 10 A.M. hazy; afternoon cloudy.

Dense fog; from 7 A.M. passing fog; from noon fine clear weather. Dense fog and drizzling rain; from

noon passing thick fog, Fine weather throughout.

Eight hundred and Sixty-Eight the said Ins- pectors will proceed to distribute the assets which have come to their hands under the said Deed of Arrangement arising from the said joint and separate estates of the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen among the Creditors entitled thereto having regard only to the debts claim or demands for which the said Deed sha" en be executed or assented to and the pd, uiars o whose debts claims or demands sha have been forwarded to the said Inspectors id proved to their satisfaction and duly allowed oy them.

And the Inspectors will no. be liable for the assets or any part thereof so distributed to any person or persons of whose debt claim or demand they shall not then have had notice or of which no particulars shall have been furnished or which having been disputed by the said Inspectors shall not have been duly verified by Affidavit or Declaration in accordance with the provisions of the Bankruptcy Act 1861 for proof of debts and allowed as claims against the said Estates of the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen.

Dated this 29th day of October, 1867.

FLUX ARGLES & RAWLINS, 1 East India Avenue Leadenhall Street London, Solicitors for the said Inspectors.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY. ?OTICE-JOHN DENT, FRANCIS CHOM-

N°

LEY, HENRY WILLIAM DENT, ALEX- ANDER TURING, and IANS PETER HANSSEN, trading together in ptnership as Merchants at Vietoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, and in the empire of China, under the style or firm of Dent and Company, having been adjudged Bankrupts under a Petition for adjudication of Bankruptcy filed in the Supreme Court on the Twenty-ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Sixty-seven, are hereby required to surrender themselves to Wil- liam Hastings Alexander, Esquire, Registrar of the said Supreme Court, at the first Meeting of Creditors, to be hel before the said Registrar on the Thirteenth day of January, One thru- sand Eight hundred And Sixty-eight at eleven of the clock in the forenec precisely, at the said Court.

DATE.

6 A.M.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4?H JANUARY, 1868.

WEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK.

6 A.M.

NOON.

0 P.M.

THERMOMETER.

1867-68

Baro-

Thermo-

Baro-

Thermo

Self Registering.

Baro-

meter.

me for

meter.

meter,

meter.

Thermo- meter.

Min.

Max.

December

888.

30.16

$0.10--

30.23

30.35

30.29

* 30 17

30.12

30.13

January

30.12

30.18

30.10

30.08

30.23 *

30.26

???????

30.20

30.25

30.10

71°

90.12

30.12

30.20

30.29

9 A.M.

BAROMETER.

*NOON

3 P.M.

6 P.M.

6 A.M.

HYDOMETER.

DRY BULB.

WET BULB.

*NOON

6 P.M.

6 A.M.

Height above Sea Level 1,770 feet.

'NOON

6 P.M.

THERMO-

WINDS.

RAIN.

METER..

Self Registering.

Min. | Max.

NOON.

6 A.M.

Dirn.

Force, range from 0 to 12,

NOON. 6 P.M.

In inches during the

previous 24 hours.

REMARKS AS TO WEATHER,

9 A.M.

F. Dirn. F. Dirn.

}

1867-68.

Dec. 28 28.33 28.40 28.43| 28.36 28.26′ 60.00 62.00 58.00 56.00154.0058.00) 58.00) 64.00 EbS

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29 28.28 28.36 28.55 28.48 28.35′ 55.00 62.00| 60.00 54.005AC-

55.00] 64.00 E

30 28.30 28.36 28.46 28.47 28.32 55.00 59.00 57.00| 54.00 50,00| 55.00 ? 55.00! 64.00 EDS

31 28.31 28.39 28.50 28.41 28.36 57.00 63.05 61.05| 57,00 61.05 68.00 57.00 64.00 EBS

Jan. 1 28.26 28.32 28.44 28.40 28.31 59.05 63.05| 62.00 59.00| 62.00| 61.00 59.00| 64.00|SSE

7 EbN

6 NDE

6 EbN

4 SbE

7 E

0.00

Fine but cloudy; from noon hazy;

from 10 P.M. passing fog.

1 NNE

0.00

Dense fog; from 8 A.?. fine but very

hazy.

5 ELS

0,00

Dense fog and wet dew; from 9 A.M.

cloudy and very hazy.

2 WbS

0.00

1 SSW

1 SSE

0.00

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0.90

IN THE SUPREME COURT

OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY.

F. S. HUFFAM, Official Assignee.

THE BANKRUPTCY ACT 1861.

A. ELLISSEN & Co.

NOTICE

NOTICE is hereby fur

Tenth day of

given that after och One thousand

Dense fog; from 8 A.M. passing thick

fog; from 10 A.M. hazy; afternoon cloudy.

Dense fog; from 7 A.M. passing fog; from noon fine clear weather. Dense fog and drizzling rain; from

noon passing thick fog, Fine weather throughout.

Dated this 29th day of October, 1867.

FLUX ARGLES & RAWLINS, 1 East India Avenue Leadenhall Street London, Solicitors for the said Inspectors.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY. ?OTICE-JOHN DENT, FRANCIS CHOM-

N°

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4TH JANUARY, 1868.

government

　　　　　F. S. Huffam, Esquire, Acting Deputy Re- gistrar is the Official Assignee, and Mr. William Gaskell is the Solicitor acting in the Bankruptcy.

　　　　　At this Meeting the Registrar will receive the proofs of the Dubts of the Creditors, and the Creditors may choose an Assignee or Assignees of the Bankrupts' Estate and Effects.

All persons having in their possession any of the Effects of the said Bankrupts must deliver them to the said Acting Deputy Registrar, and all Debts due to the Bankrupts must be paid to the said Acting Deputy Registrar.

Hongkong, this 21st day of December, 1867,

IN THE VICE-ADMIRALTY CGURT OF HONGKONG

NOTICE.

OTICE.-Regular adjourned COURTS will be held every Friday, at elever of the clock in the forenoon for the dispatch of business.

By order,

N. R. MASSON,

Acting Registrar.

NOTICE.

HE Interest and responsibility of Mr. A. D.

NOTICE.

of by the late N consequence of the destruction of Wo-

Great Fire, its Creditors being assembled to- gether, have unanimously appointed the Un- dersigned to take charge of and sell the remain- ing stock of the shop, and to collect all the outstanding DEBTS, with a view to a final Settlement and division. All Persons who are indebted to the shop are requested to pay the same as soon as pos?ra those having Claims against the shop are mounted to send in their Bills to Mr. WEI-KONG, for verification, op or before-4th January next, as after that date

hey will not be recognized.

J. J. DOS MEDIOS. WEI-KWONG. CHEUK-SING

Hongkong, 27th December, 1867.

NOTICE.

ETTERS of Administration having been granted to the undersigned, under the Seal 13th of the Probate Court of Hongkong,

T MITCHELL in Our Firm ceased on the 31st day of December, A.D. 1867, in the estate of

day of December, 1867.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　A. FERGUSON & Co. Hongkong, 3rd January, 1868.

NOTICE.

EDWARD CUNNINGHAM has re-

MR entered our firm, to which also Mr. WIL-

LIAM H. FOSTER, Jr., is admitted Partner' their interest and responsibility commencing this day.

RUSSELL & Co.

China, 1st January, 1867.

NOTICE.

the late GEORGE MATHER NEILL, all persons having claims against the said Estate are re- quested to send them in as early as possible, and all persons indebted to the same are requested to pay to him the amounts without delay.

JULIUS MENKE,

Administrator.

Hongkong, 14th December, 1867.

TRANSFER OF THE TAI-SHING HONG.

E the undersigned beg respectfully

WE Stock

R. WARREN DELANO, and MR. HENRY

their interest and responsibility ceasing on this day.

RUSSELL & Co.

China, 1st January, 1867.

NOTICE.

THE interest and responsibility of Mr. A. FER-

of November, 1866.

A. FERGUSON & Co.

The business will henceforth be carried on un der ame name by the undersigned.

A. D. MITCHELL.

J. D. MEYERS.

HENRY FEHRS.

Hongkong, I December,1867.

in Trade and Furniture belonging to the Tai- Shing Hong, situated in Nos. 43, 85 & 87, Bonham Strand, West. The transaction has this day been settled. The Shop is now undergoing repairs and will be ready very shortly for business.

If any money loan or other debts are due to either Chinese or Foreigners by the said Tai-Shing, we the undersigned do not hold ourselves responsi- ble for payment of the same. We therefore hereby give special notice, in order to prevent

disputes in future.

SING-TAK-TONG

Hongkong, 6th December, 1867.

NOTICE.

HE Undersigned have been appointed Agents

Tfor Lloyds at this Port.

GILMAN & Co.

Hongkong, 2nd December, 1867.

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AND

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Mblished by Authority.

No. 2.

TUTORIA, HA URDAY, IT ANUARY, 1868.

VOL. XIV.

No. 1.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified that the appointment of PINEAS RYRIE, Esquire, to a Seat in the Legis- lative Council of Hongkong, was approved by Her Majesty The QUEEN in Council on the 18th November last.

By Command

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th January, 1868.

No. 2.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

　　　　　　It is hereby notified that His Excellency the GOVERNOR has fixed Wednesday, the 15th instant, as the date after which

entertained.

Application and

Polic

mant

Lighting Rate Ordinance, 1863, will be

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

No. 3.

January, 1868.

The following Accoun

in Hongkong, during the Month ending 31st December

MENT NOTIFICATION. omed, of

mount of BANK NOTES in Circulation

By Command,

published for general information

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Se

ce, Hongkong, 9th January,

Oriental Bank Corporation

Chartered Mercantile Bank”

Chartered Be

Hongkong

SPECIE RESERVE.

200,000

ndon and China,

...

318,45

200,900-

strali

209,065

#120,000

Bar

400,000

000

No. 4.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION

NUARY, 1868.

The following Calendar of Grants of Probates during 1867, made under Ordinance *1860, is publised for general information.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

CALENDA

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

and,

ry, 18€

nted by the Court

ngkong, during the Year 1867.

1867.

TLACE AND TIME

OF DEATH..

PROBATE, AD- MINISTRATION WITH WILL ANNEXED, OR ADMINISTRATION.

NAME AND DESCRIPTION OF THE EXECUTOR

OR ADMINISTRATOR.

VALUE OF THE EFFECTS AS SET

FORTH IN THE COMMISSION OF APPRAISEMENT.

Jan.

George Lefevre,

Hongkong,

Feb. 18

William Mackintosh,

366 Administ 087

Official Adminst

Francisca Xavier

$81.55

relict, of

Hongkong,

March 8

Michael Burberry,

3rd Feb 1867

Official Administrator,

76.00 569.93

Filippe de Filippo,

9th Feb. 1867

The Honorable John Dent, Hongkong,

April 3

Ezekiel David Ezekiel,

David Solomon,

George Wilkins,

May 6

William W. White,

Foong Ahleet,

At Sea,

Bombay Hongkong, 4th Feb. 1867

3rd April 1867 | Probate

23rd April 1867 Administration 20th Sept. 1867

A. A. D. Sassoon, Hongkong,

11,118.75

Hanna David Solomon, Hongkong,

309.64

Samuel Speechly, of Hongkong, Exe-

cutor,

Official Administrator,

396.45

John Cormack,

William A. Bowra,

Surbiton, 4th

1866

annexed

Lee Ashee, of Hongkong, relict,

Peterhead, 6th Oct. 1866 | Probate with Will W. R. Dalziel, P. & O. Co., H'kong,

Hongkong, 4th May 1867 Administration

John Stewart Lapraik,

Merchant,

Hongkong,

jeong

Lee Shee, relict, Hongkong, Lo Ahoo, (brother of deceased,)

70.00

380.45

Official Administrator,

87.95

186.95

June

July

Leong Aluk,

Chun Aheong,

Namhoy, 25th July 1866

S. T. H. de Carvalho,

Hongkong, 5th May 1867

Soong A Hing,

12th Mar. 1807

annexed.

obate with Will Soong Seu Ting and Soong Loong,

Executors, Hongkong,

William Shields,

27th June 1867

Administration

Official Administrator,

420.50

Cheong Asum,

2nd July 1867

133.75

9.9

John Francis Fawcett,

At Sea,

26th Feb. 1866

Administration

Aug.

George Richard Lawrence,

13th July 1867

with Will annexed] Probate

G. B. Falconer, Watch-maker, Attor- ney for Executors, Hongkong,

F. W. Mitchell, Postmaster General,

Hongkong,

Sept.

Thos. Raleigh,

Hongkong, 14th July 1867

tration

Official Administrator,

74.00

James Simpson,

21st June 1867

Dec.

Leong Awong,

1867

liam Keswick, Hongkong,

Asong, (other,)

74.19

Henry Pawson,

1867

Administra

12.30

Joseph Glassou,

1866

18.50

Thos. Blenkinsop White,

Ergland,

1865

swick, Attorney for Executrix,

13 George Mather Neill,

Hongkong, 2nd Nov. 1867 Adr

enke,

1,347.04

W. H. ALEXANDER,

Registrar.

No. 5.

GOVERN

NOTIFICATION.

　　　　The following Intestate Estates' Returns for the past Half-year, are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretee

9th January, 1868.

ESTA

INTESTATES for

AMOUNT RE-

NAME OF INTESTAT

EIVED ON

ECOUNT OF

DEDUCTIONS FOR DIS- BURSEMENTS.

William Shields,

Cheang, Asumn,

Thomas Babich. Henry Pawson, Joseph Glasson,

CH C. SMITH, angial, Secretary.

December

DISPOSAL OP BALANCE.

TOTAL BALANCE.

$20.50

89.36

$56.28

282,19

Registry, Treasury, $190.00

$56.28

ining in ser

2.19

282.19

2 21 32.52

W. H. LANDER,

Heater.

No. 4.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION

NUARY, 1868.

The following Calendar of Grants of Probates during 1867, made under Ordinance *1860, is publised for general information.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

CALENDA

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

and,

ry, 18€

nted by the Court

ngkong, during the Year 1867.

1867.

TLACE AND TIME

OF DEATH..

PROBATE, AD- MINISTRATION WITH WILL ANNEXED, OR ADMINISTRATION.

NAME AND DESCRIPTION OF THE EXECUTOR

OR ADMINISTRATOR.

VALUE OF THE EFFECTS AS SET

FORTH IN THE COMMISSION OF APPRAISEMENT.

Jan.

George Lefevre,

Hongkong,

Feb. 18

William Mackintosh,

366 Administ 087

Official Adminst

Francisca Xavier

$81.55

relict, of

Hongkong,

March 8

Michael Burberry,

3rd Feb 1867

Official Administrator,

76.00 569.93

Filippe de Filippo,

9th Feb. 1867

The Honorable John Dent, Hongkong,

April 3

Ezekiel David Ezekiel,

David Solomon,

George Wilkins,

May 6

William W. White,

Foong Ahleet,

At Sea,

Bombay Hongkong, 4th Feb. 1867

3rd April 1867 | Probate

23rd April 1867 Administration 20th Sept. 1867

A. A. D. Sassoon, Hongkong,

11,118.75

Hanna David Solomon, Hongkong,

309.64

Samuel Speechly, of Hongkong, Exe-

cutor,

Official Administrator,

396.45

John Cormack,

William A. Bowra,

Surbiton, 4th

1866

annexed

Lee Ashee, of Hongkong, relict,

Peterhead, 6th Oct. 1866 | Probate with Will W. R. Dalziel, P. & O. Co., H'kong,

Hongkong, 4th May 1867 Administration

John Stewart Lapraik,

Merchant,

Hongkong,

jeong

Lee Shee, relict, Hongkong, Lo Ahoo, (brother of deceased,)

70.00

380.45

Official Administrator,

87.95

186.95

June

July

Leong Aluk,

Chun Aheong,

Namhoy, 25th July 1866

S. T. H. de Carvalho,

Hongkong, 5th May 1867

Soong A Hing,

12th Mar. 1807

annexed.

obate with Will Soong Seu Ting and Soong Loong,

Executors, Hongkong,

William Shields,

27th June 1867

Administration

Official Administrator,

420.50

Cheong Asum,

2nd July 1867

133.75

9.9

John Francis Fawcett,

At Sea,

26th Feb. 1866

Administration

Aug.

George Richard Lawrence,

13th July 1867

with Will annexed] Probate

G. B. Falconer, Watch-maker, Attor- ney for Executors, Hongkong,

F. W. Mitchell, Postmaster General,

Hongkong,

Sept.

Thos. Raleigh,

Hongkong, 14th July 1867

tration

Official Administrator,

74.00

James Simpson,

21st June 1867

Dec.

Leong Awong,

1867

liam Keswick, Hongkong,

Asong, (other,)

74.19

Henry Pawson,

1867

Administra

12.30

Joseph Glassou,

1866

18.50

Thos. Blenkinsop White,

Ergland,

1865

swick, Attorney for Executrix,

13 George Mather Neill,

Hongkong, 2nd Nov. 1867 Adr

enke,

1,347.04

W. H. ALEXANDER,

Registrar.

No. 5.

GOVERN

NOTIFICATION.

　　　　The following Intestate Estates' Returns for the past Half-year, are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretee

9th January, 1868.

ESTA

INTESTATES for

AMOUNT RE-

NAME OF INTESTAT

EIVED ON

ECOUNT OF

DEDUCTIONS FOR DIS- BURSEMENTS.

William Shields,

Cheang, Asumn,

Thomas Babich. Henry Pawson, Joseph Glasson,

CH C. SMITH, angial, Secretary.

December

DISPOSAL OP BALANCE.

TOTAL BALANCE.

$20.50

89.36

$56.28

282,19

Registry, Treasury, $190.00

$56.28

ining in ser

2.19

282.19

2 21 32.52

W. H. LANDER,

Heater.

THE HONGKO GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH JANUARY 1868.

RETURN OF BALANCES of

deposited as Residue, in the Colonial Treasury by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, as Official Administrator, from the 1st of July to the 31st of December, 1867.

Thomas Cullan,

Wm. Marshall Dunlop,

James Dyer,

David Cawley,

DATE OF DEATH.

DATE OF ADMINISTRATION.

AMOUNT.

DATE OF DEPOSIT.

10th Feb 25th M

13th Mar.,

$38.48

29th

12th May, 1866 9th Jan., 1866

3rd A

9th Oct., 1866

3rd July, 1867 3rd July, 1867 3rd July, 1867

Oct.,

MARKS.

No. 6.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The attention o

and Occupiers of Houses is drawn to the Provisions of the "Police and Lighting Rate Amendment Ordinance, 1867," No. 11 of 1867, which Ordinance came into force on the 1st instant, and particularly to Section 5 which lays down the mode in which a Refund of Taxes is to be obtained.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th January, 1868.

No. 7.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified for general information that His Excellency the Governor has thought fit to resume the undermentioned Lots on the dates specified below, the Lessees having failed to comply with the Provisions of their respective Leases.

No.

LESSEE.

LOCALITY.

DATE OF RESUMPTION.

110.

111.

113.

115.

Inland 10.

Shaik Madar, Lee Cheong Tye,. Wing Yune Tong,

Apleechow, kewan,

25th December, 1866.

1865. 1866.

27-

""}

119.

12.

Lepong,

Kowloon,.

24th June, 1866,

16.

17.

"'"

35.

W. C. Eastlack,

29th July, 1864.

37.

473.

Estate of Pang Wah Ping,

...Bowrington,

24th June, 1867.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th January, 1868..

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

CROWN RENTS.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

　　　　Crown Lessees are reminded that the period arowed to pay into the Treasury the Rents due on the 25th December last expires on the

instant.

Colonial Treasury, Hongkong, 8th January, 1868.

It is b

　　　　　　　　　notified that the por Bonham Rois closed to the public

NOTICE.

W. H. ALXANDER, Acting Colonial Treasurer.

of Robinson Road which iies between Castle Road and is date, during certain alterations and repairs.

By O

Surveyor General's Office, Hongko 17th De

r, 1867.

WILSON, Feneral.

THE HONGKO GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH JANUARY 1868.

RETURN OF BALANCES of

deposited as Residue, in the Colonial Treasury by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, as Official Administrator, from the 1st of July to the 31st of December, 1867.

Thomas Cullan,

Wm. Marshall Dunlop,

James Dyer,

David Cawley,

DATE OF DEATH.

DATE OF ADMINISTRATION.

AMOUNT.

DATE OF DEPOSIT.

10th Feb 25th M

13th Mar.,

$38.48

29th

12th May, 1866 9th Jan., 1866

3rd A

9th Oct., 1866

3rd July, 1867 3rd July, 1867 3rd July, 1867

Oct.,

MARKS.

No. 6.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The attention o

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th January, 1868.

No. 7.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

No.

LESSEE.

LOCALITY.

DATE OF RESUMPTION.

110.

111.

113.

115.

Inland 10.

Shaik Madar, Lee Cheong Tye,. Wing Yune Tong,

Apleechow, kewan,

25th December, 1866.

1865. 1866.

27-

""}

119.

12.

Lepong,

Kowloon,.

24th June, 1866,

16.

17.

"'"

35.

W. C. Eastlack,

29th July, 1864.

37.

473.

Estate of Pang Wah Ping,

...Bowrington,

24th June, 1867.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th January, 1868..

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

CROWN RENTS.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

　　　　Crown Lessees are reminded that the period arowed to pay into the Treasury the Rents due on the 25th December last expires on the

instant.

Colonial Treasury, Hongkong, 8th January, 1868.

It is b

　　　　　　　　　notified that the por Bonham Rois closed to the public

NOTICE.

W. H. ALXANDER, Acting Colonial Treasurer.

of Robinson Road which iies between Castle Road and is date, during certain alterations and repairs.

By O

Surveyor General's Office, Hongko 17th De

r, 1867.

WILSON, Feneral.

No. 170.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH JANUARY, 1868.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified that, in accordance with Section 12 of "The Police and Ordinance, ," His Excellency the GOVERNOR, by and with the Advice of the Execut has fixed th Slice Rate for the Year 1868 at T and a quarter per cent for Houses in the Victoria; and in accordance with Section 18 the Villages of this Island.

　　　The above Rate, as regards He One and a half per cent under.

per Annum und

The

rovisio

ng an

Diof

e same Ordinance at Five per cent for Houses in

Victoria, will be

the above Ord

ance No. 12 of 18

lusive of a Lighting Rate of Water Rate of Two per cent

tes will, under terms of the Ordinances, be payable Quarterly Monial Treasury, between the first and last Days of the first Month in each Quarter. Rages shall be charged and chargeable on and recoverable from the Owners of the Tenements in respect of which the above assessment has been made.

By Command,

IL C. SMITH,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th December, 1867.

No. 172.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Under the Provisions of Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, Notice is hereby given that a Special Sessions of the Justices of the Peace will be held at the Police Magistrates' Court, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon of Thursday, the 9th Day of January, 1838; and thereafter on the first Thursday of every Month, for the purpose of considering applications for granting or transferring Spirit Licenses.

Such applications to be lodged at the Police Magistr Court, at least Ten Days before each of the Sessions now notified.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th December, 1867.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

WEATHER TABLES ES THE PAST WEEK.

6 A.M.

PRAYA WEST.

6 P.M.

1868.

MOMETER.

Baro- meter.

Thermo- meter.

Baro- Thermo- meter: meter.

Self Registering.

Baro-

Thermo-

meter.

Max.

January

30.29

30.27

30.25

30.20

30.10

30 06

30.02

30.00

29.95 *

29.92

29.84

29.90

* 70

29.89

29.97

72%

30.02

30.07

30.13

30.20

30.23

30.25

BAROMETER.

DATE.

FISTER AT BLOCK HOUSE, VICTORIA PEAK.

Height above Sea Level 1,770 feet.

HYDROMETER,

DRY BULB.

WET BULB.

THERMO-

METER.

Self Registering.

RAIN.

6 A.M.

9 A M.

*NOON

6 P.M.

GA.M.

NOON.

6 P.M.

*NOON

6 P.M.

| Min. | Mar.

NOON.

Force, ranger.

6 A.M. Noon

Dirn. . Dirn. F.

0 to 12,

6 P.M.

Dirn.

finches during the

evious 24 hours.

REMARKS AS TO WEATHER.

$ A.M.

1868

Jan 4 28.30 28.34 28.39 28.41| 28.38) 48.05 49.00| 50.00|

4,850.00; 47.00] 55.00 E

5 28.35 28.38 28.39 28.38 28.37 50.00 52.00 53.00 50.00 50.00 53.00 50.00 54.00 E

3 E

7 ESE

0.00

6 28.43 28.44 28.50 28.53 28.42 59.00 62.00 62.00 59.00 62.00 62.00, 52.00 62.05 ESB

7 28.34 28.34 28.38 28.3112

8 28.13 28.14 28.08 28.?4.

283,05|64,05 63.00 €3.05| 64.00] 62.00|

SSW

0.05

Dens

SSW 7

0.03

Dense

927.94 28.00, 28.215

10:28.19 20

58.00 61.00 59,00 54,00 58

0548.05 46.05| 48.00]

47.00] 54.00) 52,00, 45.00| 46.00

0.03

8 NEDE

5 NEON

4 NE?N

3 NE

0.00

Fine but hazy; from 3 P.M. dense

fog and heavy dew.

Fine but hazy; from 8 A.M. dense

fog and heavy dew.

11 A.M. passing fog; ense fog.

hout.

Passing Tom 8 A.M. dense fog;

from non fine but hazy.

Fine; from noon hazy.

0.00

Fine throughout.

Letters. Papers,

Letters.Papers.

Letters. Papers,

Compton, J. S. 1

Adam, James 1

Curramy, R. F. 1

Amoo, Mr.

Canellas, M. }

Ahong, Mr.

Sor. Dn.

Garred, M., Mr. 1 Gorris, T. A.

Anderson, Peter 1

Corvinous, G. S. 1

Green, Hugh

Athaide, A.

Compagn,

Gonsalves, V. 1

Caetano

Hestique F.

Garcia, Franco. 1

Ahsoo, Charley 1

Campbell,

Green, Mel-

Agabeg, M.

Duncan

} 1

Argro, N. J.

1 registd.

Crabb, Geo., Capt. 1

Cooper, Wm.

Bowley, G.

Clarke, W.

Blossom, Jerry 1

Capon, N. H.

Bois, P. du

Regiment

Gottschalk, F2

Barker, E. Mrs. 1

Gubiez, Victor

Boardman, Esq. 1

Monsr.

Dilbert, A. H.

Grant, Geo.

Bagehot, Barnes1

Dalrymple Fred.1

Bizley, F. B.

Davis, John H.

cenze, Sig.

Gattinoni, Vi-}

Bliss, Thos. H. 1

Daley, Richard 1

Gale, A.

Brown, Wm.

Dewar, A. M.

Glee, G. J.

Brinckmeyer, S. 1

Capt

Bronsmiche,

Delury,

Gran, G. L

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH JANUARY, 1868.

POST OFFICE NOTICE.

List of unclaimed LETTERS and PAPERS lying in the Hongkong Post Office for Parties not known, 10th January, 1868.

Artier Diss

Burns, W. Mr. 1

Brown, Edwd.* 1

Carvalho,

Manoel L.

Crighton, S. J. 1

Glennie, Peter 1 1 Gemma, Miss

vina, Mrs. Gist, James1

Graf W.P

formerly of

the 20th

Letters. Papers.

Lampey, Jones 1

Landsbergh, G. 1 registd.

Low John B.

Lary, W.

Low K. A.

Leques, Monsr..1 Leesen, A. von Loock, C. A. Leroy, Monsr.

Millett, F. G. Moore, F. Wm. 1 Martin, W.

Grancey, E. D. 1 registd. McCurne, Mr. 1

Omalon, Anais

Madme.

Padwick, Geo. 1

etters. Papers.

Powers, Hy.

(Engineer) Priener, A. J.

Portaria,

} 1

Esperan?a Proand, A. Paterson, R. Parravicino,

Yppolito Phillips, R. Pri Chas.

(Engineer) Palmer, Mr., Band-Mas ter, 8th N.I.

& 1 bk

Lets. Paps.

Staples, Capt. 1 Souza, Joaquim 1 Steggensen, C. 1 Smith, John

(Asst, Engr.) Single, H. Schomburgh, & Co. C.

1 registd.

Smith, & Co. }1 book.

Torres, S?r.

Dn. Tenien-

te de Cabal- leria.

erry, LF

Zegers Turner, L. Monsr.

Von Wevels

Fleth Mohr. Heinrich

Johann

Kek, R. Kelung, Mrs. Kier, William 1

Lac, Monsr.

Mello, Pedro de 1

McLoor, A. &r

Radeny, B.

Co., Messrs.

Roberts, Henry 1

Rutter James

Rudolf

Manning, Mr. 1

G. S?r Dn.

Daniell,

Mills, F. M

Ricardo

Vidaurre, Luis 1 -

Barton, G. K.

Damioli,

(M D.)

Diego Sigr.

Bird, G. W.

Daina, J.

Bondom, Monsr. 1

Fran.co Sigr.

Hine, Nelson M. 1 Hill, James Mr. 1 Hojoljom, D. A. 1 Halpern, J.

McNeil, Richardi

Roberts, Wm.

Voigt, Georg. 1

Marshall, H.

(Engineer)

Babey, Henry,

Darborough,

Harrison, W.

Marques, A. G. 1 Mackie, W. L. 1 McClelland, D. 1

Roza, Felis-

bina, Sra.

Ward, Emely 1

Rair, A.

Wilta, Wm.

Monsr.

J. J.

Baynes, John

Descremedes,

Capt. Hackrof,-

Miller, W.

Robertson, Geo. 2

Wakefield, F.

Morello, Capt.

Berchan, A.

Captain

Bernado

Moullin, Capt.

Ringer, J. M. Robertson, C.

Capt.

Dyson, W. Capt. 1

Dn.

MacMahon, W. 1

S. J.

Burlingham,

Brahu, C. F. F. 1

Eaglesham,

Hayert, Philip

Miranda,

Holbek, N.

Capt.

Maria Clara)

Blakiston,

Emanuel, J. M. 1

Haas, Joseph 1

Marko, L. E.

Meneau, C. P.

Reeves, T.

Marr & Co., S

Fries, de Joseph 1 registd.

Bryan, J.

Field, James B. 1

Jeffery W. 1 Judd

Monsieur

Browne, Miss 1

Fraser, John

Bernard. Monsr. 1

Rhodes, Mrs.

Marriott, J. O. 1 Mathie, W.

Souza, Cordiano1

Beally, M. J.

Fernandez,

Keerzema, I. H, 1 Keerlin, Ma-

Smith, Louisa

Miss

Engr.)}1

Richards, Wm. 1

Robert, Fillo-}

mena

Williams, J.

Edwd. Webb, James Weaver, W. Wightman, L. 1

Weatherhead,}

Thomas

} 1

Wigton,

Robert H. Wilkinson, G. 1

Wilkins, G.

Welsh, C. D.

Louren?o

dame

Norris, Thomas 1 Nash, Geo.

Collins, W. H. ?

　　　Revd., Pekin Chock, Along

Mr.

1 registd

Flores, Victorinol

King, John

Newman, Charles 2

Fenwick, J. M. 1

Fernandes,

formerly Chief-Officer

Noyes, A. M. 1

Nichois, H. J. 1 book.

Cheong, Sun

Mr.

Flett, Peter

Falkiner, Daniel 1

Trebolgan Kennedy, W. Kyle, David

Olibeiro, Manoell

O'Connor, John 1

Shields, Robt. Shaw, Robt. Spatsacchi, A. 1 Simpson, James 1 Stevens, John L. 1 Simpson, Geo. 1 Scott, Charles J.2 Stewart, C. Mrs. 1

Wray, W.

3 bks

Clair

Free Trade

Ashburton

Chalgrove

Feorites

Agnes

Coringa

Foam

Anevoca

Channel Queen 1

Fortitude

Amiral Charner 2 Amicus

Codabux

Fort Regent

Craigelea

Frederic

Xavier, Hilario 1

Zynen, Wel. Ed. Heer, Doctor

} 2

List of LETTERS and PAPERS lying at the Echo Post Office for Merchant Vessels, 10th January, 1868.

Letters. Papors,

Letters. Papers.

Argonaut

Clio

Alhambra

Arima

]

Conqueror Corea

Allendale

Cymbeline

Alexandrina

Cedars

Abotsford

Antifer

Adeline

City of Ham-}

Empress of In Eliza Etienne et

Lorena Esperanza Ellen Morice

Letters. Papers.

Indomitable 1 Isabella

Jenie

Letters. Papers. Morayshire 2 Mathilde

Nothumbria 5

Red Deer

Servantes,

Sir William

Wallace Sabastian Cabot 4

Sandringham 1

Lets. Paps.

John Fraser

Japan

1 2 2

Maria Elizabeth 1 Mandan Martha

-Raphael

Reconnaisance Rapid Ramsey

Regina

Japara

John Milton

Norwood

Jason

Napoleon

John & Mary 2

Norval

} 1

James Miller

Jeanne Alice

Aden

Chelsea

Faders Minde

Kim Soon Hong 1

Albert Victor 6

Countess of

Kelso

Naomi Navarino Noranside Nelson Norham

St. Mary

Sea Mew

Sultan

Andromeda Avon

Elgin

Golden Fleece 4

Kester

Speculation

Chloris

Guajara

Annie Laity Alexandra

Bengal

Carmarthenshire 6

Gladiateur

Laurel

Confucius 1

Gleam

Lucerne

Cathurstone

Gungadhur

Burdwan

　　　Blairmore Bosphorus

Bara Noorfool 1

Bien Hoa Boanerges Belle of the

South Broadwater

427 1 — CO

Carmeline

Golden Dragon 1

Colorado (Ship) 3 Colombo

Gustav Adolf

Gifford

Golden Dream 1

Deerfoot

Glenroy

Flora

Henriette

Dannevirke

Helen

12121211211

Eva

Baringa

Englishman 16

Belted Will

Emerald

Sussanne

Ecliptic

Home

Catherine Eli-}

Cosmos Capiolina City of Man-

chester

Europa,

Elgin

} 1

Eagle Ettie Ellida Eleutheria

Isabella Ridley

Heroes of Alma 2-

Henriette

Gerardma

Hey Handley 2

Heather Bell 1 Ho Hang Ho 1 Honorine

Libra

Lochnager Lottie Maria

Lobelia

Lady Love

Lorton Lady Alice

Lombard

Leblorn

Min

Maggie Lauder 1

Marian Maria Morton Mary

Monk Chester 12 1 Mary Lucie

Medusa

Malvern Mirage

Pieter

Princess of

Wales Passepartout Pacific Philip Nelson 1

Regent Reindee. Rome

Wealth of

Nations

Wild Gazelle 1

Water Lily

Vild Rover

Wm. Chandler 3 Winfield

Yvonne Young Greck 1 Yedo

Ocean Child Ocean House

Oriental

Orsa

Ospray

Ocean Spray

- 1-resident

IIII25

Shooting Star

Senator Webb 1 Star of England 1

Stirlingshire Sardinia

Sunrise

Three Brothers 1

Pembrokeshire

Vesta

Palmerston

gil

Pride of the Ganges Prudhoe

Ville de Grenade 2

} 3

1 1

White Swallow 1

List of Unpaid and Registered LETTERS PAPERS lying at the Hongkong Post Ofte for Her Majesty's

and

"Ships of War, 10th January, 1868.

Letters. Paners.

Algerine

Bouncer

Letters. Papers.

*Dove

Letters. Papers.

Insolat Melville

Letters. Papers.

Letters. Papers,

Letters. Papers.

P. Charlotte 16

Silamis

THE

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH JANUARY,

NOTICE.

THE next CRIMINAL SESSIONS of the Su- preme Court will be held on Saturday, the Eighteenth day of January, 1868, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.

By of

the Court,

H. ALEXANDER,

Registrar.

IN THE SUPREME COURT

OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY.

In the Matter of A. E. VASCHER and GEORGE BLAKEWAY, Bank- rupts.

OTICE is hereby given that the Pablie Sitting for the said Bankrupts to pass their last examination andke application for their order of discharge has been adjourned by order of His Honor the Chief Justice until Thursday, the Twenty third day of January, 1868, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon.

IN THE SUPREME COURT

OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY. "OTICE is hereby given that a Meeting of the Creditors of George Lyall, Charles Frederick Still, and George Francis Maclean, Bankrupts, will be held, pursuant to the 151st Section of the Bankruptcy Ordinance 1864, in the Supreme Court, on Wednesday the 15th day of January, 1868, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, before William Hastings Alexander, Esquire, Registrar of the Supreme Court, being the Officer appointed by the Supreme Court sitting in Bankruptcy.

　　　At the said Meeting the Official Assignee will in pursuance of the 151st Section of the said Ordinance submit a Statement of the Bankrupts' Estates recovered and outstanding, aud of all receipts and all payments made or to be made thereout, and the Creditors at the said Meeting will, in pursuance of the said Section, declare whether any and what part of the nett produce of the Estates of the said Bankrupts, jointly and severally, after making a reasonable deduction for future contingencies, shall be divided amongst the Creditors, and whether any and what allow- ance shall be paid to the said Bankrupts res- pectively. Proofs of Debts will be received, and Creditors who have not proved, or who shall not then prove, will be excluded from the benefit of the dividend,-and all claims not proved will be disallowed.

F. S. HUFFAM, Official Assignee.

THE BANKRUPTCY ACT 1861.

A: ELLISSEN & Co.

In the Matter of a Deed of Arrange- meat dated the 30th day of Junc 1865, made between Adolf Ellissen of No. 4 Cullum Street in the City of London Merchant and of Coven- try in the County of Warwick Cot- ton Spinner and Gustav Ellissen then residing at No. 28 Maida Hill

ruptcy Act 1861 the Twenty-eighth day of July 1865 whereby the said Debtors assigned all their joint and separate estates and effects as well in Great Britain and China as elsewhere to the Inspectors for the benefit of their Creditors.

1868.

NOTICE.

N_consequence of the destruction of Wo-

IN CORONG-LCO of Shop, caused by the late Great Fire, its Creditors being assembled to- gether, have unanimously appointed he Un- dersigned to take charge of and sell the remain- ing stock of the shop, and to collect all the outstanding DEBTS, with a view to a final settlement and division. All Persons who are indebted to the shop are requested to pay the same as soon as possible, and those having Claims against the shop are requested to send in their Bills to Mr. WEI-KWONG, for verification, on or before 4th January next, as after that date they will not be recognized.

J. J. DOS REMEDIOS.

WEI-KWONG.

CHEUK-SING. ˇ

Hongkong, 27th December, 1867.

pectors will proceed to distribute the assets which LE

executed or assented to and the particulars of whose debts claims or demands shall bave been forwarded to the said Inspectors and proved to their satisfaction and duly allowed by them.

NOTICE.

EPPERS of Administration having been gonted to the undersigned, under the Seal of the Probate Court of Hongkong, the 13th day of December, A.D. 1867, in the estate of the late GEORGE MATHER NEILL, all persons having claims against the said Estate are re- quested to send them in as early as possible, and all persons indebted to the same are requested to pay to him the amounts without delay.

JULIUS MENKE,

Administrator.

Hongkong, 14th December, 1867.

NOTICE.

having been disputed by the said Inspec shall THE Undersigned have been appointed Agents

not have been duly verified by Affidavit or Declaration in accordance with the provisions of the Bankruptcy Act 1861 for proof of debts and allowed as claims against the said Estates of the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen.

Dated this 29th day of October, 1867.

FLUX ARGLES & RAWLINS,

1 East India Avenue Leadenhall Street London, Solicitors for the said Inspectors.

NOTICE.

R. THOMAS PYKE has this day been ad-

mitted a Partner in our Firm,

Hongkong, 1st January,

NOTICE.

BER

Co.

Interest and responsibility of Mr. A. D. MITCHEL in our Firm ceased on the 31st day of December, 1867.

A. FERGUSON & ?o.

Hongkong, 3rd January, 1868.

NOTICE.

R. EDWARD CUNNINGHAM has re-

West in the County of Middlesex Mentered our firm, to which also Mr. WIL-

but late of Hongkong in China Mer- chant the said Adolf Ellissen carry- ing on business in London as a Merchant alone under the Style or Firm of "A. Ellissen & Co" and at Coventry aforesaid as a Cotton Spin- ner alone in his own name and the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Eli- sen carrying on business in Co-part-

LIAM H. FOSTER, Jr., is admitted Partner' their interest and responsibility commencing this day.

China, 1st January, 1867.

RUSSELL & Co.

NOTICE.

nership at Hongkong and Shanghai MS. GREW, have retired from our firm,

R. WARREN DELANO, and MR. HENRY

their interest and responsibility ceasing on this day.

RUSSELL & Co.

China, 1st January, 1867,

NOTICE.

in China under the name style or firm of "A. Ellissen & Co." and which said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen were thereinafter designated as the Debtors of the first part Roger Swire Tomain of No. 1 Bank Build ings in the City of London Gentle- man William Burrows of Great St. Helen's in the same City Merchant and William Moales of 19 King's Arms Yard Moorgate Street in the City of London Accountant therein- after designated The Inspectors of the second part and The several Per- sons Companies and Co-partnership Firms who at the date thereof were respectively-Creditors of the Debtors or either of them thereinafter desig- nated "the Creditors" of the third part Registered in the Court of Bank uptcy- pursuant to the Bank-

TE interest and respon of the 1st day THE interest and responsibility of Mr. A. FER-

of November, 1866.

A. FFRGUSON x Co.

The business will henceforth be carried on un- der the same name by the undersigned.

A. D. MITCHELL. J. D. MEYERS. HENRY FEHRS.

-Hongkong, 16th December ,1867.

for Lloyds at this Port.

GILMAN & Co. Hongkong, 2nd December, 1807.

TRANSFER OF THE TAI-SHING HONG.

E the undersigned beg respectfully to an- nounce that we have purchased the Stock in Trade and Furniture belonging to the Tai- Shing long, situated in Nos. 43, 85 & 87, Bonham Strand, West. The transaction has this day been settled. The Shop is now undergoing repairs and will be ready very shortly for business.

If any money lan or other debts are due to either Chinese or Foreigners by the said Tai-Shing, we the undersigned do not hold ourselves responsi- ble for payment of the same. We therefore hereby give special notice, in order to prevent disputes in future.

SING-TAK-TONG.

Hongkong, 6th December, 1867.

FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE,

LIST OF

STAMP DUTIES,

(revised and approved by F. W. MITCHELL, Esquire, Collector of Stamp Duties,)

CONTAINING ALSO

A DIGEST OF PENALTIES,

AND

RULES OF THE STAMP OFFICE.

PRICE-50 cents or copy. "Government Gazette Office," Hongkong, 28th December, 1867.

NOW READY AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE,

ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR

for 1868;

Table of Arrivals of P. & O. Co.'s Mail Steamers,

and

Complete Tables of the Rates of Postage, The whold neatly printed on Card Board.

PRICE $1 per copy. Government Gazette Office, Hongkong, 28th December, 1867.

Printed and Published by NORONHA & SONS, Printers to Hongkong Government, OswALD'S TERRACE, WELLINGTON STREET.

DIE

MON

DROIT

THE HONGKONG.

Government Gazette.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 18TH JANUARY, 1868.

VOL. XIV.

No. 3.

No. 8.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

　　　His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL has, with the approval of the Major General Commanding, appointed provisionally, and till further notice, Captain JOHN T. BOLTON MAYNE, 73rd Regiment, to be Aide-de-Camp from the 1st instant, inclusive.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th January, 1868.

No. 9.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

　　　The subjoined Schedules of Balances of Intestate Estates is published for general information, and Notice is hereby given that those Balances for which no application shall have been made within Twelve Months from this date, will be carried to the Credit of the general Revenue of the Colony in terms of Ordinance No. 6 of 1854.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th January, 1868.

CECIL.C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

SCHEDULE of UNCLAIMED BALANCES of INTESTATE ESTATES of Persons who have been dead for Five Years and upwards, lying in the Colonial Treasury, Hongkong, 31st December, 1867.

NAME.

DATE OF DEATH.

AMOUNT.

REMARKS.

Choe Chow Chi,

10th January, 1862,

$29.05

Thomas Brown,

23rd April,

1862,

00.35

A. Reed,

1st October, 1862,

10.37

Administration granted 8th February, 1862. 17th May, 1862. 28th November, 1862.

Charles Watson,

13th October, 1862,

61.03

28th November, 1862.

Henry Montagu,.

17th October, 1862,

36.70

William Henry Butcher,

23rd December, 1862,

77.82

28th November, 1862. 24th January, 1863.

W. H. ALEXANDER, Registrar.

SCHEDULE of UNCLAIMED BALANCES of INTESTATE ESTATES of Police Constables who have been dead for Five Years and upwards, lying in the Colonial Treasury, 31st December, 1867.

RANKS.

Nos.

NAMES.

DATE OF DEATH.

DATE OF PAYMENT INTO THE TREASURY.

$ c.

Police Constable,

Do.,

167 233

Owen Francis,

Ishmael Kahn,

11th January, 1862, Paid into the Treasury, 23rd February, 1862,

10.02

15.76

Do.,

206

Monsoor,

4th March,

1862,

Do.5

22nd April,

3.85

Police Sergeant,

J. Robson,.

25th May,

1862,

Do.,

21st June,

29.09

Police Constable,

133

Abdool Rahmon,

7th June,

1862,

Do.,

19th July,

8.74

Do.,

164

Sheik Ahmood,.

8th July,

1802,

Do.,

16th August,

2.99

10.55

Do.,

115

Sheik Moideen,..

12th November, 1362,

Dog

Do.,

R. S. Mason,.

2nd December 1862,

Do.,

13th Jan., 1863,

9.89

W. M. DEANE,

Acting Superintendent of Police.

No. 10.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH JANUARY, 1868.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

　　　The following Return of Convictions under the "Cargo Boat Ordinance," No. 15 of 1860, is published for general information.

By.Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th January 1868.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

DATE.

1867. Jan. 28th,

CONVICTIONS under Ordinance No. 15 of 1860, from 1st January to 31st December, 1867.

NAMES OF PARTIES TO THE SUIT.

OFFENCE.

SENTENCE.

R. at complaint of R. Reed, Inspector of Cargo-boats, European, Plaintiff. Fan-fook Cheong, owner of First-class Cargo-boat, Chinese, Defendant.

Feb. 22nd, R. at complaint of R. Reed,

Inspector of Cargo-boats, European, Plaintiff.

Chun Achune, Boatman,

Chinese, Defendant.

On the 26th January, being the licensed owner of a certain First- class Cargo-boat,- 1st. Did on board the said Boat have unlawful possession of 14 picul of Hemp. 2nd. Did unlawfully make alter- ations in the fore bulkhead of said boat by cutting holes therein, for the purpose of facilitating the fraudulent concealment of goods.

On the 22nd February, for con- structing a false bulkhead on board his Cargo-boat for the purpose of facilitating the fraudulent concealment of goods.

April 20th, R. at complaint of M. Ig- On the 20th April, for t

Lacio, Police Constable,

Plaintiff.

Ho Awing, Boatman, De-

fendant.

