October to
April to
(both inclusive.)
North of the Equator,
100 days.
75 days.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH FEBRUARY, 1882.
PASSAGE FROM HONGKONG TO THE UNDERMENTIONED PLACES FOR SHIPS PROPELLED BY SAILS.
California or West Coast of America,
IN THE MONTHS
March. September.
111
IN THE MONTHS October to
March.
April to September.
(both inclusive.)
90 days.
New Zealand, Manila,
75 days.
20
20
West Coast of America, South of the
120
120
Singapore,
20
Equator,
""
""
Batavia,
Sandwich Islands,...
New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Feejee
Islands, Tahiti, Society or Friend->100 ly Islands,
Sydney, Melbourne, or South Aus-
75
56
""
Ceylon,
45
Madras or Calcutta,
100
22
""
Bombay,
Mauritius or Bourbon,
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45
23
"2
30
60
"
35
70
""
33
50
75
60
80
وو
29
60
80
Cape of Good Hope,.
65
رو
وو
27
85
11
60
80
22
""
tralia,
Western Australia,
Van Diemen's Land,
45 65
""
60 80
West Indies or East Coast of America, 147 Great Britain or Europe,
.162
168
""
32
184
22
32
32
"
""
Siam,
20
45
22
Given under my hand and Seal of the Colony, at the Government Offices, Victoria, Hongkong, this 26th Day of January in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-six, and in the Nineteenth Year of Her Majesty's Reign.
By His Excellency's Command,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
[L.S.]
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
No. 45.
JOHN BOWRING.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Sir JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipoten- tiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.
Whereas, by an Act of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the Eight- eenth and Nineteenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, entitled An Act for the Regulation of Chinese Passenger Ships, under the Third Clause thereof it is enacted, that "it shall be lawful for the Governor of Hongkong to declare by Proclamation, for the purposes of this Act, what shall be deemed to be "the duration of the Voyage of any Chinese Passenger Ship":-
Now therefore I, Sir JOHN BOWRING, Governor as aforesaid, by this my Proclamation issued for that purpose, do declare that the following shall be the Rule of Computation by which the Length of the Voyage of any Ship carrying Chinese Passengers from Shanghai, Ningpo, Foochow, and Amoy, to the several Places hereinafter mentioned, shall be computed for the purposes of the Act above referred to; that is to say:-
*
COMPUTATION OF LENGTH OF VOYAGE IN ANY CHINESE PASSENGER SHIP FROM THE NORTHERN PORTS OF CHINA TO THE UNDERMENTIONED PLACES.
From Shanghai and Ningpo.
From Foochow.
From Amoy.
Oct. to April to March. Sept.
Sept.
Oct. to April to Oct. to April to March.
March. Sept.
(both inclusive.)
(both inclusive.)
(both inclusive.)
To California or West Coast of America, North of the Equator,.
West Coast of America, South of the Equator,
90
110
110
Ea
70
115
"
Sandwich Islands,
70
52
"
New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Feejee Islands, Tahiti,
Friendly Islands,
105
125
103
"}
Sydney, Melbourne, or South Australia,
65
100
35
Western Australia,
50
80
"
Van Diemen's Land,
70
100
""
New Zealand,.......
80
110
"
Manila,
15
40
多多
Singapore,
25
65
"2
Batavia,
35
80
22
Ceylon,
50
90
322 2 856F2285
95
73
97
74
115
117
117
73
54
74
55
113
102
107
90
61
85
47
70
46
65
67
90
66
85
77
100
76
95
12
30
11
25
55
21
50
32
70
31
65
47
80
46
75
"
Madras or Calcutta,.
55
95
52
85
51
80
33
Bombay,
65
100
63
90
62
85
وو
Mauritius or Bourbon,
65
100
63
90
62
85
Cape of Good Hope,
70
105
67
95
66
90
وو
West Indies or East Coast of America,
152
188
150
178
148
173
Great Britain or Europe,
167
204
163
194
163
190
Siam,
25
65
23
55
22
50