No. 1.
THE
Hongkong
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
Victoria, Hongkong; Saturday, September 24, 1853.
Government Notification.
The Contract hitherto in force for the publication of Government Notifications having ceased on the 21st instant,—Notice is hereby given, that the Hong Kong Government Gazette, this day established, will be hereafter the only Official Organ of Proclamations, Notifications, and all Public Papers of this Government.
By Order,
W. Caine,
Colonial Secretary.
Victoria, Hongkong, 24th September, 1853.
Steam for
Singapore, Penang, Point de Galle, Aden, Suez, Malta, Marseilles, and Southhampton;
Also,
Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta.
The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Steam-ship Formorsa, Captain Christian, with Her Majesty's Mail, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on Tuesday, the 27th September, at 2 P. M.
Cargo will be received on board until 5 P. M. on the 24th, specie until Noon on the 26th, and parcels until 2 P. M. on the 26th.
For particulars regarding Freight and Passage, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.
Contents, and Value of Packages, are required.
A written declaration of Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading, or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness in such declaration.
Robert S. Walker,
Superintendent.
P. & O. S. N. Company's Office, Hongkong, 23d September, 1853.
D. B. Robertson, Esq., Her Majesty's Consul for Amoy, having been directed to assume his functions at the Port, His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., has been pleased to appoint H. S. Parkes, Esq., Interpreter to the Canton Consulate, to exercise for the present, and until further notice, Consular jurisdiction and authority in the Port of Canton.
By order,
W. H. Medhurst,
Officiating Secretary to H. M.'s Plenipotentiary, &c., &c.
Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 16th September, 1853.
His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, &c., &c., is pleased to give publicity to the subjoined communication from His Excellency the Imperial Commissioner, Yĕ, in reply to Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Canton, and to a Proclamation by the Local Authorities, relative to the introduction of Mexican Dollars as a currency on the same footing with Spanish Dollars.
By order,
W. H. Medhurst,
Officiating Secretary to H. M.'s Plenipotentiary, &c., &c.
Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th September, 1853.
No. 35.
Yeh, Imperial Commissioner, Governor General of the Two Kwang, &c., &c., &c.
makes this declaration in reply.
On the 3d instant, I received your statement, which I have carefully considered. I remark in regard to this question of the employment of Foreign Money, that in consequence of the disappearance of old Dollars from the market, the Merchants and Traders desire, as a means of maintaining a circulating medium, that other kinds of Dollars should now be jointly used with the former, to which arrangement, moreover, no objections are raised on either side.
Although ready to admit the correctness of the views taken of this matter, both in the public representation of the English Merchants and in the letter of their Consul, I may observe on the other hand, that Dollars of the old pattern (Spanish)