May 9th, R. at complaint of Fram-

jee Jamsetjee, Clerk, Plaintiff.

Loo Ahoey, Boatman, Car- go-boat No. 164, Defen- dant.

Aug. 12th, R. at complaint of Dennis Daly Inspector of Police, European, Plaintiff. Tang Akow, master of Cargo-

boat, No. 165, Chinese, Defendant.

Sept. 6th, R. at complaint of J. W. Andrews, master of Br. barque Paramatta, Eu- ropean, Plaintiff.

1. Chu Afook, owner of

Cargo-boat No. 161.

3. Shee Asee, Boatman. 3. Chu Ahee,

do.

4. Fong Aman, do. 5. Chu Paksing, do. 6. Shee Asam, do. Ho Akwong, do.

employment as a Batman, without having a License Ticket from the Registrar General.

On the 24th April, for attempting

to break open a chest of Opium-· on board said Boat No. 164, with intent to steal Opium therefrom.

2nd, having a false bulkhead on board said Boat for conceal- ing stolen goods.

On the 11th August, for having a false bulkhead fitted on board the Licensed Cargo- boat No. 165, for the purpose of concealing stolen cargo.

On the 5th September, for having unlawful possession of 20 bags of Rice on board the Li- censed Cargo-boat No. 161.

Fined $25, in default 2 months' hard la- bor.

The Cargo-boat for-

feited.

Discharged.

Fined $10, in default 6 days' imprison-

ment.

To be imprisoned for six months with hard labor, and to be twice kept in solitary confine- ment for seven days.

The Cargo-boat for-

feited.

Fined $50, in default 6 months' hard la- bor.

The Cargo-boat con-

fiscated.

1st & 6th Defendants fined 24 each-In default 6 weeks' hard labor. 7th Defendant to be imprisoned for 3 months with hard labor.

REMARKS.

Fine Paid.

Forfeiture $40, re- covered 23rd Fe- bruary.

Fine paid on the

22nd April.

Forfeiture $9, paid

16th May.

Fine paid, $50.

Fines paid, $48.

H. G. THOMSETT, Harbor Master, &c.

No. 11.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH JANUARY, 1868.

GOVERNMENT, NOTIFICATION.

Tenders will be received at this Office, till Noon on the 3rd Proximo, for the construction Sea Wall, and Reclamation from the Sea, West of the Harbor Master's Office.

Plans and Specifications may be seen at the Surveyor General's Office.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18tlr January, 1868.

No. 12.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL is pleased to direct that, until further notice, the only Anchorage in the-waters of Hongkong for Foreign Vessels of War, and Foreign Cruisers of every description and Nationality, shall be within the following Boundaries:

Western Boundary.

A line running from the Government Wharf to the "Melville," Hospital Ship.

Northern Boundary.

A line running from the "Melville" Eastward till it meets the Eastern Boundary.

Eastern Boundary.

A line running from St. Francis' Hospital towards Kowloon Point till it meets the Northern Boundary. The above Regulation does not refer to Vessels driven by stress of weather, or any exceptional circumstances to take up other temporary anchorages.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th January, 1868.

No. 6.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

　　　The attention of Owners and Occupiers of Houses is drawn to the Provisions of the "Police and Lighting Rate Amendment Ordinance, 1867," No. 11 of 1867, which Ordinance came into force on the 1st instant, and particularly to Section 5 which lays down the mode in which a Refund of Taxes is to be obtained.

By Commard,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th January, 1868.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

No. 170.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

　　　It is hereby notified that, in accordance with Section 12 of "The Police, and Lighting Rate Ordinance, 1863," His Excellency the GOVERNOR, by and with the Advice of the Executive Council, has fixed the Police Rate for the Year 1868 at Ten and a quarter per cent for Houses in the City of Victoria; and in accordance with Section 18 of the same Ordinance at Five per cent for Houses in the Villages of this Island.

　　　The above Rate, as regards Houses in Victoria, will be levied exclusive of a Lighting Rate of One and a half per cent under Section 12 of the above Ordinance, and a Water Rate of Two per cent

Annum under the Provisions of Ordinance No. 12 of 1860.

per

The Police, Lighting and Water Rates will, under terms of the Ordinances, be payable Quarterly in advance, at the Colonial Treasury, between the first and last Days of the first Month in each Quarter. These several Rates shall be charged and chargeable on and recoverable from the Owners of the Tenements in respect of which the above assessment has been made.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th December, 1867.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Coronial Secretary.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH JANUARY, 1868.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

CROWN RENTS.

Crown Lessees are reminded that the period allowed to pay into the Treasury the Rents due on the 25th December last expires on the 15th Instant.

W. H. ALEXANDER, Acting Colonial Treasurer.

Colonial Treasury, Hongkong, 8th January, 1868.

WEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK.

6 A.M.

NOON.

6 P.M.

1868.

THERMOMETER.

Baro- meter.

Thermo- Baro- Thermo-

meter. meter.

Baro-

Self Registering.

meter.

Thermo- meter.

Min.

Max.

January

30.30

30.34

30.35

30.27

30.19

8899888

30.31

30.32

30.33

30.34

20.34

30.34

.. 30.33

30.30

85885:

30.26

30.24

30.17

30.15

Height above Sea Level 1,770 feet.

DATE.

BAROMETER.

DRY BULB.

HYDROMETER.

THERMO-

WINDS.

RAIN.

WET BULB.

Self Registering.

In inches during the

6 A.M.

9 A.M.

*NOON

3 P.M.

6 P.M.

6 A.M.

'NOON

6 P.M.

6 A.M.

'NOON

6 P.M.

Min. Max. 6 AM

Noor. Dirn

Force, range from 0 to 12,

NOON.

previous 24 hours.

REMARKS AS TO WEATHER,

6 P.M.

9 A.M.

F Dirns F.

Dirn. F.

1868.

Jan. 11 28.30 28.40 28.46 28.47 28.43 47.00 50.00 52.00 45.00 48.05 48.00′ 47.00] 56.00 NEDN

羹

5 EbN 4

0.00

Fine throughout.

1428.38 28.47 28.58 28.57 28.43 47.05 53.05 49.05 46.00| 52.00 48.05 47.05) 59.00 EUN

12 28.43 28.46 23.61| 28.53 28.44′ 49.00| 55.00-51.00 48.05 54.00 49.00 49,00 56,00 ENE

1328.42 28.52 28.66 28.64 28.40 49.05 57.00 51,00 48.00 55.00] 50.00 49,00 58.00 EDN

? Eas

6 E

0.02

7-ESE

4 E

0.00

Cloudy and drizzling rain; from 9

A.M. fine but hazy.

Fine but very hazy.

7 EbN

6 E

0.00

Do.

158.43 28.47 28.62 28.64 28.49 47.05 54.00 54.00 47.00 49.05 52.00 47.00| 55,05 E

7 E

6 NEON

0.00

Do.

16 28.40 28.46 28.65| 28.65 28.47 51.00| 58.05| 57.05 51.00| 55.00] 55.00 51.00 60,00 E

6 E

1 EbN

0.00

Dense fog; from 8.45 A.M. fine but

very hazy.

17 28.34 28.34 28.73 28.65 28.44 54.00 58.00| 60.05 54.00| 57.00] 59.00 54.00 63.00 E

7 ESE

5 Ebs

0.00

Dense fog and wet dew; from 8.45

A.M. passing thick fog; from 1 P.M. fine but very hazy.

No. 39. List of DEAD LETTERS which have been returned from the General Post Office in London and other places for the various reasons assigned upon them, addressed as undermentioned, the writers of which can obtain them on appli-

cation.

Atkins, F. H., Captain, care of W. H. Brown, Esq., 383, New North

Road, Islington, London,.

Mondivil, R. Juan, Sor. Don, Calie de Belen, No. 416, en los bayos,

Lima, Peru,.

Ballen, Clemente Senor Don., Guayaquil, Ecuador,

Margotti, Canonica, Sigr., Reverend, Torino,

Bahamoude, & Co., Senores, Guayaquil, Ecuador,

Bromberg, Max., Esq., Limc,..

Brockhoven, Fred., Groate, Oostenburger, Straat, Amsterdam,

Melven, Mrs., Sunderland, General Post Office, till called for, England, 1 Meyer, J. A., Esq., 62, King William Street, Londor, E. C., England, 1 Norgorod, Meegny, Soenogurey, Pogionoby, Russia,

Bertolazzi, Emilia, Signora, Alexandria, Egypt,

Petronila, Senora Lona, de la Dama, Calle de Gremios, 140, Altos,

Calderon, Francisco, Senor Don., Lima, Peru,

Lima, Peru,

Cargell, George, Mr., 10, Green Street, Glasgow, Scotland,

Palmer, F., Mr., No. 11, Frogmore Cliff, Bristol, England,

Clade, Geo., Mr., 30, Albarton Street, Poplar, New Town, London, Dawson, Thos., Esq., care of George Petrie, Esq., P. S. N. Co.'s Office,

Callao, Peru,..

Polek, David, care of Thomas Brair, Grocer, Hack Hill, Dundee, Scot-

land,

Kanaff, ?nn, Miss, 178, Calliu Street, Baltimore, State of Merlin,

Gibson, & Co., Messrs., Liverpool, England,

Gledhill, Hannah, Miss, care of James Gledhill, 17, Galton Street, Wa-

terloo Road, Liverpool,

Rhind, Miss, Post Office, Upper Baker Street, London, (to be left till

called for),.

Residente, Ilmo. Senor, Mar Anglo, Ronecrols, Genova,

Gledhill, James, 17, Galton Street, Rose Place, Waterloo Road, Liver-

pool,

Saveno, Francisco, di figo Regnio, di Italia, Salevno,

Gatt, Carodina, Mr., Valetta, Malta,

Stewart, John, Mrs., 34, Croston Street, Gt. Homer St., Liverpool,

England,

Harrison, E., Esq., London, E. C.,..

Skillycorn, John, 14, Waalnut Street, Liverpool, England,.

Hay, John, Mr., Gardeners, Whitly, Yorkshire,

Serry, John Ant, Esq., Lima, Peru,

Jewe ros, Manuel, Sor. Don, Lima, Peru,

Scheffter, C., & Co., Messrs., Alexandria, Egypt,.

Kay, W. H., Mrs., care of Grancini & Co., Victoria, Vancouver's

Island,

Tunniss, W. F., Mrs., 13, Constantine Terrace, Sheerness, Kent, Eng-

land,

Mita, Juan, Sor. Don, Calle de la Pelota, No. 144, Lima, Peru, Mota, Antonio de la, Senor Don, Guayaquil, Ecuador,..

Vandevaan, G. G, care of H. W. Schorting, Limes, Oudepakela,. Williams, Mr., 88, Ediburgh Street, Everton, Liverpool,.....

Maertens, Louis, S. D., Calle St. Rosa, Frabico de Soda, Callao, Peru,... 1

F. W. MITCHELL,

Postmaster General.

General Post Office, Hongkong, 14th January, 1868.

cenzo, Sig.

Gattinoni, Vi-}

Gale, A.

Glee, G. J.

Gran, G. L.

Hine, Nelson M. 1

Ilill, James Mr. 1

Hojoljom, D. A. 1

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH JANUARY, 1868.

POST OFFICE NOTICE.

List of unclaimed LETTERS and PAPERS iying in the Hongkong Post Office for Parties not known, 17th January, 1868.

Aytie, Miss

Glennie, Peter 1

Letters. Papers.

Adam, James 1

Compagn,

Hestique F.

Gemma, Miss

Amoo, Mr.

Campbell,

Ahong, Mr.

Garred, M., Mr. 1

Kennedy, W. Kyle, David Kek, R.

Duncan

Gorris, T. A.

Kelung, Mrs.

Anderson, Peter 1

Crabb, Geo.,Capt. 1

Green, Hugh

Kier, William

Athaide, A.

Cooper, Wm.

Gonsalves, V. 1

Caetano

Clarke, W.

Kreyer, F. C

Ahsoo, Charley 1

Capon, N. H.

-Green, Mel-

Argro, N. J.

1 registd.

Carvalho,

}

Leo, Monsr.

Manoel L.

Bowley, G.

Crighton, S. J. 1

Blossom, Jerry 1 Bois, P. du

Burns, W. Mr. 1 Barker, E. Mrs. 1 Boardman, Esq. 1 Brown, Edwd. 1 Bagehot, Barnes1 Bliss, Thos. H. 1 Brown, Wm.

Dilbert, A. H. 1 Dalrymple Fred.1 Davis, John H 1 Daley, Richard 1 Dewar, A. M.

Capt. Delury, Daniel 1 Daniell, F.

Brinckmeyer, S. 1

Damioli,

Barton, G. K.

Diego Sigr.

(M D.)

Daina, J.

Bird, G. W.

Fran.co Sigr.

Darborough,

Bondom, Monsr. 1

Babey, Henry,}

Baynes, John

J. J. Descremedes, Captain

}

Garcia, Franco. 1

vina, Mrs. Gilchrist James1 Granger WP.

formerly of the 20th Regiment Gottschalk, T. Gubiez, Victo

Monsr.

Grant, Geo.

Lamprey, Jones 1

Landisbergh, G. 1 registd.

Lary, W.

Low John B. 1

Grancey, E. . 1 registd. McLoor, A. & 2

Letters. Papers.

O'Connor, John 1 Omalon, Anais

Madme.

Powers, Hy.

(Engineer) Priener, A. J. 1 Padwick, Geo. 1 Portaria,

Esperan?a Proand, A. Parravicino, Yppolito Phillips, R.

}

Band-Mas->2 & 1 bk.

Lets. Paps.

Souza Joaquim 1 Steggensen, C. 1 Smith, John (Asst, Engr.) Single, H. Schomburgh,

& Co. C. Smith, & Co.

1 registd.

} 1

1 book.

F. H. Smith, McGregor 1 Still, G.

Torres, Str.

Dn., Tenier

e de Cabal-

leria

Terry, L. F.

Zegers

Talbot & Co.

Tate, Stranger 3

Von Wevels

Fleth Mohr. Heinrich Johann

Vidaurre, Luis 1

Low K. A.

Leques, Mortsr. 1

Prior, Chas.

Leesen, A. von

(Engineer)

Leroy, Monsr

Palmer, Mr.,

Millett, F?G.

ter, 8th N.I.J

Moore, F. Wm. 1

Martin, W.

Radeny, B.

Mello, Pedro de 1

Roberts, Henry 1

Rudolf

Co., Messrs.

Ricardo

McCurne, Mr. 1

Roberts, Wm.

Manning, Mr.

(Engineer))

Mills, F. M.

Roza, Felis-

Voigt, Georg. 1

McNeil, Richard1

bina, Sra.

Berchan, A.

Dyson, W. Capt. 1

Halpern, J.

Marshall, H.

Rair, A.

Ward, Emely 1

Capt.

Duval, Miss 2

Brahu, C. F. F. 1

Down, G. Saml. 1

Harrison, W.

Capt. }

Tarques, A. G. 1

Blakiston,

Marr & Co.,}

Hackrof,

Eaglesham,

Bryan, J.

Capt.

}

Bernado

Dn.

Browne, Miss

Hayert, Philip 1

Bernard. Monsr. 1

Berns, G. H. 1 Batchalder,M.J. 1

Fries, de Joseph 1 registd.

Field, James B. 1

Holbek, N.

Haas, Joseph

Fraser, John

Rhodes, Mrs.

Hawkins

Thom

Collins, W. H. ? Revd., Pekin Chock, Along

Mr.

Cheong, Sun

Mr.

Compton, J. S. 1

1 registd.

Fernandez,

Louren?o

Flores, Victorinol

Jeffery, J. W. 1 Judd, Miss

Fenwick, J. M. 1

Johnson, J. W. 1

Fernandes,

Constancio C.}

Keerzema, I. H. 1

Keerlin, Ma-

Flett, Peter

dame

Curramy, R. P.1

Falkiner, Daniel 1

King, John

Canellas, M. }

Sor. Dn. Corvinous, G. S.1

Forster, John

Foster, James i

formerly Chief-Officer

Fenney, B.Henry

Trebolgan

(Asst. Engr.)} 1 Richards, Wm. 1 Robert, Fillo-}

mena

Reeves,IT.

}

Souza, Cordianol Smith, Louisa

Miss

Scott, Charles J.2

Stewart, C. Mrs. 1 Staples, Capt. 1

}

Wakefield, F. 2 Williams, J.

Edwd. Webb, James Weaver, W. Wightman, L. 1 Weatherhead, Thomas Wigton,

Robert H. Wilkinson, G. Welsh, C. D. Wray, W.

Wilson, J. A.

Wallace, E.,Mrs. I

Xavier, Hilario 1

Zynen, Wel. Ed. Heer, Doctor

}

List of LETTERS and PAPERS lying at the Hongkong Post Office for Merchant Vessels, 17th January, 1868.

Argonaut

Letters. Papers.

3 bks.

Mackie, W. L. 1

Robertson, Geo. 2 Ringer, J. M.

Wilta, Wm.

McClelland, D. 1

Robertson, C.?

Miller, W.

Morello, Capt.

Moullin, Capt.

MacMahon, W.

Marko, L. E Meneau, C. P.

Monsieur Marriott, J. O. 1 Mathie, W. 1 Metger, H. C. 1 Massett, C. S. 1

}

Norris, Thomas 1 Nash, Geo. Noyes, A. M. 1

Shields, Robt. 1 Shaw, Robt. Spatsacchi, A. 1 Simpson, James 1 Stevens, John L. 1 Simpson, Geo.

Nichois, H. J. 1 book.

Olibeiro, Manoell

Letters. Papers,

Letters Papers.

Letters. Papers.

Lets. Paps.

Conqueror 1

Etienne et

John Fraser 1 2

Martha

Arima

Corea

Lorena

Japan

Allendale

Alexandrina

Cymbeline

Esperanza

Jenie

Cedars

Ellen Morice

Japara

Abotsford

City of Ham-

John Milton

Nothumbria 5 Norwood Napoleon

Regina Red Deer Rifle

Antifer

milton

Free

Jason

Norval

Adeline

Clair

Feordres

John & Mary

Naomi

Wallace.

Ashburton

Chalgrove

Foam

James Miller

Navarino

Amicus

Aden

Andromeda

Avon

Agnes Anevoca

Amiral Charner 2

Albert Victor 6

Annie Laity Alexandra

3221QGTON

Channel Queen 1

Fortitude

Jeanne Alice 2

Codabux

Fort Regent

Noranside Nelson

Craigelea

Faders Minde 1

Norham

Chelsea

Kim Soon Hong 1

Sultan

Countess of

Golden Fleece 4

Kelso Kester

Ocean Child

Elgin Chloris

Guajara

Ocean House

Gladiateur

Oriental

Carmarthenshire 6

Gleam

Lucerne

Orsa

Confucius

-1

Gungadhur

Libra

Ospray

Cotherstone

Golden Dragon 1

Lochnager

Ocean Spray

Carmeline

Gustav Adolf

Lottie Maria

Servantes Sir William

Sabastian Cabot 4

St. Mary Sandringham

Sea Mew

Speculation

Shooting Star 1

Star of England 1

Stirlingshire

Sardinia

Sunrise

Senator Webb

Bengal

Colorado (Ship) 3

Gifford

Lobelia

President

Burdwan

Colombo

Golden Dream 1

Lady Love

Palmerston

Three Brothers 1

Blairmore

Glenroy

Larton

Bosphorus

Deerfoot

Lady Alice

Pride of the

Vesta

Bara Noorfool 1

Dora

Henriette

Lombard

Ganges

Vizil

Prudhoe

Bien Hoa

Devana

Helen

Leblom

Pieter

Ville de Grenade 2

Boanerges

Dannevirke 1

Heroes of Alma 2

Princess of

Belle of the

Henriette

Mir

South

Eva

Gerardira

Maggie Lauder 1

Broadwater

Englishman 16

Sussanne

Marian

Wales Passepartout

Wealth of

Nations

Baringa

Emerald

Home

Mary

Belted Will

Ecliptic

Henry Handley

Monk Chester 12

Pacific Philip Nelson 1

Wild Gazelle

Water Lily

Europa,

Heather Bell

Mary Lucie

Wild Rover

Catherine Eli-

zabeth

}

Elgin

Ho Hang Ho

Medusa

Regent

White Swallow 1

Eagle

Honorine

Malvern

Reindeer

Wm. Chandler 3 Winfield

Cosmos Capiolina City of Man-

chester

Ettie

Hoogly

'Mirage

Rome

Eilida

Clio

Eleutheria 3 Empress of India 1 *Eliza

Isabella Ridley 1 Indomitable Isabella

Morayshire Mathilde

Raphael

Keconnaisance

Maria Elizabeth 1 Mandan

Rapid Ramsey

Yvonne Young Greek Yedo

List of Unpaid and Registered LETTERS and PAPERS lying at the Hongkong Post Office for Her Majesty's Ships of War, 17th January, 1868.

Letters. Papers.

Lottors. Papers.

Algerine

Bouncer

Dove

Letters. Papers.

Insolent Melville

Letters. Papers.

-P. Charlotte 14

Salamis

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH JANUARY, 1868.

MEMORANDUM of ENTRY of a DEED regis-

tered pursuant to "The Bankruptcy Or- dinance, 1864.”

Title of Led.

2. Date of Deed.

3. Date of Execu- tion by Debtor.

4. Name and des-

3. Names and des-

Deed of Assignment to Trustees for the benefit of Creditors.

The Twentieth day of December, A.D., One thousand Eight hundred and sixty-seven.

Tsang Kwong Ping, of Victo- eription of Debtor. ria, in the Island of Hongkong, Trader, lately carrying on business at Victoric aforesaid, under the name or style of Wo Cheong Loong. cription of Trustees. Victoria aforesaid, Merchant, Wei Jo?o Joaquim dos Remedios, of

-Akwang, of the same place, Com- pradore, and Cheok Shing, of the same place, Merchant, Creditors of the said Tsang Kwong Ping named and appointed for the benefit of all the Creditors of the said Tsang Kwong Ping.

6. Nature of Deed.

Assignment in Trust for the be- nefit of all Creditors rateably as in Bankruptcy. Power of Attorney to Trustees to sue for debts. Cove- nant by Debtor not to apply debts or effects to his own use. Release to Debtor.

I certify the above to be a true copy of the entry in the Registry Book of Deeds under "The Bankruptcy Ordinance 1864.”

True Copy,

W. H. ALEXANDER, Registrar.

Hongkong, 14th January, 1868.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY.

In the Matter of ALBERT EMILE VAUCHER, and GEORGE BLAKEWAY, Bankrupts.

NOTICE. The adjourned Sitting for the said

　　　Bankrupts to pass their last examination and make application for their Order of Discharge will be held before the Honorable JOHN SMALE, Esquire, Chief Justice of the said Court, at the Supreme Court House, Victoria, Hongkong, ou the 23rd day of January, 1868, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely.

Mr. Frederick Sowley Huffam, Supreme Court House, is the Official Assignee and Mr. Edmund Sharp is the Solicitor Acting in the Bankruptcy.

THE BANKRUPTCY ACT 1861.

NOTICE is Adolf Ellissen and

OTICE is hereby given that such of the

Gustav Ellissen efther jointly or separately as have not yet sent in and proved their debts claims or demands to the satisfaction of the said Ins- pectors and have not yet executed or assented in writing to the said Deed of Arrangement (which now lies at the Offices of us the undersigned Messrs. Flux Argles and Rawlins No. 1 East India Avenue Leadenhall Street in the City of London Solicitors) are hereby required to do so on or before the Tenth day of March One trousand Eight hundred and Sixty-eight ther- wise they will be excluded from all benefit thereof AND NOTICE is hereby further given that after the said Tenth day of Maron One thousand Eight hundred and Sixty-Eight the said Ins-- pectors will proceed to distribute the assets which have come to their hands under the said Deed of Arrangement arising from the said joint and separate estates of the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Elissen among the Creditors entitled thereto having regard only to the debts claims or demands for which the said Deed shall then be executed or assented to and the particulars of whose debts claims or demands shall have been forwarded to the said Inspectors and proved to their satisfaction and duly allowed by them.

A. ELLISSEN & Co. "In the Matter of a Deed of Arrange- ment dated the 30th day of June 1865, made between Adolf Ellissen of No. 4 Cullum Street in the City of London Merchant and of Coven- try in the County of Warwick Coi- ton Spinner and Gustav Ellissen then residing at No. 28 Maida Hill West in the County of Middlesex but late of Hongkong in China Mer- chant the said Adolf Ellissen carry- ing on business in London as a Merchant alone under the Style or Firm of "A. Ellissen & Co." and at Coventry aforesaid as a Cotton Spin- ner alone in his own name and the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellis- sen carrying on business n Co-part- nership at Hongkong and Shanghai in China under the name style or firm of "A. Ellissen & Co." and which said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen were thereinafter designated as the Debtors of the first part Roger Swire Tomlin of No. 1 Bank Build- ings in the City of London Gentle- man William Burrows of Great St. Helen's in the same City Merchant and William Moales of 19 King's Arms Yard Moorgate Street in the City of London Accountant therein- after designated "The Inspectors of the second part and The several Per- sons Companies and Co-partnership Firms who at the date thereof were respectively Creditors of the Debtors or either of them thereinafter desig- nated the Creditors" of the third part Registered in the Court of Bankruptcy pursuant to the Bank- ruptcy Act 1861 the Twenty-eighth day of July 1865 whereby the said Debtors assigned all their joint and separate estates and effects as well in Great Britain and China as eisewhere to the Inspectors for the benefit of their Creditors.

And the Inspectors will not be liable for the assets or any part thereof so distributed to any person or persons of whose debt claim or demand they shall not then have had notice or of which no particulars shall have been furnished or which having been disputed by the said Inspectors shall not have been duly verified by Affidavit or Declaration in accordance with the provisions of the Bankruptcy Act 1861 for proof of debts and allowed as claims against the said Estates of the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen.

Dated this 29th day of October, 1867.

FLUX ARGLES & RAWLINS,

1 East India Avenue Leadenhall Street London, Solicitors for the said Inspectors.

HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.

OTICE is hereby given that the Second Or- dinary General Meeting of the Share- holders of the Hongkong Fire Insurance Com- pany will be held at the Office of the Company,

in the Queen's Road, on Saturday, the 25th

instant, at 3 P.M.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers, Hongkong Fire Insurance Company. Hongkong, 18th January, 1868.

MR.

date.

NOTICE.

R. HUGH SUTHERLAND is authorized to sign our Firm per procuration from this

JOHN FORSTER % Cu. Foochow, 7th January, 1868.

NOTICE.

COMPAGNIE DES SERVICES MARITIMES DES

MESSAGERIES IMPERIALES.

Paquebots Poste Fran?ais.

INDIA AND CHINA LINES, HONGKONG AGENCY.

STEAM FOR

SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN. SUEZ, ALEXANDRIA, MESSINA, MARSEILLES,

ALSO,

BOMBAY, PONDICHERRY MADRAS, AND CALCUTTA.

N Saturday, the 25th instant, at 2 P.M,,

Steam-ship DONNAI, Commandant BOURDON, with Mails, Passengers, Specie and Cargo, will leave this Port for the above places.

Cargo and Specie will be registered for London as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit through Marseilles for the principal places of Europe.

Cargo will be received on board until 4 P.M. of the 23rd Instant, Speci? and Parcels until 5 P.M. of the 24th Instant. (Parcels are not to be sent on board; they must be left at the Agency's Office.)

For further particulars apply at the Company's Office, Queen's Road.

C. BERTRAND, Principal Agent. Hongkong, 14th January, 1863.

MR.

NOTICE.

R. THOMAS PYKE has this day been ad-

mitted a Partner in our Firm,

BIRLEY & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1868.*

NOTICE.

THE Interest and responsibility of Mr. A. D.

THE Interest in our Firm ceased on the 31st

day of December, 1867.

A. FERGUSON & Co. Hongkong, 3rd January, 1868.

NOTICE.

EDWARD CUNNINGHAM has re-

MR. Fered our firm, to which also Mr. WIL-

LIAM H. FOSTER, Jr., is admitted Partner, their interest and responsibility commencing this day.

RUSSELL & Co.

China, 1st January, 1867.

NOTICE.

MR. WARREN DELANO, and MR. HENRY

S. GREW, have retired from our firm, their interest and responsibility ceasing on this day.

RUSSELL & Co.

China, Ist-January, 1867.

THE

NOTICE.

HE interest and responsibility of Mr. A. FER- GUSON in our Firm ceased on the 1st day of November, 1866.

A. FERGUSON & Co.

The business will henceforth be carried on un- der the same name by the undersigned.

A. D. MITCHELL.. J. D. MEYERS. HENRY FEHRS.

Hongkong, 16th December,1867.

NOTICE.

N consequence of the destruction of Wo- CHEONG-LOONG Shop, caused by the late Great Fire, its Creditors being assembled to- gether, have unanimously appointed the Un- dersigned to take charge of and sell the remain- ing stock of the shop, and to collect all the outstanding DEBTS, with a view to a final settlement and division. All Persons who are indebted to the shop are requested to pay the same as soon as possible, and those having Claims against the shop are requested to send in their Bills to Mr. WEI-KWONG, for verification, on or before 4th January next, as after that date they will not be recognized.

J. J. DOS REMEDIOS.

WEI-KWONG.

CHEUK-SING.

Hongkong, 27th December, 1867.

NOTICE.

ETTERS of Administration having been granted to the undersigned, under the Seal of the Probate Court of Hongkong, the 13th day of December, A.D. 1867, in the estate of the late GEORGE MATHER NEILL, all persons having claims against the said Estate are re- quested to send them in as early as possible, and all persons indebted to the same are requested to pay to him the amounts without delay.

JULIUS MENKE, Administrator.

Hongkong, 14th December, 1867.

NOTICE.

E Undersigned have been appointed Agents for Lloyds at this Port.

GILMAN & Co. Hongkong, 2nd December, 1867.

NOW READY AND FOR SALE.

POCKET RACE BOOKS FOR 1868,

Containing :-

List of Entries for each Race, Blank Pages for Betings, and

3 Complete Sets of Tables for Sweeps.

Price, Bound in Morrocco,

in Cloth,

...$1.50 each.

$1.00

Gentlemen wishing to have the above are re- quested to make early application to the under- signed as few copies only have been printed.

NORONHA & SONS.

Hongkong, 18th January, 1868.

Printed and Published by ORONHA & SONS, Printers to Hongkong Government Oswald's TERRACE, WELLINGTON STREET.

SOFT QUI MAL.

DROITS

DIE

MON

THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

Published by Authority.

No. 4.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 25TH JANUARY, 1868.

VOL. XIV.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

No. 13.

The following Letter from Her Majesty's Acting Consul at Bangkok is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd January, 1868.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

BRITISH CONsulate, BANGKOK, 26th December, 1867.

　　　　SIR, I have the honor to inform Your Excellency, at the same time requesting that you will be pleased to make it generally known in the Port of Hongkong, that the Siamese Government, under date the 17th instant, issued a motillagtiou that vessels entering the Bangkok River will from the 1st of January, 1868, be permitted to retain their guns on board, instead of discharging them at Pakoam as required by the General Trade Regulations attached to the British Treaty with Siam, but they will still be required as heretofore-to land all their Gunpowder at Paknam under penalty of being sent back, and fined Eight hundred Ticals:-I have the honor to be, Your Excellency's most obedient humble Servant,

His Excellency

SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B.,

Governor of Hongkong.

No. 14.

H. ALABASTER,

Acting Consul.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

　　　　　　Tenders will be received at this Office, until Noon on the 17th Proximo, for the erection of - Officers' Quarters for the Harbor Master's Department.

　　　　Plans and Specification may be seen at the Surveyor General's Office, where also a proper Form of Tender may

be obtained.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th January, 1868.

CEOIL & SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

No. 11.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Tenders will be received at this Office, till Noon on the 3rd Proximo, for the construction of a Sea Wall, and Reclamation from the Sea, West of the Harbor Master's Office.

Plans and Specifications may be seen at the Surveyor General's Office..

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong 18th January, 1868.

DATE.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH JANUARY, 1868.

WEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK.

6 A.M.

NOON.

6 P.M.

1868.

THERMOMETER.

Baro-

Thermo-

Baro-

Thermo-

Self Registering.

Baro-

Thermo-

meter.

"meter

meter.

Min.

Max.

January

30.10

30.11

30.12

3014

30.22

30.20

30.19

30.24

30.20

30.13

30,12

30.10

30.07

30.04

30.05

30.08

30.06

- 67

30.10

30.11

30.23

30.25

6 A.M.

9 A.M.

BAROMETER.

*NOON

3 P.M.

6 P.M.

Height above Sea Level 1,770 feet.

HYDROMETER.

DRY BULB.

WET BULB.

THERMO- METER.

Self R_gistering. Min. Max.

ΝΟΟΝ.

WINDS.

RAIN.

*ce, range from 0 to 12,

6 A.M.

NOON.

Dirn. F. Dirn.

In inches during the previous 24 hours.

REMARKS AS TO WEATHER.

6 P.M.

Dirn. F.

9 A.M.

1868.

Jan. 18 28.29 28.35 28.54 28.56 28.37] 58.00 66.00 64.00, 57.00 64.00

18.00| 67.00′ESE

5 SSE

bW 2

0.00

19 28.29 28.40, 28.56 28.59 28.26 61.00| 68.00| 63.00| 59.00| 625

CL00130 69.05 NNE

5 E

IESE

0.00

20 28.15 28.17 28.28 28.36 28.26 50.00 57,00 57.00 55.05| 55.00| 56.00 ?5.00 71.05 E

8 E

7 EbS

0.00

11 28.24 28.30 28.44 28.38 28.28′ 55.05 61.00| 58.00 55.00| 59.05 57.00 55,05| 62.00 E

7 E

3 Ebs

0.00

22 28.37 28.32 28.44 28.42 28.32 59.05 61.05|62.0559.00] 61,00] 60.05 59.00 64.00 NNE

23 28.14 28.21 28.35 28.35 28.21 57.00 62.05| 59.00; 56.00| 59.05| 58,05, 57.00 67.00 ELN

24 28.12 28.18 28.22 28.20 28.20′ 54.05 55.05 54.05 54.05| 54.05] 52.05 54.05| 64.00 E

4 E

1 ESE

0.00

Passing fog; from 7.30 A.M. fine but

Fine but hazy; from 8.30 A.M. passing fog; from 10 AM. fine but very hazy. Fine but very hazy.

Dense fog and heavy dew; from 8:30 A.M. passing thick fog; from 2 P.M. very hazy and cloudy.

Dense fog; from 7.15 A.M. passing

thick fog.

hazy.

6 EbS

5 E

4 ESE

0.00

Fine but hazy.

3 NNE

0.00

MEMORANDUM of ENTRY of a DEED regis- tered pursuant to "The Bankruptcy Or- dinance, 1864."

1. Title of Deed.

2. Date of Deed.

　　　　　　　3. Date of Execu- tion by Debtor.

　　　　　　　4. Name and des- eription of Debtor.

5. Names and des-

Deed of Assignment to Trustees for the benefit of Creditors.

The Twentieth day of December, A.D., One thousand Eight hundred and sixty-seven.

Tsang Kwong Ping, of Victo- ria, in the Island of Hongkong, Trader, lately carrying on business at Victoria aforesaid, under the name or style of Wo Cheong Loong.

sription of Trustees. Victoria aforesaid, Merchant, Wei Jo?o Joaquim dos Remedios, of

Akwang, of the same place, Coin- pradore, and Cheok Shing, of the same place, Merchant, ditors of the said Tsang Kong Ping named and appoined for the benefit of all the Creditors of the said

6. Nature of Deed.

Trang Kibong Ping.

Aigument in Trust for the be- nefit of all Creditors rateably as in Bankruptcy. Power of Attorney to Trustees to sue for debts. Cove- nant by Debtor not to apply debts or effects to his own use. Release to Debtor.

　　　　I certify the above to be a true copy of the entry in the Registry Book of Deeds under “The Bankruptcy Ordinance 1864."

True Copy,

W. H. ALEXANDER, Registrar.

Hongkong, 14th January, 1868.

MR.

date.

NOTICE.

R. HUGH SUTHERLAND is authored to sign our F per procuration from this

JOHN FORSTER & Co.

Foochow, 7th January, 1868.

THE

ACT 1861.

A. ELLISSEN & Co.-

In the Matter of a Deed of Arrange- ment dated the 30th day of June 1865, made b ween Adolf Ellissen Street in the City of London Merchant and of Coven- try in the County of Warwick Co- ton Spinner and Custav Ellissen then residing at No. 28 Maida Hill West in the County of Middlesex but late of Hongkong in China Mer- chant the said Adolf Ellissen carry- ing on business in London as a Merchant alone under the Style or Firm of "A. Ellissen & Co.” and at Coventry aforesaid as a Cotton Spin- ner alone in his own name and the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellis- sen carrying on business in Co-part- nership at Hongkong and Shanghai in China under the name style or firm of "A. Ellissen & Co." and which said Adolf Ellissen and Gustay

NOTICE

Dense fog; from noon passing thick fog; from 2.45 P.M. fine but very hazy and cloudy.

OTICE is hereby given thatch of the Creditors of the said Adolf Mis Sen and Gustav Ellissen either jointly separately as have not yet sent in and proved their debts claims or demands to the satisfaction of the said Ins- pectors and have not yet executed or assented in writing to the said Deed of Arrangement (which now lies at the Offices of us the undersigned Messrs. Flux Argles and Rawlins No. 1 East India Avenue Leadenhall Street in the City of

London Solicitors) are hereby required to do some

on or before the Tenth day of March One thousand Eight hundred and Sixty-eight other- wise they will be excluded from all benefit thereof AND NOTICE is hereby further given that after the said Tenth day of March One thousand Eight hundred and Sixty-Eight the said Ins- pectors will proceed to distribute the assets which have come to their hands under the said Deed of Arrangement arising from the said joint and separate estates of the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen among the Creditors entitled thereto having regard only to the debts claims or demands for which the said Deed shall then be executed or assented to and the particulars of whose debts claims or demands shall have been forwarded to the said Inspectors and proved to Ellissen were thereinafter designated their satisfaction and duly allowed by them. as the Debtors of the first part Roger Swire Tomlin of No. 1 Bank Build- ings in the City of London Gentle- man William Burrows of Great St. Helena the same City Merchant and William Moales of 19 King's Arms Yard Moorgate Street in the City of London Accountant therein

icated "The Inspectors of second part and The several Per

Companies and Co-partnership the date thereof were respectively Greafters of the Debtors or either of them thereinafter desig- nated "the Creditors" of the third part Registered in the Court of Bankruptcy pursuant to the Bank- ruptey Act 1861 the Twenty-eighth day of July 1865 whereby the said THE ILterest and responsibility of Mr. A. D. Debtors assigned all their joint and

MITCHELL in our Firm ceased on the 31st separate estates and effects as well in day of December, 1867.- Great Britain and China as elsewhere to the Inspectors for the benefit of their Creditors.

Dated this 29th day of October, 1867.

THEMA

FLUX-ARGLES & RAWLINS, 1 East India Avenue Leadenhall Street London, Solicitors for the said Inspectors.

NOTICE.

A. TERGUSON & Co.

Hongkong, 3rd January, 1868.

DATE.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH JANUARY, 1868.

WEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK.

6 A.M.

NOON.

6 P.M.

1868.

THERMOMETER.

Baro-

Thermo-

Baro-

Thermo-

Self Registering.

Baro-

Thermo-

meter.

"meter

meter.

Min.

Max.

January

30.10

30.11

30.12

3014

30.22

30.20

30.19

30.24

30.20

30.13

30,12

30.10

30.07

30.04

30.05

30.08

30.06

- 67

30.10

30.11

30.23

30.25

6 A.M.

9 A.M.

BAROMETER.

*NOON

3 P.M.

6 P.M.

Height above Sea Level 1,770 feet.

HYDROMETER.

DRY BULB.

WET BULB.

THERMO- METER.

Self R_gistering. Min. Max.

ΝΟΟΝ.

WINDS.

RAIN.

*ce, range from 0 to 12,

6 A.M.

NOON.

Dirn. F. Dirn.

In inches during the previous 24 hours.

REMARKS AS TO WEATHER.

6 P.M.

Dirn. F.

9 A.M.

1868.

Jan. 18 28.29 28.35 28.54 28.56 28.37] 58.00 66.00 64.00, 57.00 64.00

18.00| 67.00′ESE

5 SSE

bW 2

0.00

19 28.29 28.40, 28.56 28.59 28.26 61.00| 68.00| 63.00| 59.00| 625

CL00130 69.05 NNE

5 E

IESE

0.00

20 28.15 28.17 28.28 28.36 28.26 50.00 57,00 57.00 55.05| 55.00| 56.00 ?5.00 71.05 E

8 E

7 EbS

0.00

11 28.24 28.30 28.44 28.38 28.28′ 55.05 61.00| 58.00 55.00| 59.05 57.00 55,05| 62.00 E

7 E

3 Ebs

0.00

22 28.37 28.32 28.44 28.42 28.32 59.05 61.05|62.0559.00] 61,00] 60.05 59.00 64.00 NNE

23 28.14 28.21 28.35 28.35 28.21 57.00 62.05| 59.00; 56.00| 59.05| 58,05, 57.00 67.00 ELN

24 28.12 28.18 28.22 28.20 28.20′ 54.05 55.05 54.05 54.05| 54.05] 52.05 54.05| 64.00 E

4 E

1 ESE

0.00

Passing fog; from 7.30 A.M. fine but

Fine but hazy; from 8.30 A.M. passing fog; from 10 AM. fine but very hazy. Fine but very hazy.

Dense fog and heavy dew; from 8:30 A.M. passing thick fog; from 2 P.M. very hazy and cloudy.

Dense fog; from 7.15 A.M. passing

thick fog.

hazy.

6 EbS

5 E

4 ESE

0.00

Fine but hazy.

3 NNE

0.00

MEMORANDUM of ENTRY of a DEED regis- tered pursuant to "The Bankruptcy Or- dinance, 1864."

1. Title of Deed.

2. Date of Deed.

　　　　　　　3. Date of Execu- tion by Debtor.

　　　　　　　4. Name and des- eription of Debtor.

5. Names and des-

Deed of Assignment to Trustees for the benefit of Creditors.

The Twentieth day of December, A.D., One thousand Eight hundred and sixty-seven.

Tsang Kwong Ping, of Victo- ria, in the Island of Hongkong, Trader, lately carrying on business at Victoria aforesaid, under the name or style of Wo Cheong Loong.

sription of Trustees. Victoria aforesaid, Merchant, Wei Jo?o Joaquim dos Remedios, of

Akwang, of the same place, Coin- pradore, and Cheok Shing, of the same place, Merchant, ditors of the said Tsang Kong Ping named and appoined for the benefit of all the Creditors of the said

6. Nature of Deed.

Trang Kibong Ping.

　　　　I certify the above to be a true copy of the entry in the Registry Book of Deeds under “The Bankruptcy Ordinance 1864."

True Copy,

W. H. ALEXANDER, Registrar.

Hongkong, 14th January, 1868.

MR.

date.

NOTICE.

R. HUGH SUTHERLAND is authored to sign our F per procuration from this

JOHN FORSTER & Co.

Foochow, 7th January, 1868.

THE

ACT 1861.

A. ELLISSEN & Co.-

NOTICE

Dense fog; from noon passing thick fog; from 2.45 P.M. fine but very hazy and cloudy.

London Solicitors) are hereby required to do some

icated "The Inspectors of second part and The several Per

MITCHELL in our Firm ceased on the 31st separate estates and effects as well in day of December, 1867.- Great Britain and China as elsewhere to the Inspectors for the benefit of their Creditors.

Dated this 29th day of October, 1867.

THEMA

FLUX-ARGLES & RAWLINS, 1 East India Avenue Leadenhall Street London, Solicitors for the said Inspectors.

NOTICE.

A. TERGUSON & Co.

Hongkong, 3rd January, 1868.

THE HONGKong governMENT GAZETTE, 25TH JANUARY, 1868.

NOTICE.

COMPAGNIE DES SERVICES MARITIMES THE

DES

MESSAGERIES IMPERIALES.

Paquebots Poste Fran?ais.

INDIA AND CHINA LINES, HONGKONG AGENCY.

STEAM FOR

SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, ALEXANDRIA, MESSINA, MARSEILLES,

ALSO,

BOMBAY, PONDICHERRY, MADRAS, AND CALCUTTA.

?????

N Saturday, the 25th instant, at 2 P.M., the Company's Steam-ship" DONNAI,” Commandant BOURDON, with Mails, Passengers, Specie and Cargo, will leave this Port for the above places.

　　Cargo and Specie will be registered for London as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit through Marseilles for the principal places of Europe.

Cargo will be received on board until 4*P.M. of the 23rd Instant, Specie and Parcels until 5 P.M. of the 24th Instant. (Parcels are not to be sent on board; they must be left at the Agency's Officc.)

For further particulars apply at the Company's Office, Queen's Road.

C. BERTRAND, Principal Agent.

Hongkong, 14th January, 1868.

NOTICE.

R. THOMAS PYKE has this day been ad-

mitted a Partner in our Firm.

MR.

BIRLEY & Co.

Hongkong, 1st January, 1868.

NOTICE.

EDWARD CUNNINGHAM has re-

MR.entered our firm, to which also Mr. WIL-

　LIAM H. FOSTER, Jr., is admitted Partner, their interest and responsibility commencing this day.

China, 1st January, 1867.

RUSSELL & Co.

NOTICE.

FR. WARREN DELANO, and MR. HENRY

MR. WAREW, ret, and MR. HENRY thel interest and responsibility ceasing on this day.

China, 1st January, 1867.

RUSSELL & Co.

NOTICE.

HE interest and responsibility of Mr. A. FER-

GUSON in our Fira ceased on the 1st day, of November, 1866.

A. FERGUSON & Co.

The business will henceforth be carried on un- der the same name by the undersigned.

A. D. MITCHELL. JD. MEYERS. HENRY FEHPS.

Hongkong, 16th December,1867.

NOTICE.

consequence of the desti-action of Wo-

INCRONG LONG Shop, caused by the late

Great Fire, its Creditors being assembled to- gether, have unanimously appointed the Up- dersigned to take charge of and sell the remain- ing stock of the shop, and to collect all the outstanding DEBTS, with a view to a final settlement and division. All Persons who are indebted to the shop are requested to pay the same as soon as possible, and those hazing Claims against the shop are requested to send in their Bills to Mr. WEI-KWONG, for verification, on or before 4th January next, as after that date they will not be recognized.

J. J. DOS REMEDIOS.

WEI-KWONG.

CHEUK-SING.

Hongkong, 27th December, 1867.

NOW READY AND FOR SALE.

POCKET RACE BOOKS FOR 1868,

Containing:-

List of Entries for each Race, Blank Pages for Bettings, and

3 Complete Sets of Tables for Sweeps.

Price, Cloth Cover,.

Paper

.$1.00 each.

$0.75

Gentlemen wishing to have the above are re- quested to make early application to the under- signed as few copies only have been printed.

