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THE HONGKONG
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No. 17.
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Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 14TH APRIL, 1885.
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VOL. XXXIV.
日四初月三年子戊 日四十月四年八十八百八千一 簿四十三第
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.---No. 149.
Notice is hereby given that the Governor in Council, under and in pursuance of Ordinance No. 14 of 1862, entitled-An Ordinance for granting Patents for Inventions within this Colony, has granted Letters Patent bearing date the 5th day of April, 1888, to EDWARD WILLIAM SERRELL, Junior, of New York in the United States of America, for securing to the said EDWARD WILLIAM SERRELL, Junior, the exclusive right of using within the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, an Invention for which Her Majesty's Letters Patent have been obtained in England by the said EDWARD WILLIAM SERRELL, Junior,-
(a.) For Improvements in Automatic Silk reeling Machines. (b.) A Process and Machinery for reeling silk from cocoon.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th April, 1888.
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 150.
The following Post Office Notice, which has been approved by the Governor under Section 10 of the Post Office Ordinance No. 1 of 1887, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th April, 1888.
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.
HOURS OF CLOSING THE ENGLISH MAILS.
Two days before departure.
3 P.M. Reception of Parcels ceases.
Day before departure.
2 P.M. Money Order Office closes.
2 P.M. Posting of Prices Current and Circulars ceases.
(Prices Current and Circulars may however be posted up to 4 o'clock if they are tied in bundles, country by country, with the addresses all one way.
Those for the United Kingdom must be divided into (1) London, (2) England and Wales, (3) Scotland, (4) Ireland; those for Germany into (1) Hamburg, (2) other places in Germany.)
4 P.M. Registry ceases.
5 P.M. Mail closes.
LATE Correspondence may then be posted in the Night Box at the Post Office with 10 cents late fee on each article up to 9 P.M., after which hour it may be sent on board with the same late fee. GENERAL POST OFFICE,
HONGKONG, April 11th, 1888.
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