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No. 36.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18ти FEBRUARY, 1871.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The subjoined Post Office Notice is published for general information.
By Command,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th February, 1871.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
Arrangements having been made by the French Post Office for embarking and disembarking the British Overland Mails to and from France at Brindisi, thereby necessitating the payment by the French Post Office of a transit rate to the Itan Post Office, it has been determined to augment the rate of postage on letters exchanged in the direct Mails between Hongkong and the French Post Office. The rates of postage chargeable in Hongkong upon letters sent to France and countries through France will, in future, be as follows, viz:-
To France, Algeria, the French Offices in Turkey (except Constantinople), and the Offices at
Tunis and Tangiers, 22 cents per ounce.
To Jaffa, Beyrouth, Tripoli (Syria), Latakia, Alexandretta, Messina, Rhodes, Smyrna, Mitylene, the Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Ineboli, Kerassun, Salonica, Samsoun, Sinope, Sulina, Trebizond, Tultcha, Varna, Galatz, and Ibraila, 22 cents per ounce.
To Spain, and Gibraltar, 24 cents per ounce.
To the Grand Duchies of Luxemburgh and Baden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, Rhenish Prussia, Bavaria Wurtemburg, the Principalities of Hohenzollern, Birkenfeld, Hesse-Hom- burg, Lippe, Schwartzburg-Rudolstadt and Reuss, the Duchies of Nassau, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Saxe-Meiningen- Hildburghausen, Hesse-Electoral, Hesse-Darmstadt, the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, the Free Cities of Frankfort-on-the-Maine, Hamburgh, Bremen, and Lubeck, Switzerland, and Italy, 20 cents per 4 ounce.
To Countries beyond Sea without distinction, 28 cents per ounce.
To Prussia (Rhenish Provinces excepted), Hanover, Saxony, the Grand Duchies of Mecklen burgh Schwerin and Mecklenburgh Strelitz, Duchy of Brunswick, Grand Duchy of Olden burg (the Principality of Birkenfeld excepted), the Duchy of Anhalt, the Austrian Provinces, Belgrade, Servia (Pelgrade excepted), and Montenegro, Schleswig and Holstein, 30 cents per 1 ounce.
To Denmark, the Papal States and Austria, 32 cents per ounce.
To Moldavia, Wallachia, Turkey in Europe, Sweden, Norway, Poland, and Russia, 44 cents per
ounce.
Pre-payment is compulsory in the case of Letters for Spain, Gibraltar, Countries beyond Sea, Servia (Belgrade excepted), and Montenegro.
Letters may be registered to all the above places, except Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar, and the Austrian Provinces; the fee for registration is the same amount as the postage charged on each letter respectively.
Newspapers and Prices Current cannot be prepaid.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 16th February, 1871.
No. 26.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
Tenders will be received at this Office, until Noon on the 20th February, for the supply of Plumbing Material and Labour required by the Government, during the Twelve Months from the 1st of March, 1871, to the 28th of February, 1872.
Schedules and proper forms of Tender may be obtained at the Surveyor General's Office.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th February, 1871.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.