NORONHA

Hongkong, 18th January, 1862,

COPPER PLATE PRINTI ARTIES having their own engraved Plates

PARTY have. VISITING CARDS printed from

them, by applying at the Office of

NORONHA & SONS.

FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE,

LIST OF

STAMP DUTIES.

(revised and approved by F. W. MITCHELL, Esquire, Collector of Stamp Duties,)

CONTAINING ALSO

A DIGEST OF PENALTIES,

AND

RULES OF THE STAMP OFFICE.

PRICE-50 cents per copy. "Government Gazette Office," Hongkong, 28th December, 1867.

NOW READY AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE, ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR for 1868;

Tabletals of P. & O. Co.'s Mail Steamers,

and

Complete Tables of the Rates of Postage, The whold neatly printed on Card Board.

PRICE $1 per copy.

Government Gazette Office, Hongkong, 28th December, 1867.

"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.”

Subscription:

.$10.00

Per Annum, Payable in advance, For 6 months do.

do.

..$ 6.00

For 3 do.

do.

de.

Extra copies,........

..$ 4.00 ..each, $0.50

Terms of Advertising:

For 5 Lines and under, $1.00

Each Additional line, $0.20

In Chinese-For 25 Characters for 1st insertion.

and under,

.$1.00

Each Additional character, 4 c. Repetitions, .........Half price.

Unless otherwise ordered, all advertisements will be repeated until countermanded.

Advertisements intended for insertion should be sent in not later than 3 P.M. on Saturdays.

"Government Gazette" Office,

Hongkong, 6th January, 1866.

Printed and Published by NORONHA & SONS, Printers to Hongkong Government OSWALD'S TERRACE, WELLINGTON STREET.

DIE

SOIT

QUI MA

MONA

ROIT

THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

No. 5.

No. 15.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 1ST FEBRUARY, 1868.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. XIV.

His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL has been pleased to recognize provisionally, or until further notice, ADOLPH JOOST, Esquire, as Acting Consul General for Austria, and Acting Consul for the Hanse Towns.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th January, 1868.

NOTIFICATION.

　　　　A copy of the Jury List for 1868, is posted at the Supreme Court House for inspection. Notice of any inaccuracies, omissions, objections, &c., must be given in writing to the Registrar, on or before Monday, the Seventeenth Day of February instant, in accordance with the provisions of Section 8 of Ordinance No. 11 of 1864.

W. H. ALEXANDER, Registrar.

Supreme Court House, Hongkong, 1st February, 1868.

No. 14.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Tenders will be received at this Office, until Noon on the 17th Proximo, for the erection of Officers' Quarters for the Harbor Master's Department.

Plans and Specifications may be seen at the Surveyor General's Office, where also a proper Form of Tender may be obtained.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th January, 1868.

No. 12.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

　　　　　His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL in Council is pleased to direct that. untii further notice, the only Anchorage in the waters of Hongkong for Foreign Vessels of War, and Foreign Cruisers of every description and Nationality, shall be within the following Boundaries:

Western Boundary.

A line running from the Government Wharf to the "Merville," Hospital Ship.

A line running rom the "Mel"

Northern Boundary.

Eastward till it meets the Eastern Boundary.

Eastern Boundary,

A line running from St. Francis' Hospital towards Kowloon Point till it meets the Northern Boundary.

DATE.

1868.

6 A.M.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST FEBRUARY, 1868.

WEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK.

? ?

6 A.M.

NOON.

6 P.M.

THERMOMETER.

1868.

Baro- meter.

Thermo- meter

Baro- Thermo- meter. meter.

Baro-

Thermo-

Self Registering.

meter.

Mtn.

'Max.

January 25

30.25

60%

30.26

30.24

30.21

30.20

64+

30.20

The

30.17 -

27.

30.18-

30.12

30.11.

30.14

30.13

30.11

30.12

30.15

30.13

30.15

30.05

9 A.M.

BAROMETER.

*NOON

3 P.M.

6 P.M.

6 A.M.

HYDROMETER.

DRY BULB.

WET BULB.

*NOON

6 P.M.

6 A.M.

NOON.

6 P.M.

THERMO-

METER.

Self Pegistering.

Min. Mo

NOON.

WINDS.

RAIN.

Force, range from 0 to 12,

| In inches during the |previous 24 hours.

REMARKS AS TO WEATHER.

6 A.M.

Dirn.

NOON.

6 P.M.

9 A.M.

F. Dirn. F. Dirn.

Jan. 25 28.23 28.26 28.46 28.52 28.34 51.00 56.00] 54.00 50.05| 53.00 52.00 ? 51.00 57.00 E

26 28.29 28.38 28.53 28.56 28.37 51.05 57.00 57.00 51.00 56.00 54.00 51,05 60.00 ESE

2728.25 28.23 28.42 28.50 28.30) 53.00| 60.00 57.00 51.00|58.00| 53.05 52.00 63.00 EDS

28 28.20 28.23 28.42 28.50 28.32 53.05 59.00 58.00 53.00 57,00 56.00 53.00| 64.00 EbS

7 Ebs

7 NEDE

3 EbS

7 EbN

4 ELN

2 NNW

0.00

Fine though overcast.

0.00

Fine though very hazy.

3 NNW

0.00

Do.

5 NWDN

0.00

{

Passing fog; from 7.30 A.M. fine though

hazy.

29 28.22 28.33 28.47| 28.52 28.34 55.00 61.05 61.00 54.00| 59.00| 59.00 55,00| 63.00?EDS

3028.24 28.28 28.38 28.49 28.33 57,00] 59.00| 60.00 55.00| 57,00| 56.00 56.00| 66.00'E

31 28.21 28.24 28.42 28.38 28.25 55,00| 61,00| 58.05 54.05] 58.00| 56,00 55.00) 65.00 E

8 NDE

6 NbW

5 SbE

1 NDE

0.00

Passing thick fog; from 7.10 A.M. fine

though hazy.

1 NWbN

3 SEb6

0.00

Dense fog; from 9.30 A.M. passing fog;

0.00

In re SEEN MOW WING, deceased. ?OTICE.—All Claims against the above Estate must be proved before the Official Admi- nistrator, on or before the First day of August, A.D. 1868, otherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.

All Persons indebted to the said Estate are requested to make immediate payment to

W. H. ALEXANDER, Official Administrator.

IN THE SUPREME COURT

OF HONGKONG.

In the Matter of the Bankruptcy of ALBERT EMILE VAUCHER and GEORGE

BLAKEWAY.

OTICE. The above named Bankrupts having this Twenty-fourth day of January, 1868, passed their last examination, the Hearing of the application by the said Bankrupts for their Dis- charge stands adjourned to Friday, the Seventh day of February, next, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon.

By Order,

W. H. ALEXANDER,

Registrar.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY. ?OTICE is hereby given that a Meeting of the Creditors of George Lyall, Charles Frederick Still, and George Francis Maclean, Bankrupts, will be held, pursuant to the 151st Section of the Bankruptcy Ordinance 1864, in the Supreme Court, on Tuesday the 11th day of February, 1868, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, before William Hastings Alexander, Esquire, Registrar of the Supreme Court, being the Officer appointed by the Supreme Court sitting in Bankruptcy.

At the said Mecting the Official Assignee will in pursuance of the 151st Section of the said Ordinance submit a Statement of the Separate Estate of the said George Francis Maclean, re- covered and outstanding, and of all receipts and all payments made or to be made thereout, and the Creditors at the said Meeting will, in purs- ance of the said Section, declare whether any and what part of the nett produce of the Separate Estate of the said George Francis Maclean, aer making a reasonable deduction for future contin- gencies, shall be divided amongst the Creditors. Proofs of Debts will be receiveu, and Creditors who have not proved, or who shall not then prove,

will be excluded from the benefit of the dividend, —and all claims not proved will be disallowed.

F. S. HUFFAM, Official Assignee.

N. B. The above Meeting has become neces- sary by reason of a failure by the Creditors to come to any resolution at a Meeting convened for the 15th of January last by due notice which appeared in the Hongkong Government Gazette of the 4th of the same month.

THE BANKRUPTCY ACT 1861.

A. ELLISSEN & Co.

St.

N°

from noon fine though hazy. Dense fog; from 7.30 A.3. overcast and

hazy; from 10 A.M. very hazy.

part Registered in the Court of Bankruptcy pursuant to the Bank- ruptcy Act 1861 the Twenty-eighth day of July 1865 whereby the said Debtors assigned all their joint and separate estates and effects as well in Great Britain and China as elsewhere to the Inspectors for the benefit of their Creditors.

OTICE is hereby given that such of the Creditors of the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen either jointly or separately as have not yet sent in and proved their debts claims or demands to the satisfaction of the said Ins- pectors and have not yet executed or assented in writing to the said Deed of Arrangement (which now lies at the Offices of us the undersigned Messrs. Flux Argles and Rawlins No. 1 East India Avenue Leadenhall Street in the City of London Solicitors) are hereby required to do so on or before the Tenth day of March One thousand Eight hundred and Sixty-eight other- wise they will be excluded from all benefit thereof AND NOTICE is hereby further given that after the sard Tenth day of March One thousand Eight hundred and Sixty-Eight the said Ins- pectors will proceed to distribute the assets which have come to their hands under the said Deed of Arrangement arising from the said joint and separate estates of the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen among the Creditors entitled thereto having regard only to the debts claims or demands for which the said Deed shall then be executed or assented to and the particulars of whose debts claims or demands shall have been forwarded to the said -Inspectors and proved to their satisfaction and duly allowed by them.

Helen's in the same City Merc not have been duly verified by Affidavit or

and William Moales of 19 King's Arms Yard Modrgate Street in the City of London -Accountant therein- after designated The Inspectors of the second part and The several Per- sons Companies and Co-partnership Firms who at the date thereof were respectively Creditors of the Debtors or either of them thereinafter desig- nated the Creditors" of the third

Declaration in accordance with the provisions of the Bankruptcy Act 1861 for proof of debts and allowed as claims against the said Estates of the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen.

Dated this 29th day of October, 1867.

FLUX ARGLES & RAWLINS,

1 East India Aven-e Leadenhall Street London, Solicitors for the said Inspectors.

DATE.

1868.

6 A.M.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST FEBRUARY, 1868.

WEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK.

? ?

6 A.M.

NOON.

6 P.M.

THERMOMETER.

1868.

Baro- meter.

Thermo- meter

Baro- Thermo- meter. meter.

Baro-

Thermo-

Self Registering.

meter.

Mtn.

'Max.

January 25

30.25

60%

30.26

30.24

30.21

30.20

64+

30.20

The

30.17 -

27.

30.18-

30.12

30.11.

30.14

30.13

30.11

30.12

30.15

30.13

30.15

30.05

9 A.M.

BAROMETER.

*NOON

3 P.M.

6 P.M.

6 A.M.

HYDROMETER.

DRY BULB.

WET BULB.

*NOON

6 P.M.

6 A.M.

NOON.

6 P.M.

THERMO-

METER.

Self Pegistering.

Min. Mo

NOON.

WINDS.

RAIN.

Force, range from 0 to 12,

| In inches during the |previous 24 hours.

REMARKS AS TO WEATHER.

6 A.M.

Dirn.

NOON.

6 P.M.

9 A.M.

F. Dirn. F. Dirn.

Jan. 25 28.23 28.26 28.46 28.52 28.34 51.00 56.00] 54.00 50.05| 53.00 52.00 ? 51.00 57.00 E

26 28.29 28.38 28.53 28.56 28.37 51.05 57.00 57.00 51.00 56.00 54.00 51,05 60.00 ESE

2728.25 28.23 28.42 28.50 28.30) 53.00| 60.00 57.00 51.00|58.00| 53.05 52.00 63.00 EDS

28 28.20 28.23 28.42 28.50 28.32 53.05 59.00 58.00 53.00 57,00 56.00 53.00| 64.00 EbS

7 Ebs

7 NEDE

3 EbS

7 EbN

4 ELN

2 NNW

0.00

Fine though overcast.

0.00

Fine though very hazy.

3 NNW

0.00

Do.

5 NWDN

0.00

{

Passing fog; from 7.30 A.M. fine though

hazy.

29 28.22 28.33 28.47| 28.52 28.34 55.00 61.05 61.00 54.00| 59.00| 59.00 55,00| 63.00?EDS

3028.24 28.28 28.38 28.49 28.33 57,00] 59.00| 60.00 55.00| 57,00| 56.00 56.00| 66.00'E

31 28.21 28.24 28.42 28.38 28.25 55,00| 61,00| 58.05 54.05] 58.00| 56,00 55.00) 65.00 E

8 NDE

6 NbW

5 SbE

1 NDE

0.00

Passing thick fog; from 7.10 A.M. fine

though hazy.

1 NWbN

3 SEb6

0.00

Dense fog; from 9.30 A.M. passing fog;

0.00

All Persons indebted to the said Estate are requested to make immediate payment to

W. H. ALEXANDER, Official Administrator.

IN THE SUPREME COURT

OF HONGKONG.

In the Matter of the Bankruptcy of ALBERT EMILE VAUCHER and GEORGE

BLAKEWAY.

By Order,

W. H. ALEXANDER,

Registrar.

will be excluded from the benefit of the dividend, —and all claims not proved will be disallowed.

F. S. HUFFAM, Official Assignee.

THE BANKRUPTCY ACT 1861.

A. ELLISSEN & Co.

St.

N°

from noon fine though hazy. Dense fog; from 7.30 A.3. overcast and

hazy; from 10 A.M. very hazy.

Helen's in the same City Merc not have been duly verified by Affidavit or

Declaration in accordance with the provisions of the Bankruptcy Act 1861 for proof of debts and allowed as claims against the said Estates of the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen.

Dated this 29th day of October, 1867.

FLUX ARGLES & RAWLINS,

1 East India Aven-e Leadenhall Street London, Solicitors for the said Inspectors.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST FEBRUARY, 1868.

HONGKONG INSURANCE COMPANY. MARINE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual

General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Eongkong Insurance Company will be held at the Office of the undersigned, in the Queen's Road, on Saturday, the 8th February, 1868, at 2.30 P.M.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,

Secretaries,

Hongkong Insurance Company. Hongkong, 1st February, 1868.

NOTICE.

R. JEHANGHEER FRAMJEE BUXEY is au-

Morized to sign our Firm from this date.

NOTICE.

COPPER PLATE PRINTING. ARTIES having their own engraved Plates

MR. WARREN DELANO, and MR. HENRY may have VISITING CARDS printed from

S. GREW, have retired from our firm, their interest and responsibility ceasing on this day.

RUSSELL & Co.

China, 1st January, 1867.

NOTICE

INCHRON LOONG Shop, caused by the late

consequence of the destruction of Wo-

Great Fire, its Creditors being assembled to- gether, have unanimously appointed the Un- dersigned to take charge of and sell the remain- ing stock of the shop, and to colect all the outstanding DEBTS, with a view to a final

　　　　EDULJEE FRAMJEE SONS & Co. settlement and division. All Persons who are Hongkong, 27th Jan iary, 1868.

NOTICE.

R. HUGI SUTHERLAND is authorized to

MR sign our per

date.

　　　　　　　　　　　JOHN FORSTER & Co. Foochow, 7th January, 1868.

THE

NOTICE.

THE Interest and responsibility of Mr. A. D. MITCHELL in our Firm ceased on the 31st day of December, 1867.

A. FERGUSON & Co. Hongkong, 3rd January, 1868.

NOTICE.

indebted to the shop are requested to pay the same as soon as possible, and those having Claims against the shop are requested to send in their Bills to Mr. WEI-KWONG, for verification, on or before 4th January next, as after that date they will not be recognized.

J. J. DOS REMEDIOS.

WEI-KWONG.

CHEUK-SING.

Hongkong, 27th December, 1867.

NOW READY AND FOR SALE. TABLE

Shewing the Proposed Movements, Homeward and Outward, of the Mail Steam Packets

OF THE

Mitted a Partner in our Firm.

R. THOMAS PYKE has this day been ad-, & O. Steam Navigation Co.,

BIRLEY & Co.

Hongkong, 1st January, 1868.

NOTICE.

TR. EDWARD CUNNINGHAM has re-

Mentered our firm, to which also Mr. W1L-

LIAM H. FOSTER, Jr., is admitted Partner, their interest and responsibility commencing this day.

China, 1st January, 1867.

THE

RUSSELL & Co.

NOTICE.

THE interest and responsibility of Mr. A. FER- GUSON in our Firm ceased on the 1st of November, 1866..

day

A. FERGUSON & Co.

　　　　The business will henceforth be carried on un- der the same name by the undersigned.

A. D. MITCHELL.

J. D. MEYERS. HENRY FEHRS.

Hongkong, 16th December,1867.

FOR THE YEAR 1868, Neatly printed on Card Board. PRICE $1 per copy.

“Government Gazette Office,

Hongkong, 1st February, 1868.

NOW READY AND FOR SALE.

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Containing;—

List of Entries for each Race, Blank Pages for Bettings, and

3 Complete Sets of Tables for Sweeps.

Price, Cloth Cover,.

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NORONHA & SONS. Hongkong, 18th January, 1868.

them, by applying at the Office of

NORONHA & SONS.

FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE,

LIST OF

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CONTAINING ALSO

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AND

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NOW READY AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE,

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Complete Tables of the Rates of Postage, The whold neatly printed on Card Board.

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Printed and Published by NORONHA & SONS, Printers to Hongkong Government Osw?LD'S TERRACE, WELLINGTON STREET.

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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

Published by Authority.

No. 6.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 8TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

VOL. XIV.

PROCLAMATION.

No. 1.

[L.S.] RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL.

By His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight, and Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.

　　Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through His Grace the Duke of BUCKINGHAM and CHANDOS, Her Majesty's Principal Secret y of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of, and confirming, the following Ordinances, namely:-

No. 12 of 1867, entitled-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to explain Ordinance No. 9 of 1866, and to extend the Powers of the Supreme Court for Suppression of Piracy;

No. 13 of 1867, entitled-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for the more effectual Protection of Her Majesty's Naval and Victualling Stores, and for the Regulation of Pawnbrokers' Licenses: Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinances have been so approved and confirmed, as aforesaid.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 8th Day of February, 1868.

No. 16.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Circular Despatch from His Grace The Secretary of State for the Colonies, together with the Letter from the Secretary to the General Post Office, is published for general information.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th February, 1868.

CIRCULAR.

DOWNING STREET, 17th December, 1867.

SIR, I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of a Letter addressed to this Department by desire of the Postmaster- General forwarding a copy of the new Contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for the convey- ance of the India and China Mails, and also a copy of the Time Table shewing the movements of the several Packets.

The Letter from the Post Office shews so clearly the manner in which the Colony under your Government is affected by the new arrangements, that I need only refer you to it, and leave you to make the Public fully aware of them.

This Contract will commence on the Ist of February next.--I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant,

Governor

SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B.,

&c.,

BUCKINGHAM & CHANDOS.

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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

Published by Authority.

No. 6.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 8TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

VOL. XIV.

PROCLAMATION.

No. 1.

[L.S.] RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 8th Day of February, 1868.

No. 16.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Circular Despatch from His Grace The Secretary of State for the Colonies, together with the Letter from the Secretary to the General Post Office, is published for general information.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th February, 1868.

CIRCULAR.

DOWNING STREET, 17th December, 1867.

This Contract will commence on the Ist of February next.--I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant,

Governor

SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B.,

&c.,

BUCKINGHAM & CHANDOS.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

Mr. Tilley to Sir F. Rogers.

GENERAL POST OFFICE, 10th December, 1867. SIR,-With reference to my letter of the 6th instant, in which I informed you that the Postmaster-General had con- cluded a new Contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for the conveyance of the India and China Mails, I am directed by His Grace to forward to you some copies of the new Contract.

In transmitting these papers, I am to call your attention to the following points, in which the new Contract differs from that now in force :-

The Mails for India will, under the new Contract, be despatched from London en fixed days in every week, on the morning of every Saturday, for transmission via Southampton, and on the evening of the following Friday, for transmission vid Marseilles, and each Mcil will be conveyed to Bombay instead of alternately to Bombay and Calcutta.

The Mails for Ceylon, the Straits Settlements and China, will be despatched on every alternate Saturday and Friday, and the service, instead of terminating at Shanghai, will be continued to Yokohama.

　　　　　In like manner, the homeward Packets will leave Bombay on a fixed day in every week, and will leave Yokohama, Shanghai, Hongkong, and Point de Galle, on fixed days in every alternate week.

　　　　　Mails for the several Australian Colonies will be despatched from London with every alternate Mail to Point de Galle. Those Mails will consequently be conveyed from Galle to Sydney, and from Sydney to Galle, once in every fourth week, instead of once in a calendar month, as at present.

In order to accelerate as much as possible the service between Marseilles and Alexandria, the Packet on that route will go direct, via the Straits of Messina, instead of by way of Malta.

　　　　　With a like object of accelerating the China Mail Service, the Packets on the line between Point de Galle and Hongkong will no longer call at Penang, and the stay at Singapore will be limited to 12 hours of daylight.

　　　　　The Postmaster-General requests that the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos will have the goodness to communicate with the Officers administering the governments of Malta, Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, Labuan, Hongkong, the Australian Colonies and New Zealand, informing them of these new arrangements.

　　　　　In connection with these arrangements, I am to observe that, although the Packet from Marseilles will not call at Malta, there will be a weekly service between the United Kingdom and that Colony via Southampton.

　　　　　Further, with respect to Penang, which is also omitted from the new scheme, I am to state that the correspondence for that Island will be sent in the Mails for Singapore.

　　　　　I enclose some copies of a Time Table showing the proposed movements of the India, China, and Australia Mail Packets for the ensuing year.

The Postmaster-General has already, in the letter of the 6th instant, above referred to, drawn attention to the effect which the new arrangements will have on the correspondence for Mauritius.-I am, &c.,

Sir F. Rogers, Bt.,

&c., &c.,

&c.

(Signed) J. TILLEY.

No. 17.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

　　　　The following Circular from His Grace The Secretary of State for the Colonies, and its Enclosures, are published for general information.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th February, 1868.

CIRCULAR.

DOWNING STREET, 21st December, 1867.

SIR,-I transmit to you herewith an Extract of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Consul at Baltimore, reporting that the Shipping Masters at that Port refuse to ship a White Crew on board any Vessel in which a Colored Seaman is serving, together with a copy of the Answer which has been returned to that Despatch.

It will be desirable that you should take such steps as may be necessary for giving publicity to the state of things disclosed in this correspondence, and for warning Ship Owners in the Colony under your Government of the course pursued by the Baltimore Shipping Masters.-I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant,

Governor

SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B.,

&c.,

&c.

BUCKINGHAM & CHANDOS.

Extracts of a Letter from Mr. Consul Rainals to Lord Stanley, dated British Consulate, Baltimore, 11th November, 1867, No. 25.

"Hitherto white and colored seamen have been shipped indiscriminately on board the same vessel, whereas now the shipping masters and the boarding house keepers have at a period when trade is extremely dull and seamen consequently plentiful, determined not to ship a white man on board the same vessel with a colored man, and their combined power in the matter cannot be counteracted by any means at my command, as through their medium alone can seamen be obtained.

　　　　In order to illustrate the practical result of such combination, I have the honor to submit for your Lordship's consideration a case of recent date.

　　　　The British ship R. B. Mulhall arrived kere a short time ago with a mixed crew of white and colored seamen shipped at Liverpool, Nova Scotia, for a term of twelve months. Soon after her arrival, several of the men deserted (as is invariably the case here), but one colored man and two white men remained by her. When she was nearly ready for sea the Captain told me that the shipping masters positively refused to ship a white crew on board the vessel so long as the colored man remained there.

　　　　This colored man the Captain informed me was an excellent seaman whose services he was as anxious to retain as the man was desirous to remain by the vessel until the expiration of his term of service.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

Mr. Tilley to Sir F. Rogers.

In transmitting these papers, I am to call your attention to the following points, in which the new Contract differs from that now in force :-

The Mails for Ceylon, the Straits Settlements and China, will be despatched on every alternate Saturday and Friday, and the service, instead of terminating at Shanghai, will be continued to Yokohama.

　　　　　In like manner, the homeward Packets will leave Bombay on a fixed day in every week, and will leave Yokohama, Shanghai, Hongkong, and Point de Galle, on fixed days in every alternate week.

In order to accelerate as much as possible the service between Marseilles and Alexandria, the Packet on that route will go direct, via the Straits of Messina, instead of by way of Malta.

　　　　　Further, with respect to Penang, which is also omitted from the new scheme, I am to state that the correspondence for that Island will be sent in the Mails for Singapore.

　　　　　I enclose some copies of a Time Table showing the proposed movements of the India, China, and Australia Mail Packets for the ensuing year.

Sir F. Rogers, Bt.,

&c., &c.,

&c.

(Signed) J. TILLEY.

No. 17.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

　　　　The following Circular from His Grace The Secretary of State for the Colonies, and its Enclosures, are published for general information.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th February, 1868.

CIRCULAR.

DOWNING STREET, 21st December, 1867.

Governor

SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B.,

&c.,

&c.

BUCKINGHAM & CHANDOS.

Extracts of a Letter from Mr. Consul Rainals to Lord Stanley, dated British Consulate, Baltimore, 11th November, 1867, No. 25.

　　　　In order to illustrate the practical result of such combination, I have the honor to submit for your Lordship's consideration a case of recent date.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

　　　　　　My instructions give me no authority to compel a seaman to leave a ship without just cause, and yet I felt that, the case being without a precedent as far as I am concerned, I should not be justified in delaying the departure of the vessel for an indefinite period. I therefore determined if necessary to take some responsibility on myself by discharging the colored seaman and sending him home at the ship's expense.

Fortunately, however, I was later able to persuade him to take his discharge on payment of additional wages. And the

matter was so settled.

Under these circumstances I would solicit your Lordship's instructions as to the means I may be permitted to adopt if cases of a similar nature present themselves again, but when the colored seamen insist on remaining on board the vessel until their time of service shall have expired."

Mr. Hammond to Mr. Consul Rainals.

Foreign Office, 30th November, 1867.

SIR, I am directed by Lord Stanley to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 25, of the 11th instant, reporting a difficulty which had arisen in consequence of the refusal of the shipping masters at Baltimore, to ship a white crew on board the British vessel R. B. Mulhall, as long as a colored seaman remained on board that vessel.

As it appears from your despatch that the negro in question subsequently accepted his discharge, it is unnecessary for Lord Stanley to make any observation on this particular case, but in reply to your request for instructions as to the course you should adopt in any similar case in future, I am to state to you, that this is not a matter in which Her Majesty's Govern- ment can interfere. Your powers as Consul are clearly defined by the "Merchant Shipping Act," and you can only remove a seaman from a British ship as ordered by that Act.

Colored seamen being British subjects are in all respects to be treated as other seamen.

　　　　　　It must therefore be left to the masters and owners of ships to adopt such measures as they may think best calculated to obviate the difficulties caused by the course pursued by the Baltimore shipping masters, and in order that British and Colonial shipowners may be warned of the necessity of taking such measures, Lord Stanley has caused a copy of your despatch to be communicated to the Colonial Office and to the Board of Trade.-I am, &c.

H. T. A. Rainals, Esq., Her Majesty's Consul, Baltimore.

No. 18.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

(Signed) E. HAMMOND.

It is hereby notified that M. Du CHESNE, Consul for France at Hongkong, resumed charge of his Office on the 1st of September last.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th February, 1868.

POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

It is hereby notified for general information that the Scale of Progression of Weight, having the half-ounce for its unit has been extended to Letters posted in Hongkong, addressed to Trieste, or to Northern Europe specially marked to be forwarded via Trieste, and that henceforward the following Rates of Postage, which must be paid in advance, will be chargeable upon such Letters, viz. :-

FOR A LETTER.

Not exceeding Above oz. and not | Above 1 oz. and not | Above 11?2 oz. and not

exceeding 1 oz. exceeding 1 oz.

02.

exceeding 2 oz.

For every additional 1?2 oz.

12 Cents.

24 Cents.

36 Cents.

48 Cents.

12 Cents.

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.

General Post Office, Hongkong, 6th February, 1868.

POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

　　　　　It is hereby notified for general information that under the provisions of a new Postal Convention which has been concluded with the United States Post Office, the rates of postage chargeable upon Correspondence from Hongkong forwarded through the United Kingdom to the United States of America will henceforth be as follows, viz. :-

FOR A LETTER

Via SOUTHAMPTON.

Under oz.

Above oz. and not exceeding 1 oz.

Above 1 oz. and not | Above 11?2 oz. and not

exceeding 1 oz. exceeding 2 oz.

For

every additional oz.

Cents.

$cts. 1.02

$ cts.

Cents.

1.36

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

Fortunately, however, I was later able to persuade him to take his discharge on payment of additional wages. And the

matter was so settled.

Mr. Hammond to Mr. Consul Rainals.

Foreign Office, 30th November, 1867.

Colored seamen being British subjects are in all respects to be treated as other seamen.

H. T. A. Rainals, Esq., Her Majesty's Consul, Baltimore.

No. 18.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

(Signed) E. HAMMOND.

It is hereby notified that M. Du CHESNE, Consul for France at Hongkong, resumed charge of his Office on the 1st of September last.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th February, 1868.

POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

FOR A LETTER.

Not exceeding Above oz. and not | Above 1 oz. and not | Above 11?2 oz. and not

exceeding 1 oz. exceeding 1 oz.

02.

exceeding 2 oz.

For every additional 1?2 oz.

12 Cents.

24 Cents.

36 Cents.

48 Cents.

12 Cents.

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.

General Post Office, Hongkong, 6th February, 1868.

POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

FOR A LETTER

Via SOUTHAMPTON.

Under oz.

Above oz. and not exceeding 1 oz.

Above 1 oz. and not | Above 11?2 oz. and not

exceeding 1 oz. exceeding 2 oz.

For

every additional oz.

Cents.

$cts. 1.02

$ cts.

Cents.

1.36

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

Fortunately, however, I was later able to persuade him to take his discharge on payment of additional wages. And the

matter was so settled.

Mr. Hammond to Mr. Consul Rainals.

Foreign Office, 30th November, 1867.

Colored seamen being British subjects are in all respects to be treated as other seamen.

H. T. A. Rainals, Esq., Her Majesty's Consul, Baltimore.

No. 18.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

(Signed) E. HAMMOND.

It is hereby notified that M. Du CHESNE, Consul for France at Hongkong, resumed charge of his Office on the 1st of September last.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th February, 1868.

POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

FOR A LETTER.

Not exceeding Above oz. and not | Above 1 oz. and not | Above 11?2 oz. and not

exceeding 1 oz. exceeding 1 oz.

02.

exceeding 2 oz.

For every additional 1?2 oz.

12 Cents.

24 Cents.

36 Cents.

48 Cents.

12 Cents.

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.

General Post Office, Hongkong, 6th February, 1868.

POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

FOR A LETTER

Via SOUTHAMPTON.

Under oz.

Above oz. and not exceeding 1 oz.

Above 1 oz. and not | Above 11?2 oz. and not

exceeding 1 oz. exceeding 2 oz.

For

every additional oz.

Cents.

$cts. 1.02

$ cts.

Cents.

1.36

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

Via MARSEILLES.

Under 1 oz.

Cents. 42

Above oz. and not Above 1 oz. and not Above 11?2 oz. and not For every additional

exceediny 1 oz.

Cents. 84

exceeding 11 oz.

$cts. 1.26

exceeding 2 oz.

$cts. 1.68

1?2 oz.

Cents.

Book Packets and Patterns may also be forwarded in future from Hongkong to the United States by way of the United Kingdom. The postage on such Packets will be as follows, viz:---

Under 4 oz.

Cents.

FOR A BOOK PACKET OR A PACKET OF PATTERNS. Vi? SOUTHAMPTON.

Above 4 oz. and.n?t | Above 8 oz. and not Above 12 oz. and not For

exceeding 8 oz.

exceeding 16 oz.

Cents. 28

exceeding 12 oz.

Cents.

every additional

4 oz.

Cents.

Via MARSEIlles.

Under 4 oz.

Above 4 oz. and not exceeding 8 oz.

Cents.

Cents. 36

Cents.

For a Newspaper or Price Current vi? Southampton, 6 Cents.

exceeding 16 oz.

Cents.

Above 8 oz. and not Above 12 oz. and not For every additional

exceeding 12 oz.

4.02.

Cents.

For a Newspaper or Price Current vi? Marseilles, 8 Cents.

Prepayment of the postage is compulsory in each case.

Special attention is directed to the following Rules and Regulations which will be strictly enforced :-

AS REGARDS BOOKS.

　A Book Packet may contain any number of separate Books, Almanacks, Maps or Prints, and any quantity of paper, vellum or parchment (to the exclusion of letters whether sealed or open); and the Books, Maps, Paper, &c., may be either printed, written or plain, or any mixture of the three.

All legitimate binding, mounting, or covering of the same or of a portion thereof, will be allowed, whether such binding be loose or attached; as also rollers in the case of prints, markers (whether of paper or otherwise,) in the case of Books, and in short whatever is necessary for the safe transmission of literary or artistic matter or usually appertains thereto.

Every Book packet must be either without a cover, or in a cover open at the ends or sides. It must not contain any letter, open or sealed, nor any sealed enclosure whatever.

No packet must exceed two feet in length, breadth or depth, exceeding these dimensions it cannot be forwarded through the Post.

AS REGARDS PATTERNS.

They must not be of intrinsic value. This rule excludes all articles of a saleable nature, and indeed, whatever may have a value of its own, apart from its mere use as a pattern; and the quantity of any material sent ostensibly as a pattern must not be so great that it can fairly be considered as having on this ground an intrinsic value.

There must be no writing or marks other than the address of the person for whom the packet is intended, a trade mark and numbers, and prices of the articles; otherwise the Packet will be detained or forwarded charged as an unpaid letter.

The Patterns must be sent in covers open at the ends, so as to be easy of examination. Samples however, of seeds, drugs, and so forth, which cannot be sent in open covers, may be enclosed in bags of linen or other material, tied at the neck; bags so closed that they cannot readily be opened, even although they be transparent, must not be used for this purpose. Non-compliance with this rule will also subject the packet to be detained or forwarded as an unpaid letter.

The Packets or the contents thereof must not contain any inclosure, sealed or otherwise closed against inspection.

In all other respects the general regulations of the Book Post will apply to the Pattern Post. Under these regulations, in order to prevent any interruption to the regular transmission of letters, a Packet of Patterns may, when it is necessary be kept back for the following Mail by which, in the ordinary course, it would be forwarded.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

　　　　The decision of the Postmaster General as to the eligibility of any Packet, pattern, or sample contained therein, to be forwarded under these regulations, will be final and conclusive.

　　　　The rule which forbids the transmission through the Post of any article likely to injure the contents of the Mail Bags or Boxes, or the person of any Officer of the Post Office is, of course, applicable to the Pattern Post; and a packet containing anything of the kind will be stopped, and not sent to its destination. Articles such as the following have been occasionally posted as Patterns and have been detained as unfit for the Post, viz.: Metal boxes, porcelain and China, fruit, vegetables, bunches of flowers, cuttings of plants, spurs, knives, scissors, needles, pins, pieces of machinery, sharp pointed instruments, samples of metals, samples of ore, samples in glass bottles, pieces of glass, acids of various kinds, curry combs, copper and steel engraving, plates and confectionery of all kinds.

General Post Office, Hongkong, 6th February, 1868.

No. 14.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

F. W. MITCHELL,.

"Postmaster General.

　　　　Tenders will be received at this Office, until Noon on the 17th Proximo, for the erection of Officers' Quarters for the Harbor Master's Department.

　　　　Plans and Specifications may be seen at the Surveyor General's Office, where also a proper Form of Tender may be obtained.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th January, 1868.

No. 12.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

　　　　His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL in Council is pleased to direct that, until further notice, the only Anchorage in the waters of Hongkong for Foreign Vessels of War, and Foreign Cruisers of every description and Nationality, shall be within the following Boundaries:

Western Boundary.

A line running from the Government Wharf to the Melville," Hospital Ship.

Northern Boundary.

A line running from the "Melville" Eastward till it meets the Eastern Boundary.

Eastern Boundary.

A line running from St. Francis Hospital towards Kowloon Point till it meets the Northern Boundary. The above Regulation do not refer to Vessels driven by stress of weather, or any exceptional circumstances, to take up other temporary anchorages.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th January, 1868..

No. 6.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

　　　　The attention of Owners and Occupiers of Houses is drawn to the Provisions of the "Police and Lighting Rate Amendment Ordinance, 186 No. 11 of 1867, which Ordinance came into force on the 1st instant and particularly to Section 5 which lays down the mode in which a Refund of Taxes is to be obtained.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th January, 1868.

'No. 170.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

　　　　It is hereby notified that, in acordance Section 12 of The Police and Lighting Rate Ordinance, 1863," His Excellente GOVERNOR, by and with the Advice of the Executive Council, has fixed the Police Rate for the Tear 1868 at Ten and a quarter per cent for Houses in the City of Victoria; and in accordance with Section 18 of the same Ordinance at Five per cent for Houses in the Villages of this Island.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

The above Rate, as regards Houses in Victoria, will be levied exclusive of a Lighting Rate of One and a half per cent under Section 12 of the above Ordinance, and a Water Rate of Two per cent per Annum under the Provisions of Ordinance No. 12 of 1860.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th December, 1867.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION

CROWN RENTS.

CECIL C. SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Crown Lessees are reminded that the period allowed to pay into the Treasury the Rents due on the 25th December last expires on the 15th Instant.

W. H. ALEXANDER, Acting Colonial Treasurer.

Colonial Treasury, Hongkong, 8th January, 1868.

NOTIFICATION.

A copy of the Jury List for 1868, is posted up at the Supreme Court House for inspection. Notice of any inaccuracies, omissions, objections, &c., must be given in writing to the Registrar, on or before Monday, the Seventeenth Day of February instant, in accordance with the provisions of Section 8 of Ordinance No. 11 of 1864.

W. H. ALEXANDER, Registrar.

Supreme Court House, Hongkong, 1st February, 1868.

NCTICE.

It is hereby notified that the portion of Robinson Road which lies between Castle Road and Bonham Road, is closed to the public from this date, during certain alterations and repairs.

By Order,

Surveyor General's Office, Hongkong, 17th December, 1867.

W. WILSON, Surveyor General.

No. 40.-List of DEAD LETTERS which have been returned from the General Post Office in London and other places for the various reasons assigned upon them, addressed as undermentioned, the writers of which can obtain them on appli-

cation.

Almeida, Francisco d', Mazatlan, Mexico,

Adamson, J., Messrs. Melligan, Williamson & Co., Calle Piedad, Buenos

Ayres,

Boarley, Miss Caroline, No. 143, Chestnut Street, Baltimore, M.D.,

U. S. of A.,

Brown, Miss Angeline, No. 5T, North Dallas Street, Baltimore, M.D.,

U. S. of A.,

Beckwith, Capt., Austrian barque Niemen, care of W. H. Ross, Esq.,

Calle Mercadores, Cor., Lamparilla, Habana,

Carvalho, Illmo., Sr., (or the Portuguese Interpreter of the Police Court),

San Francisco, California,

King, Mrs. Hannah, 190 Brown Street, New York Offy, U.S.A., Lannaman, Miss Margret, No. 26, Louisiana Ave, Washington, D.C.,

U.S. A......

Jones, Mrs. McNaughton, New Westminster, Vancouver's Island, Kief, Mr. James, Armoury Shop, Head Quarters Maine Corps, Wash-

ington City, D.C., U.S.A.,

Horfalvo, y Ca., Sres. Lombillo, Apartado 412, Habana, Island of Cuda, 1 McKeeny, Mr. Patrick, in care of Mrs. Gilaway, San Francisco, Cal.,... 1 McKown, William, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A

Mills, Mr. Moses, 229, Atlante Avenue, Brooklyn Long Island, New

Yor U.S.A.

Flamer, Miss Carrie C., in care of Mr. Morlle, Brooklyn Post Office,

U.S. A.,...

Chinese Mission Chapel, Cor., Sacramento and Stockton Street, San

Francisco, California,

Morgan, Mr. Jola J., Onondaga Valley, Onondaga Co., New York,

U.S. A.....

Maylan, Mr. Baitley, Hudson City, New Jersey, U.S.A.,

Gardiner, Mrs. Elizabeth, Wilmengton Delawere, U.S.,

Olgini, Madile. Olga, au Theatre Italien, New York,. Rice, Chs. B., San Francisco,.

Graves, Mr. James, on board H.M. Gun-boat Forward Esquamalt,

Vancouver's Island, ..........

Benefield, Mr. Ewrvin L., Stanford, Conn., U.S.A., Scott, Madme., Mereedes, San Francisco, California,

Gibbing, Mr. Cornwall B., No. 58, Spain Street, New Orleans, L.

U.S. A.,......

Holmshead, Mr. Jam. W., care Mr. Elijah Ward, 57 Broadway, New Woodman, G. W., U. S. Naval Agent and Attorney at Law, No. 23,

　　York,... Hanaway, Mr. James, No. 36, Main Street, Charlestown, Mass., U.S.A. 1

John Staples, Post Office, Victoria, Vancouver's Island, ne, Lucien, New York, U.S.,

Court Pl Boston, Mass.,

General Post Office, Hongkong, 6th February, 1868.

F. W. MITCHELL,

Postmaster General.

THE HONGKOng governmeNT GAZETTE, 8TH FEBRUARY,

BAROMETER.

JOVAONE DAY OF MONTIJ.

OF WEEK.

ATTACHED

MAX.

STANDARD.

ANEROID.

IN SHADE.

DRY BULB IN WET BULB IN SUN'S SHADE. SHADE.

RAYS

TAKES

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS

THE GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY, 1868.

THERMOMETER (Fahrenheit.)

SELF REGISTERING IN SHADE. Max. and Min of the previous 24 hours, taken at Noon.

RAIN.

HYGROMETER.

HUMIDITY COMPUTED.

IN INCHES

STATE OF THE WEATHER.

COMPLETE

DEW POINT DURING THE COMPUTED. PREVIOUS 24|

SATURATION

HOURS.

=1,000.

9 A.M.3 P.M. 9.3

Min. | Max.

Temp. at

Noon.

9 A.M.3 P.M. 3 M.P. 9 A.M.3 P.M.|

A.M. 3 P.M. 9 A.M. 3 P.M. 9 A.M.3 P.M.

9 A.M.

3 P.M.

1 Wed. 30.210|30.090 | 30 30 30. hur 30.100 30.080 302 30.15 riday 30.220 30.177

30.301 30.22

Satur. 30.278 30.200 | 30.32 30.06

Mon.

Sun. 30.212 30.106 30.27 3014 30.108 30.000 30.14 30.06 Tues. 29.982 29.800 30.00 20:85

Wed. 29950 29890 29.99 28.90

.12

Thurs. 30.19, 30.03 10 Friday 30,22 30.13 Satur. 30.33 80.25 Sun. 30.34 30.25

30.20 30.10 30.80 30.91 61 30.40 | 30.35

30.45 30.37

Mon.

30.35

14 Tuec. 15 Wed. 30.38 80.25 16 Thurs. 30.27 30.17 17 Friday 30.19 30.06 18 Satur. 30.22 30.13 19 Sun, 30.17 30.10 20 Mon. 30.19 30.07 2013 30.07

21 Tues Wed: 80.09 30.00 23 Thurs. 30.10 30.00 24 Friday 30.09 30.13

295 30.23

30.27

30.48 30.40

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62.

30.48 | 30.35

30.49 30.37 61

30.39 30.30 62

30.30 | 30.16 30.33 30.22

30.27

30.30 30.16

2828*88*98822*G@R

122823888PORNA**88*

8832898288888

30.21 72

30.21 30.17 68

30.19

30.09 69 64

30.01

30.10

30.18

30.25

25 Satur. 30.27 30.16

30.38 | 30.27

Sun. 30.15 30.08

30.25 30.16 65

Mon. 30.13 30.09

30.23

30.15 65

Tues. 30.14 30.03

30.24 30.12 64 60

Wel. 30.15 30.06 30 Thurs. 30.17 30.06 31 Friday 30.14 30.04

Mean

30.25

30.15

30.28 30.14 67 62

30.25 30.13 #67 62 30.18 30.09 30.27 30.18 65.39 56.16

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55.9 62.9

Overcast but fine.

64.4 60.1

and rain.

99 (

50.4 50.6

0.79

Fine.

(""

49.3

49.5

Overcast but fine.

47.2

50.4

56.7

59.8

65.7

66.7

60.8

58.0

Fine.

44.4

45.8

41.6

44.1

Overcast but fine.

39.7

43.1

Fine.

Overcast but fine.

48.7 52.7

and slight rain.

50.6

50.8

Fine.

48.5

48.7

49.8

51.7 50.8

72 56.4 54.8

54.8

57.3

60.6

60.4

54.8

55.5

57.7

57.3

Cloudy but fine. Fine.

78 60.6 61.9

73 57.0

59.1

53.5

56.4

73 54.4 57.0

54.6

57.7

Fine.

Cloudy but fine.

Fine.

47.9

55.9

54.6

56.7

Cloudy but fine.

56.7

58.8

73 56.7 58.0

56.7

55.1

62.12 64.70

62.12 64.70 57 54 59.41

740

711

53.59 55.02

0.79

During

Remarks.

the month

€

1868.

THE HONGKong goverNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

WEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK. REGISTER AT HARBOR MASTER'S OFFICE, PRAYA WEST.

6 A.M.

NOON.

6 P.M.

1868.

THERMOMETER.

Baro-

Thermo-

Baro-

meter.

Thermo- meter.

Baro-

Thermo-

Self Registering.

meter.

Min

Max.

February

IQO 10 CN

30.07

30.01

30.00

888

30.11

30.06

30.10

30.17

30.14

30.10

30:06

29.94

30.03

30.10

30.17

$888585

30.05

-68

30.15

30.12

30.00

30.08

30.20

WINDS..

RAIN.

Force, range from 0 to 12,

6 A.M.

NOON.

6 P.M.

Dirn. F. Dirn. F. Dirn. F.

In inches during the previous 24 hours.

REMARKS AS TO WEATHER,

9 A.M.

DATE.

1868.

6 A.M.

9 A.M.

BAROMETER.

'NOON

3 P.M.

6 P.M.

6 A.M.

HYDROMETER.

DRY BULB.

WET BULB.

'NOON

6 P.M.

6 A.M.

'NOON

6 P.M.

THERMO- ·

METER.

Self 'Registering.

Min. Max.

NOON.

Feb. 1 28.14 28.19 28.40 28.36 28.29 53.60 60.00 59.05, 56.05| 56.00] 59.00) 53.00 61.05 EbN

2 28.23 28.33 28.39 28.53 28.29 58.00 63.05 63.00 56.00 61.00 60.00 58.00 65.00 S

3 28.21 28.54 28.52 28.51 28.28 61.00 69.00 67.00 59.00 60.00 64.00 61.00 73.00 NNW

8 SEBS

2 NbW

5 N

5 SELE

0.00

1 NW

0.00

Fine though overcast and hazy.

