No. 76.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 31ST MARCH, 1877.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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Notice is hereby given, that His Excellency the Administrator has been pleased to recognize provisionally and until further notice, W. REINERS, Esquire, as Consul for His Imperial Russian Majesty at this port.
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Colonial Secretary's Office, Ilongkong, 29th March, 1877.
H. E. WODEHOUSE, Acting Colonial Secretary.
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NOTICE.
Owners of Tenements assessed to the Police, Lighting, Water, and Fire Brigade Rates, are hereby informed that the Rates for the Second Quarter of the year 1877, are payable in advance, during and within the Month of April next.
It is requested that such Rates may be paid before the 30th April, as after that date application will be made to the Supreme Court for the recovery of arrears.
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POST OFFICE NOTICE.
Mails exchanged with Manila and Saigon.
The Philippine Islands being now admitted into the General Postal Union, it follows that all paid correspondence received from Manila in the mails will be delivered free by this Office, and that all paid correspondence sent to Manila in the mails should be delivered free there.
Article IX of the Postal Treaty of Berne provides that "Neither the senders nor the addressees of letters and other postal packets shall be called upon to pay, either in the Country of Origin, or in that of Destination, ay tax or duty other than" the recognised rates levied (in the case of paid cor- respondence) by the despatching Office. It is hoped that any extra charge, or apparently extra charge, will at once be brought to the notice of the proper authorities, in either Colony.
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The abov does not apply in any way to loose letters sent outside the mails. These will always be charged arrival in Hongkong and probably the Manila Office will adopt the same course.
Compits are sometimes received of extra charges on correspondence exchanged between this Colony and Saigon, but it is believed it would be found in all cases that the letters, &c., had been sent loose.
Any Foreign stamps on loose correspondence are obliterated in this Office.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 26th March, 1877.
ALFRED LISTER,
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NOTICE.
The Captain of the Spanish Steamer Zamboanga reports the discovery of a shoal on his voyage from Saigon to this port.
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On the 25th instant at 7.30 P.M. Cape Varcla bore West distant 8 miles from which position he took his departure steering N. 15° E. At 9.30 A.M. the following morning, in Latitude 15° 02′ 05′′ N. and Longitude by Chronometer 110° 08′ 18′ E. saw a shoal, which was passed at about 1 cable's length, and the Captain states that, judging from the discoloration of the water, there could not be more than from 1 to 2 fathoms on it. The shoal lies S. E. and N.W. and is about 1 cable in length.
This shoal is not marked on any chart, and lies immediately in the track of vessels going up or down the China Sea.
H. G. THOMSETT, R.N., Harbour Master, §c.
Hongkong, 31st March, 1877.
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