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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6тH APRIL, 1872.
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RETURN shewing the DATES of ARRIVALS and DEPARTURES of the United States' Mail Packets during 1871, and the Number of Days occupied in the transmission of the Mails between Hongkong and San Francisco.
ARRIVALS.
Great Republic Japan
America
Great Republic
China
America
Japan
China
America
Japan
Great Republic.
America...
Great Republic
Japan
America
Great Republic
China
America
Japan
China
America
Japan
Great Republic
America
Name of Packets.
Date of Arrival at Hongkong.
Date of Departure from San Francisco.
Number of Days occupied
in the Voyage.
1871.
1870.
January February March
6
December
1
37
4
31
36
71871, February
1
35
April
5 March
1
36
May
5 April
1
35
June
2 | May
33
July
4 June
1
34
August
2 July
1
33
September
2 August
33
October
2 September
1
32
November
4
30
36
December
5 November
1
35
Total.
415
Average Number of Days occupied in each Voyage,....343.
DEPARTURES.
Name of Packets.
Date of Departure from Hongkong.
Date of Arrival at San Francisco.
Number of Days occupied in the Voyage.
1871.
January February March April May
12
February
16
36
11
March
18
36
13
April
15
34
12 May
13
32
12
June
12
32
June
12 July
15
34
July
12
August
13
33
August
12
September
12
32
September
12
October
15
34
October
12
November
15
35
November
11
December
17
37
December
12
1872, January 15
Total.........
35
410
Average Number of Days occupied in each voyage,.
347
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 28th March, 1872.
No. 70...
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
JAMES RUSSELL, Esquire, Police Magistrate, having been granted leave of absence from the 11th instant, His Excellency The GOVERNOR has been pleased to appoint F. W. MITCHELL, Esquire, to act from that date as Police Magistrate, provisionally and until further notice.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 6th April, 1872.
CECIL C. SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
No. 71.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency The GOVERNOR has been pleased to appoint JOHN SIMPSON, Esquire, to act, provisionally and until further notice, as Collector of Stamp Revenue, vice MITCHELL, appointed Acting Police Magistrate from the 11th instant.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 6th April, 1872.