Fine.

4 EbS

0.00

4 28.09 28.12 28.28 28.38 28.28 56.00 59.00 58.00 55.00 56.00 56.30 56.00 68.00 EbN

6 EbN

4 EbN

0.00

5 28.19 28.25 28.29 28.32 28.31 56.00 60.00] 61.50 54.00 59.00| 60.00, 56.00 63.00 EbS

6 ESE

6 SEBS

0.01

啼

Fine though hazy; Squally during

past night.

6 A.M. fog and wet dew; from noon

fine though hazy.

Fog, wet dew and squally during past

night.

6 28.30 28.28 28.18 28.17, 28.17, 64.00 60.00 60.00 63.10 59.40 58.00 59.30 65.00 SSE

7 NNW

5 N

0.35

Thick fog and wet dew; at noon rain

and passing fog.

7 28.12 28.15 28.30 28.40, 28.26 54.00 61.00 57.30 50,00 56.00 53.00 54.00 64.00 NNE

3 NNW

2 NNE

0.00

IN THE SUPREME COURT

OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY.

OTICE is hereby given that a Meeting of the

N° George, Lyall, Frederick

　　Still, and George Francis Maelean, Bankrupts, will be held, pursuant to the 151st Section of the Bankruptcy Ordinance 1864, in the Supreme Court, on Tuesday the 11th day of February, 1868, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, before William Hastings Alexander, Esquire, Registrar of the Supreme Court, being the Officer appointed by the Supreme Court sitting in Bankruptcy.

At the said Meeting the Official Assignee will in pursuance of the 151st Section of the said Ordinance submit a Statement of the Separate Estate of the said George Francis Maclean, re- covered and outstanding, and of all receipts and all payments made or to be made thereout, and the Creditors at the said Meeting will, in pursu- ance of the said Section, declare whether any and what part of the nett produce of the Separate Estate of the said George Francis Maclean, after making a reasonable deduction for future contin- gencies, shall be divided amongst the Creditors. Proofs of Debts will be received, and Creditors who have not proved, or who shall not then prove, will be excluded from the benefit of the dividend, ---and all claims not proved will be disallowed. F. S. HUFFAM, Oficial Assignee. N.B.-The above Meeting has become neces- sary by reason of a failure by the Creditors to come to any resolution at a Meeting convened for the 15th of January last by due notice which appeared in the Hongkong Government Gazette of the 4th of the same month.

THE BANKRUPTCY ACT 1861.

A. ELLISSEN & Co. In the Matter of a Deed of Arrange- ment dated the 30th day of June 1865, made between Adolf Ellissen of No. 4 Cullum Street in the City of London Merchant and of Coven try in the County of Warwick Cot- ton Spinner and Gustav Ellissen then residing at No. 28 Maida Hill West in the County of Middlesex but late of Hongkong in China Mer- chant the said Adolf Ellissen carry- ing on business in London as a

Merchant alone under the Style or Firm of "A. Elissen & Co." and at Coventry aforesaid as a Cotton Spin- ner alone in his

wn name and the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellis- sen carrying on business in Co-part- nership at Hongkong and Shanghai in China under the name style or firm of "A. Ellissen & Co." and which said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen were thereinafter designated as the Debtors of the first part Roger Swire Tomlin of No. 1 Bauk Build- ings in the City of London Gentle- man William Burrows of Great St. Helen's in the same City Merchant and William Moales of 19 King's Arms Yard Moorgate Street in the City of London Accountant therein- after designated "The Inspectors of the second part and The several Per- sons Companies and Co-partnership Firms who at the date thereof were respectively Creditors of the Debtors or either of them thereinafter desig- nated the Creditors" of the third part Registered in the Court of Bankruptcy pursuant to the Bank- ruptcy Act 1861 the Twenty-eighth day of July 1865 whereby the said Debtors assigned all their joint and separate estates and effects as well in Great Britain and China as elsewhere to the Inspectors for the benefit of their Creditors.

OTICE is hereby given that such of the

N Creditors of the said Adolf Ellissen and

Fine throughout and squally during

past night.

Eight hundred and Sixty-Eight the said Ins- pectors will proceed to distribute the assets which have come to their hands under the said Deed of Arrangement arising from the said joint and separate estates of the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen among the Creditors entitled thereto having regard only to the debts claims or demands for which the said Deed shall then be executed or assented to and the particulars of whose debts claims or demands shall have been forwarded to the said Inspectors and proved to their satisfaction and duly allowed by them.

Dated this 29th day of October, 1867.

FLUX ARGLES & RAWLINS,

1 East India Avenue Leadenhall Street London Solicitors for the said Inspectors.

NOTICE.

HE interest and responsibility of Mr. T. KRUMMENACHER in our Firm ceased on 31st December, 1867.

SANDERS & Co.

Hongkong, 8th February, 1867.

HING-QUA JOHN,

PHOTOGRAPHER, No. 28, PRAYA CENTRAL,

Terms:

$3 per dozen small size likenesses, and reason- able charge for large ones.

NOTICE.

R. HUGH SUTHERLAND is authorized to sign our Firm per procuration from this

JOHN FORSTER & Co. Foochow, 7th January, 1868.

THE HONGKong goverNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

WEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK. REGISTER AT HARBOR MASTER'S OFFICE, PRAYA WEST.

6 A.M.

NOON.

6 P.M.

1868.

THERMOMETER.

Baro-

Thermo-

Baro-

meter.

Thermo- meter.

Baro-

Thermo-

Self Registering.

meter.

Min

Max.

February

IQO 10 CN

30.07

30.01

30.00

888

30.11

30.06

30.10

30.17

30.14

30.10

30:06

29.94

30.03

30.10

30.17

$888585

30.05

-68

30.15

30.12

30.00

30.08

30.20

WINDS..

RAIN.

Force, range from 0 to 12,

6 A.M.

NOON.

6 P.M.

Dirn. F. Dirn. F. Dirn. F.

In inches during the previous 24 hours.

REMARKS AS TO WEATHER,

9 A.M.

DATE.

1868.

6 A.M.

9 A.M.

BAROMETER.

'NOON

3 P.M.

6 P.M.

6 A.M.

HYDROMETER.

DRY BULB.

WET BULB.

'NOON

6 P.M.

6 A.M.

'NOON

6 P.M.

THERMO- ·

METER.

Self 'Registering.

Min. Max.

NOON.

Feb. 1 28.14 28.19 28.40 28.36 28.29 53.60 60.00 59.05, 56.05| 56.00] 59.00) 53.00 61.05 EbN

2 28.23 28.33 28.39 28.53 28.29 58.00 63.05 63.00 56.00 61.00 60.00 58.00 65.00 S

3 28.21 28.54 28.52 28.51 28.28 61.00 69.00 67.00 59.00 60.00 64.00 61.00 73.00 NNW

8 SEBS

2 NbW

5 N

5 SELE

0.00

1 NW

0.00

Fine though overcast and hazy.

Fine.

4 EbS

0.00

4 28.09 28.12 28.28 28.38 28.28 56.00 59.00 58.00 55.00 56.00 56.30 56.00 68.00 EbN

6 EbN

4 EbN

0.00

5 28.19 28.25 28.29 28.32 28.31 56.00 60.00] 61.50 54.00 59.00| 60.00, 56.00 63.00 EbS

6 ESE

6 SEBS

0.01

啼

Fine though hazy; Squally during

past night.

6 A.M. fog and wet dew; from noon

fine though hazy.

Fog, wet dew and squally during past

night.

6 28.30 28.28 28.18 28.17, 28.17, 64.00 60.00 60.00 63.10 59.40 58.00 59.30 65.00 SSE

7 NNW

5 N

0.35

Thick fog and wet dew; at noon rain

and passing fog.

7 28.12 28.15 28.30 28.40, 28.26 54.00 61.00 57.30 50,00 56.00 53.00 54.00 64.00 NNE

3 NNW

2 NNE

0.00

IN THE SUPREME COURT

OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY.

OTICE is hereby given that a Meeting of the

N° George, Lyall, Frederick

THE BANKRUPTCY ACT 1861.

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No. 19.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The Postal Convention between the United States of America and the Colonial Government of Hongkong is published for general information.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th February, 1868.

POSTAL CONVENTION

BETWEEN

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

AND

THE COLONIAL GOVERNMENT OF HONGKONG, CHINA.

ARTICLES

of Agreement between the Post Office Department of the United States and the General Post Office at Hongkong.

　　　　For the purpose of establishing and regulating the interchange of Mails between the United States and Hongkong and dependent Chinese ports by means of the direct line of United States' Mail Packets plying between San Francisco and Hongkong vi? Yokohama in Japan, it is agreed between the Post Office Department of the United States and the Post Office Department of Hongkong:

ARTICLE 1.

　　　　The Post Offices of New York and San Francisco shall be the United States' Offices of exchange, and the General Post Office at Hongkong, the Office of exchange of the Colony of Hongkong, for all

· Mails transmitted under this arrangement.

ARTICLE 2.

　　　　There shall be an exchange of correspondence between the United States of America and the Colony of Hongkong, by means of United States' Mail Packets plying between San Francisco and Hongkong, comprising letters, newspapers, and prices current originating and posted in the United States and addressed to and deliverable in Hongkong, and those Chinese ports with which the Hongkong Post Office has postal relations, including the ports of Canton, Amoy, Swatow, and Foochow, and vice versa, of correspondence originating and posted in Hongkong, and the Chinese ports above designated, and addressed to and deliverable in the United States.

ARTICLE 3.

　　　　The postage to be levied and collected at the office of mailing in the United States upon letters, newspapers, and prices current destined for Hongkong and the above designated Chinese ports with which Hongkong has postal connections, shall be 10 cents per single rate of half an ounce or under on letters, and 2 cents each on newspapers, and prices current; and the postage to be levied and collected at Hongkong and dependent Chinese ports on correspondence originating in those ports and destined to the United States, shall be 8 cents per single rate of half an ounce or under on letters, and 2 cents

38 THE HONGK?NG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

on each newspaper or price current. No postal accounts shall be kept between the respective Postal Departments upon the correspondence exchanged between them under this arrangement, but each -Department shall deliver the correspondence which it receives from the other, free of all postage charge, that is to say, the Hongkong Post Department agrees to deliver without charge, all letters, newspapers, and prices current, brought by the United States Mail Packets, addressed to Hongkong, and also to forward without charge all such letters, newspapers, &c., as are addressed to the Chinese ports above named South of Shanghae; and the United States' Postal Department, on its side, agrees to deliver without charge all letters, newspapers, &c., originating in Hongkong or the ports mentioned and forwarded by said Packets addressed to and deliverable in the United States. All letters, newspapers, &c., despatched by either office to the other, under this arrangement, shall be plainly stamped with the words "paid all" in red ink, on the right hand upper-corner of the face of the address; and shall also bear the stamp of the mailing exchange office on their face, and that of the receiving exchange Office on their back.

-ARTICLE 4.

　　　The Postal Departments of the United States and of Hongkong, shall each return to the other, monthly, or as frequently as their regulations will allow, all letters, newspapers, &c, without claim, which cannot for any cause be delivered.

ARTICLE 5.

　　　An exchange of mails shall also take place between the United States' Postal Agency at Yokohama, Japan, and the Hongkong Post Office by means of United States' Mail Packets, comprising correspond- ence originating in Japan and addressed to Hongkong and the Chinese ports above designated, and vice versa, correspondence originating in Hongkong and dependent Chinese ports and addressed to Japan, subject to the same terms and conditions as those established by Article 3 of this convention, with respect to the correspondence exchanged between the United States and Hongkong and dependent Chinese ports.

ARTICLE 6.

　　　All letters, newspapers, and prices current, intended to be forwarded from Hongkong to the United States by the direct line of United States' Mail Packets running between San Francisco and Hongkong must be specially addressed to be forwarded by that route.

ARTICLE 7.

　　　The two Postal Departments may by mutual consent make such detailed regulations as shall be found necessary to carry out the objects of this arrangement, such regulations to be terminable at any time on a reasonable notice by either Office.

ARTICLE 8.

　　　This Convention shall come into operation the First day of November, 1867, and shall be termin- able at any time on a notice by either Office of Six Months.

　　　In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Colony of Hongkong at Victoria herein this Tenth day of August, 1867.

[L.S.]

RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL,

Governor.

　　　In Witness whereof, I have hereto set my hand and the seal of the Post Office Department, this Twelfth day of November, 1867.

[L.S.]

ALEX. W. RANDALL, Postmaster General.

　　　I hereby approve the aforegoing Convention, and in testimony thereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

By the President,

[L.s.]

[L.S.]

ANDREW JOHNSON.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD; Secretary of State.

Washington, November 12th, 1867.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Account, duly certified, of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation in Hongkong, during the Month ending 31st January, 1868, is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th February, 1868.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

BANKS.

AVERAGE AMOUNT.

SPECIE IN RESERVE.

Oriental Bank Corporation,..

570,000

200,000

Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China,

384,603

200,000

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,

327,165

120,000

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,.

1,092,690

500,000

TOTAL,

2,374,458

*1,020,000

No. 21.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

　　　　Tenders will be received at this Office, until Noon on Tuesday, the 25th instant, for the supply of the undermentioned Articles for the use of the Police Department, for Six Months, from the 1st Proximo until 31st August, 1868, viz.:

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　　　　The above Articles must be of good quality deliverable at the Central Police Barracks, at such time and in such quantities as may be required.

Any further particulars will be given on application at the Office of the Superintendent of Police.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th February, 1868.

No. 22.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

　　　　The following Annual Report on the state of the Government Schools in Hongkong for the Year 1867 is published for general information.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th February, 1868.

HONGKONG, 22nd January, 1868.

SIR,I have the honour to present to you the Annual Report on the Government Schools in this Colony for the year 1867, and in doing so I shall commence with the Village Schools.

2. I regret that I am not in a position to report much progress in these. Although I am quite satisfied that the children who attend these schools derive certain advantages from the purely Chinese education that they receive in them, it cannot be concealed that education in the Villages remains in a very unsatisfactory state.

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3. Whatever improvements may have been made in attendance, regularity, discipline, and attention to duty on the part of the Masters, there is still a sad want of intelligace among the children. To the simplest questions-"What do you call the part of your r body with which you see? "What is the organ of hearing?"-in the majority of cases no answer can be obtained. When, failing to get the desired answer in this way, one pomts to the characters for eye and ear and asks the use of these organs, they seem to have no conception of what they meat. Beyond the fact that the character pointed to has a certain sound they are in perfect ignorance of the idea which is attached to it.

No. 20.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH FEBRUARY, 1868. 39

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Account, duly certified, of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation in Hongkong, during the Month ending 31st January, 1868, is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th February, 1868.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

BANKS.

AVERAGE AMOUNT.

SPECIE IN RESERVE.

Oriental Bank Corporation,..

570,000

200,000

Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China,

384,603

200,000

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,

327,165

120,000

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,.

1,092,690

500,000

TOTAL,

2,374,458

*1,020,000

No. 21.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

　　　　The above Articles must be of good quality deliverable at the Central Police Barracks, at such time and in such quantities as may be required.

Any further particulars will be given on application at the Office of the Superintendent of Police.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th February, 1868.

No. 22.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

　　　　The following Annual Report on the state of the Government Schools in Hongkong for the Year 1867 is published for general information.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th February, 1868.

HONGKONG, 22nd January, 1868.

SIR,I have the honour to present to you the Annual Report on the Government Schools in this Colony for the year 1867, and in doing so I shall commence with the Village Schools.

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4. I have witnessed curious scenes on such occasions. Sometimes the Master will lose his temper at such displays of stupidity, and, taking up the question himself, try in vain to get an answer, even when he has communicated it in a whisper trusting that it may not be audible to me. And yet, some of these boys will repeat, without a single mistake, the "Four Books" of Confucius. In one instance, in the Hakka School at West Point, a boy brought up, on the examination day, an armful of books, consisting of the "Shi-king," portions of the "K?-man," the "Four-Books," the "Odes for Youth," and one or two others, some ten goodly volumes in all. When asked what he did with so many books he said he knew them all. He began with the "Four-Books," and, to my astonishment, went on repeating, as rapidly as lip and tongue could move, for a quarter of an hour when I thought it time to stop him. I believe he could have repeated the whole had there been time to listen to him. But this boy, whose powers of memory were so great, and whose application must have been intense, could not explain one word of all this which he must have so laboriously committed to memory.

5. It is almost impossible to get the Masters to understand that one-tenth of this, fully understood, would be infinitely more valuable to their scholars than such a Body of Chinese ethics which is wholly unintelligible to them. This weary plodding, day after day and year after year, in the sterile region of sound without one glimpse at the knowledge which it contains, produces the inevitable result, as conspicuous sometimes in 'the Master as in the Scholar,-an incapacity to evolve a single thought or idea beyond what has been handed down, by tradition, for ages.

6. The question is often asked-Why is this state of things allowed to continue, and why are not suitable books translated, and suitable Masters provided to teach them? In a Western country no question could be more natural, and great blame would attach to those who had the power to make the necessary reform without at least attempting it. To those who are unacquainted with Chinese literature and education it is almost impossible to explain why a reform cannot at once be made in Hongkong. I believe that every such attempt will fail until the Chinese as a nation come, by continued intercourse with the West, to have a higher idea of our civilization and institutions. To say nothing of the difficulty-in itself not an inconsiderable one, of getting the more appropriate lessons of English school books translated into Chinese,-and of training Masters, for that would be indispensable, to teach the schools,-one who knows anything of the people would pause before displacing Confucius by such works as these. Those who have seen the undisguised contempt with which an educated Chinese looks upon an English school book when he is made acquainted ith the nature of its contents will understand what I mean. Ignorant as the villagers are of even their own literature, and unable as they are to give any opinion on education, they have one potent argument in store which would defy contradiction-they would not send one of their children to school. 7. The comparative success of the Central School, where English school books are used, is no argument against what I have stated. I do not believe that one of the two hundred and odd boys in the school comes to be educated, in the proper sense of the word. Their only aim is to obtain such a knowledge of the English language as will enable them to get situations which prove more lucrative than any which they could hope to get without it. I am afraid that, before long, this will receive too disagreeable a confirmation. Complaints are often made by the boys of the difficulty they now have in getting employ- ment. The popularity of the school, therefore, would thus seem to depend very much, if not entirely, on the varying prosperity of the Colony, and not on the nature or amount of real instruction communicated in it.

8. I have sometimes been asked why the best scholars in the Central School were not trained as Masters for the Village Schools. These, it is said, with suitable school books in their hands, would completely meet the want that is felt, and the the present intractable race of Masters could then be dispensed with. It may appear strange to say that, in the meantime, this is impossible, but such, however, is the case. It would involve the necessity of a separate department in the school, with a separate Master for the work. This, it is evident, would entail a very considerable addition to the present Estimate for Education, with the probability, I might say, the certainty, that the special training thus to be given would, if it were through the medium of English, so familiarize the boys with the language that they would not accept such situations, and, if it were to be done through the medium of Chinese-in itself a need hardly say that scarcely one would be found willing difficulty, I to undergo it.

　　　9. I cannot doubt that the time will come, in the history of the Colony, when the Village Schools will in some such way, be supplied with Masters, and when the villagers will appreciate the ?ducation which such Masters would impart; but, for two very obvious reasons, this cannot be accomplished at present. The first is that the boys can get higher salaries elsewhere than Government could afford to pay them. The second is that the Chinese, to say nothing of the estimation in which they hold them as regards character, to which reference will be made hereafter, look upon them, in the meantime, as totally uneducated and unfit to teach their children.

　　　10. What has just been said, has been said, of course, judging the schools by a European standard. Looking at them, however, from another point of view, as schools, namely, where a Chinese education is given to Chinese children, there are one or two things to which more particular reference may be made. I stated last year why I thought these schools should be continued and encouraged, poor, in our estimation, though the education given in them be. It is painful to see the number of children in the Colony who seem to spend their whole time in the streets, generally at play, frequently at mischief, always watching for opportunities to pilfer, and thus commencing a career of idleness and crime. Could these children be made to attend school, the opportunity at least of doing evil would, so far, be removed. It were much better that they should be con- fined for the greater portion of the day in school, than that they should spend, as it is to be feared many of them do, the best part of their days in prison. Even on this ground, low though it be, the schools, well attended, would be of no mean ad- vantage to the well being of the Colony.

　　　11. If it could be possible to make the Chinese here feel a greater interest in the education of their children, and if they could be induced to send them regularly to school, the work of reformation would be more than begun. It would be much easier than to prevail on them to allow changes to be introduced than it is now when there is nothing but stolid indifference to appeal to. In many cases, the people do not conceal that they consider they are doing Government a favour by sending their children to its schools. It does not seem to occur to them that the advantage is at least mutual. I have had cases where a father has urged as a reason why some request of his should be granted that he sent his son to the Government school, and was therefore, doubtless, entitled to a favourable hearing.

12. As regards particular schools, I am sorry to find such a falling off at Tang-lung-chau. Two years ago, the attend- ance at this school was upwards of fifty. Now it is scarcely twenty. This state of things is not due entirely to the removal of many of the inhabitants from the neighbourhood but to a cause with which it is more difficult to deal. In the early part of last year, it was discovered that the Master was appropriating money which should have been spent in the payment of a Monitor to assist him in school, to the payment of his own servant. The case was a clear one against him and he was dis- missed. A petition, signed by many of the people, was then brought to me praying that the Master might be re-instated because he was a good teacher. The cause of his dismissal was completely ignored. When their request was refused, the scholars were sent to me in a body to ask that he should be allowed to return. No reasoning as to the flagrancy of his fault and his consequent unsuitability for such a trust as that of teaching the young had the slightest effect. They admitted most willingly that his conduct had been bad, but--he to a good teacher. Another and undoubtedly the best native Master we have, was sent to the school but one half of the children were withdrawn. Such are the people with whom we have to deal.

13. The most gratifying circumstance connected with the schools is the increasing interest that is now taken in female education. In addition to the Girls' School in Sheung-w?n with upwards of forty scholars, there is now another at Bowrington with upwards of seventeen. In several of the others, clso, there are from two to six girls. To whatever cause

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it is to be attributed, it is curious to find that the girls make much more satisfactory progress than the boys. Neatness characterizes everything they do, and their handwriting, especially, attracts the admiration of those Chinese who have been shown it. In the school at Bowrington alone is needle-work taught, in addition to the ordinary routine of reading, writing and committing to memory, but I hope that it may soon be introduced into the other school also."

14. It is unnecessary, I trust, for me to state that English is carefully excluded from these schools. To the melancholy results which, in nearly every instance, have followed from teaching Chinese girls English I need not more particularly allude. Its effect on the character of the boys is not, I am sorry to find, what one could wish, but on the character of the girls it has proved to be fatal. And the son seems to be this, that coming, as they nearly all do, from the poorer classes, the care, such as they have never experiented before, which is taken of them, the comforts, to them luxuries, which they enjoy, and the so called accomplishments, which they are taught, totally unfit them for the sphere of life in which they would otherwise naturally remain, and out of which it is impossible for them to rise.

15. The only aim which is attempted to be reached in the Girls' schools, which are under Government control, is that of making them honest and useful in their own humble sphere, and I am happy to say, from enquiries which I have made, that - the effort to do this has not been unsuccessful. The Master of the school in Sheung-w?n tells me that the scholars who have left him, during the ten years in which it has been in existence, have, as a rule been respectably married in their own native Districts of N?m-hoi and P?'n-?.

　　　　　16. Further than stating that the Stanley school is, in the meantime, the most regularly attended and that a Girls' school may be established as soon as there is a suitable school-house, I do not think it necessary to do more at present in connection with the Village Schools than refer you to the statistics which are appended to this Report.

　　　　　17. I have now, in conclusion, only to refer to the Central School, and, in doing so, I shall be very brief, as no important changes have been made or results reached beyond those previously reported.

　　　　　18. The attendance was well sustained during the year. It is a matter of some surprise to me that it was so; for, in the first place, the chances of obtaining situations have lately been rapidly diminishing, and in the second, it is not to be concealed that the classes are by far too large for only two En lish Masters, with the additional duty of inspecting the Village Schools devolving on one of them. The progress of the boys is certainly not what it ought to be, or what I should like to see it. Strangers who pay a casual visit may find some cause for commendation, but those who are daily engaged in the actual working of the school find much that is unsatisfactory, and which either an additional Master or decreased attendance would materially remedy.

19. In previous Reports I have referred to this difficulty. I had hoped that ere this time the Revenue of the Colony. would be in a condition to admit of the appointment of another English Master but I fear such a proposition cannot, in the meantime, be entertained. I content myself therefore, under the circumstances, with saying that nothing could more contribute to the efficiency of the school, and that it will not be efficient without it.

20. Allusion has already been made to the main source of the apparent popularity of the school--the means of money- making which are derived from a knowledge of English. In another respects, I was sorry to be told lately by one who has opportunities of knowing that those Chinese who have no sons at the school look upon the boys in anything but a favourable light. By giving themselves airs, by affecting a superiority they do not possess, by forming clubs, to the exclusion of those who do not know English, where all sorts of dissipation exist, the boys do not place the character of the school or the results of the training which is attempted to be given them in the light which those, whose time and energy are spent in their behalf, have perhaps a right to expect. When one thinks, however, of even the effects of Christianity itself, in its earlier stages, and that one Church in particular which had much to commend it had to be seriously cautioned, among other things, against a propensity to steal, one needs not despair at finding may things to annoy and disappoint in the promotion of Education in Hongkong. Like civilization, or any other moral and intellectual change, education is a comparative term which bears a relation not to this arbitrary standard or to that, but to the particular mental condition of the people among whom it is being disseminated. From the six years' experience I have now had of the work, I do not expect to find any great or lasting results in my time. My only hope is that, at the close of my connection with the schools, I may have done something which my successor will not have to undo.-I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient Servant,

The Honourable CECIL C. SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary, &c., &c., &c.

FREDERICK STEWART, Inspector of Government Schools.

NUMBERS and ATTENDANCE at the Government Schools during 1867.

Maximum Minimum Maximum Minimum Enrolment. Enrolment. Attendance.

Attendance.

1. Aberdeen

2. Bowrington

3. Central School

266

205

221

-176

397

4. Girl's School

5. Shau-ki-wan

6. Stanley

7. Tang-lung-chau (Hakka).

8. Tang-lung-chau (Punti)

9. Webster's Crescent

10. West End

11. West Point (Hakka). 12. West Point (Punti) 13. Wong-nai-chung

700

533

610

408

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

SUMMARY of ENROLMENT and ATTENDANCE at the Government Schools for the last Six Years.

1862.

1803.

1864.

1865.

1866.

1867.

Maximum Enrolment.

733

535

502

597

623

700

Maximum Attendance

621

469

417

535

572

610

Minimum Enrolment

505

414

434

418

435

533

Minimun Attendance

299

301

324

330

337

408

Number of Children in the Colony, under 16 years of age, as per last Census,

.19,349

Deduct, as being under 6 years of age,

6,949

Deduct, as attending schools of all denominations,

..1.600

8,549

Total Number of Uneducated Children in Hongkong,

.10,800

ATTENDANCE at the Central School for the Half-year commencing 4th March, 1867.

Head Master's Classes,

Assistant Master's Classes,

Preparatory Class,

Total,...

8888888

204

Number rejected at Preliminary Examination,

For the Half-year commencing 3rd September, 1867.

Head Master's Classes,

Assistant Master's Classes,

103

Preparatory Class,

221

Total,...

Number rejected at Preliminary Examination,

Number who left school during the year,

FREDERICK STEWART, Inspector of Government Schools.

No. 14.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Tenders will be received at this Office, until Noon on the 17th Proximo, for the erection of Officers' Quarters for the Harbor Master's Department.

Plans and Specifications may be seen at the Surveyor General's Office, where also a proper Form of Tender be obtained.

may

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th January, 1868.

No. 12.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Western Boundary.

A line running from the Government Wharf to the Melville," Hospital Ship.

Northern Boundary.

A line running from the "Melville" Eastward till it meets the Eastern Boundary.

Eastern Boundary.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonia! Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th January, 1868

DATE.

1868.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH FEBRUARY, 1868. 45

AS REGARDS PATTERNS.

　　　　　The Packets or the contents thereof must not contain any inclosure, sealed or otherwise closed against inspection.

The decision of the Postmaster Genera' as to the eligibility of any Packet, pattern, or sample contained therein, to be forwarded under these regulations, will be final and conclusive.

General Post Office, Hongkong, 6th February, 1868.

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.

WEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK. REGISTER AT HARBOR MASTER'S OFFICE, PRAYA WEST.

6 A.M.

NOON.

6 P.M.

1868.

THERMOMETER.

Baro- meter.

Thermo- meter.

Baro- Thermo- meter.

Baro-

Self Registering.

Thermo-

meter.

Min.

Max.

February 8

30.30

30.32

30.30

30.35

30.21

30.20

ARA

30.13

30.12

30.11

63-

30.14

30.19

30.24

30.32

30.33

*@NSR8R

30.30

30.24

30.20

30.11

30.15

30.30

30.35

6 A.M.

9 A.M.

BAROMETER.

*NOON

3 P.M.

6 P.M.

6 A.M.

Height above Sea Level 1,770 feet.

HYDROMETER.

THERMO- METER.

DRY BULB.

WET BULB.

'NOON

6 P.M.

6 A.M.

*NOON

6 P.M.

Self Registering

Min. Max.

NOON.

WINDS.

RAIN.

6 A.M.

Dirn.

F. Dirn. F.

Force, range from 0 to 12,

Noon.

6 P.M.

Dirn. F.

Esipches during the previous 24 hours.

REMARKS AS TO WEATHER.

9 A.M.

Feb. 8 28.17 28.30 28.40] 28.44 28.35; 50,00 55.00 53,00; 45,00| 51.00] 50.00′ 50.00 63.00 ENE

9 28.30 28.40 28.48 28.48 28.39 50.00] 54.00| 52.00| 45.00] 51,00| 48.00 50,00| 56.00 NE

4 NE?N 5 E

0.00

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6 Ebs 4 ELN

0.00

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4 EbN

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6. EbN

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0.00 49.00 51.00 55

55.30 EIN T

4 ENE

NEBE

0.00

Fine though overcast.

6 A.M. fog; wet dew; noon fine

though_hazy.

rine though hazy; passing fog at

intervals.

Fine though overcast; rain during past

night.

Fine though overcast.

Do.,

do.

Letters. Papers.

Letters, Papers.

Letters. Papers.

Chagas, L. J.

Ahong, Mr.

Dewar, A. M.

Anderson, Peter 1

Athaide, A.

Caetano

}

Capt. Delury, Daniel

} 1

Granger,W.P. formerly of the 20th Regiment Gale, A.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

POST OFFICE NOTICE.

List of unclaimed LETTERS and PAPERS lying in the Hongkong Post Office for Parties not known, 14th February, 1868.

Aytie, Miss Amoo, Mr.

Letters. Papers.

Parravicino,

Yppolito Phillips, R. Prior, Chas.

Letters. Papers.

Schwoerer,

Lets. Paps.

Leroy, Monsr.

Legnand, Monsr.1

Eugene Silva, Deme-

Moore, F. Wm. 1

trio Aranjo de

Martin, W.

(Engineer)

Smith,

Daniell, F.

Geale, J.

McLoor, A. &'

Palmer, Mr.,

Matimiana

Ahsoo, Charley

Damioli,

Co., Messrs.

Band-Mas-2 & 1 bk.

Souza, Cosme

Adkin, E.

Diego Sigr.

Hill, James Mr. 1

McCurne, My

ter, 8th N.I.

Antonio

Daina, J.

Hojoljom, D. A. 1

Manning, Mr. ? 1

Parker, A. J.

Bowley, G.

Fran.co Sigr.

Halpern, J.

Mills, F. M.

Torres, S?r.

Bois, P. du Barker, E. Mrs. 1 Brown. Edwd. 1 Ragehot, Barnesl

s. Thos. H. 1 2 Boown, Wm.

Brinckmeyer, S. L. Bird, G. W.

J. J.

Dyson, W. Capt. Dalall, M. R.

Darborough,

Harrison, W.

McNeil, Richard1

Rudolf

Dn., Tenien-

Capt.

Marshall, H.

Ricardo

te de Cabal-

Hackrof,

Marques, A. G. 2

Roberts, Wm.

leria

Bernado

Mackie, W. L. 1

(Engineer)

Terry, L. F.

Donath, Franz. 1.

Dn.

McClelland, D. 1

Roza, Felis-

Havert, Philip 1

Willer, W.

Eaglesham,

Capt.

}

Holbek, N.

Morello, Capt. 1

Rair, A.

Hansen, Care

Moullin, Capt.

Bondom, Monsr. 1 Buchan, A.

Capt.

Harboe, Capt. 1

MacMahon, W.

Ringer, J. M.

Field, James B. 1

Hill, G.

Meneau, C. P.

Robertson, C.

Fraser, John

Browne, Miss 2

Rhodes, Mrs. (

Berns. G. H.

Fernandez,

Jeffery, J. W. Judd, Miss

Monsieur Massett, C. I Marchal, Ed.)

(Asst. Engr.)}

Richards, Wm. 1

Robert, Fillo

Batchalder, M.J.

Burton, James 1

Flores, Victorinol

Borblyn, B.

Boyle, A.

Boate, Harry S.1

}

Barbote, Luiggi 1

Barlow, A. E. 1

Collins, W. H.

Revd., Pekin

1 registd.

Mr.

Cheong, Sun

Corvinous, G. S.

Louren?o

Fenwick, J. M. 1

Fernandes,

Constancio C

Falkiner, Daniel 1

Forster, John

Fenney, B.Henry Farrell, Mr.

Fernaudes,

Benjamin

dame

King, John formerly Chief-Officer

Johnson, J. W.

Montr.

MacCulloch, D. 1

mena

Reeves, T.

bina, Sra.

Robertson, Geo. 2

Zegers

Tate, Stranger 3 Turner, L.

T. Albany,

Monsr.

Von Wevels

Fleth Mohr. Heinrich Johann

Vidaurre, Luis

Keerlin, Ma-

Mason, Wm. H. 1

Ratto, Emmanuell

Voigt, Georg.

Murton, N.

Rantenberg,}

Martyn, Miss

Schmidt & Co. j

Wakefield, F.

Meeter, P trus 1

Remedios, dos?

Williams, J.

Edwd.

Sigismundo

Trebolgan

Kennedy, W.

Kyle, David

Kek, R.

Kelung, Mrs.

Gemma, Miss

Kreyer, C. T.,

Compagn,

Garred, M., Mr. 1

Revd.

Hestique F.

Gorris, T. A. 3

Kennedy,

Crabb,Geo.,Capt. 1

Green, Hugh

James (Ap-

Cooper, Wm.

Gonsalves, V.

prentice)

Clarke, W.

Garcia, Franco. 1

Carvalho,

Green, Mel-

Lec, Monsr.

Manuel

vina, Mrs.

Cotter, William 1

Gilchrist, James1

Lary, W.

Center, A.

Cashman, J.

cenzo, Sig.

Gattinoni, Vi-}

Low John B.

Low K. A.

1 1

Omalon, Anais}

Oates, Thos. Otter, Albert H. 1

Landisbergh, G. 1 registd. Padwick, Geo. 1

Shields, Robt. Shaw, Robt. Simpson, James 1 Stevens, John L. I Simpson, Geo. Scott, Charles J.2 Stewart, C. Mrs. 1 Staples, Capt. 1 Souza, Joaquim 1 Steggensen, C. 1 Smith, John

(Asst, Engr.) Single, H.

1 registd.

Weaver, W.

Wightman, L. 1 Weatherhead, Thomas

Wigton,

Robert H. Wilkinson, G.

Wilson, J. A. 1 Wallace, E.,Mrs. L

Worren, Hy. Wharts, E. P.

Mrs.

Zynen, Wel. Ed. Heer, Doctor

}

List of LETTERS and PAPERS lying at the Hongkong Post Office for Merchant Vessels, 14th February, 1868.

Letters. Papers.

Sir William

}

3 bks.

Lets. Papa.

Wallace Sabastian Cabot 4

Nash, Geo.

Webb, James

Noye, A. M.

Smith, Louisa ?

Nichois, H. J.

book.

Miss

Neile, Richard 1

Olibeiro, Manoell O'Connor, John 1

Portaria,

Esperan?a Proand, A.

Letters. Papers.

Lecters. Papers,

Letters. Papers..

Letters. Papers.

Argonaut

Codabux

Golden Fleece

Arima

Chelsea

Guajara

Kelso Kester

Allendale

Countess of

Gladiateur

Kate Cleather 1

Navarino Noranside Nelson

Alexandrina

Elgin

Gleam

Norham

St. Mary

Abotsford

Chloris

Gungadhur

Lucerne

Northumberland2

Sandringham

Antifer

Confucius

Golden Dragon 2

Libra

Nelly

Adeline

Cotherstone

Gustav Adolf 2

Lochnager

Nevile

Sultan

Ashburton

Carmeline

Gifford

Lottie Maria

-Agnes

Colorado (Ship)3

Golden Dream 1

Lobelia

Ocean Child

Anevoca

Colombo

Glenroy

Lady Love

Ocean House

Senator Webb

Amiral Charner 2

Charlotte

Golden Spur

Lorton

Oriental

Sea Mew

Speculation

Shooting Star

Star of England 2

Amicus

Cera Lim

Geo. Croshaw 4

Lady Alice

Orsa

Stirlingshire

Aden

Charmian

Glenlee

Leblom

Ospray

Sardinia

Andromeda 1

Chinaman

Laity Ann

Ocean Spray

Sunrise

Alexandra

Cerica

Henriette

Banfield

Ocean Home

Stanley

Alliance

Cydoma

Helen

Lancanshire

Otto

Solent

Art Union

Heroes of Alma 3

Witch

Spirit of the Northi

Abbott Lawrence7

Deerfoot

Henriette

Albert Lawrencel

Dora

Devana

Bengal

Dannevirke

Gerardina

Sussanne

Home

Lady Elena Brucel

President

Southern Belle 1

Loon Crespi

Pride of the

Ganges

Min

Prudhoe

Three Brothers 1

Burdwan

Dashing Wave 1

Hen Handley 2

Boanerges

Blairmore

Bosphorus Bien Hoa

Belle of the

South Broadwater

Baringa Belted Will

Catherine Eli-

zabeth

Heather Bell

Maggie Lauder 1 Marian

Pieter

Princess of

Eva

Ho Hang Ho

Monk Chester 11

Wales

Englishman 19

Hoogly

Mary Lucie

Passepartou

Tewkesbury

Vesta

Emerald

Ilans

Medusa

Pacific

Vigil

Ecliptic Europa,

Henry Melvill

Malvern

Philip Nelson

Hope of South

Mirage

Penang

Elgin

Shield

Morayshire

Princess of Wales1

Eagle

Hopeful

Mathilde

Ellida Eleutheria

Herald

Maria Elizabeth 1

Mandan

Qu. of England 1 Qu. of the Ocean 2

Eliza

Isabella Ridley 2

Martha

Ville de Grenade 4 Vanguard

Veneta Vision

Virgen de los

Dalores ViscountCanning1

Etienne et

Indomitable

Mogul

Regent

Capiolina

Lorena

Isabella

City of Man-

Esperanza

Indien Empire

Maria Morton 2 Mindora

Reindeer

Wealth of

Rome

Nations

chester

Ellen Morice

Maud Helen

Raphael

Wild Gazelle 1

Clio

Ettie

Japan

Marie & Helena 1

Reconnaisance 1

Cedars

Conqueror Corea Cymbeline

City of Ham-

Jenie

Melbourne

Rapid

Water Lily Wild Rover

Free Trade

Japara

Malabar

Ramsey

White Swallow 1

Feordres

John Milton

Malvina Vidal

Regina

Wm. Chandler 9

Foam

Fortitude

Jason

Red Deer

Winfield

John & Mary

Nothumbria

Rifle

Fort Regent

James Miller

Clair

Faders Minde

Jeanne Alice

Chalgrove

Fiery Cross

Channel Queen 1

Fair Lead?r

Kim Soon Hong 1

Norwood Napoleon Norval Naomi

Ruby

Wartburg

Royal Bershire 1

Yvonne

Yedo

Servantes

List of Unpaid and Registered LETTERS and PAPERS lying at the Hongkong Post Office for Her Majesty's Ships of War, 14th February, 1868.

Letters. Papers.

Bouncer

Basilisk

Dove

Insolent

Letters. Pap?re.

Letters. Rapers.

Letters. Papers.

Melville

P. Charlotte 14

THE

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

NOTICE.

HE next CRIMINAL SESSIONS of the Su- preme Court will be held on Tuesday, the Eighteenth day of February, 1868, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.

By order of the Court,

W. H. ALEXANDER, Registrar.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

Foreign Attachment.

JOHN HEARD, AUGUSTINE HEARD, Junior, ALBERT FARLEY HEARD, GEORGE FARLEY HEARD, GEORGE FREDERICK WELLER, and ROBERT INGLIS FEARON, trading under the style or Firm of AUGUSTINE HEARD AND COM- PANY, Plaintiffs,

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, HENRY W. HUBBELL, F. B. HILDRETH, and RUSSELL STURGIS, Defen- dants.

HEREAS an Action has been commenced

WHEREAS an has been commenced

above named John Heard, Augustine Heard, Junior, Albert Farley Heard, George Farley Heard, George Frederick Weller, and Robert Inglis Fearon, against the above named Robert L. Taylor, Henry W. Hubbell, F. B. Hildreth, and Russell Sturgis, to recover the sum of Eight thousand Five hundred and Sixty-eight Dol- lars and Three Cents, for money received by the said Robert L. Taylor, Henry W. Hubbell, F. B. Hildreth, and Russell Sturgis for the use of the said Plaintiffs John Heard, Augustine Heard, Junior, Albert Farley Heard, George Farley Heard, George Frederick Weller, and Robert Inglis Fearon, and for money found to be due to the said Plaintiffs by the said Defen- dants on an account stated between them and it being alleged that the said Robert L. Taylor, Henry W. Hubbell, F. B. Hildreth, and Russell Sturgis do not reside within this Island or its Dependencies, a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued, returnable on the Tenth day of March next, wherein J. S. Watson, of Victoria, in the Island of Hongkong, Master Mariner, is Garnishee.

　　Notice is hereby given, that if at any time before final judgment in this Action the said Robert L. Taylor, Henry W. Hubbell, F. B. Hildreth, and Russell Sturgis, or any persons on their behalf, will give the security and notice, and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island, intituled "An Ordinance to provide for and regulate process in actions at Law against persons absent from the Colony," the said Attachment may be dissolved.

Dated this Thirteenth day of February, 1868.

HENRY C. CALDWELL, Plaintiffs' Attorney.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

Foreign Attachment.

JOHN HEARD, AUGUSTINE HEARD, Junior, ALBERT FARLEY HEARD, GEORGE FARLEY HEARD, GEORGE FREDERICK WELLER, and ROBERT INGLIS FEARON trading under the Style or Firm of AUGUSTINE HEARD AND COM- PANY, Plaintiffs,

HENRY W. HUBBELL, Deffendant. HEREAS an Action has been commenced

　　　　　in this Honorable Court at the suit of the above-named John Heard, Augustine Heard, Junior, Albert Farley Heard, George Farley Heard, George Frederick Weller, and Robert Inglish Fearon against the above-named Henry W. Hubbell to recover the sum of Five thousand Three hundred and Sixteen Dollars and Eighty-five Cents, for money received by the said Henry W. Hubbell for the use of the said Plaintiffs John Heard, Augustine Heard, Junior, Albert Farley Heard, George Farley Heard, George Frederick Weller, and Robert Inglish Fearon, and for money found to be due to the said Plaintiffs by the said Defendant on an ac- count stated between them; and it being alleged that the said Henry W. Hubbell does not reside within this Island or its Denendencies a Writ of

Foreign Attachment has been issued returnable on the Tenth day of March next, wherein J. S. Watson, of Victoria, in the Island of Hongkong, Master Mariner, is Garnishee.

Notice is hereby given that if at any time before final judgment in this action the said Henry W. Hubbell or any person on his behalf will give the security and notice and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island intituled "An Ordinance to provide for and regulate process in action at Law against persons absent from the Colony," the said attach- ment may be dissolved.

Dated this Fourteenth day of February, 1868."

HENRY C. CALDWELL, Plaintiffs Attorney.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY. OTICE. SHERIEF CURIM, trading in

Nongkong, as un

der the style or firm of Sheriff and Company, having been adjudged Bankrupt under a Petition for adjudication of Bankruptcy filed in the Su- preme Court on the Twelfth day of February, 1868, is hereby required to surrender himself to the Honorable William Hastings Alexander, Esquire, the Registrar of the said Supreme Court, at the first Meeting of Creditors, to be held be- fore he said Registrar on the Twenty-seventh day of February, 1868, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon precisely, at the said Court.

Frederick Sowley Huffam, Esquire, is the Official Assignee, and Mr. Francis Innes Haze- land is the Solicitor acting in the Bankruptcy.

At the Meeting the Registrar will receive the proofs of the Debts of the Creditors, and the Creditors may choose an Assignee or Assignees of the Bankrupt's Estate and Effects.

All persons having in their possession any of the Effects of the said Bankrupts must deliver them to the said Official Assignee, and all Debts due to the Bankrupt must be paid to the said Official Assignee.

Hongkong, 15th February, 1868.

In re JERONIMO E. ALVES, deceased.

OTICE is hereby given to the next of Kin,

and all other Persons, to produce any Wills or Codiofls of the above named party, de- ceased, that may be in their possession, before the Court of Probate, on Saturday, the 22nd day of February, A.D. 1868; or, if none, that the next of Kin do accept, or refuse Letters of Administration, failing which Letters of Admi- nistration will be granted to the Registrar of the said Court, or such other person as the Court may think fit.

By the Court,

W. H. ALEXANDER,

Registrar.

THE BANKRUPTCY ACT 1861.

Firms who at the date thereof were respectively Creditors of the Debtors or either of them thereinafter desig- nated the Creditons" of the third part Registered in the Court of Bankruptcy pursuant to the Bank- ruptcy Act 1861 the Twenty-eighth day of July 1865 whereby the said Debtors assigned all their joint and separate estates and effects as well in Great Britain and China as elsewhere to the Inspectors for the benefit of their Creditors.

OTICE is hereby given that such of the Creditors of the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen either jointly or separately as have not yet sent in and proved their debts claims or demands to the satisfaction of the said Ins- pectors and have not yet executed or assented in writing to the said Deed of Arrangement (which now lies at the Offices of us the undersigned Messrs. Flux Argles and Rawlins No. 1 East India Avenue Leadenhall Street in the City of London Solicitors) are hereby required to do so on or before the Tenth day of March One thousand Eight hundred and Sixty-eight other- wise they will be excluded from all benefit thereof AND NOTICE is hereby further given that after the said Tenth day of March One thousand Eight hundred and Sixty-Eight the said Ins- pectors will proceed to distribute the assets which have come to their hands under the said Deed of Arrangement arising from the said joint and separate estates of the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen among the Creditors entitled thereto having regard only to the debts claims or demands for which the said Deed shall then be executed or assented to and the particulars of whose debts claims or demands shall have been forwarded to the said Inspectors and proved to their satisfaction and duly allowed by them.

