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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH JANUARY, 1879.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
The following arrangements as to Post Office Pillar Boxes have been made by direction of His Excellency the Governor:——
A Pillar Box has been established at the West Point Police Station (opposite the Sailor's Home) and the box formerly in Bonham Strand has been removed to the South front of the Harbour Department.
The hours of clearance are as follows:—
West Point,.
Harbour Department,
Letters arrive at the Post Office,
..10.00 A.M.
.10.15
2.00 P.M.
4.15 P.M. *
2.15
4.00
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.10.30 A.M.*
2.30 P.M.*
4.45 P.M. *
Correspondence of all kinds posted in either box before the first clearance on Mail day will be in time for the Homeward Mail.
All correspondence for Hongkong will be delivered the same day.
Residents who keep a postage account with this Office may post local correspondence in these boxes without stamps, provided the sender's name or recognised device appears on each article.
Local correspondence means that for Hongkong, Bangkok, or the Ports of China.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 14th January, 1879.
* Mails closing at this hour will be kept open till the Messenger arrives from the Pillar Boxes.
NOTICE.
The Postmaster General has received the orders of His Excellency the Governor to esta-
blish two iron letter boxes for the convenience of Merchants, &c., one at Sai-ying-p‘un Police Station, the other at the Harbour Department.
The letters will be removed from these boxes three times each day, except Sunday, viz., at 10, 2, and 4, and safely carried to the Post Office for despatch. Mails that are being closed at the above hours will be kept waiting till the letters are received from the boxes.
If the letters are to be delivered in Hongkong
the postage will be two cents each, and they will be delivered the same day. Tables of Rates of
Postage to other places can be had gratis at the Post Office.
General Post Office,
ALFRED LISTER,
Postmaster General.
Hongkong, 14th January, 1879.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given, that the Crown Rents
for the half-year ending 25th December, 1878,
should be paid into the Treasury on or before the 15th January, 1879.
J. M. PRICE,
Acting Colonial Treasurer.
Colonial Treasury, Hongkong,
30th December, 1878.
ALFRED LISTER,
Ponaster General.
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