Dated this 29th day of October, 1867.

FLUX ARGLES & RAWLINS,

1 East India Avenue Leadenhall Street London Solicitors for the said Inspectors.

NOTICE.

R. EMIL VOGEL and Mr. HEINRICH

become this day

our business, which in future will be carried on under the Firm of

VOGEL, HAGEDORN & Co., ? ? both here and at Canton.

HAGEDORN & Co.

Hongkong, 12th February, 1868.

NOTICE.

THE interest and responsibility of Mr. J. KRUMMENACHER in our Firm ceased on

SANDER & Co.

Hongkong, 8th February, 1867.

HING-QUA JOHN,

A. ELLISSEN & Co. In the Matter of a Deed of Arrange- ment dated the 30th day of June 1885, made between Adolf Ellissen of No. 4 Cullum Street in the City of London Merchant,ard of Coven- try in the County of Warwick Cot- ton Spinner and Gustav Ellissen then residing at No. 28 Maida Hill West in the County of Middlesex but late of Hongkong in China Mer- the 31st December, 1867. chant the said Adolf Ellissen carry- ing on business in London as a Merchant alone under the Style or Firm of "A. Ellissen & Co." and at Coventry aforesaid as a Cotton Spin- ner alone in his own name and the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellis- sen carrying on business in Co-part- "nership at Hongkong and Shangnai in China under the name style or firm of "A. Ellissen & Co." and which said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen were thereinafter designated as the Debtors of the first part Roger Swire Tomlin of No. 1 Bank Build- ings in the City of London Gentle- man William Burrows of Great St. Helen's in the same City Merchant and William Moales of 19 King's Arms Yard Moorgate Street in the City of London Accountant therein- after designated "The Inspectors of the second part and The several Per- gons Companies and Co-partnership

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JOHN FORSTER & Co.

Foochow, 7th January, 1868.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

NOTICE.

HE Interest and responsibility of Mr. A. D.

day of December, 1867.

A. FERGUSON & Co.

Hongkong, 3rd January, 1868.

NOTICE.

MR. THOMAS PYKE has this day been ad-

mitted a Partner in our Firm.

BIRLEY & Co.

Hongkong, 1st January, 1868.

NOTICE.

THE interest and responsibility of Mr. A. FER

　　　　GUSON in our Firm ceased on the 1st day of November, 1866.

A. FERGUSON & Co.

The business will henceforth be carried on un- der the same name by the undersigned.

A. D. MITCHELL.

J. D. MEYERS.

HENRY FEHRS.

Hongkong, 16th December ,1867.

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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

No. 8.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

VOL. XIV.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

No. 9 OF 1867.

THURSDAY, 5TH DECEMBER, 1867.

PRESENT:.

His Excellency Governor SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B. The Honorable the Chief Justice (JOHN SMALE.)

The Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary (CECIL C. SMITH.) The Honorable the Acting Attorney General (HENRY JOHN BALL.) The Honorable the Colonial Treasurer (FREDERICK H. A. FORTH.) The Honorable FRANCIS PARRY.

ABSENT:

The Honorable the Auditor General (W. H. RENNIE), and

The Honorable PHINEAS RYRIE,-both absen? on leave.

The Council meets this day at 3 P.M., by special Summons.

His Excellency the Governor administers to WILLIAM KESWICK, Esquire, who is in attendance, the Oaths of Office as a Member of this Council, vice JAMES WHITTALL, resigned; and the Honorable WILLIAM KESWICK takes his Seat accordingly.

The Minutes of the Council held on the 10th September, are read and confirmed.

His Excellency lays on the Table a Bill "to amend the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1864," and explains his reasons for introducing it, by reading a Communication which he had recently received from the Honorable the Chief Justice.

The Bill is then read a first time; and the Council agreeing to a Suspension of the Standing Orders, the Bill is read a second time, committed and passed, bearing the Title of “An ?rdinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to ammend 'The Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1864," "-being "No. 15 of 1867."

His Excellency then adjourns the Council at half-past 3 o'clock.

Read and confirmed, this 21st Day of February, 1868.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, ·

Clerk of Councils.

RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL,

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Governor.

　　　　The following List of Jurors for the Year commencing on the 1st March, 1868, as revised and amended by His Excellency THE GOVERNOR and the Legislative Council, is published for general

information.

By Command,

Council Chamber, Hongkong, 21st February, 1868.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

JURY LIST FOR 1868.

NAME.

OCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.

SPECIAL JUROR.

NAME.

OCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.

SPECIAL JUROR.

Abbott, Joseph Barker

Assistant, Sayle & Co.

Abendroth, Hermann

Assistant, Landstein & Co.

Emile Carl

Agabeg, Avietic Lazar

Broker, 32, Hollywood Road

Agabeg, Gentthoom Lazar Broker, 59, Wyndham Street

Aitken, Alexander Geddes Engineer, P. & O. S. N. Company

Allen, Isaac Winter

Allen, A. P. Anderson, Graham

Anthony, Thos. Thornton Anton, James Ross Andr? Adolphe Aquino, Francisco A. d' Aquino, Jos? Cyrillo d' Armistead, Alfred

Armstrong, John Martin Arnhold, Jacob Austin, Charles Lewis Autey, William Duff Avetoom, John Leon

Aylmore, George Bushby Azevedo, Fulgencio

Hilario d'

Bade, C.

Baines, Charles Wardell Baines, Robert

Baker, Samuel Wright Barnet, B. S.

Barretto, Jo?o Antonio

Barros, Francisco Jorge

Barton, Zephaniah

Beart, Edward

Bech, Sidney Smith Behre, Ernest

Belilios, Emanuel Rafael Berus, Hermann Ludwig Benjamin, E. S. Benjamin, Abdoola Ezekiel Berwick, James Bertrand, Camille Beyer, Fritz

Beyer, Ludwig Bielfeld, Alexander Blakeway, George Blackhead, Frederick

John Berthold Blackwood, Edward

Wilson

　　Bleecker, Alexander B?ger, H.

　　Bonnal, Alphonse Bonne, Hermann

Bonnett, William Wade Bosman, Charles Henri

Maurice

　　Bottado, Raphael Bottomley, Charles David

Bourjau, Rudolphe Bowman, George F. Brandt, Charles A. Bristow, Charles Jones Broadbear, Edward

Dennett

Brooks, James Alfred Broschen, Wilhelm Brussell, Morris

Bryde, Arnold

Budde, Claus

Bumberg, Phillip Louis Buncombe, William Burrows, Odgen Hoffman Burrows, Silas Enoch Bush, Lafayette L. Butcher, James

Britto, Jos? de

　　Cairns, Robert H. Callis, Thomas

Cameron, Ewen

Campos, Joaquim

Pereira de

Assistant, Sayle & Co.

Cork, P. M. S. S. Company Broker, 4, Mosque Terrace Storekeeper, 57, Praya Central Assistant, Morgan, Lambert & Co. Merchant, 2, Graham Street

Clerk, Olyphant & Co.

Clerk, A. Heard & Co.

Clerk, P. & O. S. N. Company Storekeeper, Thos. Hunt & Co.

Chater, Charles Paul Chell, George Cheverton, John How Clark, Richard Clarke, S. H. Claussen, Charles Henry Cohen, Charles Coleman Cohen, Aaron Solomon Cohen, Simon Hyem D. |Costa, Jo?o Antonio da Costa, Jos? Phillipe da Coug tric, James

Billington Cowasjee, Nusserwanjee Cox, James Henry |Cox, John Samuel

Coxon, Atwell

Merchaut, Arnhold, Karberg & Co. Special Juror. Crawford, David Robert

Assistant, A. Heard & Co.

Sub-Manager, H'kong Gas Works Inspector, 23, Graham Street Secretary, The Hongkong Club

Clerk, Jardine, Matheson & Co.

Assistant, E. Schellhass & Co. Assistant, Olyphant & Co. Engineer, P. & O. S. N. Company Millinery Storek’per, Queen's Road Assistant, Blum Brothers

Assistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co. Assistant, Oriental Bank Corp. Opium Inspector, Gough Street Book-keeper, China Mail Office Clerk, Stag Hotel

Fenton Crichton, George Cucullo, Emilio C.

Dalmeida, William Henry Dana, Richard S. Danenberg, Carlos D. Danenberg, Henrique Davies, Charles Langdon Davis, George Deacon, Richard Deane, Charles Tomlin Deetjen, Edward - Degenaer, Frederick Delbanco, Edward Denis, Gustave Denton, Edward

Merchant, Bourjau, H?bener & Co. Special Juror. Desilver, Thomas Henry

Merchant, 12, Gough Street Innk'per, 298, Queen's Road C'tral Merchant, 3 Pottinger Street Assistant, Sassoon, Sons & Co. Manager, Oriental Bank Corp. Manager, Messageries Imperiales Assistant, Pustau & Co.

Merchant, E. Schellhass & Co. Merchant, 14, Shelley Street Merchant, Vaucher & Co.

Storekeeper, Queen's Road

Innkeeper, Empire Tavern Clerk, Fawcett & Co.

Merchant, Kirchner, B?ger & Co. Broker, 22, Queen's Road Central Assistant, Pustau & Co. Storekeeper, Wyndham Street

Merchant, Bosman & Co. Clerk, P. M. S. S. Company Broker, 3, Aberdeen Street Assistant, Bourjau, H?bener & Co. Agent, P. M. S. S. Company Shipwright, 25, Praya West Sup. Purser, P. & O. S. N. Co.

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Storekeeper, 57, Praya Central Auctioneer, 22, Wyndham Street Broker, 3, Pedder's Hill

Accountant, Comptoir d'Escompte Assistant, Arnhold, Karberg & Co. Assistant, Dreyer & Co. Assistant, Blackhead & Co. Opium Inspector, 12, Ice House Lane Merchant, S. E. Burrows & Co. Merchant, S. E. Burrows & Co. Clerk, 1, Praya East

Farrier, back of Murray Barracks Clerk, P. & O. S. N. Company

Marine Surveyor, Vincent & Cairns Storeman, P. & O. S. N. Company Assistant, H'kong & Sg'hae Bank

Clerk, P. & O. S. N. Company

Campos, Luiz Pereira de Clerk, P. & O. S. N. Company

Carvalho, Marcos

Antonio de

Case, Arthur Molesworth Castilla, M. D. de Center, A.

Cerf, G.

Chambers, A. F.

Clerk, Turner & Co.

Assistant, Gibb, Livingston & Co. Commission Agent,14,Wyndham St. Assistant, P. M. S. S. Company Merchant, Reynvaan, Brothers Assistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co.

Determan, Joan Gerhard Devine, Robert Dolan, William Doral, Phillip Robert Special Juror Douglas, Wandledon Special Juror. Dreyer, Friedrich

Driscoll, William

Flourence

Drucker, Henry Dryden, Herbert

Duncanson, James Pender

Dumphy, William

E?a, Dom Antonio de Eimbeke, Adolph Elias, Jacob Benjamin Elmenhorst, Theodore

Henry

Special Juror. Emanuel, Joseph Moss

Encarna??o, Antonio

Luiz d' Erdman, Caesar Ezekiel, R.

Ezra, Nissim Sala

Fairbairn, John

Falconer, George Barty Farrell, Edwin Ferre, Edourd LaFayette Le Fesefeld, Gustave Figueiredo, Jos? Miguel

Victor de Special Juror. Findlay, W. Special Juror. Fischer, Samuel

Fogarty, Henry Crawford Foley, Jeremiah

|Broker, 59, Wyndham Street Engineer, P. & O. S. N. Company Manager, Wilkinson & Co. Innkeeper, 316, Queen's Rd. C'tral Merchant, Bull, Purdon & Co. Storekeeper, M?ller & Claussen Assistant, Phillips, Moore & Co. Broker, 1, Elgin Street Clerk, 12, Gough Street Assistant, Gilman & Co. Clerk, 6, Old Bailey Street

Assistant, Holliday, Wise & Co. Merchant, Metta & Co. Assistant, Turner & Co. Assistant, Lane, Crawford & Co. Broker, Castle Road

Storekeeper, Lane, Crawford & Co. Assistant, Borneo Company Limited Clerk, Club Lusitano

Assistant, Russell & Co. Merchant, Russell & Co. Clerk, 18, Wyndham Street Clerk, 15, Mosque Junction Unemployed, 1, Albany Road Broker, Bonham Road Merchant, John Burd & Co. Assistant, Gilman & Co. Merchant, Deetjen & von Bergen Merchant, 3, D'Aguilar Street Manager, Comptoir d'Escompte Merchant, 25, Wellington Street Groom, Jardine, Matheson & Co. Assistant, DeSilver & Co. Assistant, Bosman & Co. Innkeeper, 224, Queen's Road C’tral Sailmaker, Duddell Street Clerk, D. Ruttunjee & Co. Boilermaker, P. & O. S. N. Co. Merchant, 5, Gough Street

Assistant, Sayle & Co.

Broker, 31, Wyndham Street

Engineer, P. & O. S. N. Co.

Special Juror.

Mrechant, Gibb, Livingston & Co. Special Juror. Engineer, 215, Queen's Road West

Clerk, Jardine, Matheson & Co. Merchant, Carlowitz & Co. Assistant, Sassoon, Sons & Co.

Broker, 39, Wyndham Street Clerk, Thomas Hunt & Co.

Clerk, 6, Chancery Lane Assistant, Landstein & Co. Merchant, 3, Pottinger Street Assistant, Sassoon, Sons & Co.

Assistant, Lane, Crawford & Co. Watchmaker, Queen's Road Clerk, M?ller & Claussen Assistant, Tudor Ice Company Clerk, Bowra & Co.

Broker, 30, Peel Street Engineer, at Mr. Millar's Shipchandler, 9, Webster's Bazaar Assistant, Lane, Crawford & Co. Innkeeper, 248, Queen's Rd. C'tral

Forbes, John Murray, Jr. Assistant, Russell & Co.

Foster, William

Hammond, Jr.

Foster, W. S.

Francis, Francis Franke, Henry Fraser, John Maclean Freerks, Rudolph

French, Joseph Frederick

Friedrich, Otto

Merchant, Russell & Co.

Assistant, Reiss & Co.

Hotelkeeper, 88, Queen's Rd. C'trl

Assistant, Pustau & Co.

Special Juror.

Manager, Borneo Company Limited Special Juror. Shipchandler, Scott's Lane

Inspector to Opium Farmer, 60,

[Hollywood Road

Clerk, Lammert, Atkinson & Co.

Frischling, Charles Joseph Tailor, Sayle & Co.

C Gabain, Peter George

Placido

Assistant, Siemssen & Co.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

NAME.

OCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.

SPECIAL JUROR.

NAME.

SPECIAL

OCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.

JUROR.

Galway, James Gardner, William Gattermann, F. Gaupp, Hermann Gaupp, Louis Gibson, Henry

　　　　Gillson, William Moore Glennie, Alexander Wm. Gomes, Francisco Assis Gonsalves, Constancio Jos? Goodwin, Alexander Gotz, Albert Granger, Holmes Green, Thomas Gregory, Frederick Greig, Alexander Grobien, Frederic Grossman, Christian

　　　　　　　Frederick Groves, Thomas John Gr?n, Ernst

Gutierrez, Adelino

Harley, Alexander

Harnes, P.

Hart, James

Hart, Thomas

Clerk, M?ller & Claussen

|Innkeeper, 272, Queen's Rd. Central

Clerk, M?ller & Clausson Watchmaker, Queen's Road Watchmaker, Queen's Road Clerk, MacEwen & Co. Marine Supt., P. & O. S. N. Co. Assistant, Gilman & Co. Merchant, 29, Wellington Street Clerk, H.kong & S.gliae Bank Boilermaker, P. & O. S. N. Co. Assistant, Siemssen & Co. Assistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co. Supt. Engineer, P. & O. S. N. Co. Engineer, P. & O. S. N. Co. Foreman Carpenter, at John Jack's Merchant, Arnhold, Karberg & Co.

Merchant, Kirchner, B?ger & Co. Assistant, Sayle & Co. Merchant, 13a, Peel Street Clerk, P. & O. S. N. Co.

Assistant, at Mr. Falconer's Carpenter, Thomas Hunt & Co.

Harsant, Frederick May Storekeeper, Bowra & Co.

Hase, A.

Hassell, John Gordon

Talbot

Hastings, William

Hayes, Joseph

Heard, George Farley

Heitmann, Heinrich

Heinemann, Sophus Louis

Wilhelm

Assistant, Turner & Co. Clerk, 21, Wyndham Street Merchant, 52, Queen's Road C'trl.

Assistant, Birley & Co.

Assistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co. Storekeeper, Lane, Crawford & Co. Merchant, A. Heard & Co. Broker, Club Lusitano

Assistant, Smith, Archer & Co.

Heitmann, Johann Caesar' Assistant, Smith, Archer & Co.

Helland, George John

Hervig, F.

Merchant, John Burd & Co.

Assistant, Carlowitz & Co.

Hitchcock, Ethan Allen

Merchant, Olyphant & Co.

Kirby, William Kirchhoff, Heinrich Kirchner, A. Kresser, Victor Krummanacher, Joseph Kruse, Johannes Carl Kuhlmann, Henry Kwok-a-Cheong

Ladd, Thomas Cushing Lammert, George

Reinhold Landstein, William R. Lancken, Frederick Lange, William Lapraik, John Steward Laurie, Peter George Ledlesike, E. Legge, William Leiria, Hermenegildo

Antonio Lemann, William Lemattre, Ernest Leong Wing Chuen Leslie, Henry William Lewis, James William Liddlelow, Robert Lilley, Elijah Lima, Jos? Maria Oliveira Lind, Adam

Lockhart, Alexander Lopes, C.

Special Juror. Lovett, Charles Augustine

Low, Henry Cutler Lowndes, Richard Wm. Lowndes, W. J.

Special Juror. Lucas, Henry

Lowry, George

Lutkens, Ludwig

Special Juror.

Siegmond

Assistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co.

Merchant, 20, Stanley Street

Merchant, Kirchner, B?ger & Co.

Manager, H.kong & S.ghae Bank Special Juror. Merchant, 15, Staunton Street Merchant, 18, Stanley Street

Assistant, Pustau & Co.

Merchant, Queen's Road West

Merchant, J. H. Ladd & Co.

[& Co. Special Juror.

Special Juror.

Storekeeper, Lammert, Atkinson Merchant, Stanley Street Assistant, Pustau & Co. Piano Tuner, 14, Shelley Street Merchant, Lapraik & Co. Assistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co. Clerk, Deetjen & von Bergen Assistant, Smith, Archer & Co.

Clerk, J. J. dos Remedios & Co. Merchant, Gilman & Co.

Watchmaker, at Mr. Hochstetter's Linguist, Wo Kee Hong Clerk, at John Jack's Assistant, Blum, Brothers Clerk, Sayle & Co. Assistant, Sayle & Co. Clerk, Holliday, Wise & Co. Assistant, P. & O. S. N. Co.' Engineer, P. & O. S. N. Co. Clerk, 16, Wyndham Street Assistant, Russell & Co. Assistant, Smith, Archer & Co. Merchant, 109, Queen's Road East Assistant, Hongkong Club

Barkeeper, 316, Queen's Rd. C'tral Assistant, Lane, Crawford & Co.

Special Juror.

Hochmeyer, Frederic Hochstetter, Conrad Hodge, Robert

Hodges, Thomas Dodd

Howard

Hodgson, John George Hogg, Alfred Graham Holmes, Edmund Richard

Holmes, George Hook, John Spinks Hook, Thomas Richard

Tepping

Howard, Thomas

Hubbe. Paul Gertrard

H?bener, Emil

Assistant, Siemssen & Co. Watchmaker, Queen's Road

Assistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co.

Assistant, Holliday, Wise & Co. Accountant, Comptoir d'Escompte Merchant, A. G. Hogg & Co. Proprietor, Stag Hotel Broker, at Stag Hotel Shipbroker, Praya

Merchant, 13, Staunton Street

Broker, J. S. Hook & Co.

Assistant, Siemssen & Co.

Merchant, Bourjau, H?bener & Co.

Hughes, William Kerfoot Assistant, Wilkinson & Co.

Hunter, Wm. Chesterman Merchant, A. Heard & Co.

Hyndman, Henrique

Clerk, Union Dock Company

Illingworth, David

Engineer, West Point

Jack, John

Jackson, James, Jr. Jackson, William James, Horatio Gay Jameson, J. R. Jardine, John

Jensen, Rudolph Jesus, Jo?o Antonio de Johnstone, Henry Joost, Adolph Jorge, Acurcio

Jorge, Honorato

Jukes, Miles Prendergast Julien, Victorine

Juvet, Louis Ami

Karberg, Peter Kaye, William

Kelly, Robert

Kerr, Charles Moreland Kicer, Hans

King, George

King, James E.

Shipwright, 101, Praya East Assistant, A. Heard & Co. Manager, Mercantile Bank Assistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co. Clerk, Thomas Hunt & Co. Storekeeper, 27, Praya East Assistant, John Burd & Co. Clerk, Turner & Co.

Assistant, A. G. Hogg & Co. Merchant, Siemssen & Co.

Assistant, H.kong & S.ghae Bank Aseis ant, Mercantile Bank

Luz, Januario Antonio da Clerk, Olyphant & Co.

Lyall, Robert

Macaulay, William

MacConnachie, James

MacDonald, John Scott Mackay, Neil

Mackenzie, David Hughes Macintosh, Charles Maclehose, James Henry MacLeod, Alexander MacNulty, John MacVicar, Patrick

Magniac, Herbert St. Leger

Special Juror. Maloney, Lawrence

Malville, William Manger, Alfred Thomas Manger, Joseph Edward Mar?al, Honorio [Marshall, John Grierson Martini, Emile Jacques Martins, E. Martin, F.

Masfen, Launcelot Charles Matson, James Melville Mauer, L?der Gerhard

Special Juror. Medlen, George Austin

Mellish, Edward Menke, Julius Menser, Robert C. Methven, Alexander Meyer, Adolph Emil Middleton, Wm. Nixon

Special Juror. Miller, Archibald

Mitchell, Robert Mody, Hormusjee Nowrojee

Assistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co. Special Juror. Boarding House Keeper, 258,

[Queen's Road Central

Clerk, 3, D'Aguilar Street

Moody, Gifford Downing Moore, E.

Moore, Maurice

Morgan, Charles Henry Morgan, Jonathan Morgan, Wm. Mostyn

Merchant, Arnhold, Karberg & Co. Special Juror. Morgan, Thomas Manager, Chartered Bank of India, Special Juror. Morrison, Wm. Ord

[Australia and China

Assistant, Robert S. Walker & Co.

Assistant, Oriental Bank Corp.

Broker

Assistant, P. &. O. S. Nz Co. Boarding House Keeper, 196,

[Queen's Road Central

Morris, John Badland Moss, Michael M?ller. August Muncherjee, Pestonjee

Setna Murray, Henry Musilius, Frederick

Merchant, 39, Wyndham Street

Broker, Queen's Road Central

Superintendent, P. & O. S. N. Co. Special Juror. Foreman Blacksmith, at John Jack's Shipwright, 29, Praya East

Plumber, P. & O. S. N. Co.

Bank A.tant, 50, Queen's Rd. C'tral| Manager, North China Ins. Co. Assistant, R. S. Walker & Co.

Assistant, Gibb, Livingston & Co. Innkeeper, 2, Queen's Road West Assistant, Birley & Co.

Special Juror.

Merchant, Jardine, Matheson & Co. Special Juror. Assistant, S. E. Burrows & Co. Gunmaker, at Mr. Schmidt's Assistant, Lapraik & Co. Assistant, Lapraik & Co. Clerk, 34, Hollywood Road Assistant, Chartered Bank Assistant, Reynvaan Brothers Assistant, Landstein & Co. Clerk, at Illingsworth's, West Point Assistant, Mercantile Bank Assistant, Oriental Bank Corp. Clerk, Freerks, Rodatz & Co. Architect, Rawling, Medlen & Co. Broker, 11, Arbuthnot Road Merchant, Wm. Pustau & C? Assistant, Arnhold, Karberg & Co. Assistant, P. & O. S. N. Co. Merchant, 9, Pedder's Hill

Broker, 17, Peel Street

Engineer, 1, Queen's Road East

Groom, Jardine, Matheson & Co.

Broker, 32, Graham Street

Assistant, H'kong & Shanghae Bank Assistant, P. & O. S. N. Co. Assistant, Phillips, Moore & Co. Broker, Morgan, Lambert & Co. Clerk, Sayle & Co.

|Broker, Pedder's Hill

Assistant, at Mr. Falconer's

Assistant, Gibb, Livingston & Co. Assistant, Bowra & Co.-

Broker, Hotel d'Europe

Storekeeper, M?ller & Claussen

Broker, Castle Road

Special Juror. Special Juror.

Merchant, Jardine, Mathesor & Co. Special Juror. Assistant, Bourjau, H?bener & Co.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

NAME.

OCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.

SPECIAL JUROR.

NAME.

OCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.

SPECIAL JUROR.

Napier, John

Nelson, Horatio

　　　　Harrington Nicaise, Hippolyte Notley, Walter Hyde Nusserwanjee, Eduljee

O'Hara, Henry Olsen, John

Olmsted, Wm. Nisbet Opstelten, Johannes

Christian

Ozorio, Candido Julio

Park, William

Parr, Richard Batty

Parsons, Jonathan

Parsons, Jonathan, Jr.

Paterson, William

Payne, George

Pawlsen, W.

Peacock, Charles Pearce, John

Pearce, James William Pereira, Adri?o A. Pereira, Frank Ignatius Pereira, Ignacio Pires Perry, Edward Wight Pestonjee, Ardasir Pestonjee, Dunjeebhoy Pestonjee, Ichanjee Petel, Louis Gabriel Phillips, Richard

Engineer, P. & O. S. N. Co.

Assistant, Mercantile Bank Assistant, Borneo Co. Limited Merchant, R. S. Walker & Co. Merchant, N. E. Sapoorjee & Co.

Agent, Tudor Ice Company Innkeeper, 292, Queen's Rd. C'tral Assistant, Olyphant & Co.

Merchant, 13a, Peel Street

Clerk, 13, Wyndham Street

Assistant, Gilman & Co.

Merchant, Wilkinson & Co. Superintendent, Wanchi Bakery

Assistant, Wanchi Bakery

Assistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co. Shipwright, at J. S. Macdonald's Barkeeper, Stag Hotel

Assistant, Bourjau, H?bener & Co. Blacksmith, P. & O. S. N. Co. Storekeeper, Fawcett & Co. Assistant, Dent & Co.

Special Juror.

S?, Francisco de Sage, Edward Josiah Sander, John Fredrich

Albricht

Sandilands, John A. Sands, George Underhill Santos, Antonio dos Sassoon, Solomon Sauermann, F. C. Saul, M.M. Sayle, Dalton

Schlesike, Carl Johann

Schmit, C. H.

Schmidt, William

Schutze, Emile Scott, Albert

Scott, George Oswald Seabra, Francisco Antonio Seimund, Carl Siebs, N. A. Silva, Antonio Maria da Silva, Miguel Antonio da Silveira, Jos? da

Clerk, Lane, Crawford & Co. Merchant, Club Chambers.

Merchant, 15, Staunton Street Assistant, R. S. Walker & Co. Marine Sup., H. C. & M. S.-boat Co. Clerk, 2, Arbuthnot Road

Merchant, Sassoon, Sons & Co. Assistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co.

Assistant, Sassoon, Sons & Co.

Clerk, Sayle & Co.

Assistant, Deetjen & von Bergen Clerk, Blackhead & Co.

Gunmaker, 94, Queen's R'd Central Broker, 3, Pedder's Hill Assistant, Lane, Crawford & Co. Assistant, Oriental Bank Corp. Clerk, A. Heard & Co. Storekeeper, 57, Praya Central Assistant, Siemssen & Co. Clerk, Wm. Pustau & Co. Clerk, Mercantile Bank Photographer, Floyd & Co.

Silveira, Guilherme A. da Watchinaker, 4, Chancery Lane

Simons, Frederick

Simpson, J. B. Smedley, John

Smith, Andrew

Smith, Alexander F.

Smith, Edward Carey Smith, Elliot Robin Smith, F. F.

Assistant, Dent & Co.

Clerk, A. Heard & Co.

Assistant, A. Heard & Co.

Broker, Castle Road

Smith, Henry

Merchant, P. & D. N. Camajee & Co. Special Juror.

Smith, J. B.

Merchant, Ghandy & Co.

Smith, John

Accountant, Comptoir d'Escompte

Smith, John

Assistant, at Mr. Falconer's

Smith, Peter

Plaisted, Walter Wilkes

Assistant, Birley & Co.

Cashier, Comptoir d'Escompte

Assistant, John Burd & Co.

Assistant, Bosman & Co.

Poirier, Jules

Poulsen, Martin

Poulsen, William

Powys, Edward

Pringle, David

Prior, Lawford

Punchard, William

Pyke,

Thomas

Raedecker, Richard H. Rapp, Fritz

Ray, Joseph Johnson Rayral, Gustave Rayner, George

Reed, Charles Robert Reimann, P.

Reimers, Edward Reka, A.

Kelph, Henry Remedios, Alexandre

Antonio Remedios, Demetrio

Antonio

Remedios, F. A.

Remedios, Geraldo dos

Assistant, Sayle & Co.

Engineer, P. & O. S. N. Co.

Assistant, Oriental Bank Corp.

Master Mariner, 2, Shelley Street Merchant, Birley & Co.

Merchant, 15, Staunton Street Assistant, Blackhead & Co. Storekeeper, Queen's Road Merchant, 18, Stanley Street Boarding House Keeper, 194,

[Queen's Road Central Assistant, Bowra & Co. Clerk, Lammert, Atkinson & Co. Assistant, A. Heard & Co. Clerk, Kirchner, B?ger & Co. Assistant, Lane, Crawford & Co.

Assistant, J. J. dos Remedios & Co.

Assistant, J. J. dos Remedios & Co. Clerk, 6, Arbuthnot Road Clerk. Jardine, Matheson & Co.-

Remedios,Jos? Antonio dos Merchant, Remedios & Co.

Reynaud, J.

Reynvaan, William

Riach, John

Rickett, John

Riddle, Walter Scott

Ripke, C.

Ristah?,

Rivington, Charles

Robertson, W. R.

Mercantile Assistant, 4, Queen's

[Road Central

Merchant, 2, Gage Street

Shipwright, West Point Assistant, P. & O. S. ?. Co.

Assistant, H'kong & Shanghae Bank] Assistant, E. Schellhass & Co.

Accountant, Comptoir d'Escompte

Merchant, Stanley Street

Clerk, Bull, Purdon & Co.

Rocha, Vicente Ferreira da Clerk, Sassoon, Sons & Co.

Roche, John

Rodatz, Gothfried Carl

Frederick

Rogerson, W.

Rogerson, Thomas

Rohl, Edward

Roper, Henry

Rose, John Falconer

Rose, Thomas

Rosenthal, A. A.

Rosenthal, William S. Rowland, J. Rowett, Richard Roza, Antonio Braz da Roza, Luiz d'Araujo Rozario, Marcos Calisto do Ruttonjee, Dhunjeebhoy

Innkeeper, 262, Queen's R'd Central

Shipchandler, Scott's Lane Assistant, Lane, Crawford & Co. Clerk, Bowra & Co.

Assistant, Russell & Co.

Moulder, P. & O. S. N. Co.

Storekeeper, MacEwen & Co.

Boilermaker, P. & O. S. N. Co.

Assistant, Blum, Brothers

Merchant, Blum, Brothers

Shipwright, 25, Queen's R'd West

Smith, Thomas J. Solomon, E. A.

Souza, Felippe Antonio Souza, Marcellino de Speechley, Samuel Spatt, William Bolton Spring, C. A.

Special Juror. Sprowle, Andrew

Merchant, Holliday, Wise & Co. Special Juror. Clerk, Birley & Co.

Clerk, Oriental Bank Corporation Merchant, 8, Stanley Street Merchant, Lyndhurst Terrace

Hotel-k'per, 34, Queen's Rd. C'tral

Plumber, at Andrew Millar's

Architect, Storey & Co.

Assistant, at Mr. Falconer's

Storekeeper, MacEwen & Co.

Merchant, Turner & Co.

Assistant, Hongkong & S'hae Bank Assistant, Sayle & Co.

Accountant, H'kong & S'hae Bank

Assistant, Olyphant & Co.

Storekeeper, MacEwen & Co.

Barkeeper, 248, Queen's Rd. C'tral

Boarding Housekeeper, 282,

[Queen's Road Central

Clerk, P. & O. S. N. Co.

Assistant, Sassoon, Sons & Co.

de Commn. Agent, 12, Gilman's Bazar

Srelling, George W. Stanford, Benjamin Starkey, Reginald Digby Sterrey, William Jex Stevens, E. W.

Stevenson, Robert

Stewart, H. K.

Storey, Charles, Jr.

Studd, Johu Sueil, Robert Swan, William

Tavares, Jos? F.

Taylor, James Banks Terry, John W. Thomas, L. P. Thomson, Gavin Thompson, George Thomson, J. Thompson, J. Thorburn, J. Tillinghast, Thomas

Desilver Tornoe, H. Turner, Alfred Lawrence

Uabehagen, Heinrich Andreas Wilhelm Urquhart, J.

Vaucher, Albert Emile

Verril, Edward

Clerk, 3, Mosque Street

Engineer, 4, Praya East

Carpenter, Thomas Hunt & Co. Assistant, Sayle & Co.

Plumber, P. & O. S. N. Co.

Innkeeper, 132, Queen's Rd. C'tral Shipwright, at J. S. MacDonald's

Assistant, North China Insurance Draper, Sayle & Co.

Assistant, Russell & Co.

[Co.

Submanager, H'kong &. S'hae Bank

Assistant, Siemssen & Co.

Architect, Storey & Co.

Architect, Rawling, Medlen & Co.

Storekeeper, 264, Queen's Rd. West Boilermaker, 69, Praya West

Assistant, Messageries Imperiales Merchant, Smith, Archer & Co. Assistant, Russell & Co. Assistant, A. Heard & Co.

Assistant, Gibb, Livingston & Co.

Innkeeper, 190, Queen's Rd. C'tral] Assistant, at Mr. Falconer's Clerk, at Andrew Millar's Assistant, Mercantile Bank

Storekeeper, DeSilver & Co. Assistant, Siemssen & Co. Assistant, Commercial Bank

Assistant, E. Schellhass & Co. Assistant, at Mr. Falconer's

Merchant, Vaucher & Co.

Clerk, 22, Wyndham Street

Special Juror.

Vickers, James Muschamp Assistant, Gibb, Livingston & Co. Special Juror. Vinton, William

Clerk, P. & O. S. N. Co.

Volkmann, Christian Louis Boarding House Keeper, 29,

[Hollywood Road

Von Bergen, Ernest Wm. Merchant, Deetjen & von Bergen

Wagner, Christian Walker, Robert Special Juror. Wallace, Thomas

Feacher of Music, Hollywood Road Broker, Gough Street

Assistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co,

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

NAME.

OCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.

SPECIAL JUROR.

　　　　Ward, Lawrence Pearson Waters, Thomas Rankin Weeks, Charles David Weller, George F. Welsh, David

Werlich, R.

Wheeley, Edward

Whitehouse, George Wieler, G.

Wilkie, James

Willaume, Nicholas

Williams, Charles Delano Wilson, William Wolfenden, Richard Wood, E. W.

Woodford, James Daniel Woodin, Edw. Littlefield Wye Akwong

Clerk, Thomas Hunt & Co. Assistant, Chartered Bank Assistant, P. & O. S. N. Co. Merchant, A. Heard & Co. Merchant, 4, Pedder's Hill Assistant, Siemssen & Co. Assistant, Dent & Co.

Clerk, Lammert, Atkinson & Co. Assistant, Bourjau, H?bener & Co. Clerk, P. & O. S. N. Co.

Assistant, Comptoir d'Escompte

Merchant, 6, Albany Road Engineer, P. & O. ?. N. Co. Engineer, P. & O. S. N. Co. Secretary, Chamber of Commerce Assistant, H'kong & S'hae Bank Assistant, P. & O. S. N. Co. Compradore, Mercantile Bank

NAME.

OCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.

SPECIAL JUROR.

Wong-a-Shing

Printer, London Mission House

Special Juror.

Xavier, F. D. M. Xavier, J. Xavier, Jo?o Purifica??o Xavier, V. F.

Clerk, Chartered Bank Clerk, Vincent & Cairns Clerk, Chartered Bank Clerk, Blum, Brothers

Young, G. F. Young, James

Assistant, P. & O. S. N. Co. Engineer, P. & O. S. N. Co.

Zachariae, O. Zimmern, Adolph

Cigar Dealer, Bielfield & Zachariae Merchant, Reiss & Co.

Special Juror.

M. S. TONNOCHY, Sheriff.

Revised and amended, and the Special Jurors designated by His Excellency The Governor and the Legislative Council, this 21st Day of February, 1868.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

No. 23.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Under Instructions from His Grace The Secretary of State for the Colonies, His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL is pleased to recognize provisionally M. BOSMAN, Esquire, as Netherlands Consul at this Colony, vice Mr. W. C. VAN OORDT resigned.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd February, 1868.

No. 24.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Sealed Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon on the 9th proximo for the erection of a New Police Station at Wanchai.

　　　　Plans and Specification may be seen at the Surveyor General's Office, where also a proper Form of Tender may be obtained.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd February, 1868.

No. 25.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

　　　　The Colonial Surgeon's Report, with Returns on the Sanitary Condition of the Colony for the Year 1867, is published for general information.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd February, 1868.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 15th February, 1868. My Ninth Annual Report, which records the Sanitary condition of the Colony during the Year 1867, bears witness to the steady progress which Hongkong has made during the past ten years. I had proposed to embody on this occasion a historical r?sum? of the health of the Colony from its first foundation, pointing out as far as possible to what causes might be referred the sickness to which Hongkong was at one time peculiarly liable, and recording the important prophylactic measures taken from time to time by this Government, which have tended in no small degree to bring about the remarkable improvement now experienced. Unfortunately I found that so little attention had been given to recording the statistics of life in the Colony, previous to the last ten years, that no amount of labor would enable me to prepare such a Report as I should desire, or one the accuracy even of which could be depended upon. I have therefore been compelled to limit myself to the prepara- tion of certain tables, to which I shall more fully refer hereafter. But every year I have greater reason to regret that no system exists for the effectual Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages. In regard to the Deaths of Europeans this want is more important than at first sight appears, and I think might very readily be obviated by forbidding interments without the production of a proper Medical Certificate of the cause of death, and the duration of the disease &c., somewhat in the form drawn up under the directions of the Registrar General of England and Wales, see Table XXI. These Certificates, handed over to the Colonial Surgeon, would enable him to compile a really valuable and instructive Report, and would cost the Government nothing beyond the paper and printing.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

NAME.

OCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.

SPECIAL JUROR.

　　　　Ward, Lawrence Pearson Waters, Thomas Rankin Weeks, Charles David Weller, George F. Welsh, David

Werlich, R.

Wheeley, Edward

Whitehouse, George Wieler, G.

Wilkie, James

Willaume, Nicholas

Williams, Charles Delano Wilson, William Wolfenden, Richard Wood, E. W.

Woodford, James Daniel Woodin, Edw. Littlefield Wye Akwong

Clerk, Thomas Hunt & Co. Assistant, Chartered Bank Assistant, P. & O. S. N. Co. Merchant, A. Heard & Co. Merchant, 4, Pedder's Hill Assistant, Siemssen & Co. Assistant, Dent & Co.

Clerk, Lammert, Atkinson & Co. Assistant, Bourjau, H?bener & Co. Clerk, P. & O. S. N. Co.

Assistant, Comptoir d'Escompte

Merchant, 6, Albany Road Engineer, P. & O. ?. N. Co. Engineer, P. & O. S. N. Co. Secretary, Chamber of Commerce Assistant, H'kong & S'hae Bank Assistant, P. & O. S. N. Co. Compradore, Mercantile Bank

NAME.

OCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.

SPECIAL JUROR.

Wong-a-Shing

Printer, London Mission House

Special Juror.

Xavier, F. D. M. Xavier, J. Xavier, Jo?o Purifica??o Xavier, V. F.

Clerk, Chartered Bank Clerk, Vincent & Cairns Clerk, Chartered Bank Clerk, Blum, Brothers

Young, G. F. Young, James

Assistant, P. & O. S. N. Co. Engineer, P. & O. S. N. Co.

Zachariae, O. Zimmern, Adolph

Cigar Dealer, Bielfield & Zachariae Merchant, Reiss & Co.

Special Juror.

M. S. TONNOCHY, Sheriff.

Revised and amended, and the Special Jurors designated by His Excellency The Governor and the Legislative Council, this 21st Day of February, 1868.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

No. 23.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd February, 1868.

No. 24.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Sealed Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon on the 9th proximo for the erection of a New Police Station at Wanchai.

　　　　Plans and Specification may be seen at the Surveyor General's Office, where also a proper Form of Tender may be obtained.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd February, 1868.

No. 25.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

　　　　The Colonial Surgeon's Report, with Returns on the Sanitary Condition of the Colony for the Year 1867, is published for general information.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd February, 1868.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

NAME.

OCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.

SPECIAL JUROR.

　　　　Ward, Lawrence Pearson Waters, Thomas Rankin Weeks, Charles David Weller, George F. Welsh, David

Werlich, R.

Wheeley, Edward

Whitehouse, George Wieler, G.

Wilkie, James

Willaume, Nicholas

Williams, Charles Delano Wilson, William Wolfenden, Richard Wood, E. W.

Woodford, James Daniel Woodin, Edw. Littlefield Wye Akwong

Clerk, Thomas Hunt & Co. Assistant, Chartered Bank Assistant, P. & O. S. N. Co. Merchant, A. Heard & Co. Merchant, 4, Pedder's Hill Assistant, Siemssen & Co. Assistant, Dent & Co.

Clerk, Lammert, Atkinson & Co. Assistant, Bourjau, H?bener & Co. Clerk, P. & O. S. N. Co.

Assistant, Comptoir d'Escompte

Merchant, 6, Albany Road Engineer, P. & O. ?. N. Co. Engineer, P. & O. S. N. Co. Secretary, Chamber of Commerce Assistant, H'kong & S'hae Bank Assistant, P. & O. S. N. Co. Compradore, Mercantile Bank

NAME.

OCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.

SPECIAL JUROR.

Wong-a-Shing

Printer, London Mission House

Special Juror.

Xavier, F. D. M. Xavier, J. Xavier, Jo?o Purifica??o Xavier, V. F.

Clerk, Chartered Bank Clerk, Vincent & Cairns Clerk, Chartered Bank Clerk, Blum, Brothers

Young, G. F. Young, James

Assistant, P. & O. S. N. Co. Engineer, P. & O. S. N. Co.

Zachariae, O. Zimmern, Adolph

Cigar Dealer, Bielfield & Zachariae Merchant, Reiss & Co.

Special Juror.

M. S. TONNOCHY, Sheriff.

Revised and amended, and the Special Jurors designated by His Excellency The Governor and the Legislative Council, this 21st Day of February, 1868.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

No. 23.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd February, 1868.

No. 24.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Sealed Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon on the 9th proximo for the erection of a New Police Station at Wanchai.

　　　　Plans and Specification may be seen at the Surveyor General's Office, where also a proper Form of Tender may be obtained.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd February, 1868.

No. 25.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

　　　　The Colonial Surgeon's Report, with Returns on the Sanitary Condition of the Colony for the Year 1867, is published for general information.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd February, 1868.

the hongkong government gAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

　　　The Year 1866 I described in my last Report as "the mildest and most healthy year the Colony has passed through for a very long period" and it is with peculiar satisfaction that I find myself able to state that 1867 has surpassed its predecessor in salubrity nearly as much as 1866 had exceeded 1865. Indeed it is very gratifying to examine Table XI and find the death of only 56 Residents recorded, giving the low ratio of Mortality of 2.60 per cent, or little more than half of the average rate of the last ten years, or than one third of the average rate recorded since 1845 as seen in Table XIV.

The epidemic of Yellow Fever which occurred during the years 1865 and 1866, and which proved so fatal in Gaol, in Hospital, and among the poor of the town, was all but unknown in 1867; only one doubtful case having been recorded as occurring in Victoria Gaol, while not a single case of this disease was admitted into the Government Civil Hospital.

It is only justice to the memory of my predecessor in office, Mr. Morrison, to state that in his Annual Report for 1847 he drew attention to the resemblance which some cases of Hongkong Remittent Fever presented to the Yellow Fever of the West Indies, as I also did in my Report for 1863. He appears however not to have extended his researches in this direction, and no such epidemics as recorded in my last two Reports seem to have come under his observation.

　　　Small Pox, which may be said to be endemic to Hongkong in the cold weather, was first seen in the Civil Hospital on the 13th January, the last case admitted being received from a vessel of war on the 5th June. In February Her Majesty's Ship Princess Royal arrived from Japan with Small Pox on board-56 cases were disembarked into the Convict Gaol at Stone Cutter's Island, which was placed at the disposal of the Naval Authorities by the Colonial Government, into a Gunboat fitted up as a Hospital, and into the Seamen's Hospital-of the whole number 4 died. Up to the present date no case has been admitted this winter into the Civil Hospital, although I understand several have been received into the Seamen's Hospital. This disease raged among the Chinese population at Kowloon during the months of March and April, where it was said to have proved very fatal, while there were comparatively few cases in Victoria; but in the following month it attacked the Portuguese residing in the less healthy parts of the town-such as the neighbourhood of Bridges Street-and there it com- mitted considerable havoc.

It appears to me that there exist unhappy facilities for the propagation of this and other infectious diseases in this Colony, and, having reference to the action taken by the Lords of the Privy Council under authority of the "Diseases Preven- tion Act, 1855," I believe that great benefit would arise to the Community if Medical Practitioners were obliged to report the occurrence of all cases of infectious disease to the Colonial Surgeon, or such other Health Officer as might be appointed, with whom the power should rest-either independently, or in conjunction with a Board of Health to order such case into Hospital, or to take such steps as might be deemed advisable for the isolation of the infected persons, and, at the same time, have the premises in which the disease occurred thoroughly disinfected-I have so frequently seen Small Pox recurrent year by year in the same locality that I believe some such course as I have just recommended to be essential to the well-being of the Colony.

　　As bearing upon this subject the question of compulsory Vaccination demands attention. It is very evident that, as long as the population of this Colony is as migratory as at present, and while Vaccination is so little known on the mainland, no system for compelling the adoption of this precaution could be enforced, but it is not the less possible to encourage it, to a great extent, by the establishment of Public Vaccinators, who should be paid for their succesful cases only, and by insisting on all persons in Government employ undergoing the trifling operation. By such means something might be done to lessen the number of the valuable lives that succumb to the fearful scourge of Small Pox.

The next subject deserving of notice is the action taken under the "Order and Cleanliness Ordinance," of 1867, by which the liquors sold by the Tavern keepers were submitted to rigid analysis. The character of the liquors was found to be less noxious than had been feared, but a good effect was derived from warning the dealers of the penalty they incurred, and it is probable that the exhibitions of frantic madness produced by the adulterated spirits formerly supplied by unscrupulous dealers will soon become only matter of past record.*

The diseases most prevalent and the most dangerous to life in Hongkong, are undoubtedly Fever-usually of the Remittent type, of which happily there have occurred but few cases last year-Dysentery, Diarrhoea, and diseases of the bowels. Acute Dysentery however is in some cases not sufficiently distinguished from a form of acute inflammation of the rectum, and the correct treatment by large doses of ipecacuan, which proves so successful in the former disease, affords no relief in the latter. It is not always easy to distinguish between the two diseases in the acute stage, and still more difficult when the case assumes the Chronic form.?

The Chinese are remarkable for the peculiarly friable nature of their spleen, so rendering that organ extremely liable to rupture upon the application of slight violence--so very slight indeed, as to leave no external trace on the body. On several occasions I have had to describe in a Court of Justice the condition of this organ as presenting the appearance of a rotten apple or gourd, which had been squashed by a blow. A somewhat singular instance of this peculiar affection was seen in the case of an European Seamen, a notorious drunkard, who got into a disturbance at the Sailor's Home, and whose spleen was ruptured in the struggle to eject him. The Constable had to stand his trial for manslaughter, but was acquitted as there was no evidence that the man had even been struck in the region of the spleen.

On the 7th and 8th September, and again on the 30th September and 1st October, the island was visited by typhoons which did great damage to the shipping in harbor and the buildings in the Town-but still greater damage to the health giving trees which are so highly cherished, and can be but badly spared. Any one knowing how much the great improve- ment in the state of Health of Hongkong is, at least coincident with the planting and growth of the trees that now adorn it, must have grieved at the havoc a few hours effected, and which years will not repair-what may be the resulting loss of salubrity sustained is not easily estimated.

I shall now proceed to make a few remarks on the condition of the various Institutions of which it is my duty to take cognizance in my Annual Report.

I. THE POLICE.

Numerically this Force is not much above what it was last year-but both the European and Indian element have in- creased at the expense of the Chinese. The death rate is therefore somewhat in excess of what it was in 1866, but still the average is under that of the ordinary residents. The rate of sickness is much lower than it was last year. Considering the nature of the duties to be performed, and the manner in which the men are liable to be exposed to night air and other morbific influences, and the fact that one third of the entire mortality is due to consumption, I consider the result very favorable. The Sikh element, while it has improved the general appearance and bearing of the Force, has not added to its health. It is dif ficult to assign a correct reason for the result, but the fact remains indisputable, that men under military discipline are unhealthy in proportion as they diverge from the character of the true civilian.

* The unlicensed Chinese retailers of Samshu will however still require the utmost vigilance on the part of the Police.

It may, however, be fairly diagnosed as the local affection, if, without other premonitory symptom, an acute pain referred to the rectum suddenly attacks the patient, and usually at night, a desire to empty the bowel being followed by violent spasms, producing excruciating pain and burning, even in some cases causing syncope, and followed either by a copious discharge of blood, or of a mucous fluid-and all these symptoms without the previous existence of h?morrhoids, or other local cause of irritation. At first it is almost impossible to relieve the suffering, owing to the spasmodic action of the sphincter, but a sitz bath as hot as the patient can submit to soon allows of the use of warm enemata, which, in the few cases I have seen, have acted beneficially-and by rest, and maintenance of the heat for a sufficient length of time, the disease has been arrested-but where the case becomes chronic and a greater number of such instances have come under my notice than of acute inflammation,I have found the electuary of sulphur, internally, with injections of acetate of lead and opium, or Gallic Acid suppositories, the most successful treatment. It is not easy to assign a cause for the disease. but it is of the utmost importance to distinguish it when met with.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

Table I-Shews the number of admissions into, and deaths in, the Hospital, of Members of the Police Force, during every month of 1867.

　　　　　　　　　　　　It will be seen that the greatest number of admissions took place in June and October. The latter month is always the most unhealthy, but September usually ranks next to it. It would appear that men are able to go through the extreme heat of summer but break down with the change of the monsoon.

Table II Shews the rate per cent of Sickness and Mortality of the Force during the same year.

Table III-Kindly furnished to me by Dr. Heffernan, Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals, and Principal Military Medical Officer, gives a comparative return of the Health of the Troops serving in Hongkong, from which it will be seen that a further improvement in this respect has taken place among the Military last year, the rate of sickness being less than two thirds, and the rate of death sensibly lowered. The present Return is more interesting than usual, as the numbers refer to a body of men scarcely double that of the Police Force.

Table XV-Shews the rate per cent of Sickness and Mortality in the Police Force, from the year 1845 to 1867, with the exception of the four years from 1854 to 1857, of which there are no sufficient data. By this table the singular result is shewn that in 1848, when the lowest rate of sickness was attained, the highest rate of Mortality was indicated, a rate seven times what it was last year-but, as nineteen of the deaths are accounted for by the typhoon of that year, the rate is reduced to 3.80 per cent or less than double that of 1867.

Table XVI--Shews the number of cases of Infectious disease occurring among the Police during the last seven years, with a classification of the special nature of the disease--an examination of this table reveals the important fact that a steady im- provement in this respect has been going on in this body of men, that in the year 1867 the rate of sickness to the whole strength was only 14.13 per cent, against 31.00 per cent in 1862-and that the diminution of disease has taken plaec especially under the head of Chancre and Bubo, the two most dangerous forms for the general health of the Force.

II. THE GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL.

　　　　Deficient as this Institution is in every essential for the effectual treatment of disease, it is with peculiar pleasure that I am able to point to the last year's results, which are mainly attributable to the zeal and fidelity with which Dr. Cochran, the Superintendent, performs his arduous duties. It is not creditable to a Colony which was only lately considered one of the wealthiest of its size, that it possesses no Colonial Government Hospital worthy of the name, and that the only provision for the treatment of the sick is a mere make shift of an altered dwelling, without even the means of supplying hot baths at a moment's notice, and to which it is impossible to adapt any of the modern therapeutic improvements. This state of matters will not, I believe, be of long duration, as His Excellency the Governor, appreciating the necessity of supplying the proper means for successful treatment, has, I understand, already taken preliminary steps to prevent the Government Civil Hospital continuing to be pointed at by visitors as the one public Institution which is unworthy of inspection. Nor is it fair to the Police, in whose interest the Hospital was originally established, to transfer them for treatment of disease to Worse quarters than are afforded by their own new barracks.

　　　　It is gratifying to refer to Table IX, which presents a summary of the result of treatment in the Government Civil Hospital from the year 1849 to 1867, both inclusive, with the exception of an interval of five years between 1852 and 1858, of which there appears to be no records. Nor are there any previous to the year 1819. By this table it may be seen that out of 9,516 cases, treated in 14 years, 910 died, thus giving an average Mortality of 9.57 per cent and that the average of 1867, viz. 7.56 per cent-has been lower than any year recorded since 1862, and only exceeds the three years 1860-61 and 62,

　　　　On reference to Table V, which gives the rate of Mortality during the last nine years, distinguishing that in the case of Europeans from Colored Persons and Chinese, it will be seen that in no year registered has the rate been so low among Europeans as during the past one, when it only reached 4.70 per cent of the cases admitted, the year which approached it nearest in point of success being 1862. A result almost as satisfactory is recorded in reference to Chinese.

　　　　Table IV-which gives the number of admissions into and the Mortality in this Hospital during the year 1867, explains to some extent the improvement. Among the Europeans the admissions for Remittent Fever have not been half as numerous as in 1866, and only one death is noted from this disease. Typhoid Fever has not been seen at all, whereas in 1866 two deaths were attributed to this cause. No case of Delirium Tremens has proved fatal among the Europeans admitted: in 1866 no less than 4 died. Apoplexy leaves an equal blank this year-of Disease of the Heart only one case terminated fatally, against 4 in 1866. On the other hand Small Pox, Phthisis and Hepatitis have been treated with less success in 1867 than in the preceding year.

　　　　Among the Chinese patients the great improvement may be mainly attributed to the milder form of Diarrhoea and Dysentery, to the total absence of Yellow Fever, of which no less than 30 cases proved fatal in 1866, and to the smaller number of Phthisical patients admitted. Under the head of Starvation it is melancholy to find an equal number of patients dying as in 1866, viz.: 17.

　　　　The increased Mortality among the colored people admitted may be said to be entirely owing to the reception of an unusual number of cases of Phthisis, of which no less than three of the fatal cases were from the Indian Police, or equal to one fourth of the entire Mortality of the Force.

　　　　Table VI-Kindly sent me by the Resident Surgeon, Dr. Adams, gives information in reference to the Seamen's Hospital. The admissions appear to have slightly exceeded those of 1866, as 324 to 313, the number of deaths being exactly the same in both years, viz. 29, and the death rate consequently somewhat lower as 8.95 per cent against 9.26 per cent in 1866. In this Return no distinction is drawn between Europeans, Colored persons, and Chinese-but as I am led to believe that almost the whole of the patients belong to the two former nationalities it would appear that the death rate has been nearly double what it has been in the Government Civil Hospital for Europeans and Colored persons, and even greater than that of the three classes together.

　　　　During the past year several chronic cases were received into the Government Civil, from the Seamen's Hospital-cases which could only terminate in one manner-it is to be regretted that such cases should be transferred at all. One was that of a man suffering from chronic Dysentery, who had contracted Small Pox before his reception into the Government Civil Hospital, as the latter disease made its appearance within five days of his admission-and he died of it.

　　　　Although I do not propose entering on the subject of treatment of disease in general, the successful use of small doses of the Chlorate of Potash, in the treatment of Secondary Syphilitic affections, deserves to be recorded among the events of the year.

　　　　During 1867 the Harbor Master sent home 11 invalids from Hospital, and the Italian Consul 2 suffering from Phthisis. This is the greatest number ever sent from the Government Civil Hospital, and, as much has been said on the subject, I cannot omit to point out the absolute necessity there exists for the Harbor Master retaining this power. I would even go farther, and, in the interests of humanity, urge the desirability of the power being extended to a greater degree. There can be no doubt that many valuable lives might be saved if the system of invaliding adopted in the Army and Navy extended to the Merchant service. At present invalids have to wait so long before a suitable vessel can be found to afford them a passage, that the chance of effecting good is often past, but that they should have the chance, although it may be a small one, of preserving their lives is not to be denied, even although the Masters or the Surgeons of the Vessels compelled to afford them a passage complain of the trouble or annoyance. Vessels carrying such invalids should be required to supply a proper sick- berth, and afford kind and careful Hospital treatment-but, to carry out such a system it would be necessary for the Home Government to legislate, in the interest of the shipowner and sanction an indemnification to him which would, however, prove, in the long run profitable to the country.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

　　　Table XVII-Shews the number of dead bodies brought to the Government Civil Hospital for examination, with the cause of death in all cases where it could be ascertained. It will be observed that 12 are entered under the head of suffocation, caused by the numerous landslips which took place last year, 14 under the head of drowning, the result, to a great extent, of the two typhoons by which the Colony was visited.

III. THE GAOL.

　　　Table VII Shews the number of admissions into the Gaol Hospital, and deaths there, during the year 1867, with the average number of admissions and deaths during the past 10 years, as a means of comparison.

　　　Table VIII-Shews the rate of sickness and mortality in the Gaol Hospital, as compared with the total number of prisoners, and with the number treated, during the year 1867.

The numbers imprisoned in Victoria Gaol, during the past year, were:

Europeans Indians

Chinese

Total

665

114

4,128

.4,907

10 09

The daily average was 42718 of which number 14 died. In 1866 the total number of prisoners was 5,461: the daily average 5842, and the deaths 70. In 1866 the greatest number any one day in Gaol was on the 13th November,

when there were:

Europeans Indians Chinese

24 .707

Total,.

....816

The smallest number were imprisoned on the 10th March, when there were:

Europeans Indians Chinese

Total,...

.392

.475

　　　During the past year these extreme numbers have diminished in the same manner as the average. number confined on any one day in 1867 was on the 14th January, when there were:

Europeans Indians Chinese

632

Total,......730

The smallest number in Gaol during the same year was on the 20th May, when there were:

Europeans Indians Chinese

....

343

Total,......430

Thus the greatest

　　　The means described in my last year's Report as having been adopted to check the number of cases of Ulcer have proved so efficient that only 13 admissions to Hospital under this head are recorded in 1867, against 281 in 1866, of these 13 ad- missions in 1867, two terminated fatally; in 1866 there were 16 deaths from Ulcer. It is however necessary to keep the strictest watch upon the prisoners to prevent them from injuring themselves, with the object of escaping from the now really heavy work in the chain gangs, and which they occasionally succeed in accomplishing, even in spite of the greatest care taken of them, and the important improvement in the formation and finish of the irons lately imported from England.

　　　Remittent Fever has proved the source of the greatest Mortality, there were 45 admissions to Hospital, and 4 deaths, among the Chinese from this cause.

　　　The deterrent effect of the public flogging which was at one time of monthly occurrence has been shewn by the fact that it has not been necessary to go through this ceremony for the last six months.

　　　Table XVIII-Shews the rate of sickness and Mortality in Victoria Gaol from the year 1845 to the year 1867, with the exception of the four years from 1854 to 1857, both inclusive, of which no records appear to have been kept. By this table it will be seen that the past year has shewn the smallest Mortality, in reference to the total number of prisoners, in any but the two years 1859 and 1860.

　　　The building is, as usual, a model of cleanliness and good order. Under the management of the present able Superinten- dent many improvements have been made during the last twelve months, and that principally with the convict labor. The Hall and Yards have been relaid with beautifully smooth granite, neatly cemented, which does not retain the dirt and moisture in the same manner as the roughly hewn stone pavement formerly employed. Sheds have either been built, or are in course of erection, round three sides of the open yards, which will prove of great benefit in protecting the prisoners in those yards, either for purposes of exercise or labor, from the effects of sun and rain. Open ironwork gates have been placed at the end of each passage, so as to permit of better classification, and greater safety of the prisoners. A similar arrangement replaces the old wooden doors of the cells, and, v. hen completed, will nearly double the cubic space of air allotted to each prisoner, beides insuring a better watch over his movements, and, lastly, gas is being introduced throughout the establishment, which, while it adds to the cleanliness and security of the Gaol, materially assists the care and attention to the sick.

IV. THE LOCK HOSPITAL,

　　　It is my intention to devote a much larger portion than usual of my Report to this institution, and the working of the present Ordinance for the check of infectious disease. That Ordinance has been on trial for nearly ten years, and has done singular service, and it is only justice to it's framers to record it's working, before the more perfected legislation of last year becomes the law of the Colony. This is rendered the mere incumbent on me in consequence of the apparent ignorance of those even who should be better acquainted with its details, as was shewn in the evidence given before the committee appointed to enquire into the means of reducing Venereal Disease in the Army and Navy, the port of which was erly published last year. The ignorance therein displayed by Medical Officers who had served in China is most remarkable, eg. one gentleman expresses it as his opinion that the Prostitutes in Chia are dirtier than in England, whereas the reverse is notoriously the

the hongkong GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

case. Another Medical Officer, who, in 1863, more than endorsed the undermentioned opinions, is doubtful about the success of the Hongkong system when he comes to be examined before the committee.* In opposition to the evidence obtained by the committee I shall now record a few deliberate expressions of opinion on the part of officers fully qualified to express them- selves on the subject.

Deputy Inspector General Dr. Home, formerly Principal Military Medical Officer here, and who had experience of the Colony before the introduction of the Ordinance, as well as after, writes to me in February, 1863: "on behalf of the Army "Medical Officers stationed here, I have pleasure in expressing to you the great advantage we have derived from the excellent sanitary arrangements in force in regard to Prostitution. Venereal disease, from being but a few years ago one of the most common causes of unfitness for duty here, has now become of comparatively rare occurrence."

((

　　　　The evidence of Dr. Bernard, Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals and Fleets, conveyed to me in a letter dated 27th January last, is even more satisfactory: he writes. "I am enabled to say that true Syphilis is now rarely contracted by our "men in Hongkong."

　　　　Table XI-Is an approximative estimate of the Mortality among Foreign Residents in Hongkong during the last ten years. The data from which it is compiled are furnished to me, so far as the number of Residents is concerned, by the Registrar General, and by the Sextons of the two cemeteries, so far as the deaths are concerned. This table does not embrace Soldiers, Sailors, whether employed in the Navy or the Merchant Service, or those who have been buried from the Hospitals. Table XIV, already referred to at the commencement of this Report, gives similar information, as far as it could be collected, from the year 1845 to the present date, by which it will appear that 1862 alone stood higher in the scale of salubrity than 1867. It must not, however, be forgotten, in drawing up statistical tables of the Health of this Colony, that the character of the population is by no means analogous to that of England, that there are comparatively few females and children among the Resident Foreigners, the two combined not equalling in number the adult males, that paupers are not numerous, and that, for the most part those suffering from chronic sickness are sent away from the Island, still I believe that after making every allowance, the result will compare favorably with that of any other settlement of similar extent situated on the verge of the Tropics.

Table XII-Gives the usual information regarding the work performed by the Inspectors of Nuisances attached to this Department.

Table XIII-Shews the annual mean state of the atmosphere during the year 1867, as recorded at the Government Civil Hospital.

J. I. MURRAY, M.D., Colonial Surgeon.

* And as if ignorance was courted, I find it stated in the Report of the Health of the Royal Navy for 1863, in reference to Hongkong:- "the Sanitary regulations that were for some years enforced with good effect have lately been greatly neglected, and are now, I believe, scarcely "attended to in any particular."!!!

1.-POLICE.

TABLE shewing the ADMISSIONS into HOSPITAL and DEATHS during the Year 1867.

EUROPEANS.

COLORED.

CHINESE.

TOTAL TOTAL

MONTHS.

Admissions. Deaths. Admissions. Deaths. Admissions. Deaths. Admissions.

Deaths.

January,

February,

March,

April,

May,

June,

July,

August,

September,

October,

November,

December,.

IBNB COCO ? CLOTH

Total,...

164

255

333

452

2.-TABLE shewing the RATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY in the POLICE FORCE during the Year 1867.

AVERAGE STRENGTH.

Europeans.

Colored.

352

TOTAL SICK.

TOTAL DEATHS.

Chinese.

Total.

RATE OF SICKNESS.

RATE OF MORTALITY.

130

566

452

79.85 per cent.

2.12

per cent.

3.—TABLE shewing the RATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY of the TROOPS serving in HONGKONG, during the Year 1867.

STRENGTH.

ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL.

DEATHS.

RATE OF SICKNESS.

RATE OF MORTALITY.

White. Black. Total.

White. Black.

Total.

785

335 1,120

1,049 651 1,700

151.785 per cent.

3.303 per cent.

Yellow Fever,

Frimary Syphilis,

Bubo,

...

Gonorrhoea,

Secondary Syphilis,

? ?

Sloughing Phagaedena of Penis

Diphtheritis,

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

DISEASES.

4.-TABLE shewing the Number of ADMISSIONS and the MORTALITY in the GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL during the Year 1867 as compared with the Average of the last 10 Years.

Europeans.

Colored Persons.

ADMISSIONS.

Chinese.

Total.

1867.

Europeans.

Colored Persons.

Average of

DEATHS.

10 Years.

Chinese.

Small Pox,

9 15

Varioloid,

Measles,

Chicken Pox,

Diarrhoea,

Choleraic,

Dysentery,

Cholera,

Intermittent Fever,

169

Remittent Fever,

-2.

127

Continued Fever, .

Typhoid Fever,.

Rheumatic Fever,

Brain Fever,.

30 32

50 27

Berri Berri,

Croup,

Dropsy,

Abscess,

of Lung,..

Ulcer,

Phagaedenic Ulcer,

Fungoid Disease,

Fistula in Ano,.

in Perineo,

Scorbutus,..

Gout,.

Serofula,

Phthisis,

Paralysis,

Q2 H

Delirium Tremens,

Hydrophobia,

Insanity,

Epilepsy,

Sun Stroke,

Apoplexy and Concussion of Brain,

Compression of Brain,

Vertigo,

Spinal Disease,

Aneurism,

Gangrene of Lung,

Disease of Heart,.

Tonsillitis,

Catarrh,

Bronchitis,

Pneumonia and Pleuro Pneumonia,

Pleurodynia,

Pleuritis,

Asthma,

Dyspepsia,

Ascites,

Colic,..

Constipation,

Hepatitis and Abscess of Liver,

Jaundice,

Splenitis,

QQ QIQI

Condylomata,

Prolapsus Ani,

Carried forward,

363

228

688

2112

Total.

Admissions.

Deaths.

Stricture of Urethra,

Orchitis,

Phymosis,

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22nd FEBRUARY, 1868.

TABLE shewing the Number of ADMISSIONS and the MORTALITY, &c.-Continued.

DISEASES.

ADMISSIONS.

Europeaps.

Colored Persons.

Chinese.

Total.

1867.

Average. of

DEATHS.

10 Years.

Europeans.

Colored Persons.

Brought forward,

363

228

688

Hemorrhoids,

Worms,.

Enteritis,

Gastritis,

Hernia,

Hydrocele,

Rupture of Bladder,.

Bright's Disease,

Menorrhagia,

Childbirth,

Rheumatism,

Synovitis,

Dislocations,

Phlegmon,

Tumors,

Elephantiasis.

Psoriasis,

Lepra,

Eczema,

Favus,

Scabies,

Filaria Medinenses or Guinea Worm,

Chinese.

Lupus,

Condyloma,

Drunk,

Cataleptic from Drink,

Starvation,

Debility,

Burns,

Frost Bite,

Poisoning,

Fractures,

Fracture of Skull,

Wounds (Gun shot,)

(Incised,)

(Contused,)

(Lacerated,)

Contusions,

Stabbing,

Amputations,

: : : : : :-

Opium Smoking,

Impostors, ...

Observation,

Cataract,

Iritis,

Other Diseases,..

Disease of Teeth,

Ophthalmia,

Sclerotitis,

Hernia Iridis,

Amaurosis,

...

Ulceration of Cornea,

Pterygium,

Blind (incurable,).

-3

Diplopy,

Moribund,

Total,.

510

327

274

1,111

16 44

Total.

Admissions.

Deaths.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

5.--TABLE shewing the RATE of MORTALITY in the GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL during the Nine Years ending 1867.

RATE TO TOTAL NO. OF ADMISSIONS.

RATE TO NO. OF EUROPEANS ADMITTED.

1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867

Average of Ten Years.

· 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867

17.88 8.62 6.90 6.47 5.41 10.63 9.63 12.16 12.21 7.56 per per per per per per per per per per cont. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent.

9.74

per cent.

6.09 9.81 9.16 5.41 10.97 11.06 7.31 6.72 4.70 per per per per per per per per per cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. | cent. cent. cent.

Average of Nine Years.

7.05

per cent.

RATE TO NO. OF COLORED PERSONS ADMITTED.

RATE TO NO. OF CHINESE ADMITTED.

1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867

6.44 3.43 2.01 2.70 2.44 2.75 3.55 3.71 4.86| per per per per per per per per per cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent.

Average of Nine Years.

3.19 per cent.

1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867

28.98 8.23 11.65 12.78 32.27 22.89 29.72 33.56 16.05 per per per per per per per per per cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent.

Average of Nine Years.

19.79

per cent.

SEAMAN'S HOSPITAL.

TABLE shewing the Number of ADMISSIONS and MORTALITY during the Year 1867.

DISEASES.

ADMIT- DIS-

TED.

ADMIT-

DIED.

DISEASES.

CHARGED.

TED.

DIS-

CHARGED.

DIED.

Variola,

Confluens,

Diarrhoea,

Brought forward,. Paraphymosis, Orchitis,.

247

218

Dysentery,

5 Rheumatism,

Intermittent Fever,

Continued Fever,

Syphilitic, Chronic,

Primary Syphilis,

Disease of Hip Joint,

Tertiary

Secondary

Syphelitic Cachexia,

of Shoulder Joint,

Stiff Joint,.

1 Rupture of Patellar Ligament,

Gonorrhoea,

Resection of Elbow,

Scorbutus,

Wounds, Incised,

H?moptysis,.

Lacerated,

Fistula in Perin?o,.

Dog Bite,

Phthisis,

3 Contusions,

Hemiplegia,

Ulcer,

Epilepsia,

Sympathetic Bubo,

Delirium Tremens,

Abscess,

Idiopathic Tetanus,

2 Burn,.

Insanity,

Cephalalgia,

Neuralgia,

Injury of Spine,

Pericarditis,

Bronchitis,

Chronic,

222

Pleuritis,

Pneumonia,

0002001 HQ HQ

Cellulitis,

Scabies, Eczema, Erythema,

1 Ring Worm,

Fracture of Ribs,

of Clavicle,.

of Femur and Comp.

fract. of Lower Jaw,

Pleuro Pneumonia,

Ulcerated Throat,

of Femur Simple,

Compound Fracture of both

Dyspepsia,.

bones of the Leg,..

∞

Hepatitis,

1 Opthalmia,

Abscess of Liver,

...

Constipation,

Rheumatic Catarrhal, Phlyctenular,

Debility,

2 Sclerotitis,.

Hernia,

Nictalopia,

Nephritis,

Cataract,

Calculus in Bladder, Lithotomy,

Impostor,

Rupture of Urinary Bladder,.

Other Diseases,

TITTQ H

IMIIHTQT

Stricture of Urethra,

???

Carried forward,..

Rate of Deaths to Number of Admissions,..

218

Total,..

324

295

.8.95 per cent.

Deaths.

???

...

Admissions.

...

TOTAL.

...

15 318 496

*14

...

163

36 74

17 18

:::

...

225

UIN.

...

14 30

38 7

...

:::

4245

::::

Europeans.

Colored Persons.

Chinese.

TOTAL.

Europeans.

Colored Persons.

Chinese.

DEATHS.

10 YEARS.

ADMISSIONS.

...

Total,...

* 2 Deaths, Chinese, by accident on works.

Total..........

1 Suicide, do.,

1 Do., do.,

Opium. Hanging.

...

***

...

***

...

***

...

***

...

Rheumatic do.,

Yellow

do.,

Primary Syphillis,

Bubo,

Gonorrhoea,

Secondary Syphilis,

Dropsy, Abscess,...

Ulcer,...

...

Sloughing Ulcer,

Phthisis,

Paralysis,

...

Delirium Tremens, Scorbutis, Tetanus, Insanity, Sun Stroke, Epilepsy,

...

***

...

***

...

Apoplexy and Concussion of Brain,

Disease of Heart,

　　　　　Tonsilitis, Catarrh, Bronchitis,

***

...

***

...

***

Pneumonia and Pluero Pneumonia, Spitting of Blood,

　　　　　Asthma,... Dyspepsia,... Ascites, Colic,...

Constipation,... Hepatitis, Jaundice,

...

***

...

'...

...

***

　　　　　　Fissure of Rectum, Vomiting of Blood, Hemorrhoids, Fistula in Ano,

　　　　　Enteritis, Gastritis, Hernia,

...

+10

...

Stricture of Urethra,

Phymosis,... Orchitis, Hydrocele,... Stone,

...

Bright's Disease, Menorrhagia, Rheumatism, Dislocations,... Erysipelas, Tumors, Lepra,... Eczema,...

　　　　　　Scabies, Drunk, Starvation, Debility,... Burns, Frost Bite,

...

Hanging (Attempt at), Fractures, Wounds, (Gun Shot), Do. (Incised),

Do. Contusions, Amputations, Opium Smoking, Poisoning,... Impostors, Observation, Other Diseases, Ophthalmia, Sclerotitis,

(Contused),

...

***

...

Blind (Incurable), Amaurosis,

...

***

...

***

...

???

...

***

...

***

...

.***

...

***

...

....

...

???

...

***

...

DISEASES.

...

　　　　　　Small Pox, Measles, Diarrhoea,

***

Dysentery,... Cholera....

...

Intermittent Fever, ...

do.,

Remittent

Continued

do.,

Typhus

do.,

...

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

7.-TABLE shewing the MORTALITY in the VICTOBIA GAOL during the Year 1867, as compared with the Average of the last 10 Years.

1867.

AVERAGE

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

8.-TABLE shewing the RATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY in the VICTORIA GAOL during the Year 1867.

TOTAL NO. AVERAGE No. TOTAL SICK TOTAL SICK

RATE OF SERIOUS. SICKNESS.

RATE OF MORTALITY.

PRISONERS.

HOSPITAL.

TRIFLING CASES.

TOTAL DEATHS.

To Total.

To Average

To Total.To Average.

4,907

427.18

496

236

20.10 per cent.

116.11

0.285

3.27

per cent.

9. TABLE shewing the Number of ADMISSIONS and MORTALITY in the GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL during the undermentioned Years.

YEARS.

ADMISSIONS.

DEATHS.

PER CENT.

1849,

195

9.23

1850,

222

8.10

1851,

245

10.61

1852,

193

8.29

1855,

171

Not recorded.

1856,

441

1858,

452

17.69

1859,

592

8.62

1860,

637

6.90

1861, 1862, 1863,

834

6.47

850

5.41

752

10.63

1864,

954

9.64

1865,

1,357

163

12.01

1866,

1,122

138

12.29

1867,

1,111

7.56

Total,

9,516*

910

9.56

* Exclusive of the Years 1855 & 1856.

10.-TABLE shewing the ADMISSIONS into the GOVERNMENT LOCK HOSPITAL during the Ten Years of its existence, with the number of DIETS issued and the average LENGTH of TREATMENT.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

ADMISSIONS.

No. OF DIETS ISSUED.

AVERAGE NO. OF DAYS TREATED.

1858

1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867

Total. 1858 1859 1860

1861

1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 Total.

1858 1859

1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865

1866

1867

124 162 361 442 485 420 442 390 406 434

10,778 3,666 | 4,797 | 5,389 | 9,107 10,778 12,193| 11,707|11,940|11,303 13,060 13,120 103,394 43.8 30.8

23.7 23.4 22.0 23.7 27.0 28.0

28.6

25.5

畿

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

YEARS.

NUMBER OF EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN RESIDENTS.

1858,

1859,

1860,

1861,

1862,

1863,

1864,

1865,

1866,

1867,

Average of Ten Years,

1,462

1,031

11.-TABLE shewing the RATE of MORTALITY among the FOREIGN RESIDENTS in HONGKONG during the last Ten Years.

BURIALS OF RESIDENTS IN PROTESTANT AND ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERIES.

110 70

PER CENTAGE OF DEATHS TO NUMBER of Residents.

1,592

1,557

101

1,604

1,644

104

1,963

109

2,034

100

2,113

2,151

1,715

7.52

6.78

3.20

6.48

2.24

6.32

5.55

4.91

3.50

2.60

4.78

12.-TABLE shewing the work performed by the INSPECTOR of NUISANCES during the Year 1867.

No. OF SUMMONSES

ISSUED.

No. of PERSONS

FINED.

No. of PERSONS

DISCHARGED,

No. OF NOTICES

ISSUED.

FOR OBSTRUC-

TION AND

DEFECTIVE

DRAINAGE.

FOR ACCUMU-

LATION OF

FILTH.

1,068

1,029

4,413

216

4,197

AMOUNT OF FINES

DOLLARS.

$ C. 2,471.75

13.-TABLE shewing the ANNUAL MEAN STATE of the ATMOSPHERE during the Year 1867, as recorded at the GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL.

THE HONGKong governMENT GAZETTE, 22nd FEBRUARY, 1868.

BAROMETER.

FAHRENHEIT THERMOMETER.

HYDROMETER.

1867.

Standard.

Aneroid.

Self Register- ing in Shade.

During the

Month *

Detached.

Dry Bulb.

Wet Bulb.

Rain

during

STATE OF WEATHER.

the

Month.

In Sun.

In Water.

In Shade.

MONTH.

9 A.M. 3 P.M. 9 A.M. 3 P.M. Max.

Min. 9 A.M. 3 P.M. 9 A.M. 3 P.M.9 A.M. 3 P.M. 9 A.M. 3 P.M. In inches.

Average during the Month.

January,

February,.

March,

30.13 30.06 30.02 29.95 30.10 30.00 29.91 29.88 29.99 29.94 29.89 29.81 69

62 55 71

April,

May,

29.95 29.88 29.81 29.77 29.73 29.66 29.59 29.32 80

June,

29.79 29.74 29.70 29.29

July,

August,

29.86 29.80 29.85 29.79 29.83 29.82 29.87 | 29.81

J 8 7 8 L L L

64 57

84 79

85 80

84 81

September,

29.84 29.78 | 29.82 29.78

87 78 91

2 8 8 8 8 7

7 8 8 2 2 8 8 ∞

108 56

79 64 66

95 70

91 98

104

100

DE 8 2 2 7 8 8 8

25 3 2 2 2 2 8 8

2 2 18 8 0

61 60

* 8 * 2 * 8 8

8 8 8 8 8 8 8

2 2 2 2 2 2 2 8

1.07

Fine, overcast but fine and rain.

0.40

Fine, overcast but fine and rain.

6.57

2.23

10.62

8.22

Overcast but fine, rain, thunder & lightning.

Overcast but flie, rain, thunder & lightning. Overcast but fine, thunder and heavy rain. Fine, overcast but fine and slight rain.

17.11

Overcast but fine, fine and rain.

10.23

Fine, overcast but fine and rain.

15.78

Fine, overcast but fine, typhoon.

October,

30.10 29:99 30.09 30.01 83

101

76 78

8.57

Typhoon, fine, overcast but fine.

November,

30.25 30.17 | 30.30 30.21

December,

30.28 30.17 | 30.33 | 30.26

63 85

3888

63 68

67 70

888

Fine.

Annual Mean,..

29.99 29.91 29.93 29.82

€8

80.80

During

the Year.

* N.B.-This is not the absolute Maximum and Minimum of the month-but the Mean of the month's daily Maximum and Minimum.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

14.-TABLE shewing the RATE of MORTALITY among the FOREIGN RESIDENTS in HONGKONG during the undermentioned Years.

YEARS.

NUMBER OF EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN RESIDENTS.

BURIALS OF RESIDENTS.

PER CENTAGE OF DEATHS TO NUMBER OF RESIDENTS.

1845,

1846,

731 990

5.45

7.57

1847,

837

3.58

1848,.

963

125

12.98

1849,

987

6.48

1850,

880

10.11

1851,

647

10.35

1852,

796

8.41

1853

573

9.42

1854,..

1855,.

No record.

1856

1857.

1858

1,462

110

7.52

1859.

1,031

6.78

1860

1,592

3.20

1861,

1,557

101

6.48

1862,

1,604

2.24

1863,

1,644

104

6.32

1864,

1,963

109

5.55

1865,..

2,034

100

4.91

1866,

2,113

3.50

1867.

2,151

2 60

Total,..

24,555

1,432

1,292.36

75.36

6.32

TOTAL SICK.

15.-TABLE shewing the RATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY in the POLICE FORCE during the undermentioned Years.

YEARS. TOTAL STRENGTH.

DEATHS.

RATE OF SICKNESS. RATE OF MORTALITY.

1845,

253

352

139.13

7.11

1846,

224

482

215.22

7.14

1847.

215

160

74.51

2.79

1848,

368

237

64.13

14.70

1849,

166

171

103.04

5.42

1850,

164

255

155.49

3.65

1851,

216

186

86.10

5.09

1852,

184

150

82.06

3.80

1853

149

182

122.14

5.30

1854,

1855,

206

No record.

No data recorded.

1856,

242

1857,

275

1858,

279

257

92.11

2.50

1859,

307

286

93.15

1.95

1860,

309

303

98.05

1.62

1861,

450

455

101.11

2.22

1862,

416

511

122.57

2.64

1863,

516

397

76.95

2.32

1864,

581

507

87.28

1.54

1865,

610

599

98.19

1.96

1866,

559

537

96.08

1.78

1867,

566

452

79.85

2.10

DISEASE.

1861.

16.—TABLE shewing the Number of Cases of VENEREAL DISEASE in the POLICE FORCE during the undermentioned Years.

7809

1862.

European.

Indian.

Chinese.

Total.

Rate to

Strength.

European.

Indian.

Chinese.

Total.

Rate to

Strength..

1863.

European.

Indian.

Chinese.

Total.

Rate to

Strength.

1864.

1865.

1866.

European.

Indian.

Chinese.

Total.

Rate to

Strength.

European. Indian

Chinese.

Total.

Rate to Strength.

European.

Indian.

Chinese.

Total.

1867.

Rate to Strength.

European.

Indian.

Chinese.

Total.

Rate to

Strength.

Bubo,

12 2.72 8

Chancre, ..

42 9.23 23

34 3

19 4.56 2

60 14.42 6 30

1.251

2.75

2 24

3.93

8 7 2

17 3.04

...

6.97 13 43 1

9.80 24 57

84 13.77 14

...

9,83

Gonorrh?a, *.

...

47 10.32 17 25

10.09 15 17 1

6.39 11 38

...

8.43 8 15

3.77 13

8.23 11 24

Orchitis,

***

5 1.09 2

0.96 2

...

0.96

1.20 1 10

11 1.80 2

1.25 3 2

Phymosis,

...

4 0.96

0.19

0.17

...

0.17

...

Total,.............. .............

72 4 106 23.55 51

73 5129 31.00 25 56 1

15.89 28 100 2130 22.37 38 100 5143 23.44 37

3125 22.37 26

2 11

4.79

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

6.18

I 6 1.06

...

1 0.19

14.13

68 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

17.-TABLE shewing the Number and Causes of DEATH of DEAD BODIES brought to the Government Civil Hospital, during the Year 1867.

Destitution,

Dysentery,

Disease of Bowels,

CAUSES OF DEATH.

Still Born,

Premature Birth,

Congenital Malformation,. Small Pox,. Appoplexy,

Rupture of Aneurism,

Phthisis,...

Disease of Heart,

Empyema,

Pneumonia,

Suffocation,

Drowned,

Probably Drowned,

Poisoning,

Rupture of Spleen,

Wounds,..

Fracture of Skull,

Gun Shot Wound,

Hanging,

Decomposed,

TOTAL,....

EUROPEANS.

INDIANS.

CHINESE.

9900+

137

18.—TABLE shewing the Rate of SICKNESS and MORTALITY in the Victoria Gaol during the undermentioned Years.

RATE OF SICKNESS.

RATE OF MORTALITY.

YEARS.

TOTAL No. of PRISONERS.

AVERAGE No. OF PRISONERS.

TOTAL SICK

HOSPITAL.

TOTAL DEATHS.

To Total.

To Average.

To Total.

To Average.

1845,

452

12.83

1.76

1846,

547

135

24.68

1.82

1847,

506

17.78

2.36

1848,

1,093

152

13.9

0.73

1849,

1,252

134

10.7

0.48

1850,

992

172

17.23

0.80

1851,

179

143

79.88

6.14

1852,

160

263

164.37

6.87

1853,

138

159

115.21

2.17

1854,

No records

1855,

No records

1856,

1857,

1858,

266

163

61.27

8.64

1859,

2,484

239

116

4.67

48.53

0.16

1.67

1860,

3,755

336

174

4.63

51.78

0.23

2.67

1861,

3,899

4461

135

3.46

30.23

0.51

4.03

1862,

3,542

558A

176

4.96

31.51

0.73

4.65

1863,

3,431

533/

1.45

9.37

0.34

2.25

1864,

3,478

447-1

148

4.25

33.10

0.44

3.57

1865,

4,836

566.95

514

10.62

90.66

1.46

12.52

1866,

5,461

584.213

918

16.81

157.13

1.28

11.98

1867,

4,907

427.18

496

10.10

116.11

0.28

3.27

No. 19.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

　　　The Postal Convention between the United States of America and the Colonial Government of Hongkong is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th February, 1868.

CECIL C. SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

DATE.

No. 6.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th January, 1868.

No. 170.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

　　　　It is hereby notified that, in accordance with Section 12 of "The Police and Lighting Rate Ordinance, 1863," His Excellency the GOVERNOR, by and with the Advice of the Executive Council, has fixed the Police Rate for the Year 1868 at Ten and a quarter per cent for Houses in the City of Victoria; and in accordance with Section 18 of the same Ordinance at Five per cent for Houses in the Villages of this Island.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th December, 1867.

WEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK.

6 A.M.

NOON.

6 P.M.

THERMOMETER.

1868.

Baro- meter.

Thermo- Baro- Thermo-

meter.

Baro-

meter.

Self Registering.

meter.

Thermo- meter.

Min.

Max.

February 15

30.34

30.30

30.25

30.19

30.24

30.23

30.20

30.19

30.20

30.17

30.22

30.17

30.16

30.13

30.12

6 A.M.

9 A.M.

BAROMETER.

*NOON

3 P.M.

6 P.M.

6 A.M.

Height above Sea Level 1,770 feet.

HYDROMETER.

DRY BULB.

WET BULB.

'NOON

6 P.M.

6 A.M.

*NOON

6 P.M.

THERMO-

METER.

Self Registering.

Min. Max.

ΝΟΟΝ.

WINDS.

RAIN.

In inches during the

6 A.M.

Dirn.

Force, range from 0 to 12,

NOON.

previous 24 hours.

REMARKS AS TO WEATHER.

6 P.M.

9 A.M.

F. Dirn. F. Dirn.

1868.

Feb. 15 28.37| 28.45 28.52 28.54 28.47, 48.00 53.00 52.30 45,30 49.00 50.00, 48.00] 54.30 NE?E

16 28.43 28.47 28.52 28.54 28.47 54.00 56.00| 55.00 51.30| 53.00| 52.30) 52.00| 56.00 ENE

5 ENE

6 EbN

4 ENE

4 EbN

0.02

0.00

17 28.39 28.43 28.49 28.52 28.36 54.00 57.30| 54.30 53.00| 55.00 53.00 53.00 56.30 E

5 E

4 EbN

0.00

18 28.30 28.34 28.30 28.40 28.38 53.30 54.00] 54,00 51,00, 52.00] 52.30 53.00| 59,00 E?S

5 E

0.00

19 28.36 28.42 28.52 28.55 28.43 54.00 58.30 58.00 5200 57.00 56.30 53.30 59.30 EbS

4 E

3 E

0.00

20 28.36 28.44 28.56 28.58 28.44 56.00 64.30 63.00 51.00 62.00| 61,30_56.00 64.30 E

3 EbN

4 E

0.00

21 28.40 28.45 28.51 28.49 28.43 63.00 65.30| 65.00 61:00| 65.00) 64.30 53.00 66.30,ELN

4 SEDE

3 SEBE 4

0.01

Fine though overcast.

Dense fog and wet dew; heavy squalls

of wind during past night.

Dense fog until 10.30 A.M.; then fine

though hazy.

Dense fog until 12.30: then passing

fog.

Dense fog until 8 A.M.; then passing fog until 2 P.M; then fine though hazy. Fine though hazy; dense fog at 5 P.M.

Dense fog until 11.45 A.M.; then pass-

ing fog with slight rain.

Letters, Papers.

Aytie, Miss

Amoo, Mr.

Cazadinho,

Manoel

Gonsalves, V. 1

Ahong, Mr.

Causs, A. W.

Garcia, Franco. 1 Green, Mel-

Anderson, Peter 1

vina, Mrs.

Athaide, A.

Dewar, A. M.

Gilchrist, James1

Capt.

Gattinoni, Vi-?

Ahsoo, Charley 1

Delury, Daniel 1

cenzo, Sig.

Daniell, F.

Granger,W.P.

Albany, T.

Monsr.

}

Damioli,

Diego Sigr.

the 20th

Daina, J.

Regiment

Bowley, G.

Fran.co Sigr.

Bois, P. du

Gale, A.

Darborough,

Geale, J.

Gardiner, Peter 1

Dyson, W. Capt. 1

Dalall, M. R.

Hill, James Mr. 1

Donath, Franz. 1

Hojoljom, D. A. 1 Halpern, J.

Bird, G. W.

Eaglesham,

Harrison, W.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

POST OFFICE NOTICE.

List of unclaimed LETTERS and PAPERS lying in the Hongkong Post Office for Parties not known, 21st February, 1868.

Caetano

Adkin, E.

Letters. Papers.

Brown, Edwd. 1 Bagehot, Barnes1

Bliss, Thos. H. 1 Brown, Wm.

Brinckmeyer, S.1

J. J.

formerly of

Leroy, Monsr. 1 Legnand, Monsr.1

Esperan?a Proand, A. Parravicino,

Yppolito Phillips, R. Prior, Chas.

Letters. Papers.

Lets. Paps.

Souza, Joaquim 1 Steggensen, C. 1

(Asst, Engr.)} Single, H. Schwoerer,

Eugene Silva, Deme- trio Aranjo de Santon, Mar-

tin Sor. Dn.

1 registd.

Stewart, John 1 Smith, John

Schofield, James 1

Band-Mas-2 & 1 bk. Torres, S?r.

Letters. Papers.

Kelung, Mrs. 2 Kreyer, C. T.,

O'Connor, John 1

Revd.

Omalon, Anais

Madme.

Smith, John

Kennedy,

Oates, Thos.

James (Ap-

prentice)

Padwick, Geo. 1

Portaria,

Landisbergh, G.1 registd. Lary, W.

}

Low John B.

Low K. A.

(Engineer)

Moore, F. Wm. 1 Martin, W.

Palmer, Mr.,

McLoor, A. &r

Co., Messrs.

ter, 8th N.I.

Parker, A. J.

Dn., Tenien-

te de Cabal-

Bondom, Monsr.1

McCurne, Mr.

Capt.

Browne, Miss 2

Manning, Mr. 1

Ewing, Etna,

Roberts, Wm.

Berns, G. H.

Hackrof,

Mills, F. M.

Mrs.

Bernado

(Engineer)

Batchalder, M.J. 1

McNeil, Richard1

Roza, Felis-

Dn.

Burton, James 1

Fraser, John

Marshall, H.

bina, Sra.

Borhlyn, B.

Hayert, Philip 1

Marques, A. G. 2

Rhodes, Mrs.

Rair, A.

Holbek, N.

Boyle, A.

Mackie, W. L. 1

Fernandez,

Hansen, Carl 1

Boate, Harry S.1

McClelland, D. 1

Louren?o

Ringer, J. M.

Harboe, Capt. 1

Miller, W.

Barbote, Luiggil

Flores, Victorinol

Hill, G.

Robertson, C.

Barlow, A. E.

Fenwick, J. M. 1

Morello, Capt. 1

Hine, N. M.

(Asst. Engr.)

Fernandes,

Moullin, Capt.

Collins, W. H. }

Constancio C

Revd., Pekin

1 registd.

}

Harrold, Fred.

MacMahon, W. 1

Richards, Wm. 1 Robert, Fillo-

Hawkins, T. E. 2

Meneau, C. P.

Falkiner, Daniel 1

Herrera, R.

Monsieur

Cheong, Sun

Forster, John

Sr. Dn.

Mr.

Fenney,B.Henry

Corvinous, G. S. 1

Farrell, Mr.

Jeffery, J. W. 1

Compagn,

Hestique F.

Fernaudes,

Crabb, Geo., Capt.1

Benjamin Figueiras, Snr. 1

}

Judd, Miss

Johnson, J.

Mason, Wm. H. 1

Murton, N.

Sigismundo

Marchall, Ed.

Monsr.

MacCulloch, D. 1

mena

Reeves, T. Ratto,Emmanuell Rantenberg, Schmidt & Co. } 1 Remedios, dos

leria

Terry, L. F. Zegers

Tate, Stranger 3 Turner, L.

Von Wevels

Fleth Mohr. Heinrich Johann

Vidaurre, Luis !

Williams, J.

Edwd. Webb, James Weaver, W. Wightman, L. 1

Weatherhead,}

Robertson, Geo. 2

}

Keerlin, Ma-

Cooper, Wm.

Clarke, W.

Carvalho,

Ferreyras,

Manoel

Fego, Angelo de 1

Martyn, Miss

Rangel, A. N. 1

Wilkinson, G.

}

dame

Meeter, Petrus 1

Wilson, J. A.

King, John

Milton, W. F.

Shaw, Robt.

Manoel L.

Cotter, William 1

Gemma, Miss

Center, A.

formerly Chief-Officer Trebolgan

Noyes, A. M.

Simpson, James 1 Stevens, John L. 1

Nichois, H. J.

1 book.

Garred, M., Mr. 1

Simpson, Geo.

Kennedy, W.

Chagas, L. J.

Neile, Richard 1

Gorris, T. A.

Kyle, David

Cargill, Williaml

Green, Hugh

Kek, R.

Olibeiro, Manoell

Scott, Charles J.2 Stewart, C. Mrs. 1 Staples, Capt. 1

Whaits, E. P.

Mrs.

Worrell, Henry 1 Wilson, G. H.

Zynen, Wel. Ed. Heer, Doctor

}

3 bks.

List of LETTERS and PAPERS lying at the Hongkong Post Office for Merchant Vessels, 21st February, 1868.

Argonaut

Letters. Papors.

Letters. Papers.

Chelsea

Arima

Countess of

Faders Minde 1 Fair Leader

Kim Soon Hong 1

Naomi

Lets. Paps. Sabastian Cabot 4

Kelso

Navarino

Allendale

Elgin

Kester

Noranside

Alexandrina

Confucius

Abotsford

Cotherstone

Golden Fleece 4

Kate Cleather 1

Nelson

Antifer

Carmeline

Guajara

Norham

Adeline

Colorado (Ship) 3

Gladiateur

Lucerne

Northumberland2

Gleam

Libra

Nelly

Ashburton

Colombo

Agnes

Charlotte

Gungadhur

Lochnager

St. Mary Sandringham Sultan

Speculation

Shooting Star

Senator Webb 1

Star of England 2

Anevoca

Cora Linn

Golden Dragon 2

Lottie Maria

Ocean House

Amiral Charner 2

Charmian

Gustav Adolf

Lobelia

Oriental

Stirlingshire

Sardinia

Amicus

Chinaman

Gifford

Lady Love

Aden

Cydoma

Golden Dream 1

Lorton

Andromeda

Carmerthenshirel

Glenroy

Lady Alice

Alexandra

Golden Spur

Leblom

Abbott Lawrence?

Deerfoot

Geo. Croshaw 4

Glenlee

Lady Elena Brucel

Otto

America

Devana

Maggie Lauder 1

Annetta

Dannevirke 1

Marian

Orsa Ospray

Ocean Home

Prudhoe Pieter

Solent

Ocean Spray

Dashing Wave 1

Helen

Mary Lucie

Passepartout

Bengal

Henriette

Medusa

Pacific

Burdwan

Eva

Gerardina

Malvern

Philip Nelson

Blairmore

Englishman

Sussanne

Mirage

Penang

2212 ——

Stanley

Spirit of the North1

Southern Belle 1

Three Brothers 1

Undine

Vesta

Vigil

Ville de Grenade 4

Bosphorus

Emerald

Henry Handley 2

Morayshire

Princess of Wales1

Vanguard

Bien Hoa

Boanerges

Belle of the

Ecliptic

Heather Bell

Mathilde

Veneta

Europa,

Ho Hang Ho 1

Maria Elizabeth 1

Elgin

Henry Melvill i

Qu. of England 1

Vision

Mandan

Qu. of the Ocean 2

Virgen de los

South

Eagle

Henrietta

Martha

Dolores

Broadwater

Ellida

Mogul

Reindeer

Baringa

Eleutheria

Isabella Ridley 2

ViscountCanning1

Maria Morton

Rome

Eliza

Isabella

Mindora

Raphael

Wealth of

Clio

Etienne et

Indien Empire 1

Maud Helen

Reconnaisance 1

Nations

Conqueror

Lorena

Marie & Helena 1

Rapid

Wild Gazelle

Corea

Esperanza

Japan

Melbourne

Ramsey

Water Lily

Cymbeline

Ellen Morice

Jenie

Malabar

milton

City of Ham-1

Regina

Wild Rover

Ettie

Japara

Malvina Vidal 1

Red Deer

White Swallow 1

Jason

Rifle

Wm. Chandler 9

Clair

Free Trade

John & Mary 2

Chalgrove

Feordres

James Miller

Channel Queen 1

Fortitude

Jeanne Alice

Codabux

Fort Regent

Jacques et Marie2

Nothumbria Norwood Napoleon Norval

9122

Ruby

Winfield

Royal Bershire 1

Wartburg

Yvonne

Servantes

Yedo

List of Unpaid and Registered LETTERS and PAPERS lying at the Hongkong Post Office for Her Majesty's Ships of War, 21st February, 1868.

Basilisk

Letters. Papers.

Dove

Letters. Papers.

Insolent

Letters. Papers.

Melville

Letters. Papers.

P. Charlotte 14

Rodney Weazel

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

No. 41. List of DEAD LETTERS which have been returned from the General Post Office in London and other places for the various reasons assigned upon them, addressed as undermentioned, the writers of which can obtain them on appli- cation.

Atkins, Capt. F. H., care of W. G. Brown, Esq., 383, Newnorth Road,

London,

Ashe, Miss Mellissa B., Vicksbury, Mississipi, U. S. A., Andrews, Mrs., care of Mrs. Martin, Blennett Street, Newport, Mon-

mouthshire..

Baker, Capt. A., Barque "Julia Ann," Saigon, Poste Restante,.. Brown, Mrs. Abrim, 99, Farlton Street, Brooklyn, New York, Blatcher, Mr. William, No. 1, Bandle Street, Lime House, London,... 1 Corbeto, Sr. Dn. Manuel, en poder del Correo General, Gibraltar,.. Coreo, Exmo. e Illmo. Sr. Dn. Antonio, Fiscal del Tribunal Supremo

de Justicia, Madrid,...

Cristodula, Monsieur Vuriaco, Alexandrie, Egypte,

Cook, Thomas, M. Company 2/12 Regt., Bradford, Yorkshire, Delano, Abram, Esq., No. 247, South Street, New York, Ebeling & Co., A. F., Rotterdam,

M?liard, Mademoiselle Eugenie, Tregoureur, par St. Briens, Cotes du

Nord, France,

Nixon & Co., Messrs. T. H., London,

Nagel, T., F. H. F. Ockershansen, Altona,

Noadley, Mrs. Fanny M., Brooklyn, N.Y., United States of America, 1 Nelson, Miss Phebe T., No. 8, Bedford Street, New York, City,

U. S. A...

Oneill, Richard, care of Colonel Armstrong, No. 5, Devonshire Terrace,

County Rent, England,

Oosten, T. van, Rinnewegoverd, Rotterdam,

Potter, Wni. Esq., 25, Westbourne Square, Hyde Park, London, Parker, Mr. M., No. 24, Graham Road, Dalston, England,. Price & Chase, Messrs., Boston, U. S.,

Papin, Mrs. Loncell, Marrine Square, 32, Queen St., Port of Spain,

Trinidad,

Robertson, Mrs. Geo., 26, Dean Street, Bedminster, Bristol, England, 1 Simon & Co., Messrs., Front Street, San Francisco, Soroker, Messrs. H., Kairo, in Aygibten,..

Santo Inphantice Prosidi, Illmo. e Rmo., Alexandria, Thompson, Mr., For Mr. Dunkley, Queen's Street, Edgware Road,

London,

Walsh, Miss Mary, care of Mr. William Cardel, Boston, State of

Mass., U. S. A.,

Ereson, E., Engineer's Steward, H.M.S. "Osprey," Cape of Good Hope, 1 Harwood, Pumara & Co., Liverpool,

Hardy, Mr. J., Boarding Master, care of Sailor's Home, Liverpool, How, Wm. Esq., care of Messrs. How, Bros. & Co., Manchester, Howell, John W. Esq., No. 2, Orill Place, Burupton, London, S. W., 1 Hogg, Mrs. Sarah, 63, South 9th Street, Brooklyn, E.D., New York, 1 Higgs, Miss Florence, chez, Mde. Brulley, Sainte Marie des Champs,

&c., &c., Paris,

　　　Knox, Mrs. M., Sore Street, Tonas Court, 6, Liverpool, England, Lucas, Capt., Ship "Samuel Russell," New York,.

Murphy, Jeremiah, Neosha City, Kansas, vi? Fort Scott, U. S. A.,...... 1 McFee, Mr. Thomas, Carriage Maker, Windsor, Upper Cauada, Ame-

rica,

General Post Office, Hongkong, 18th February, 1868.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

Foreign Attachment.

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, HENRY W. HUBBELL, F. B. HILDRETH, and RUSSELL STURGIS, Defen- dants.

HEREAS an Action has been commenced

　　　　　　　　　in this Honorable Court at the suit of the above named John Heard, Augustine Heard, Junior, Albert Farley Heard, George Farley Heard, George Frederick Weller, and Robert Inglis Fearon, against the above named Robert L. Taylor, Henry W. Hubbell, F. B. Hildreth, and Russell Sturgis, to recover the sum of Eight thousand Five hundred and Sixty-eight Dol- lars and Three Cents, for money received by the said Robert L. Taylor, Henry W. Hubbell, F. B. Hildreth, and Russell Sturgis for the use of the said Plaintiffs John Heard, Augustine Heard, Junior, Albert Farley Heard, George Farley Heard, George Frederick Weller, and Robert Inglis Fearon, and for money found to be due to the said Plaintiffs by the said Defen- dants on an account stated between them and it being alleged that the said Robert L. Taylor, Henry W. Hubbell, F. B. Hildreth, and Russell Sturgis do not reside within this Island or its Dependencies, a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued, returnable on the Tenth day of March next, wherein J. S. Watson, of Victoria, in the Island of Hongkong, Master Mariner, is Garnishee.

Dated this Thirteenth day of February, 1868.

HENRY C. CALDWELL, Plaintiffs' Attorney.

Vogel, Fritz, Hannover, Germany,

Whartes, E. P. Esq., Dentist, Post Office, California, San Francisco, Wappers & Co., Harran, H., Rotterdam, Yuen-Seng, San Francisco, California,

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

Foreign Attachment.

JOHN HEARD, AUGUSTINE HEARD, Junior, ALBERT FARLEY HEARD, GEORGE FARLEY HEARD, GEORGE FREDERICK WELLER, and ROBERT INGLIS FEARON, trading under the Style or Firm of AUGUSTINE HEARD AND COM- PANY, Plaintiffs,

HENRY W. HUBBELL, Deffendant. HEREAS an Action has been commenced in this Honorable Court at the suit of the above-named John Heard, Augustine Heard, Junior, Albert Farley Heard, George Farley Heard, George Frederick Weller, and Robert Inglish Fearon against the above-named Henry W. Hubbell to recover the sum of Five thousand Three hundred and Sixteen Dollars and Eighty-five Cents, for money received by the said Henry W. Hubbell for the use of the said Plaintiffs John Heard, Augustine Heard, Junior, Albert Farley Heard, George Farley Heard, George Frederick Weller, and Robert Inglish Fearon, and for money found to be due to the said Plaintiffs by the said Defendant on an ac- count stated between them; and it being alleged that the said Henry W. Hubbell does not reside within this Island or its Dependencies a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued returnable on the Tenth day of March next, wherein J. S. Watson, of Victoria, in the Island of Hongkong, Master Mariner, is Garnishee.

Dated this Fourteenth day of February, 1868.

HENRY C. CALDWELL, Plaintiffs' Attorney.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY. OTICE. SHERIEF CURIM, trading in Hongkong and Bombay as Merchant, un- der the style or firm of Sheriff and Company, having been adjudged Bankrupt under a Petition for adjudication of Bankruptcy file in the Su- preme Court on the Twelfth day of February, 1868, is hereby required to surrender himself to the Honorable William Hastings Alexander, Esquire, the Registrar of the said Supreme Court,

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.

at the first Meeting of Creditors, to be held be- fore the said Registrar on the Twenty-seventh day of February, 1868, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon precisely, at the said Court.

Frederick Sowley Huffam, Esquire, is the Official Assignee, and Mr. Francis Innes Haze- land is the Solicitor acting in the Bankruptcy.

At the Meeting the Registrar will receive the proofs of the Debts of the Creditors, and the Creditors may choose an Assignee or Assignees of the Bankrupt's Estate and Effects.

Hongkong, 15th February, 1868.

NOTICE.

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STEAM FOR

SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, ALEXANDRIA, MESSINA, MARSEILLES,

ALSO,

BOMBAY, PONDICHERRY, MADRAS, AND CALCUTTA,

Tuesday, the 25th instant, at 2 P.M., the

Commandant JEHENNE, with Mails, Passengers, Specie and Cargo, will leave this Port for the above places.

Cargo and Specie will be registered for London through Marseilles for the principal places of as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit

Europe.

Cargo will be received on board until 4 P.M. of the 23rd Instant, Specie and Parcels until 5 P.M. of the 24th Instant. (Parcels are not to be sent on board; they must be left at the Agency's Office.)

For further particulars apply at the Company's Office, Queen's Road.

C. BERTRAND, Principal Agent.

Hongkong, 12th February, 1868.

NOTICE.

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R. JOHN HOW CHEVERTON

to sign our Firm per procuration.

ALFRED WILKINSON & Co. Hongkong, 21st February, 1867.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

Atkins, Capt. F. H., care of W. G. Brown, Esq., 383, Newnorth Road,

London,

Ashe, Miss Mellissa B., Vicksbury, Mississipi, U. S. A., Andrews, Mrs., care of Mrs. Martin, Blennett Street, Newport, Mon-

mouthshire..

de Justicia, Madrid,...

Cristodula, Monsieur Vuriaco, Alexandrie, Egypte,

Cook, Thomas, M. Company 2/12 Regt., Bradford, Yorkshire, Delano, Abram, Esq., No. 247, South Street, New York, Ebeling & Co., A. F., Rotterdam,

M?liard, Mademoiselle Eugenie, Tregoureur, par St. Briens, Cotes du

Nord, France,

Nixon & Co., Messrs. T. H., London,

Nagel, T., F. H. F. Ockershansen, Altona,

Noadley, Mrs. Fanny M., Brooklyn, N.Y., United States of America, 1 Nelson, Miss Phebe T., No. 8, Bedford Street, New York, City,

U. S. A...

Oneill, Richard, care of Colonel Armstrong, No. 5, Devonshire Terrace,

County Rent, England,

Oosten, T. van, Rinnewegoverd, Rotterdam,

Potter, Wni. Esq., 25, Westbourne Square, Hyde Park, London, Parker, Mr. M., No. 24, Graham Road, Dalston, England,. Price & Chase, Messrs., Boston, U. S.,

Papin, Mrs. Loncell, Marrine Square, 32, Queen St., Port of Spain,

Trinidad,

Robertson, Mrs. Geo., 26, Dean Street, Bedminster, Bristol, England, 1 Simon & Co., Messrs., Front Street, San Francisco, Soroker, Messrs. H., Kairo, in Aygibten,..

Santo Inphantice Prosidi, Illmo. e Rmo., Alexandria, Thompson, Mr., For Mr. Dunkley, Queen's Street, Edgware Road,

London,

Walsh, Miss Mary, care of Mr. William Cardel, Boston, State of

Mass., U. S. A.,

Ereson, E., Engineer's Steward, H.M.S. "Osprey," Cape of Good Hope, 1 Harwood, Pumara & Co., Liverpool,

&c., &c., Paris,

　　　Knox, Mrs. M., Sore Street, Tonas Court, 6, Liverpool, England, Lucas, Capt., Ship "Samuel Russell," New York,.

Murphy, Jeremiah, Neosha City, Kansas, vi? Fort Scott, U. S. A.,...... 1 McFee, Mr. Thomas, Carriage Maker, Windsor, Upper Cauada, Ame-

rica,

General Post Office, Hongkong, 18th February, 1868.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

Foreign Attachment.

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, HENRY W. HUBBELL, F. B. HILDRETH, and RUSSELL STURGIS, Defen- dants.

HEREAS an Action has been commenced

Dated this Thirteenth day of February, 1868.

HENRY C. CALDWELL, Plaintiffs' Attorney.

Vogel, Fritz, Hannover, Germany,

Whartes, E. P. Esq., Dentist, Post Office, California, San Francisco, Wappers & Co., Harran, H., Rotterdam, Yuen-Seng, San Francisco, California,

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

Foreign Attachment.

Dated this Fourteenth day of February, 1868.

HENRY C. CALDWELL, Plaintiffs' Attorney.

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.

at the first Meeting of Creditors, to be held be- fore the said Registrar on the Twenty-seventh day of February, 1868, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon precisely, at the said Court.

Frederick Sowley Huffam, Esquire, is the Official Assignee, and Mr. Francis Innes Haze- land is the Solicitor acting in the Bankruptcy.

At the Meeting the Registrar will receive the proofs of the Debts of the Creditors, and the Creditors may choose an Assignee or Assignees of the Bankrupt's Estate and Effects.

Hongkong, 15th February, 1868.

NOTICE.

COMPAGNIE DES SERVICES MARITIMES

DES

MESSAGERIES IMPERIALES.

Paquebots Poste Fran?ais.

INDIA AND CHINA LINES, HONGKONG AGENCY.

STEAM FOR

SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, ALEXANDRIA, MESSINA, MARSEILLES,

ALSO,

BOMBAY, PONDICHERRY, MADRAS, AND CALCUTTA,

Tuesday, the 25th instant, at 2 P.M., the

Commandant JEHENNE, with Mails, Passengers, Specie and Cargo, will leave this Port for the above places.

Cargo and Specie will be registered for London through Marseilles for the principal places of as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit

Europe.

Cargo will be received on board until 4 P.M. of the 23rd Instant, Specie and Parcels until 5 P.M. of the 24th Instant. (Parcels are not to be sent on board; they must be left at the Agency's Office.)

For further particulars apply at the Company's Office, Queen's Road.

C. BERTRAND, Principal Agent.

Hongkong, 12th February, 1868.

NOTICE.

authorized

R. JOHN HOW CHEVERTON

to sign our Firm per procuration.

ALFRED WILKINSON & Co. Hongkong, 21st February, 1867.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.

THE BANKRUPTCY ACT 1861.

NOTI

A. ELLISSEN & Co. In the Matter of a Deed of Arrange- ment dated the 30th day of June 1865, made between Adolf Ellissen of No. 4 Cullum Street in the City of London Merchant and of Coven- try in the County of Warwick Cot- ton Spinner and Gustav Ellissen then residing at No. 28 Maida Hill West in the County of Middlesex but late of Hongkong in China Mer- chant the said Adolf Ellissen carry- ing on business in London as a Merchant alone under the Style or Firm of "A. Ellissen & Co." and at Coventry aforesaid as a Cotton Spin- ner alone in his own name and the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellis- sen carrying on business in Co-part- nership at Hongkong and Shanghai in China under the name style or firm of "A. Ellissen & Co." and which said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen were thereinafter designated as the Debtors of the first part Roger Swire Tomlin of No. 1 Bank Build- ings in the City of London Gentle- man William Burrows of Great St. Helen's in the same City Merchant aud William Moales of 19 King's Arms Yard Moorgate Street in the City of London Accountant therein- after designated "The Inspectors of the second part and The several Per- sons Companies and Co-partnership Firms who at the date thereof were respectively Creditors of the Debtors or either of them thereinafter desig- nated "the Creditors" of the third part Registered in the Court of Bankruptcy pursuant to the Bank- ruptcy Act 1861 the Twenty-eighth day of July 1865 whereby the said Debtors assigned all their joint and separate estates and effects as well in Great Britain and China as elsewhere to the Inspectors for the benefit of their Creditors.

OTICE is hereby given that such of the Creditors of the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen either jointly or separately as have not yet sent in and proved their debts claims or demands to the satisfaction of the said Ins- pectors and have not yet executed or assented in writing to the said Deed of Arrangement (which now lies at the Offices of us the undersigned Messrs. Flux Argles and Rawlins No. 1 East India Avenue Leadenhall Street in the City of London Solicitors) are hereby required to do so on or before the Tenth day of March One thousand Eight hundred and Sixty-eight other- wise they will be excluded from all benefit thereof AND NOTICE is hereby further given that after the said Tenth day of March One thousand Eight hundred and Sixty-Eight the said Ins- pectors will proceed to distribute the assets which have come to their hands under the said Deed of Arrangement arising from the said joint and separate estates of the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen among the Creditors entitled thereto having regard only to the debts claims or demands for which the said Deed shall then be executed or assented to and the particulars of whose debts claims or demands shall have been forwarded to the said Inspectors and proved to their satisfaction and duly allowed by them.

Dated this 29th day of October, 1867. -

MR.

FLUX ARGLES & RAWLINS,

1 East India Avenue Leadenhall Street London Solicitors for the said inspectors.

NOTICE.

R. EMIL VOGEL and Mr. HEINRICH KIRCHHOFF become this day Partners in our business, which in future will be carried on under the Firm of

VOGEL, HAGEDORN & Co., both here and at Canton.

HAGEDORN & Co. Hongkong, 12th February, 1868.

NOTICE.

THE interest and responsibility of Mr. J. RUMENACHER in our Firm ceased on

the 31st December, 1867.

Hongkong, 8th February,

SANDER & Co. 1867.

HING-QUA JOHN,

PHOTOGRAPHER,

No. 28, PRAYA CENTRAL.

Terms:

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NOTICE.

R. HUGH SUTHERLAND is authorized to

MR sign our Firma per procuration from this

date.

JOHN FORSTER & Co. Foochow, 7th January, 1868.

NOTICE.

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day of December, 1867.

A. FERGUSON & Co. Hongkong, 3rd January, 1868.

NOTICE.

R. THOMAS PYKE has this day been ad-

mitted a Partner in our Firm.

MR.

BIRLEY & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1868.

NOTICE.

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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

Published by Authority.

No. 9.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 29TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

VOL. XIV.

No. 26.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

　　　　The following Returns, connected with the business of the Superior and Subordinate Courts of this Colony for the Year 1867, are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th February, 1868.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES that have been tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG, during the Year 1867.

Number of Cases.

Number of Persons.

CRIME.

Convicted.

Acquitted.

Death.

Death Recorded.

Penal Servitude.

One year. Hard Labor over

Hard Labor One year and under.

Number

4 a...

...

b...

Administering a stupifying drug with intent, &c., and kidnapping,... Assault,

Assault with intent to rob,

Assaulting Police Constable whilst in the execution of his duty,

Attempting to commit Burglary,

Attempting to drown,

Cattle Stealing,

12221421-2 --

...

Breaking and entering and Stealing in a Store,

Burglary and Larceny with Wounding,

Burglary being armed, and Larceny,

Child Stealing,

...

Conspiracy to accuse of crime,

Cutting and Wounding,

12221 :~21-*

Cutting and Wounding a Police Constable with intent to prevent lawful} 1

apprehension,

Cutting and Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm,

Demanding money with Menaces,

1 Forgery, and uttering a forged note,

Embezzlement,

...

Escape and Larceny with violence,

Highway Robbery with violence,

18412412

Indecent Assault,

Larceny,

4 Larceny by a Servant,

Larceny in a Dwelling-house,

Larceny on board Ship in the Harbor,

Manslaughter,

Misdemeanour under Section 171 of the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1864,

Murder,

...

Obtaining Goods by false pretences,

Obtaining Goods by means of a forged instrument,

Receiving Stolen Goods,

11TT -~HT: :

186

Perjury,

Piracy and Murder,

Rape,

Robbery in the Harbor,

Robbery from the Person with Violence,

Robbery from the Person with Wounding,

Shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm,

Stabbing with intent to do grievous bodily harm,

Tendering Counterfeit Coin,

Unlawful Wounding,

Uttering Counterfeit Coin,

82 113

2262-

12 3

C...

1 d...

86 27

: CD LD

:1182-

Publicly

Flogged.

Persons.

Number

REMARKS.

Charges

Strokes.

Solitary Confine-

ment, Number of

Persons.

Number

325

a. In this case three witnesses for the prosecution were committed to prison for two months for contempt of Court in giving false evidence. b. In this case a witness for the prosecution was committed to prison for two months for contempt of Court in giving false evidence.

c. A witness for the prosecution in one of these cases was committed to prison for one month for contempt of Court in giving false evidence.

d. In one of these cases a witness for the prosecution was committed to prison for six weeks for contempt of Court in giving false evidence.-And in the

other case a witness for the defence was committed to prison for six weeks for the same offence.

1 1

20 42 18 12

615

4 16

W. H. ALEXANDER,

Registrar.

abandoned.

Cases.

Number

Persons.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

RETURN of the NUMBER of Cases tried before the Honorable the Chief Justice, and ACTIONS commenced in the Supreme and Vice Admiralty Courts of Hongkong, during the Year ending 31st December, 1867.

Cases tried before the Honorable the Chief Justice in 1867.

JUDGMENT.

TOTAL.

NUMBER OF AMOUNT OF DEBT &

COURT.

CASES.

DAMAGES CLAIMED.

Plaintiff. Defendant. Nonsuit. Cases.

Debt & Damages.

Supreme Court,-

Common Law,

$84,000.00

Chancery,

Bankruptcy,

Appeals,

? ?

4,719,738.97

Vice Admiralty Court,

12e

53,827.00

Respondent.

$4,857,565.97

Actions commenced in 1867.

COURT.

NUMBER OF CASES.

AMOUNT OF DEBT AND DAMAGES

SETTLED

WITHOUT TRIAL.

JUDGMENT.

REMAINING

TOTAL.

CLAIMED,

Plaintiff. Defendant. Nonsuit.

DEPEN-

DENCE.

Cases. Debt & Damages.

Supreme Court,—

Common Law,

$1,776,290.82 46

Chancery,

Bankruptcy,

12c

5,060,684.09

Probate,

26?

14,357.95

Appeals

Vice Admiralty Court,

61,744.00

: 10

Respondent

157

$6,913,076.86

a. One of these Cases was in dependence on 31st December, 1866.

b. This case was in dependence on 31st December, 1866.

d. This was an appeal from the Police Magistrates' Court.

c. The amounts given in these Cases are the liabilities entered in the Bankrupts' Schedules.

e. Six of these Cases were in dependence on 31st December, 1866, and two of them were Petitions for Bounty.

f. The amount here given is from the valuations made by the Court Appraisers in Intestate Estates.

g. In these three Cases the Bankrupts did not surrender. One Bankrupt was sent to prison for 12 Months. Judgment by default &c., was signed in 15 Common Law Cases representing the Sum of $906,123.43.

W. H. ALEXANDER, Registrar.

RETURN of the NUMBER of CASES tried, and ACTIONS commenced, in the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, from the 1st January to the 31st Decemb?r, 1867.

NO. OF CASES.

AMOUNT OF DEBT AND DAMAGES

CLAIMED.

SETTLED

WITHOUT TRIAL.

JUDGMENT.

REMAINING

REMARKS.

DEPENDENCE.

Plaintiff. Defendant.

Nonsuit. No Service.

*1,452

$82,759.69

516

616

252

COURT OF SUMMARY JURISDICTION, Hongkong, 29th January, 1868.

* 8 of these Cases were

in dependence on 31st December, 1866.

HENRY J. HOLMES,

Clerk of Court.

Total Number of Causes.

5,983

7,150 |

Convicted and Punished.

Discharged.

Committed for Trial at the

Supreme Court.

F. M. F.

M. F.

735

2,398

169 142 13

Committed to Prison, or de-

tained, pending orders of

the Governor.

To keep the Peace.

To be of good beha-

viour.

To keep the Peace, and to be of good behaviour.

F. M. F. M. F. M.

To answer any charge.

ABSTRACT of Causes under COGNIZANCE at the Police Magistrates' Court during the Year 1867.

CAUSES HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.

Ordered to find security,

WRITS ISSUED BY MAGISTRATES DURING THE YEAR 1867.

WARRANTS.

Punished for preferring false

charge, or giving false tes-

timony.

Undecided.

M. F.

113

9,986 953

Total Number of Defendants.

Summonses for Defendants.

Abduction of Females,

Accessory after the fact in Felonies,

Accusing of Crime with intent to extort,

Total Number of Prisoners,.

THE CASES CONSISTED OF:

Brought forward,..

Chinese Offenders remaining in the Colony after Order of Deportation, Chinese Offenders remaining in the Colony after Conditional Pardon,..

.10,942

2,011

Brought forward,.

Libel,

Manslaughter,

Administering Drugs,

Conduct calculated to provoke a Breach of the Peace,

Mendicancy,

Aiding and abetting in desertion of Soldiers,

Confederating with Pirates,..

Misconduct as Domestic Servants.

Aiding and abetting in the Commission of Offences,

Conspiracy to accuse of crime,

Misconduct as Police Constables,

Allowing unmuzzled ferocious Dogs to be at large,

Contempts of Court, .

Misconduct as Private Watchmen, .

3,710

Assaults,

779

Crimes and Offences committed in Chinese Territory,

Misprision of Felony

Assaults accompanied with damage of property,

Cruelty to Animals,

Murder,

Assaults at or in connection with riotous assemblages, Assaults with intent to rob,...

Cutting and Destroying Trees,

Nuisances,

422

Cutting and Wounding, and Inflicting Bodily Injuries,

Obtaining Money and other Property by False l'retences,

Attempts to commit felony,.

Damage of Property,.

105

Obstruction of Public Ways by Hawkers, &c.,.

211

Attempts to Murder,

Dangerous Persons supposed to be Insane, .

Offences relating to Coin,..

Attempts to bribe Police Constables,.

Defiling Streams,

Offences relating to Workmen,

At large in the night without Passes,

Breach of Ordinance for Bankruptcy,

Buildings,

Cargo Boats,

Gunpowder Storage,

393

Demanding Money with Menaces,

Personating Bail,

Desertion from H. M.'s Army,....

Personating Constables of the Police Force,

Desertion of Merchant Seamen,

Perjury,

Desertions from the Police Force,

Piracy,..

Detention of Seamen's Effects,..

Piracy with Murder,

Harbor and Coasts,

Disorderly Behaviour,

570

Posting Bills on Walls of Houses without Consent,.

Jails,

Disorderly Behaviour, accompanied with Damage of Property,

Preferring False Charges or giving False Testimony,

Maintenance of Order and Cleanliness,

Embezzlement,

Rape,

Markets,

Exposing Infant Children and Endangering Life,

Receiving Bribes by Police Constables,

Pawnbrokers,

Extortion by Color of Office,

Receiving Stolen Property,

Police and Lighting Rates,

False Imprisonment,.

Refusal of duty by Merchant Seamen,

Preparation and sale of Prepared Opium,

Firing Crackers in the Streets,

Refusing to Assist Police,

Registration of Brothels,

Forcible Detention of Persons with intent to ransom or sell,.

Removing Furniture with intent to Defraud,

Registration of Houses and Servants,.

145

Forging or Uttering forged Documents,..

Rescuing Prisoners from the Custody of the Police,

Regulation of Weights and Measures,.

Found by Night with Arms or Housebreaking Implements, with intent to

Resisting Police in the Execution of their Duty,

Regulation of Chairs and Vehicles,...

commit felony,

Robberies,

Regulation of Mahomedan Cemeteries,

Furious Driving,

Rogues and Vagabonds,

293

Retail of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors, keep- ing Bowling Alleys, Billiard Tables, &c., .

Highway Robberies,

Street Gambling,

487

Housebreaking,

Trespass on Crown Lands,

Suppression of Gambling,.

Indecent Assaults on Females,

Threatening Bodily Harm,

Breaches of the Chinese Passengers' Act,............

Indecent Exposure of Person,.

Unlawful Possession,

315

Breaches of the Harbor Regulations,.

155

Intimidating Workinen...

Unlicensed dealing in Marine Stores and old Metals,

Breach of Prison,

Keeping Disorderly Houses,.

Unlicensed Hawking,

133

Breaches of the Stamp Act,..

Keeping unlicensed Coolie Houses,.

Unlicensed Playing of Boats,

Breaches of Recognizances,

Keeping unlicensed Seamen's Boarding Houses,

Witnessing the Commission of felonies and neglecting to Assist in the

Burglary.

Kidnapping,

Apprehension of the Offenders,

Burying Chinese Corpse elsewhere than in a Cemetery,

Larcenies,

Child Stealing,

Larcenies from the Person,

595

Total,.

983

C. MAY,

Carried forward,.

2,011

Carried forward,.....

3,710

First Police Magis trate.

Summonses for Witnesses.

Notices of Judgment, and

Rehearing.

Distress

2,172

280

Arrest.

Search.

For entering Gambling

House.

2,612

TOTAL.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

78 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

No. 27.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Particulars and Conditions of Sale of Crown Land and Buildings thereon by Public Auction to be held on the 26th Proximo, at Noon, are published for general information.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th February, 1868.

Particulars and Conditions of the Letting by Public Auction Sale to be held on Thursday, the 26th day of March, 1868, by Order of His Excellency The GOVERNOR, of a certain Lot of Crown Land in the Colony of Hongkong for a Term of 999 Years.

No. of

Sale.

Registry

No.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Boundary Measurement.

Locality.

Contents in

Annual Rental.

Upset Price.

Square ft.

Queen's Road and Bonham Strand,

(late Water Police Station)

}

58 100 120.6 3,839

$50.76

$7,000

CONDITIONS OF SALE.

1. The highest bidder above an upset price of $7,000 shall be the Purchaser, and if any dispute arise the Lot shall be put up again at a former bidding.

2.-No person shall at any bidding advance less than $100.

3.-Immediately after the fall of the hammer the Purchaser shall sign the Memorandum of Agreement hereinafter contained for completing the purchase according to these Conditions, and shall within Three Days of the day of Sale pay into the Colonial Treasury a deposit of one fifth of the amount of Premium at which the Lot shall have been knocked down, and within one Calendar Month from the day of Sale at the aforesaid Treasury pay two of the remaining four fifths of such Premium, and at the end of five Calendar Months from the day of Sale pay the remaining two fifths of the said Premium.

4. The Purchaser of the Lot shall be entitled to and shall execute on demand a Lease from the Crown of the Piece or Parcel of Ground comprised in such Lot for 999 Years, to be computed from the 26th day of March 1868, at such Annual Rental payable half yearly on the 24th day of December and the 24th day of June in every Year as is specified in the Particulars of such Lot herein before contained, and such Crown Lease shall be subject to and contain all the exceptions, reservations, covenants, clauses, and conditions usually inserted in the Crown Leases of Inland Lots in the Colony of Hongkong and contained in the Printed Form of Crown Lease in Schedule A annexed hereto.

5. The Purchaser of every Lot shall pay to the Surveyor General on behalf of Her Majesty The QUEEN a Fee of $5 upon the execution of the Crown Lease thereof.

6. Should the Purchaser neglect or fail to comply with these conditions his Premium or any portion thereof which may be paid shall be thereupon forfeited to Her Majesty who shall be at full liberty either to enforce the sale, or to re-sell the Property at such time and place and in such manner as to Her Majesty shall seem fit, and in case of a re-sale the increase if any of the Premium or Purchase Money shall be retained by Her Majesty and the deficiency if any and all costs and expenses shall be made good by the Defaulter and be recoverable as liquidated damages.

7.-Possession of every Lot sold shall be given to the Purchaser and deemed to have been taken by him on the day of sale.

Schedule A.

The Printed Form of Crown Lease referred to in the foregoing conditions of sale can be inspected on application at the Surveyor General's Office previously to the sale.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH FEBRUARY, 1868. 79

Memorandum of Agreement by the Purchaser.

Memorandum that each of the persons whose names are hereunder written has been declared the highest bidder for the Lot described in the foregoing Particulars of sale and hereunder specified oppo- site to his said name and signature and does hereby agree to become the Lessee thereof under and subject to the foregoing Conditions of Sale and on his part to perform and abide by the said Conditions.

Number of

Registry Number and

Annual Rental.

Sale Lot.

Description of Lot purchased.

Amount of Premium at which purchased.

Signature of Purchaser.

No. 28.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Return, relative to the Victoria Gaol during the Year 1867, is published for general information.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th February, 1868.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH FEBRUARY, 1868. 79

Memorandum of Agreement by the Purchaser.

Number of

Registry Number and

Annual Rental.

Sale Lot.

Description of Lot purchased.

Amount of Premium at which purchased.

Signature of Purchaser.

No. 28.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Return, relative to the Victoria Gaol during the Year 1867, is published for general information.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th February, 1868.

VICTORIA GAOL, HONGKONG.

MAY,.

JUNE.

JULY,.

AUGUST,

SEPTEMBER, ...

OCTOBER, .....

NOVEMBER,、 ? ? ?

DECEMBER, ...

JANUARY, *****]

FEBRUARY, ....

MARCH, ...................

APRIL,

COUNTRY.

Murder.

Piracy and Murder.

→

Co =

Piracy Endangering Life, &c.

Piracy and Confederating with

Pirates.

Cutting, Wounding and Shooting

with Intent.

-J

→

20 8883

32 00

316

1104

55 15 2.111

61 13

→

Burglary, &c.

Robbery or Larceny in a House,

臼

&c.

Larceny or Robbery fron the

Person, &c.

Assault with Intent to rob.

Administering Stupifying Drugs.

Manslaughter.

↓

的

Child Stealing, &c.

Sodomy and Unnatural Offences.

Forgery.

}

????

?????

↑

Superintendent of Victoria Gaol.

F. DOUGLAS,

Escape, &c.

Other Felonies not shown.

RETURN shewing the CLASSIFICATION of OFFENCES, for which PRISONERS were confined in VICTORIA GAOL, on the 1st Day of each Month of the Year 1867.

FELONIES.

MISDEMEANORS.

■

Conspiracy.

Embezzlement.

Extortion.

Obtaining Goods or Money under

false pretences.

Unlawful Possession or Receiving

Stolen Goods.

Perjury, &c.

→

Rogues and Vagabonds and

Suspicious Character, &c.

Gambling.

Breach of Brothel Ordinance, &c

ㄓˋ

Refusal of Duty, Desertion, &c.

Drunkenness and without Pass,

&c.

Crown Witnesses, &c.

foot

Other Offences not shown.

Remanded from Police Court.

Committed for Trial.

Debts.

All

Nations.

????

Total Number on 1st of each

Month.

GRAND TOTAL.

Daily Average No. of Prisoners

at work outside the Gaol.

Daily total Number of Prisoners

at work outside.

Daily Average Number of Prison-

ers Sick in Hospital.

Daily Total Number of Sick in

Ilospital.

2 69 17 632 718 19 237

256

3 59 27 560 646,15 212

227

3 55 16 537 608 18 221

2391

2 57 19 397 473,38] 165 3 50 22 444 516,28 205

233 11

203 2

???

271 16368 455 34 222

2561 31

3.3 52 20 422 494 26 202

228 1

8 3

5 73 12 409 494 38 222

260 1 32

570 40 413 523,45 236

281 21

12 192 14 428 534,60 206

266 22 1

5 1

193 11 397 501 58 206

264 21 3

4 li

3 91 12 462 565 55

192

247

29TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

THE

HONGKONG

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,

DATE.

No. 170.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH FEBRUARY, 1868. 83

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th December, 1867.

NOTICE.

It is hereby notified that the portion of Robinson Road which lies between Castle Road and Bonham Road, is closed to the public from this date, during certain alterations and repairs.

By Order,

Surveyor General's Office, Hongkong, 17th December, 1867.

WEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK. REGISTER AT HARBOR MASTER'S OFFICE, PRAYA WEST.

W. WILSON, Surveyor General.

6 A.M.

NOON.

6 P.M.

THERMOMETER.

1868.

Baro- meter.

Thermo- meter.

Baro- Thermo- meter.

Self Registering.

Baro-

meter.

Thermo-

meter.

Min.

Max.

February

30.10

30.05

???

30.00

29.98

29.99

30.00

29.97

29.91

29.88

29.90

29.98

29.96

REKONN

30.00

29.92

29.90

29.98

30.13

30.18

6 A.M.

9 A.M.

BAROMETER.

*NOON

3 P.M.

6 P.M.

6 A.M.

Height above Sea Level 1,770 feet.

HYDROMETER.

DRY BULB.

WET BULB,

'NOON

6 P.M.

6 A.M.

*NOON

6 P.M.

THERMO-

METER.

Self Registering.

Min. Max.

NOON.

WINDS.

RAIN.

In inches during the

Force, range from 0 to 12,

previous 24 hours.

REMARKS As to WeathER.

6 A.M.

NOON.

Dirn.

F. Dirn. F.

6 P.M.

Dirn.

9 A.M.

1868.

Feb. 22 28.37 28.42 28.51 28.52 28.29 64.00 68.30 65.00, 63.00| 66.00 64.00 64.00 68.50;SSE

23 28.20 28.21 28.38 28.39 28.19 63.00 68.00 65.00 61.00 65.30 63.30 63.00 70.05 SW

24 28.16 28.18 28.17 28.18 28.13 64.00 64,30| 63.00| 63.00| 63.00 62.00 63.00| 70.00 SELE

2 SELE 1 SSE

0.00

Dense fog until 10.30 A.M.; then pass-

ing fog throughout the day.

25 28.14 28.17 28.26 28.34 28.23 63.00 65.00] 66.00| 61.00 64.00 64.00 62.00| 66.00 ESE

26 28.13 28.17 28.24 28.23 28.18 64.00 67.00] 66.00 62.00 65.00 64.30, 64.00] 68.00 S

27 28.13 28.18 28.15 27.90 27.83 65.00| 66.00| 55,00 64.00 64.30| 54.00 55.00] 68.00;S

2827.88 27.98 27.99 27,96, 28.02′ 52.00 51.00 50.00] 51.00 49.00 49.00 ??50.00| 66.00 N?W

2 NNW

2 SEDE

3 SSW

1 S

2 SSW

0.00

Dense fog until 8 A.M.; then passing

fog.

6 SSE

0.00

Dense fog all day.-

6 SSE

0.00

Dense fog until 11.45 A.M.; passing

fog until 5 P.M.; then dense fog. Dense fog until 8 A.M.; then thick

1 SSE

0.00

1 WbN

1 NW

2 NW

0.00

6 N

0.02

passing fog.

Dense fog until 9 A.M.; passing fog

until 2 P.M.; then dense fog. Fine though hazy; at 3 P.M. passing fog, slight rain during past night; heavy squall of wind about 1 A.M: until 2 A.M.

Aytie, Miss

Amoo, Mr.

Ahong, Mr.

}

Gattinoni, Vi- cenzo, Sig. Granger,W.P.

Anderson, Peter 1

Dewar, A. M.

Caetano

Capt.

} 1

formerly of the 20th

-1

Regiment

Ahsoo, Charley 1

Delury, Daniel 1

Gale, A.

Daniell, F.

Geale, J.

Albany, T.

Monsr.

Damioli,

Gardiner, Peter 1

Diego Sigr.

Grant, Thos

Daina, J.

(Engineer)

Bowley, G.

Fran.co Sigr.

Bois, P. du

Darborough,

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

POST OFFICE NOTICE.

List of unclaimed LETTERS and PAPERS lying in the Hongkong Post Office for Parties not known, 28th February, 1868.

Athaide, A.

Adkin, E.

Letters. Papers.

Causs, A. W. Cordeiro, Luis

Xavier

Letters, Papers.

Letters. Papers.

Kennedy,

James (Ap- prentice)

Letters. Papers.

Padwick, Geo. 1 Portaria,

(Engineer)}

Palmer, Mr.,

Lets. Paps.

Schwoerer, 1

Eugene Silva, Deme- trio Aranjo de Santon, Mar-

tin Sor. Dn. I Stewart, John 1 Smith, John

Schofield, James1

Band-Mas 2 & 1 bk. Souza, Domin-

ter, 8th N.I.

1 book.

-}:

Esperan?a Proand, A.

Landisbergh, G.1 registd.

Parravicino,

Lary, W.

Yppolito

Low John B.

Phillips, R.

Low K. A.

Prior, Chas.

Leroy, Monsr. 1 Leguand, Monsr.1

Smith, Thos.

Hill, James Mr. 1

Bagehot, Barnes 1.

Moore, F. Wm. 1 Martin, W.

gos Jeronimo} 1

J. J.

Hojoljom, D. A. 1

Bliss, Thos. H. 1

Dyson, W. Capt. 1

Halpern, J.

McLoor, A. & 2

Co., Messrs.

Parker, A. J. Piper, Harvey

Torres, Sir.

Brown, Wm.

Dalall, M. R.

Harrison, W.

M Curne, Mr.

Brinckmeyer, S.1

Donath, Franz. 1

Roberts, Wm. ?

Dn., Tenien-

Capt.

Manning, Mr.

(Engineer)

te de Cabal-

Bird, G. W.

Hackrof,

Mills, F. M.

Roza, Felis-

leria

Bondom, Monsr. 1

Eaglesham,

Bernado

McNeil, Richard1

bina, Sra.

Terry, L. F.

Browne, Miss

Capt.

Dn.

Marshall, H.

Rair, A.

Zegers

Berns, G. H.

Batchalder,M.J.1

Ewing, Etna,

Mrs.

Hayert, Philip 1

Marques, A. G. 2

Holbek, N.

Burton, James 1

Hansen, Carl

Boshlyn, B.

Fraser, John

Boyle, A.

Rhodes, Mrs.

Harboe, Capt. 1

Mackie, W. L. 1 McClelland, D. 1 Miller, W.

Robertson, Geo. 2 Ringer, J. M. Robertson, C. ?

Tate, Stranger 3 Turner, L.

Hill, G.

Morello, Capt. 1

Boate, Harry S.1

Barbote, Luiggi 1

Barlow, A. E. 1 Bendt, W. Mr. 1 Buttrey,Ja.Capt.1

Collins, W. H.)

Revd., Pekin 1registd.

Cheong, Sun

Mr.

Corvinous, G.S.1 Compagn,

Hestique F.}

Crabb, Geo.,Capt. 1 Cooper, Wm.

Clarke, W.

Manoel L.

Fernandez,

Louren?o

Flores, Victorinol

Fenwick, J. M. 1 Fernandes,

Constancio C.

Falkiner, Daniel 1 Forster, John

Fenney, B.Henry Fernandes,

Benjamin Figueiras, Snr. 1 Ferreyras,

Manoel Fego, Angelo de i

}

Herrera, R. Sr. Dn. Holcomb, Harry 1

Jeffery, J. W. 1 Judd, Miss Johnson, J.

Keerlin, Ma- }

King, John

formerly Chief-Officer Trebolgin

Marchall, Ed.

Hine, N. M.

Moullin, Capt.

Harrold, Fred.

MacMahon, W.

Robert, Fillo-}

Hawkins, T. E. 2

Meneau, C. P.

Monsr.

}

MacCulloch, D. 1

Murton, N.

Sigismundo

Martyn, Miss

Rangel, A. N.

Meeter, Petrus 1

Roza, R. da

Milton, W. F.

Metger, C. H.

Shaw, Robt.

Miller, Archi.

Simpson, James 1

Noyes, A. M.

Carvalho,

Garred, M., Mr. 1

Nichois, H. J. Neile, Richard 1

1 book.

Green, Hugh

Kennedy, W.

Cotter, William 2

Gonsalves, V. 1

Kyle, David

Chagas, L. J.

Garcia, Franco. 1

Kek, R.

Cargill, William1

Green, Mel-

Cazadinho,

Manoel

}

vina, Mrs.

Kelung, Mrs. 2

Gilchrist, James1

Kreyer, C. T.,

Revd.

}

Monsieur

inena

Reeves, T.

Ratto, Emmanueli

Rantenberg,

Schmidt & Co.

Remedios, dos ?

Olibeiro, Manoell O'Connor, John 1 Omalon, Anais

Madme. Oates, Thos.

}

(Asst. Engr.)} Richards, Wm. 1

Stevens, John L. 1 Simpson, Geo. i Scott, Charles J.2 Stewart, C. Mrs. 1 Staples, Capt. 1 Souza, Joaquim 1 Steggensen, C. 1 Smith, John

(Asst, Engr.)} Single, H.

1 registd.

Von Wevels

Fleth Mohr. Heinrich Johann Vidaurre, Luis 1

}

Williams, J.

Edwd. Webb, James Weaver, W. Wightman, L. 1 Weatherhead,} i

Thomas

P. 21

Wilkinson, G. Wilson, J. A. Whaits, E. P.

Mrs. Worrell, Henry 1 Wilson, G. H. Wessely, Mr.

Zynen, Wel. Ed. Heer, Doctor

2 3bks.

} 2

Letters. Papers.

Countess of

Elgin

Letters. Papers.

Golden Fleece

Guajara

Allendale

Gleam

Alexandrina

Carmeline

Gungadhur

Abotsford

Colorado (Ship)3

Golden Dragon 2

Antifer

Colombo

Gustav Adolf 2

Adeline

Charlotte

Gifford

Ashburton

Cora Linn

Agnes

Charmian

Glenroy

Anevoca

Chinaman

Golden Spur

Amiral Charner 2

Cydoma

Geo. Croshaw 4

Amicus

Glenlee

Aden

Devana

Andromeda

Dannevirke

Alexandra

Abbott Lawrence?

Dashing Wave 1 Dora

America

Annetta

Antares

Englishman 19

Emerald

Bengal

Burdwan

Blairmore Bosphorus Bien Hoa

Boanerges Belle of the

South Broadwater

Baringa

4121-S - HO

Ecliptic

Europa,

Elgin Eagle Ellida

List of LETTERS and PAPERS lying at the Hongkong Post Office for Merchant Vessels, 28th February, 1868.

Argonaut Arima

Cotherstone

Golden Dream

Gibsey

Helen

Henriette

}

Gerardina Sussanne Henry Handley 2

Heather Bell 1

Ho Hang Ho Henry Melvill 2

Henrietta

Ocean Home

2221-

St. Mary

Lets. Faps.

Sandringham 1 Sultan Speculation 1 Shooting Star

Senator Webb Star of England 2

Stirlingshire

Sardinia

Stanley

Solent

Spirit of the Northl Southern Belle 1 Sea Flower

Southern Cross 1

Three Brothers 2

Letters. Papers.

Letters. Papera.

Kelso

Kester

Kate Cleather 1 Kingsfisher

Navarino Noranside Nelson

Norham

Northumberland2

Lucerne

Nelly

Libra

Lochnager

Ocean House 1

Lottie Maria

Oriental

Lobelia

Orsa

Lady Love

Ospray

Lorton

Ocean Spray

Lady Alice

Leblom

Otto

Lady Elena Brucel

Lina

Onward Osborne

Maggie Lauder 1

Prudhoe

Marian

Pieter

Mary Lucie

Passepartout

Vesta Vigil

Medusa

Pacific

Ville de Grenade 4

Malvern

10 1

Mirage

Philip Nelson 1 Penang

Vanguard

Veneta

Hermione

Morayshire

Princess of Wales1

Vision

Mathilde

Eleutheria

Isabella Ridley 2

Maria Elizabeth 1

Qu. of England

Eliza

Isabella

Mandan

Qu. of the Ocean 2

Etienne et

Indien Empire 1

Martha

Lorena

Mogul

Reindeer

Virgen de los

Dolores

Viscount Canning1

Wealth of

} 1

Clio Corea

City of Ham-

Confucius

milton

} 1

Clair

Chalgrove 1

Fort Regent

Channel Queen 1 Codabux

Faders Minde

Fair Leader Falcon

Esperanza

Ellen Morice

Ettie

Free Trade

Feordres

Fortitude

Japan

Maud Helen

Rome

Jenie

Marie & Helena 1

Raphael

Nations Wild Gazelle

} 3

Japara

Melbourne

Reconnaisance 1

Water Lily

1211—

Jason

John & Mary

James Miller 1

Malabar

Rapid

Wild Rover

Malvina Vidal

Ramsey

White Swallow 1

Montrose

Regina

Jeanne Alice

Jacques et Marie2 John Banfield

Napoleon Norval

Kim Soon Hong 1

Naomi

Red Deer

Nothumbria

4221

Rifle Resolute

Wm. Chandler 9 Winfield Wartburg

Servantes

Yvonne Yedo

List of Unpaid and Registered LETTERS and PAPERS lying at the Hongkong Post Office for Her Majesty's Ships of War, 28th February, 1868.

Basilisk

Letters. Papers.

Dove

Lotters. Papers.

Insolent

Letters. Papers.

Melville

Letters. Papors.

Letters. Papers.

Letters. Papers:

P. Charlotte 14

Rodney Salamis

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY. "OTICE.?JOSEPH CLARKE BURT, of Vic- toria in the Colony of Hongkong, first Boarding Officer of the Harbor Master's Depart- ment, Hongkong, having been adjudged Bank- rupt under a Petition for adjudication of Bank- ruptcy filed in the Supreme Court on the Twenty eighth day of February, 1868, is hereby required to surrender himself to the Honorable William Hastings Alexander, Esquire, the Registrar of the said Supreme Court, at the first Meeting of Creditors, to be held before the said Registrar on the Sixteenth day of March, next, at Eleven of the clock in the forenoon precisely, at the said Court.

　　　　Frederick Sowley Huffam, Esquire, is the Official Assignee, and Mr. William Gaskell is the Solicitor acting in the Bankruptcy.

At the Meeting the said Registrar will receive the proofs of the Debts of the Creditors, and the Creditors may choose an Assignee or Assignees of the Bankrupt's Estate and Effects.

THE BANKRUPTCY ACT 1861.

NOTI

A. ELLISSEN & Co.

wise they will be excluded from all benefit thereof AND NOTICE is hereby further given that after

NOTICE.

AND NOTICE is grey further that and M. Ttted a Paper in out

R. THOMAS PYKE has this day been ad-

Eight hundred and Sixty-Eight the said Ins- pectors will proceed to distribute the assets which have come to their hands under the said Deed of Arrangement arising from the said joint and separate estates of the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen among the Creditors entitled thereto having regard only to the debts claims or demands for which the said Deed shall then be executed or assented to and the particulars of whose debts claims or demands shall have been forwarded to the said Inspectors and proved to their satisfaction and duly allowed by them.

And the Inspectors will not be liable for the assets or any part thereof so distributed to any person or persons of whose debt claim or demand they shall not then have had notice or of which no particulars shall have been furnished or which having been disputed by the said Inspectors shall not have been duly v?rified by Affidavit or Declaration in accordance with the provisions of the Bankruptcy Act 1861 for proof of debts and allowed as claims against the said Estates of the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen.

Dated this 29th day of October, 1867.

FLUX ARGLES & RAWLINS,

1 East India Avenue Leadenhall Street London Solicitors for the said Inspectors.

NOTICE.

In the Matter of a Deed of Arrange- MR. JOHN HOW CHEVERTON is authorized

ment dated the 30th day of June 1865, made between Adolf Ellissen of No. 4 Cullum Street in the City of London Merchant and of Coven- try in the County of Warwick Cot- ton Spinner and Gustav Ellissen then residing at No. 28 Maida Hill West in the County of Middlesex but late of Hongkong in China Mer- chaut the said Adolf Ellissen carry- ing on business in London as a Merchant alone under the Style or Firm of "A. Ellissen & Co.” and at Coventry aforesaid as a Cotton Spin- ner alone in his own name and the said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellis- sen carrying on business in Co-part- nership at Hongkong and Shanghai in China under the name style or firm of "A. Ellissen & Co." and which said Adolf Ellissen and Gustav Ellissen were thereinafter designated as the Debtors of the first part Roger Swire Tomlin of No. 1 Bank Build- ings in the City of London Gentle- man William Burrows of Great St. Helen's in the same City Merchant and William Moales of 19 King's Arms Yard Moorgate Street in the City of London Accountant therein- after designated "The Inspectors of the second part and The several Per-

to sign our Firm per procuration.

ALFRED WILKINSON & Co. Hongkong, 21st February, 1867.

NOTICE.

R. EMIL VOGEL and Mr. HEINRICH

become this day in

our business, which in future will be carried on under the Firm of

VOGEL, HAGEDORN & Co., both here and at Canton.

HAGEDORN & Co. Hongkong, 12th February, 1868.

NOTICE.

HE interest responsibility of Mr. J. stauder in our firm ceased on

the 31st December, 1867.

SANDER & Co. Hongkong, 8th February, 1867.

HING-QUA JOHN,

PHOTOGRAPHER,

No. 28, PRAYA CENTRAL,

Terms:

$3 per dozen small size likenesses, and reason- able charge for large ones.

NOTICE.

R. HUGH SUTHERLAND is authorized to

sons Companies and Co-partnership MR sign our Firm per procuration from this

Firms who at the date thereof were respectively Creditors of the Debtors or either of them thereinafter desig- nated "the Creditors" of the third part Registered in the Court of Bankruptcy pursuant to the Bank- ruptcy Act 1861 the Twenty-eighth day of July 1865 whereby the said Debtors assigned all their joint and separate estates and effects as well in Great Britain and China as elsewhere to the Inspectors for the benefit of their Creditors.

date.

JOHN FORSTER & Co. Foochow, 7th January, 1868.

NOTICE.

THE Interest and outs Pfirm ceased on the 31st THE Interest and responsibility of Mr. A. D.

day of December, 1867.

A. FERGUSON & Co. Hongkong, 3rd January, 1868.

NOTICE. THE interest and responsibility of Mr. A. FER- GUSON in our Firm ceased on the 1st day of November, 1866.

A. FERGUSON & Co.

The business will henceforth be carried on un- der the same name by the undersigned.

A. D. MITCHELL.

J. D. MEYERS.

HENRY FEHRS.

Hongkong, 16th December,1867.

BIRLEY & Co.

Hongkong, 1st January, 1868.

NOW READY AND FOR SALE.

TABLE

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OF THE

P. & O. Steam Navigation Co.,

FOR THE YEAR 1868, Neatly printed on Card Board. PRICE $1 per copy.

"Government Gazette Office,"

Hongkong, 1st February, 1868.

FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE,

LIST OF

STAMP DUTIES,

(revised and approved by F. W. MITCHELL, Esquire, Collector of Stamp Duties,)

CONTAINING ALSO

A DIGEST OF PENALTIES,

AND

RULES OF THE STAMP OFFICE.

PRICE-50 cents per copy. "Government Gazette Office," Hongkong, 28th December, 1867.

COPPER PLATE PRINTING. ARTIES having their own engraved Plates may have VISITING CARDS printed from then, by applying at the Office of

PART

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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 7TH MARCH, 1868.

VOL. XIV.

No. 29.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

　　　　　The following Report of the Harbor Master, with Returns annexed for the Year 1867, is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th March, 1868.

SIR,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

HARBOR MASTER'S DEPARTMENT, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 19th February, 1868.

1. I have the honor to enclose the undermentioned Annual Returns of the Shipping and other matters connected with the Marine Department of this Colony.

I. Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels, entered at Ports in Hongkong from each Country in the Year 1867. II. Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels, cleared at Ports in the Colony of Hongkongt o each Country in the Year 1867. III. Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels, of each Nation entered at Ports in the Colony of Hongkong in the Year 1867. IV. Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels, of each Nation cleared at Ports in the Colony of Hongkong in the Year 1867. V. Total Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels, entered at each Port in the Colony of Hongkong in the Year 1867. VI. Total Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels, cleared in 1867.

VII. Return of Junks entered at the Port of Victoria from the Outstations of the Island and the Villages in British

Kowloon during the Year 1867.

VIII. Return of Junks cleared from the Ports of Victoria for the Outstations of the Island and the Villages in British

Kowloon during the Year 1867.

IX. Summary of Arrivals and Departures.

X. Return of Vessels Registered at the Port of Hongkong, during the Year 1867.

XI. Return of Vessels Registered and struck off in the Port of Hongkong during the Year 1867.

XII. Return of Emigrant Ships cleared by the Emigration Officer, Hongkong, during the Year ending 31st December, 1867. XIII. Return of Vessels bringing Chinese Passengers to the Port of Victoria, Hongkong, from places out of China,

during the Year 1867.

　　XIV. Amount of Fees received under Ordinance No. 10 of 1860, in the Harbor Master's Department during the Year 1867. XV. Return of Marine Cases tried at the Marine Magistrate's Office/during the Year 1867.

SHIPPING.

　　　　　　2. This is the first occasion on which the Arrivals and Departures of the Canton and Macao Steamers, and of the native Junks trading between this Port and the Ports of China, &c., are included in the Returns. The grand total, conse- quently, exhibits a very large increase on the Year 1866, of 21,337 Vessels with 1,612,672 tons entered, and 20,989 Vessels with 1,593,769 tons cleared, or that of Foreign trade, a grand total of 42,326 more Vessels with a capacity of 3,206,441 tons and manned by 602,781 Seamen were Registered in the books of this Office in 1867, than were noted in the preceding Year.

　　　　　　3. It must not be taken that these figures indicate a positive increase to the trade of the Colony, but rather that recent legislation has in addition to other important matters (hereafter treated of) enabled this Department to keep more detailed and accurate accounts than previously of the amount of trade actually being done between this Port and Foreign Countries. But extraneous of the tonnage thus added, there has been an increase in the gross trade of the Colony during the Year, amounting to 9,118 tons; this increase is in a great measure due to the establishment of the Pacific Mail Steam-Ship Company and to the increased steam Coasting trade with China. There is a decrease of 29,484 tons, in the trade between this Port and British India, which is somewhat due to the Abyssinian campaign; Her Majesty's Government having engaged some of the Vessels, usually frequenting Hongkong, to carry Troops and Stores for the expedition.

4. In view of the general unsatisfactory condition of the mercantile world, the Returns of Shipping, other than in Chinese bottoms, evince a better result than could have been anticipated.

JUNK TRADE.—“ Harbor and Coasts Ordinance, No. 6 of 1866."

　　　　　　5. It will be gratifying to Her Majesty's Government to know of the great success, which has attended the introduc- tion of this very important Ordinance. Previous to, and for some time subsequent to its inauguration, it was surmised by many that the effect of this Law would be to drive the owners and Masters of Junks from the pursuit of a legitimate trade, to

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH MARCH, 1868.

follow a career of piracy; but the Returns accompanying this Report prove how erroneous and groundless those fears and doubts were. I trust it may not be considered out of place to give a slight description of the measures adopted with a view to impressing on the Chinese mind that the new order of things was not opposed to the freedom of trade, but was intended to ensure it a greater amount of protection than it had hitherto enjoyed.

　　　6. By the 1st of January, 1867, the day on which the Ordinance was proclaimed to take effect, the Junks with but few exceptions had left the harbors of Victoria, Sowkewan, Stanley and Aberdeen. Those which remained were immediately moved into their proper anchorages and their Masters were informed that they could not proceed to sea without previously obtaining Port Clearances. Only a few vessels bringing a small quantity of fuel and provisions for the markets, and some boats to load granite arrived during the first few days. This reduction in the supplies soon showed itself in the increased price of all articles required for immediate consumption, but the Chinese in their calculations for starving the Government into a repeal of the new Law, if such ever was their idea, soon saw that the Colony was not depending on their Junks for its ordinary supply of food, as the steamers of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steam-boat Company were able to bring large quantities, and if it had become necessary, doubtless other European vessels would have been ready to assist. However, the natives could not afford to leave their vessels idle and soon began to make enquiries as to what real injury (if any) was likely to happen to them if they resumed their trade. As each owner came forward for information, the object of the Law was care- fully and patiently explained to them. From their looks of surprise on finding the real nature of the Law, it was evident their minds had been filled with stories totally at variance with the object and intention of the Government. Their objections soon resolved themselves into two only. The first was the too-frequent reporting at this Office by those Vessels whose business led them into Port five or six times a month, and the second objection was the having to find security before a License could be issued. The first objection was met by granting the Licensee a monthly "Special Permit" exempting him from reporting in person more frequently than was necessary to change his Permit, and the second objection was met by adapting the amounts of the bonds to the importance and nature of the trade of the Vessels desirous of obtaining Licenses. In the meanwhile the Officers of the Department were actively engaged afloat here and at the Outstations to see that no breach of the Law took place. By these means and by a careful exercise of the powers invested in the Magistrates in the cases of offenders, the Law and its object soon became extensively circulated amongst the natives, and applicants rapidly came forward for Licenses, and that part of the Harbor and the line of the Praya frequented by Junks soon became as full and active as ever. There are now 364 Licensed trading Junks, measuring in the aggregate 27,524 tons manned by 3,940 Chinese; but in addition to this, a far larger number of other Junks trade to this Colony, obtaining the necessary Anchorage and Clearance Documents on each visit.

7. During the Year the total number of Chinese Vessels entered inwards engaged in Foreign trade was 20,787, measuring 1,367,702 tons with crews consisting of 281,897 men, and there were entered outwards 20,443 vessels with 1,353,700 tons, and crews of 278,725 men. These Vessels trade with 37 Ports West and South of Hongkong, and with 33 Ports to the East and North of Hongkong. Their cargoes consist of Opium, Rice, Cotton, British and Foreign Manufactures, Earthen- ware, Granite, Lime, Peas, Salt Fish, &c., besides bringing Firewood, Cattle, Poultry, Fruit and Vegetables, &c., for the subsistence of a resident population of 117,471 souls.

8. The owners of the numerous Fishing Boats in the vicinity of the Colony also hesitated for some time before they could be induced to return to the Ports of the Island and sent their fish to the markets by means of small boats, but they soon found that to be a slow and unprofitable process. The several Inspectors at Victoria and at the Outstations were directed to visit the Fishing Junks in their neighbourhood to explain to their owners the object of the Law. These boats eventually returned and there are now 1,444 of them licensed, with a carrying capacity equal to 48,838 tons and crews composing of 6,136 men.

9. The before mentioned Junks (with the exception of the Fishing ones), are those connected with the Foreign Trade only, (i.e. they trade to places outside of Hongkong and its Dependencies) but there is a daily traffic between Victoria and the various Villages of the Colony by Junks conveying Passengers and supplies. These amount to 10,774 Vessels, 319,208 tons and 43,483 crews entered and 10,832 Vessels, 321,863 tons and 43,647 crews cleared during the Year under review; consequently the Foreign and local trade of this Colony in Junks alone (except those engaged in Fishing) amount to 31,561 Vessels, 1,686,910 tons and 325,380 men entered; and 31,275 Vessels, 1,675,563 tons and 322,372 men cleared, or a grand total of 62,836 Vessels, 3,362,473 tons and 647,752 Chinese seamen.

10. The introduction of the Harbor and Coasts Ordinance has led to a large increase to the Staff and to the labor of this Department.

11. As each of the 31,561 Junks arrived in the various Ports of Hongkong in 1867, she was boarded and a full description of her Guns, Arms, Ammunition, &c., was taken and a record kept of them. In addition to this the greater por-. tion of the 1,444 Fishing Junks which are licensed come in or leave the Ports almost daily during the winter months. At Stanley I have seen as many as 300 of these boats arrive in the evening and all leave the following morning. Of course it is impossible to visit the whole of them in so short a time, but as many as can be, are boarded and as the Vessels are taken indiscriminately the check on any misconduct should be complete. A full description of all licensed native craft is kept on record, and they are so frequently boarded, that the Officers are able to see that no change takes place in their respective fittings.

12. Besides the afloat work there have been 36,713 documents issued in the various Offices.

13. I am glad to be able to report that the fees collected have been found sufficient to cover the expenses of the Ordinance.

14. Fifty-one trials have taken place under this Ordinance, but in very rare instances was it proved that the charges preferred were otherwise than the result of ignorance of the Law.

15. The Outstations have been frequently visited by the Assistant Harbor Master and myself in the Colonial Tender and other means of conveyance. The former has answered her purpose as well as could be expected, but being a Junk her movements are slow and it is at times inconvenient to be away from the Harbor of Victoria for any length of time. A vessel with steam power would enable the Department to perform the duties required by the Ordinance with greater expedition and the visits to the creeks and bays round the Island would be more frequent and consequently of more value as a help in the work of checking piracy.

16. From the following list it may be fairly presumed that the effect of this Ordinance has been to produce as good results as its warmest supporters could have hoped, for it will be observed that while piracy has sensibly decreased, attacks on European vessels have entirely ceased, but it will be difficult to ensure the complete suppression of Piracy until either a total disarmament of all native vessels shall be assented to, or the whole Coast of China shall be blockaded by men-of-war.

17. Statement of Piracies committed in the vicinity of Hongkong during the following Years :-

Year.

1864

1865

1866

1867

Junks attacked. European Vessels attacked. Total.

Nil.

147

169

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH MARCH, 1868.

18. There can also be little doubt that the result of the new Law has been to keep many evil disposed persons out of Hongkong. Formerly there was good reason to suppose that Piratical vessels were fitted out in this Harbor. Free trade amongst Junks had become free License and these piratical pests of our waters had unmolested ingress and egress at all hours of the day or night. Under the existing system the certainty of being boarded on arrival and the uncertainty as to the number of times the Junks are likely to be visited whilst lying here, check the operations of any Chinese who may be meditating aggressive measures on Vessels at sea.

19. In concluding that part of my Report which has reference to the Arrivals and Departures of Vessels, I insert a statement of all vessels Foreign and Native (exclusive of Fishing Junks) that have entered and left the Ports of the Colony during the Year of which this Report treats.

Arrived Departed

Grand Total.

....

No. of Vessels.

34,007

33,708

67,715

Tons.

Crews.

2,881,736

466,693

2,857,057

462,983

5,738,793

929,676

or, including Sundays, 185.5 Vessels enter and leave these waters daily.

20. Besides the cargoes brought by the above mentioned Vessels they have also brought 429,079 Chinese Passengers to Victoria, and a somewhat less number have left by the same means. This would make it appear that the population of Hongkong has not increased to any great extent. But the Arrivals and Departures of Chinese included in this Report must not be taken as affecting the resident population, as many Passengers daily arrive in the Colony by means of the small pulling boats and of whom no register can be kept by this Department.

EMIGRATION.

21. Emigration from Hongkong has sensibly decreased, there having been but 4,129 souls despatched in 1867, which is 986 less than in the previous Year. This is in a great measure to be attributed to the present cheapness of Rice and clothing in China, as it is well known that Chinese will not leave their native Country unless driven from it by want of em- ployment or by want of food.

　　　　　22. The number of Chinese returned from various Countries to their native land is 9,866, being an increase of 613 on the previous Year. In this increase are included 97 from Havana. This is the first Year that any Chinese have been reported as returning from that place.

23. The Netherlands Government is continuing its efforts to encourage Chinese to emigrate to Dutch Guiana and with that view, the advantages to Emigrants have been improved. The terms of their Contracts are most liberal. On their engagement at this place, they receive two suits of clothes with bedding and other comforts for the voyage. In addition to this a sum of eleven dollars is given them, with which they purchase a few articles, giving a large proportion of their remaining money to their friends who accompany them to see them off. The intending Emigrants agree to serve for a term of Five Years at the rate of Seven Dollars a month. They are excused from all labor on Sundays and public holidays. At the end of their service they receive Sixty Dollars bonus, which, with the savings accrued from their monthly pay, enables them either to pay their passage back to China or to embark their little fortune in shopkeeping or in cultivating a piece of ground which the Netherlands Government gives to those who wish to remain in the Country as settlers. During their period of service the Chinese are under the special protection of the Government and enjoy the same rights as other citizens. With so many advantages offered it is difficult to conceive on what facts the opponents to the system of hired Emigration can ground their arguments, for it must be self-evident that the condition of the Chinese is much improved by their transferrence to British or Dutch possessions.

　　　　24. It has lately been prominently brought to my notice that during the North-east monsoon the Masters of some of the Vessels bound to Singapore and Bangkok have been in the habit of carrying more Chinese Passengers than is permitted by the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855.

　　　　25. The Vessels are cleared in the usual manner with 20 Passengers, after which they are dropped a little way beyond Green Island and then take on board large numbers of Chinese. In the possible event of any Vessel so laden falling in with heavy weather or calms, the loss of life in the former case from want of proper accommodation, and in the latter from want of food and water together with the risk of an epidemic breaking out would be frightful.

　　　　26. Heavy penalties have been imposed in each case where the Masters of Vessels have been proved to have infringed the Law.

　　　　27. I trust that the steps adopted at this Port with the co-operation of the Government of the Straits Settlement, will shortly put a stop to this most objectionable and dangerous practice.

REGISTRY OF SHIPPING.

　　　　28. Thirty Vessels have been registered during the Year and Thirty-seven have for various reasons been struck off. The loss on the difference amounts to 2,182 tons.

SEA MEN,

29. The number of Seamen shipped during the Year amounts to 8,117 and of those discharged to 7,535.

　　　　30. A large number of Seamen have been forwarded to this Colony during the Year from the Consular Ports in China, the Philippine Islands and Siam.

　　　　31. The system of doing so, in cases where it could be avoided, is most antagonistic to the good order of Victoria. The legal discharge of Seamen at the local Mercantile Marine Office is purposely limited to meet the probable requirements of the Port; therefore any large influx of Seamen from other Ports tends to overthrow all calculations made here to keep the supply and demand of this class of men on a proper footing and is attended with considerable expense to the Imperial Government as the greater proportion of the Seamen land in a destitute condition. Measures have been taken which I hope will prevent a recurrence of this evil.

32. The sum expended in 1867 for the relief of destitute Seamen was $6,545.75.

MARINE MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

33. The total number of cases tried during the Year was 241 or 10 less than in 1866 and of these 51 were for breaches of the Harbor and Coasts Ordinance, so that it will be observed that Seamen have not been so frequently as hitherto before the Court for breaches of discipline.

EXAMINATIONS,-Ordinancc No. 17 of 1860.

34. Under this Ordinance 35 Masters and Mates have received Certificates of Competency, 6 only have been rejected, showing an improvement on the last Year's Return.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH MARCH, 1868.

MARINE COURTS.-Ordinance No. 11 of 1860.

35. Three of these Courts have been held during the past Year. The first was held on the Chief Mate of the Moldavian for harsh treatment towards the crew, which being proved, the defendant's Certificate of Competency was suspended for Three Months. The second was to investigate charges of drunkenness and incapacity brought by the Officers, and a portion of the crew against the Master of the Ethel. This resulted in the defendant's acquittal, and the Chief Mate being severely repri- manded. The third Court was to enquire into the cause of the loss of the steamer Genkai, near Chelang Point. The Master, Officers and Crew, were acquitted and highly commended for the exertions they made to save the Vessel.

GUNPOWDER STORAGE.-Ordinance No. 4 of 1867.

36. In consequence of an explosion on board a hulk containing about 100 tons of Gunpowder, moored at Kowloon, it was deemed necessary to bring the storage of Gunpowder under the immediate control of the Government. A hulk for this purpose was therefore purchased and fitted as a floating magazine. The Ordinance is in full working order, 31,777 packages, containing nearly 330 Tons of Gunpowder, have been delivered since June last.

　　　37. There has been one conviction under this Ordinance, but as the case was attended with much danger during the passage of the Ship and also for a short time to the Vessels in Harbor and to the Town, it is worthy of special attention.

　　　38. A ship left New York with a full cargo of what the Master supposed to be non-explosive packages and consequently did not pay such particular attention to the storage as would have been the case had he known he had a quantity of Gun- powder on board. In the manifest was entered a certain number of packages of merchandize. In the meanwhile advices had been received from Shanghai by the Agents here to the effect that a number of cases of Cartridges was on board the Vessel, so that on her arrival they applied in the usual way for permission to store 394 cases in the Gunpowder Dep?t. It was only then, that the Master knew he had been carrying 34 cwt. of Gunpowder.

　　　39. The fine imposed will doubtless lead to greater care being taken at the Ports of Shipment, to state distinctly in ships' manifests if Gunpowder forms a portion of the Cargo.-I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient Servant,

H. G. THOMSETT, R.N.,

Harbor Master, &c.

To the Honorable CECIL C. SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

I-NUMBER, TONNAGE, and CREWS of Vessels entered at Ports in the Colony of Hongkong from each Country, in the Year 1867.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,

BRITISH.

FOREIGN.

TOTAL.

COUNTRIES WHENCE ARRIVED.

WITH CARGOES.

IN BALLAST.

TOTAL.

WITH CARGOES.

IN BALLAST.

TOTAL.

WITH CARGOES.

IN BALLAST.

TOTAL.

Vessels.

Tons. Crews. Vessels.

Tons.

Crews. Vessels.

Tons.

Crews. Vessels.

Tons.

Crews. Vessels.

Great Britain,

48,086 1,451

...

***

48,086 1,451|

10,994

346

Tons.

346

10,944

Crews. Vessels. Tons. Crews. Vessels.

Tons.

Crews. Vessels.

Tons. Crews.

59,080 1,797

Continent of Europe,.................

215

7,818 337

21 7,818 337

8,033 351

United States of America,

3,682 122

3.682 122

59,480 1,949|

59,480 1,949

63,162 2.071,

581 63,162 2,071

India and Singapore,...

129 116,946 8,327|

440

130

117,386 8,382 381

30,565 1,610

167

147,511| 9,937]

440

168

147,957 9,992

Australia and New Zealand,

321

15,553 553

321

15,553 553

19]

8,522

302

8,522 302

South America,

300

300 18

1,100 25

5,841 181

6,941

206

Cape of Good Hope,

154

24,075 855

21 1,400 431

154

24,075]

855

5,841 181

7,241

224

154

West Indies,

4,711 155

4,711

155

Java and other Islands, Indian Archipelago,.

2,209

2,209 83

1,802 931

1,128 66

2,930

129

4,011

...

176

4,711

155

4,711

155

1,128| 36

5,139

212

Islands of the South Pacific,

420

26!

420

261

420

Philippines,

2,376

9051 40

Siam,

23,706

829

Jaran,

201 9,936 551

3,281 119 23,706 829 4,784 230 27 14,720 781

16,334 924

1,237 49

17.571

973

18,710 1,003|

2,142

44,397 2,088

991

44,397 2,088

148

68,103 2,917

89 66

148

20,852

1,092

68,103 2,917

Amoor River,

16 4,088 2391 1

1,562 65

20 5,650 304

14,024 790

6,346

295 47

20,370 1,085

294

...

British North America,

Coast of China and Formosa,

TOTAL,..

708 1,098 473,257 43,472||

708 48,421 2,205 1,189 521,678 45,677 14,025 1,325,344 224,116 7,343 285,213 69,112 21,368 1,610,557 293,228 15,123 1,798,601 267,588 7,434 1,414 697,128| 55,526| 101 54,550 2,530 1,515 751,678 58,056 14,353 1,511,158 232,066 7,365| 299,092 69,598 21,7181,810,850 301,664 15,767 2,208,286 287,592 7,466

333,634 71,317 22,557 2,132,235 338,905 354,242 72,128 23,233 2,562,528 359,720

H. G. THOMSETT, Harbor Master, &c.

708

294

708

II.-NUMBER, TONNAGE, and CREWS of Vessels cleared at Ports in the Colony of Hongkong from each Country, in the Year 1867.

7TH MARCH, 1868.

BRITISH.

FOREIGN.

TOTAL.

COUNTRIES TO WHICH DEPARTED.

WITH CARGOES.

IN BALLAST.

TOTAL.

WITH CARGOES.

IN BALI AST.

TOTAL.

WITH CARGOES.

IN BALLAST.

TOTAL.

Vessels.

Great Britain,

Tons. Crews. Veseels. Tons. 10 9,520 352

Crews. Vessels.

769 24 11

Tons. Crews. Vessels.

Tons. Crews. Vessels. Tons. Crews. Vessels.

Tons.

10,289] 376

930 43)

Continent of Europe,.

1 1,550 59

United States of America,

9,949 274

1 1,550 59] 14 9,949 274

285 13

31,446 1,102

736

India and Singapore,...

98 100,553 8,041| 24

Australia and New Zealand,

2,889 104

17,173

3281

679

122 117,726 8,720]

25,152 1,492

9,039

14 22

2881 38

Crews. Vessels.

9301 43] 14 285 13 32,182 1,116| 35 34,191| 1,780} 124

Tons. Crews. Vessels.

Tons. Crews.

10,450 395,

769 24

11,219 419

1,835 72

...

2 1,835 72

41,395 1,376

736

14 36

42,131 1,390

125,705 9,533

26,212

967

160 151,917 10,500

South America,

958

Java and other Islands in the Indian Archipelago,

735

Islands in the South Pacific,

2,279 63

3,217 117 958 32j

735] 41 2,358 71

2,889 104

328

8 3,217 117

1,547 66

2,505

981

7 2,505 98

8,594

262

8,594

262

735 411

8,594

262

532 201

532

201

611

281

2,279 63

Philippines,

933

31,905 935) 51

Siam,

1,659 59

Japan,

Amoor River,

Coast of China and Formosa,

TOTAL,.

24,457 1,163

1,021 436,580 42,355|

1,218 589,862 52,524||

21,183 7881 501 130 201 55

32,838 971 34 22,842] 847 16 24,587 1,188 62 3

29,302 915 45,540 1,975

...

163

8,682 629 7,279 382) 102 25,272 1,017] 847 35 86,545 3,506 1,184 523,125 45,861 13,793|1,256,339 226,612 7,223

287 160,312 6,028 1,505 750,174 58,552 13,967 1,358,311 281,411 7,404

333,498 62,018 21,016 1,589,837 288,630 14,814 1,692,919 268,967 7,386

426,709 65,472 21,371 1,785,020 296,883 15,185 1,948,173 288,987,691

420,043 65,524 22,200 2,112,962 334,491

587,021 71,500 22,876 2,535,194 355,435

H. G. THOMSETT, Harbor Master, Fc.

37,984 1,544|

371

9,615

6:5

100

61,207 1,850-

137

9,329

2,890

70,822 2,515

303

118

52,819 2,357|

201

8,938 441 148

25,272 1,017

116

49,729 2,180

66,723 2,763 130

168

75,661 3,204

847

847 35

20 117

49,859 2,200 847 35

THIE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH MARCH, 1868.

III. NUMBER, TONNAGE, and CREWS of Vessels of each Nation ENTERED at Ports in the Colony of Hongkong in the Year 1867.

ENTERED.

NATIONALITY OF VESSELS.

WITH CARGOES.

IN BALLAST.

TOTAL.

Vessels. Tons. Crews.

Vessels. Tons. Crews. Vessels. Tons.

Crews.

British,

American,

1,414 697,128 55,526

121 98,346

101 54,550 2,530

1,515 751,678

58,056

4,595

10,088

301

134108,434 4,896

French,

73 65,690

2,892

4,027

147

81 69,717

3,039

Dutch,

21,384

832

2,965

119

24,349

951

Danish,

7,124

318

7,124

318

Norwegian,

3,923

113

473

Swedish,

1,844

478

Bremen,

21,383

894

4,967

191

Hamburg,

156

51,403

2,1.50

8,521

351

Oldenburg,

915

255

Hanoverian,

1,957

Belgian,

280

803

Russian,

Prussian,

496

997

30,871

1,535

9,052

380

adge 288

4,395

139

2,322

107

26,350

1,085

183

59,924

2,511

1,170

1,957

1,083

1,493

123

39,923

1,915

Austrian,

1,468

1,460

2,928

116

Spanish,

16,920

983

4,146

192

21,066

1,175

Portuguese,

Italian,

2,918

119

1,484

4,402

149

4 3,296

104

8,979

225

12,275

329

Hawaiian,

Siamese,

San Salvador,.

2,443

105

2,443

105

45,717

2,488

1,987

103

47,704

2,584

Chinese Junks,

13,557 1,132,780 | 214,633

4,089 7,230 234,92267,264

123

4,089 20,787 1,367,702 281,897

123

TOTAL,.......

15,767 2,208,286 | 287,592

7,466 354,242 72,128

23,233 2,562,528 359,720

H. G. THOMSETT, Harbor Master, &c.

IV.-NUMBER, Tonnage, and CREWS of Vessels of each Nation CLEARED at Ports in the Colony of Hongkong

in the Year 1867.

CLEARED.

NATIONALITY OF VESSELS.

WITH CARGOES,

IN BALLAST.

TOTAL.

British,

American,

French,

Vessels. Tons. Crews.

1,218 | 589,862 52,524 89 71,017 3,913 42 40,960

Vessels. Tons.

Crews. Vessels. Tons. Crews.

287 160,312

6,028

1,505750.174 58,552

53 41,053

1,061

142 112,070

4,974

2,364

38 19,359

638

80 60,319

3,002

Dutch,

8,277

389

17,871

622

58 26,148

1,011

Danish,

3,113

138

3,830

167

27 6,943

305

Norwegian,

554

5 1,284.

1,838

105

Swedish,

1.185

1,018

2,203

114

Bremen,

9,777

448

15,105

557

24,882

1,005

Hamburg,

18,360

757

122

42,541

696

187

60,901

1,453

Oldenburg,

732

Belgian,

279

Russian,

1,024

???

821

1,556

279

3 1,631

2,655

117

Prussian,

13,581

667

20,336

850

109

33,917

1,517

Austrian,

2,920

107

2,920

107

Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Hawaiian, Siamese,..

San Salvador,.

8,921

658

24 8,127

468

17,048

1,126

371

4 3,579

3,950

599

11,830

235

12,429

265

870

4,392

102

5,262

150

18,962

1,014

33,685

1,627

109 52,647

2,641

3,353

Chinese Junks,

13,550 1,159,729 |220,759

6,893 193,971

75 57,966

4 3,353

20,443 1,353,700 278,725

TOTAL,.

15,185 1,948,173 283,935

7,691 587,021

71,500 22,876 2,535,194 355,435

H. G. THOMSETT, Harbor Master, &c.

V.-TOTAL NUMBER, TONNAGE, AND CREWS OF VESSELS ENTERED AT EACH PORT IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG IN THE YEAR 1867.

NAMES OF PORTS.

WITH CARGOES.

BRITISH.

FOREIGN.

TOTAL.

IN BALLAST.

TOTAL.

WITH CARGOES.

IN BALLAST.

TOTAL.

WITH CARGOES.

IN BALLAST.

TOTAL.

Tons.

...

Crews. Vls. Crews. Vls.

Tons. Tons. Crews. Vls. 54,550 | 2,530 | 1,515 751,678 58,056 14,039|1,497,233 228,574, 7,217 50 1,813 510 51 68 3,369 870 11 196 8,743 2,112 86

Tons. Crews. Vls.

294,318 68,183 21,256 1,500 401 101 278 115 79 3,596 899 282

Tons. Crews. Vls.

196

3,369 870

8,743 2,112|

Tons. Crews. Vls. 1,791,551 296,757 15,453 2,194,361 284,100 7,318 348,868 70,713,22,771 2,543,222354,813 3,313 911 1,813 510 51 1,500 401 101 3,313

3,647 985 115

278 79 3,647 985

12,339 3,011| 3,596 899 282 12,339 3,011

Tons.

Crews. Vls.

Tons. Crews.

911

Tons. Crews. Vls.

Vls.

1,414 697,12855,526 101

Victoria,

Stanley,

...

Aberdeen,

Sowkewan,

Total,.

1,414 697,128 55,526 101

H. G. THOMSETT, Harbor Master, &c.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH MARCH, 1868.

| 54,550 | 2,530|1,515 751,678 58,056 14,358 1,511,158 232,066 7,365 | 299,692 69,598 21,718 1,810,850 301,66415,767 2,208,286 287,592 7,466 354,242 | 72,128 23,233 2,562,528 359,720

VI. TOTAL NUMBER, TONNAGE, AND CREWS OF VESSELS CLEARED AT EACH PORT IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG IN THE YEAR 1867.

NAMES OF PORTS.

WITH CARGOES.

Vls.

BRITISH.

IN BALLAST.

TOTAL.

FOREIGN.

WITH CARGOES.

IN BALLAST.

TOTAL.

WITH CARGOES.

IN BALLAST.

TOTAL.

Tons. Crews. Vis.

Tons. Crews. Vls. Tons. Crews. Vls. Tons. Crews. VIS.

Tons. Crews. Vls. Tons. Crews.

Victoria,

Stanley,

Aberdeen,

Sowkewan,

Tons. Crews. Vls. Tons. Crews. Vis. Tons. Crews. Vls. 1,218589,862 52,524 287160,312 | 6,028 | 1,505 | 750,174 58,552 13,739 1,346,214 228,757 7,185 418,156 63,202 20,924 1,764,370 291,959 14,957 1,936,076 281,281 7,472 578,468 69,230 22,429 2,514,544 350,511 2,913 740 39 1,558 437 39 1,355 303 771 3,268 908 36 1,561 421 41 1,707 2921 14,469 3,276| 153 8,978 1,796 5,491 ,935 7,691 | 587,021 71,500| |22,876| 2,535,194|355,485

39 1,558 437 39

1,355 303

153

Total,..

1,561 421 41 8,978 1,796 139

52,524 311|231,41: 1,218 589,862 52,524 287 | 160,312 | 6,028 1,505 750,174 58,55213,967 1,358,311 231,4117,404 | 426,709 65,47221,371 1,785,020 296,883 15,185| 1,948,173|

1,707

5,491

487

1,480

...

139

487

3,268 1,480) 292 14,469 3,276

78 2,913 740

908

H. G. THOMSETT, Harbor Master, &c.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH MARCH, 1868.

VII. RETURN of JUNKS entered at the Port of Victoria from the OUTSTATIONS of the ISLAND and the VILLAGES in BRITISH KOWLOON during the Year 1867.

CARGO.

BALLAST.

TOTAL.

No. of Vessels.

Tonnage. Crews. Passengers.

No. of Vessels.

No. of

Tonnage. Crews. Passengers.

Vessels. Tonnage. Crews. Passengers.

ARRIVALS,

...

6,504 235,720 68,422

Total,

6,504 235,720 68,422

4,270 83,488 38,551 - 43,436 10,774 319,208 106,973 43,483

4,270 83,488 38,551 43,436 10,774 319,208 106,973 43,483

H. G. THOMSETT, Harbor Master, &c.

VIII-RETURN of JUNKS cleared from the Port of Victoria for the OUTSTATIONS of the ISLAND and the VILLAGES in BRITISH KOWLOON during the Year 1867.

CARGO.

BALLAST.

TOTAL.

No. of Vessels.

nage. Crews. Passengers. Tonnage.

No. of Vessels.

No. of

Tonnage. Crews. Passengers.

Vessels. Tonnage. Crews. Passengers.

CLEARANCES,. 6,520 235,736 68,563

118

4,312

Total,

6,520 235,736 68,563

118

4,312

86,127 38,985

86,127 38,985 43,529

43,529

10,832 321,863| 107,548 43,647

H. G. THOMSETT, Harbor Master, &c.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH MARCH, 1868.

IX.-SUMMARY.

FOREIGN TRADE.

British Vessels entered with Cargoes,

Do.

do. in Ballast,

No. OF

TONS.

CREWS.

VESSELS.

1,414

697,128

55,526

101

54,550

2,530

Total,

1,515

751,678

58,056

British Vessels cleared with Cargoes,.

1,218

589,862

52,524

Do.

do. in Ballast,

287

160,312

6,028

Total,

1,505

750,174

58,552

Total of all British Vessels entered and cleared,

3,020

1,501,852

116,608

Foreign Vessels entered with Cargoes,

Do.

do. in Ballast,

14,353

1,511,158

232,066

7,365

299,692

69,598

Toatl,.

....

21,718

1,810,850

301,664

Foreign Vessels cleared with Cargoes,

13,967

1,358,311

231,411

Do.

do. in Ballast,.

7,404

426,709

65,472

Total,.

21,371

1,785,020

296,883

Total of all Foreign Vessels entered and cleared,

43,089

3,595,870

598,547

Total of all Vessels entered with Cargoes,

Do.

do. in Ballast,

15,767 2,208,286

287,592

7,466

354,242

72,128

Total of all Vessels entered,

23,233

2,562,528

359,720

Total of all Vessels cleared with Cargoes,

Do.

do. in Ballast,

15,185

1,948,173

283,935

7,691

587,021

71,500

Total of all Vessels cleared,.

22,876

2,535,194

355,435

Total of all Vessels entered and cleared with Cargoes,

30,952

4,156,459

571,527

Do.

do.

do. in Ballast,

15,157

941,263

143,628

Total of all Vessels engaged in Foreign Trade only, entered and cleared,..

46,109

5,097,722

715,155

LOCAL TRADE.

Total of Vessels entered,

10,774

319,208

106,973

Do.

cleared,

10,832

321,863

107,548

Total of all Vessels engaged in Local Trade only, entered and cleared,

21,606

641,071

214,521

Total of all Vessels engaged in Foreign Trade only, entered and cleared,

Do.

do. in Local Trade only,

do.,

46,109

5,097,722

715,155

21,606

641,071

214,521

Grand Total of all Vessels entered and cleared,..

67,715

5,738,793

929,676

H. G. THOMSETT,

Harbor Master, &c.

the hongkong government GAZETTE, 7TH MARCH, 1868.

X.-RETURN of VESSELS REGISTERED at the Port of Hongkong, for the Year ending 31st December, 1867.

NAMES.

REMARKS.

HORSE

REGISTERED

RIG.

WHERE BUILT.

POWER.

TONNAGE.

Ana,

Brig

222:82

Bremen.

Chusan,

Barque

434:31

Newcastle on Tyne,.

Sold to Foreigners.

Indore,.

Barque

250